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airmark:
They should do it back to back, to show it's not a fluke.

After seeing how they dominated Liverpool and now this final? Fluke is out of the conversation.

Checking the age of their core it can be argued this team has not even reached their peak

The way Rick Carlisle uses his roster. Like a mad scientist.

Still expect OKC to win but it should be competitive

Watching us haggle to overpay a finished Leroy Sane while PSG can leave a young stud like Barcola on the bench while they have young Doue running things

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semid4lyfe:
Omo, this post na 4 units university course in agric business and farm management. I feel am gan.

Make I just chip in small as I get small experience for catfish farming.

Catfish farming dey chop people because most folks just stop at rearing and selling fresh fish. Profit no dey that side. The real margins dey inside processing, smoking, packaging and selling as the finished dry product.

Also, make we rear fish and sell to market women doesn't work. Customer must dey ground. Most people making money from rearing catfish have locked-in supply deals and a steady stream of customers. Think hotels, eateries, bush bars, pepper soup joints etc

How the fishes are reared is important too because earthen ponds are better than tarpaulin container ponds. They're more cost effective with no stress in water & waste management The fishes are in a natural habitat so they're healthier and grow better. Also cannibalism is almost non-existent.

Lastly, I think that your pops combo setup of catfish and pigs was wrong. The ideal setup would have been an integrated poultry + catfish farm. The hens are kept in pens, and poop directly into the earthen fish pond underneath. The drippings enter the water, fertilize and grow planktons, and micro organisms that the fishes feed on. It's cheaper to manage, less stressful and you go still make money from selling the birds and their eggs.

Your dad try. No social media, no proper marketing system, no steady buyer and still had the mind to run that kind thing. Maximum respect to him. E no easy at all.

The bolded is where the real money is.

If you get oven to smoke it and send all over you will eat very very good

Spy360:
I personally shut down my mum's poultry farm after years of investing and no returns. She moved from siphoning dad's money when I was in university to syphoning mine as I started working.

Poultry is the most stressful business of all because they're the most fragile. Far more fragile than fish and pigs and they are unpredictable. Your layers fit no lay. Owo ti jona

If one sick e go catch the rest.

That's business you only do when you have money to trowey

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I have started to doubt this.

At best, these businesses are now used to wash money into the system.

I know three malls on Lagos Badagry Expressway. They are not more than 300 naira distance from each other. One has two on it.

After the initial launch where there's crowd,it has become scanty as expected.

Malls and Hotels seems to be the new found love of people who want to wash something into the system.
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Toh.

nihilistjnr:
Omo my dad suffered trying to run piggery and fishery back in the day.

He bought some land around the Sango toll gate area and setup a few ponds and a couple of sheds for some pigs. I used to hate school holidays back then because it meant working long hours on a dirty smelly farm with all kinds of insects biting you from every angle.

Once a week, we would go to Nestle factory in Agbara estate to buy waste product from producing golden morn then bring it back to the farm in huge buckets which was already back breaking work, but then we'd have to break it down into smaller bits to feed the fish which was just mind-numbingly boring.

Then we would have to make our own pellets for feeding the some of the other fish as well, which was even more boring. In addition to this, we have to spread nets over the ponds to protect from the herons that would often swoop in, break them and eat our fish. The problem was that the fvcking fish too were eating each other, so we also had to keep draining the ponds to sort the fish by size and move them to different ponds, because Catfish are joyless cannibals when they see their smaller brethren.
And that's also not accounting for the locals in the area that would hop our fence with net and basket to steal fish as well. We caught one particular guy in broad daylight on Sunday afternoon when my dad decided we must go and farm after church, and my brothers and I used annoyance and frustration to beat the guy to almost an inch of his life.
Then the locals gathered to threaten our whole family, my Dad pulls out a machete from the boot, and it becomes this whole mess that only the local Baale could resolve...which required my dad to to squeeze something to the actual thief, and act that pained him and all of us die

Anyway after draining the ponds you have to clean out all the muck and disgusting sht at the bottom, check the gills of the fish for fungus, and all manner of othet disgusting activities.

The piggery side of things was only slightly less disgusting. Pigs don't have hair so they coat themselves in all kinds of literal shit to protect themselves from flies and insects, and given that the farm was basically by a canal, you can only imagine what the hellscape looked like. The stench was unbearable sometimes. Some pigs are also f<cking aggressive and will happily bite your hand off if they could, so we had to watch out for the odd Napoleon when the sows were in hear. The boars will try to bite you and each other, as well as fvck each other. The sows will try to bite you and each other as well as fvck each other. And they're also cannibals.

I say all of that to say this - after enduring all of that BS, when it came to selling the meat and fish, the market women would price you down to almost a kobo if they could, and I saw my dad close to tears on one occasion when he realised that his side hustle wasn't just going to fail to generate the type of revenue he expected, he was going to be disrespected repeatedly during negotiations with the exact type of people he absolutely despises.

After running at a loss for a few years, the nigga just disbanded the whole thing, did a giveaway sale and shutdown operations, but that wasn't even the end of the L. The area where the farm was located is too marshy to support house building without sinking stupid amounts of money into just the foundations alone, and nobody with the kind of money to do that is going to want to live anywhere close to the area, and so he sold the land for I think close to 50% loss.

Monumental L all around. I pity anyone trying to do that business at a small scale. You're just pissing in the wind.

What a story. So many people have tried the whole fish farming and piggery thing. I used to help with my family friend that had a farm at Ayobo many moons ago that had something similar. See me quack vet doctor giving fish injections

The worst is when you pump them with food only to find out somehow someway they're sterile.

Pig na one kin dangerous and wicked animal. I still cannot believe people rear them. If you throw a human being in a sty if e lose guard the pigs fit chow am clean

I'd rather invest in a baddie's wig business with bosom and bunda than anything poultry, piggery and fishery.

You lose time, money and if you're not careful your health

Roland17:
Dem don move from sachet/bottled water to bakery to poultry now.

Na so one of my guy nearly run mad for here because of bakery wen e open for Naija. Na everyday expenses ontop tales by moonlight. If machine no spoil, motor to supply bread get accident or break down to LG/ town council billing, to Oba and Agbero wahala to Nepa, to Diesel to theft of bread....

E no reach 6 months, my guy wen be healthy guy suffer stroke at a young age. No be pesin tell am make e sell the thing even at a big loss. We thank God he is good now but the rehab no be here oh!

Na so one carry proposal for poultry come give me. Moya look away.

Bloody hell. That bakery na another stressful business. Machine, Light. Anything manufacturing business is basically set up to fail in Nigeria. You really can't outgrind a bad system

All these things with poor health care system you go just hear Gone too soon. Person wey never 40 go suddenly pack up

Just avoid anything poultry if you know wetin good for your life. Unless you be Sheikh Mansour

Roland17:
Na wetin you abi na Birdman tell me last season when he stunk up the joint in the conference finals and here we are again.

I go chilax and allow am as u talk BUT if he stinks it up again in the post season next year, I no go gree.

I always like to apply context. Last year loss I'd argue was worse cos they had homecourt and the Mavs were not the Buzzsaw OKC is

The main issue I think is that the praise these guys get when they win is excessive which is why we go overboard with the criticism as we

larride:
That last year run don enter him head. Instead of improving on his game, decided to took the easy way to start spamming 3s.

An horrible performance in this series.

Even as bad as people say Nuggets are, they forced a game 7.

I have been saying it since the regular season that he's headed down the wrong path with this 3pt spamming. Nerds kept showing me useless stats but one thing I know about 3pters especially when you overdepend on it is that when you need it most is when it will abandon you. Just ask the 17 Rockets

There's no reason on God's green earth why a player as dynamic as Antman is taking 10 3's per game. It's a travesty to the sport. He's bailing out the other team and keeping them out of foul trouble

GloriousGbola:
one of my guys runs a piggery and some years back the pigs contracted some sort of virus. dude had to kill them all and sell at a loss.

if you do not have a nuts and bolts understanding of the business you are getting into, you will get shafted it is actually better to enter as a jjc at ground zero and grow organically. entering as an inexperienced big player you can urn through your money very very fast.

we helped a former colleague build a station. but you CANNOT run a station without being on ground at the start. it just does not work. your staff will RIP you to death. there is no way you can remote manage it until you understand the business.

i met with a bigwig last year. man wanted to do a full upgrade of one of his stations. put in a mega shopping mall. the whole team were saying the mall is the only mall in the area, people will come there. and here i am , who has built multiple stations in the past where we had expected rent reveue that went nowhere. i told the man to have his team crunch the numbers because i did not believe their projections were valid. that was the end of the project. they just did a refurb. the man too had just hammered some serious money and was likely thinking he was on a good investment. money would have been wasted.

Certain business are stressful and the overhead is just too much.

It's a catch 22 for poultry, fishery and piggery. If you're not hands on they would rob you blind, on the other hand it's a very physical and time consuming endeavor. Your most important currency is time and those business will monopolize it without sure guarantee of return. You have to be mentally and physically built for it

There just has to be a way to mechanize farming on a micro scale but a country that can't generate 5000MW of power. How do you pull that off

And sorry to that big wig oh. Mega shopping mall when the purchasing power of the average Nigerian is at it's lowest? Yeah good luck with that

KingTom:
Wake up in the morning all the fish don kpai or worse, rain fall wash your fish enter gutter or road make e be say God don send fish from heaven to feed the street Poultry for eggs better pass Poultry for meat walahi

Brother poultry business turn my cousin wey be my age mate to begin get Grey hair. Lost weight and had to sell his poultry at loss, we gather pity dey buy the fowl from him hand.

Na him papa force am to quit the business laslas. Few months free of it and the improvement in physical appearance was noticeable.

aliondo:
ThunderUp

Na you deserve am pass.

I saw the graphic and omo OKC and that coach started from the bottom patapata. 22 and 24 win seasons. To 68 wins

Roland17:
He is looking like a mental midget because we saw this type of collapse and stinking of the joint last year against Luka. Make I no hear any kain face of NBA talk around this man if he loses this series with another terrible performance.

Give am small grace na small boy dey worry am. Plus his path to the final is just wicked

He's still coasting on talent and youthful exuberance. Few more beating like this go teach am humility

I know the game got out hand early but SGA 25 shots only 4 3's. Talk about someone playing to their strengths

Antman na cautionary tale on the dangers of 3pt spamming

He could have been SGA on steroids if he worked on his middy but he chose to be a 3pt spammer instead

Roland17:
Have you seen the injury news about Hyman? Looks like he will be out the remainder of the playoffs. This changes a lot for the Oilers considering he plays the top line with McDavid. He is also one of the best penalty killers in the game.

That's a huge blow. Though he's not been as good last season as he was this season he's still been at worst their 4th best player.

I am fairly certain they would be good enough to advance without him to the Stanley Cup finals but as far as winning it now? Their chances don drop to like 15%

Roland17:
Rick Carlisle is using the same play book he used in winning a Championship with your Mavs during the 2010-2011 season. Take a look at that Mavs roster and compare it with this Pacers roster and you will see a lot of similarities. Haliburton is essential a J. Kidd reborn (not comparing both please but styles) and in the midst of that you have solid blue collar guys like Neismith, Mathurin, Nembhard, TJ, Siakam, Turner/Obi (Carlisle has toughened both up). These guys are similar to your C. Brewers, D. Stephenson, S. Marion, B. Haywood, Novak, T. Chandler. No one is near Dirk, so not adding him in this conversation. Nothing fancy, just hard fundamentals. The only difference is he is playing with a lot of pace with the Pacers in comparison with an older Mavs roster that punished you with their half court offense.

Carlisle is a Chuck Daly disciple. It's not coincidence that he and Luka were not compatible because he believes in the team more than an individual just like Chuck Daly did

One of the few coaches that does not need superstars to win or compete

He instills confidence in all his players that's why he can go 8 even 10 man rotation in playoff games. Unlike some podcaster turned coach people I no go mention

He's forced Thibs to also go deeper than usual to his bench but with varying results

raumdeuter:
Okocha carry his stinginess with the ball enter money

Na the real I no dey give shishi and I no dey pass ball shishi

E learn from Etim Esin mistake.

KingTom:
That was how my cousin Ifeanyi made me spend UN funds on goats, useless goats he said will be reproducing and giving money, another one came again and said pigs and fish. I doled out funds and in the end the madmen came again that it seems he bought 2 male goats as the werey goats have refused to knack themselves, na so money burn for that misadventure finally we swallowed pride and hired some agric consultants then leased the farm to them to salvage what we had left if not by now loan apps for don tire to plaster my face and details for social media

If you wan kill your enemy just introduce am to poultry or fishing business

If he no suffer BP issues or close to stroke na by Grace of God

Ibime:
He used to go out a lot and spend £1k per night, then come home, put his fingers down his throat and vomit everything he ate and drank. He said as a footballer he can't keep such things in his body. His favourite club where he went every week then was Chinawhites. He said £1k was the standard spend on a night out for him. My friend who was his clubbing buddy recounted all these to me, and he and Gallas used to give us their complimentary tickets to Stamford Bridge quite often. Or rather he would give us and collect Gallas own and give us.

My guy that £1k per night no be small coins oh. That's just a small part of the lifestyle. When you factor baddies and other vanities the way the money will vanish you no go understand

Ibime:
Still I can't see where all his money went as his clubbing spend is not that crazy. I think he spent a lot of money on his court case for sleeping with a 15 year old girl. He was lucky he was using football age so the judge looked at him as an 18 year old and the age difference was not that bad so he went Scott free. Still that was his first contract. He still had 2 contracts left to make that money up. I don't know where the rest of his money went except I heard Emmanuel was always coming with different business ideas that kept flopping like music labels etc. His football academy boss Mr Babayaro must have collected as well. Before we knew it, my man has gone bankrupt less than 5 years after retirement.

E get luck gan for that case. Him life for just spoil like Godwin Okpara.

Our players too lie for their age sha. Babayaro wey play Atlanta 96 still dey claim 1978. So he wan tell us now say e be 18 for that tournament

Remember too that them go pay tax inside this money. And person wey dey blow £1k per night clubbing on £10k salary will surely double that as him money increase. Na monopoly money almost if you reason am well

If Ronaldinho, Wes Brown fit rundown then surely Babayaro can. This nigga played in India. Nobody can truly tell how jammed up things can get once you're no longer at peak earning power. Shit is real out there

LordAdam16:
I'll give you that lack of financial literacy is a huge problem. Easily a top 3 problem.
A sportsman can go on LinkedIn or any cfp directory.
Make a pick. Set aside $10,000 and buy enough of a professional's time to brush up on the basics.
Personal responsibility. No excuses there.

You're assuming these players are book smart be that. A lot of them aren't. They would be remedial if they weren't gifted athletically

Interact with some of them and you come to find out.

LordAdam16:
Still, I believe the odds are stacked against footballers.
How do you retire in your mid to late 30s to join the traditional workforce with virtually no transferable skills.
How should you make bread?
You have like 20 more working years.
In most other high-earning professions, if you retire early, you can take a multi-year sabbatical and return to a promising project.

That's the dilemma and explains why they need to learn financial literacy early cos the work required to be a professional athlete. To be a one percenter of one percenter doesn't allow you time to take up another profession. Especially in your formative years. One is going to suffer that's just what it is

Think of someone studying medicine. He can't combine it with any other thing. But to be a professional athlete in a major league that pays decent your odds to make it are longer than a medical student

LordAdam16:
Few people are born financially literate.
You pick up a lot through lived experiences.
Regular people make their mistakes in their 20s and 30s.
You learn key concepts like delayed gratification and embrace a patient grind to wealth (you've no choice).
You learn to avoid ponzis and exercise caution when exploring business deals with those who're close to you.
You make mistakes. You write off debt and failed investments. Most times you recover.
A footballer who makes the same typical mistakes in the same age range is in trouble.

I think the background also matters. Most of these players come from poverty, you can never think of the long game when you're from poverty same way Esau didn't play the long game. One of my favorite sayings, never negotiate on an empty stomach. I've learned the hard way in person so that saying is very relevant.

Kenyon Martin on Gil's Arena was talking about black tax and comparing himself to his son. He made the league and had to buy his mom a house, take care of family members but when his son Kenyon Jr made the NBA his son didn't have to give nobody money. He could learn from his father's errors.

I personally say financial literacy should be part of the curriculum someway somehow

LordAdam16:
A financial planner will tell a tech bro or an analyst in his late 20s to buy growth stocks.
The advice from a fiduciary for a footballer in that age bracket is a bond-heavy portfolio.
Financial literacy only goes so far, especially for those who don't retire with an eight+ figure stack.
For every Osimhen, there are a dozen Chrisantus.
I empathize that they have to glide through the last half of their working years with few non-minimum wage career prospects.

Make he no just marry until his twilight years in football.
Who no 1 wait, mk she getat.

-Lord

It's not about buying stocks. A lot of us the bane of our existence is our expenses. If you didn't spend like the prodigal son you would not need to take crazy risks to try to make that money stretch. A good financial planner IMO is one that watches, tracks your expenses not the one telling you what dodgy stock to buy. Property IMO is your only foolproof investment anyway

I've forgotten the ex Super Eagle that was flying his friends to watch him play every weekend. Then after match they will fly back to Nigeria and ball for Sheraton Hotel. Such spending is not sustainable no matter how much you make

Literacy and prudence will definitely give you a fighting chance

Melvyn11:
This na wetin dey kill ex footballers not even flexing and balling. They always fall victim to scams, failed investment schemes and ventures. Some financial manager go use their head and run.

Because they're trying to stretch that money and maintain a certain lifestyle. Going back to sardines from caviar and escargot is very difficult

It's not just an African thing. Shey Ronaldinho no run down ni?

Flexing and balling follow but then you want to make moves as well that let you stretch your money when inflow reduces and that's when you fall victim to bad investments.

The problem is nothing and I mean nothing beats steady inflow of money. Smart people know this.

Ibime:
Cele started on £10k a week at Chelsea, his second contract was £20k and his Newcastle contract was £40k. Na Emmanuel bill am to pieces with so many failed ventures

£10k a week in 97 was not child's play. His pay for a year would have bought full estates in Abuja at the time.

That Emmanuel na werey. Nothing wey e no do. Acting, Music. But Cele was the first Super Eagle that touched real generational paper. One would have thought at the time he would be set for life

Bombblacks:
So you think Osimhen who earns approximately 20billion yearly has more pressing expenses than a career person with two kids and other relatives on a descent salary? I would love to see how you came to that conclusion. Either you can't really quantify how big his salary is or you just purposely making excuses for being wasteful.

So you would rather work for 40years to earn the same amount you could have earned in 4? That's absurd.

People have made more money than Osimhen and blew right through it. So rest with that narrative. Poor money management can wreck anybody

I'm saying steady flow of income over 40 years is smarter than lump sum money in 4 years that you have to stretch over 40 years. Anyone with common sense will take the former.

Our resident money expert in the house Ibime already gave a detailed breakdown on this

Ibime:
Osimhen billing is OK because it's Naira based billing, plus Osimhen be like who go quick insult you if you push boundaries

Na those American footballers wey dey carry entourage in dollar billings wey I pity

For Osimhen to settle a relative in one of Jarus duplex in Lekki is N75m (just £30k) but for an American footballer to settle his relative with a house in US in decent neighborhood, he done enter £300k plus. A 10x difference.

Na true sha. The fact that he's not going to be doing any western style marriage has already reduced his chance of going broke by 50%

I think guys are generally just armed with more financial resources now to where it will take a lot of effort for someone of Osimhen's stature to run down completely

Roland17:
The Stars have fallen into the same situation. A 3 straight win in the NHL is tough to come by but they just have to win the next to give themselves a chance. The Oilers look good man!

Stars should have lost to the Avs and be out since, I don't know what nonsense they were on about that Game 7 that made them choke.

Oilers just have their number. Too much speed. McDavid. I hope it's finally his year but the Panthers man I don't know who beats them in 7 I just don't know.

LordAdam16:
It gets better. /s

A 30% pay cut will activate crisis mode for most.
Footballers have to go from 6-8 figures straight to unemployment stipend in the blink of an eye.
They fritter the years they should have spent in college, interning, and padding their resume.
Can't easily pick up a degree on the side anymore. The schedule is brutal.

Season just ended. MU players are heading to Thailand.

-Lord

There's a reason players take on other jobs like management and TV gigs etc.

Only the elite of the elite that made too much to go broke and maybe in this era where the money is the best it's ever been

But we see most of even our Super Eagles that year. They made good money but where are they now? Cele was making $25k a week in the late 90s. Still fell on hard times

It's lack of financial literacy that's really the problem. You can get past the lack of qualifications but when you're not financially literate, nobody will tell you that car you're buying depreciates in value by 25% soon as you drive it off the lot, not all property is good property.

Roland17:
I used to like this cat because of his toughness. I watched this man in college during Villanova’s championship run and continued after he got drafted by Dallas.

But something about how he gets his points after he joined the Knicks changed. Now he just foul baits despite initiating contact, flops and whines at officials throughout the game.

There are other small PGs like TJ McConnell, Pritchard, GPII, McBride who play the right way. He pulled this same crap against my Celtics and the refs just continued to send him to the FT line.

He's been asked to be his team's primary scorer. That's good to be competitive and win some games but you're not winning a chip with Jalen Brunson as your #1 guy. That's just not gonna happen

He's going to be made the scapegoat rather unfairly but genetic lottery has put him at an insurmountable disadvantage. Jalen to me is already punching above his weight.

Knicks best shot to success is KAT being the main guy and Jalen Brunson putting it on the plate for everyone else, but now that he's captain clutch the Knicks have to live and die by his ability to score.

You're just not going to Outscore the Pacers on the other end cos he's too small to stop them

Haliban struck again. The Knicks will not forget him in a hurry.

With what Rick Carlisle is doing with that Pacers team. We might really be seeing the death of the Superteam.

Off their bench Toppin, Mathurin, McConnell. Good combination of size, ball handling and a guy that can create his own offense

Even their starters. Nesmith (Celtics reject) Nembhard, Turner. Haliburton on the Celtics, Lakers, Warriors, Suns might be the 3rd best player and yet maybe the most efficient PG in the league.

I want to see when Steph and Dame retire the return of true PG play and Haliburton is proof of that. He to me at the point is far more dangerous than a Dame or a Fox cos you're already bleeped if he has 10 or more assists so on a good night where he scores 25 or more you're really screwed

Bombblacks:
The career person also has expenses. If you are given the choice to make your 40years salary in a 4 year window won't you take it?

Expenses pass expenses Broski. Not even comparable what you spend vs those guys. We've heard and seen too many instances

Only a crazeman will take 40 years money in 4 years. Do you know how short 4 years is? That's a World Cup. I can still remember Kolo Muani last minute sitter of Konate's hoof and another World cup is barely a year away

4 years is a fuckin short time to stretch money for 40 years

Ibime:
lol. I'm a mad Nas guy in the 90s. But the truth is when you personally reach a level of expertise in something, you cannot go back to the building blocks that you used to first learn basic structures. cos they are basic and they can't add anything to your learning anymore. 2001 to 2008 is a long time to be releasing garbage and expect me to jump back on like you never left. Same reason I left Eminem behind after Marshall Mathers album

The truth is, I look for wit and comedic value in my rappers first and foremost, then I go into intricate rhyme schemes, then how the music sounds sonically. When Nas was busy taking his wack hiatus from 2001 to 2008, I mostly pivoted into mixtape rappers like Saigon, Crooked I, Royce da 59 and now I follow the likes of 38 Spesh. These are guys who are way advanced lyrically and in flow structure than what was fresh about Nas in the 1990s. Every generation innovates, even Eminem's flow develops every time while Nas is sounding like the lazy version of his 1990s self. The reason I name checked Method Man is because he has been featuring with all these new rappers and holding his own, he worked on his pen. I listened to some part of King Diseases and Nas flow is choppy like the worst of Nas, not as clean and crisp as it was on I am. I am should be his pinnacle of landing every bar on beat but throughout his career (and even on I am), he has too often slipped into choppy flows that don't land crisply at the end of the snares. Reason I like IWW is cos he landed crisply too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPqra-tB31c?si=Go8IJgmnlSx8Yifj


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPGWarEdQc8?si=CrwahMCQD2_cwyJE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsTgE0wO0XI?si=ZiQn02AX6xV4CjlT

Listen to these songs with open mind. I'm surprised you're still talking about IWW and co, when Nas has dropped 3-4 well respected and acclaimed body of work.

You mentioned Eminem but Eminem Show was better than MMLP, Recovery was equally as good. I listened to Eminem new album was mehh. He's rapping at 1.75x speed. That's about it

Back to Nas. You see all these guys you mentioned. They have the odd guest verse, one or two tracks here and there but they don't make good music. All their rap na battle rap material. I don't have time for that. I bleeped with Slaughterhouse when they came out I liked their shit but it was inconsistent and didn't always land

I don't rate this era of rappers so that's maybe where me and you are different. I'm highly unimpressed. I rather listen to KD3 than anything out there right now from Drake or Cole and even Dot

Of course Nas delivery and beat selection has never been his strong suit. If Nas could deliver his bars like a Dr Dre (no rapper has a better delivery IMO) for example he would probably be the goat

Speaking of Method Man I heard him with Redman on Lalala. I don't see much difference in the flow. Listen to A-yo that came out 16 years ago and tell me what the difference is.
Besides Method's pen has always been legit.

More importantly I don't rate this era of rappers or rap. I think both the male and female MCs are mostly trash. So I don't rate any rapper by his ability to switch to or hang with rappers of today cos you will have to dumb down your flow, cadence and everything else to even do that. Jay Z fell on to that trap and I cringed each time I heard him on verses but I'm glad he stopped

Nas didn't have to do that. Which is why we got the KD trilogy