9th Wonder turning Nas "The Cross" into a classic appreciation

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9th was selling these online back then, which I thought was mad funny.

Always felt a lot of the production was actually better than the real production on God's Son, but it's wild that bro remixed the whole project, was making bread off of it and didn't even speak with Nas about it. That's why Nas had an issue with it. After he was told to stop selling it, you would see copies on eBay selling for $75. Mixtape golden era.
 

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Neither version is classic. 9th's version is a better beat, but what his remixes lacked was capturing the intensity, urgency, and emotion of the originals. Eminem's beat is plodding and boring, but it fit.
Yeah, that song need an intense beat, not something bright and soulful. Nas was talking about his struggles and being persecuted at messianic levels. It doesn't really work on a dissonant level, either.

Like you said, objectively better beat by every measure but doesn't fit. He should've put a different vibe on it.
 
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