Look no further than Radiohead's OK Computer, Green Day's Dookie, The Clash's London Calling, Nirvana's In Utero, A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders, Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet, OutKast's Aquemini, Missy Elliott's Miss E.So Addictive, and Beastie Boys' Check Your Head as proof that people can get even better with more experience under their belts. Third albums can be tricky since life tends to change a lot for artists during the period between discovery and sustainability. However, there is precedent which suggests that the tail end of the trifecta can produce an artist's best work. While the former was buoyed by critical acclaim, the latter established Nas as a certifiable superstar thanks to the commercial success that elevated the project to the top of the Billboard charts for four consecutive weeks and remains his best-selling record to date. Nas' Illmatic and his follow up, It Was Written, demonstrated that there would be no sophomore slump.
As a result, one of the greatest MC's of all-time was faced with a major crossroads that threatened his very legacy. Specifically, how Nas' third album, I Am., become one of the first major projects to experience how the dangerous combination of anticipation - and surprising availability - bred disappointment. While the advent of streaming has tons of benefits, we can't forget that the transition from renegade file sharing - to now - hasn't been without some notable speed bumps. The ability to get new music meant waiting for a specific release date, and then visiting a physical location where the CD's were locked up tighter than Fort Knox to dissuade sticky-fingered teens from sticking them in their bubble gooses.
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It's easy to forget that we didn't always have the ability to stream or download any song we wanted in milliseconds.
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