...foxy was spitting high caliber shyt...i dont believe for a sec az, nas, or nature didnt write them for her
And then people wonder why Pac felt as though Nas was rapping about HIS life. Shock G has stated in interviews that from the moment Pac and Stretch met they pretty much were like brothers and hung out almost every single day until the '94 shooting and now Nas says the same thing about him and Stretch.
Nas pretty much admits here that The Message wasn't just some made up sh*t but about the lives of other people in the game. Can't say that that second verse doesn't match Pac's situation at the time more than anyone else's..
Also:
[I sang the hook on that and] I was definitely the first guy from my era that was singing."
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Though you can't really say one guy started it anyway..Like they said, the old school did it long before them.
The influence of Pac on Nas is so obvious and this album was where it really started and it has continued through all his albums after this one. Yet Nas seems to downplay the influence now and when he speaks of Pac it's like he doesn't want to say he looked up to/took a lot from him but that they were always equals in the game while he was alive. But Pac clearly influenced Nas a lot more than Nas did Pac.
Nas is still a legend now though and unquestionably top 5 doa. And this album is a major part of his legacy. Good to see it getting a Making Of.
It was just a real serious point in rap. It was crazy back then; everyone was lyrical, everyone would battle you, everyone had a crew. Crews back then wasnt only popping bottles, they was popping pistols too. I hadnt really been shot [like I say in the song] but everyone else around me, so I was their voice.
Nas pretty much admits here that The Message wasn't just some made up sh*t but about the lives of other people in the game.
im not the type to hate on this album but why are they proppin it up like this?
theres was plenty of better stuff from that year, but the media seems hell-bent on force-feeding the same rappers' legacies over & over.
Death
On November 30, 1995, Stretch was killed after being shot twice in the back by three men who pulled up alongside his green minivan at 112th Ave. and 209th St. in Cambria Heights, while he was driving. His minivan smashed into a tree and hit a parked car before flipping over. Stretch was killed exactly one year after 2pac's 1994 Quad Studio shooting, and many people believe that Stretch was killed as a form of retaliation.
HMMMM
im not the type to hate on this album but why are they proppin it up like this?
theres was plenty of better stuff from that year, but the media seems hell-bent on force-feeding the same rappers' legacies over & over.
im not the type to hate on this album but why are they proppin it up like this?
theres was plenty of better stuff from that year, but the media seems hell-bent on force-feeding the same rappers' legacies over & over.
