Hip Hop Is Dead... How Nasir's Battle Cry Helped Save An Artform

[Billy Ocean]

Beautiful stuff Ruler Zig. Beautiful shyt. Me personally, though, being 100% sincere, Hip Hop is Dead didn't have quite the impact it should've AND could've had. I believe a LARGE percentage of the hip hop community brushed it off as east coast elitism and continued in it's decadent spiral of elementary lyricism over juvenile beats. I always thought that the album could've had a greater impact on the game if Nas had that vulgar edge that he had on Stillmatic. I mean nasty. Destroy and Rebuid "I don't give afukk" NASTY. Still a solid album but it didn't have the particular "umphh" to make it a game changer.

 

[Big Mel]

Made you look was the first single off Gods Son. It was classic. It sampled the Incredible Bongo Band.

Thiefs Theme was the single off Streets Disciple. It was aiight. No one really cared. It too sampled the Incredible Bongo Band.

Hip Hop Is Deads title track was the lead single. It was wack. It samples the exact same song "in a godda Da vi Da" by the incredible bongo band as the album before it, which was a lift from made you look artistically.


Even a one eyed person can see thru the horse shyt.

 

[Danie84]

HHID was a breath of fresh air in the cesspool of Rap music at that time

 

[El Vato]

love it when people ignore through their colored stan glasses lol

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

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This is for Nasir lets discuss!

U need to get @ me Ziggy

The gawd is 40. May he bless us with music for 40 more years

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

your infatuation with the MC known as Nas is a little disturbing........but do you bruh........

That man is a legend been let us honor the greats before they pass

 

[West Coast Avenger]

That man is a legend been let us honor the greats before they pass

..............do whatever makes you happy.......

 

[El Vato]

..............do whatever makes you happy.......

it is disturbing..he probaby outside his house with a phone app checking on any movement

 

[G-Zeus]

dope thread pam lan (bro)

 

[dirty_yo]

Made you look was the first single off Gods Son. It was classic. It sampled the Incredible Bongo Band.

Thiefs Theme was the single off Streets Disciple. It was aiight. No one really cared. It too sampled the Incredible Bongo Band.

Hip Hop Is Deads title track was the lead single. It was wack. It samples the exact same song "in a godda Da vi Da" by the incredible bongo band as the album before it, which was a lift from made you look artistically.


Even a one eyed person can see thru the horse shyt.

Are you trolling? In a gadda da vida is iron butterfly not the incredible bongo band.

 

[Big Mel]

Not the version Nas sampled. Bongo Band covered it.

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

damn is it me or Nas make others cats look flabbier and sickier than they really are, they shouldn't take a photo next to him

 

[Blackout]

"I used to look up to Nas a lot," Fat Joe told Hannah Sung. "And I don’t even really respect what he did. How do you become a friend to a person who disrespects your baby’s mother? It’s too much ugliness. I almost died, as a hip hop fan, when I heard they were together."

Fat Joe via interview with MuchMusic http://nahright.com/news/2006/02/13/fat-joe-speaks-on-shawn-and-nasir/

So Nas was supposed to care about an ex?

Care for your exes brehs.

 

[dirty_yo]

Not the version Nas sampled. Bongo Band covered it.

Im not going to deny nas doesnt recycle ideas but this isn't one of them. I know what youre trying to say, that both songs have that "break beat hippity hop" vibe but I dont think that makes them artistically similar. Both samples, apache and in a gadda da vida were interpolated by the incredible bongo band but their covers aren't artistically similar. If anything nas' nasty was aesthetically similar to made u look and merely a rehash even though the bongo band were nowhere to be seen.

 

[Big Mel]

I'd agree with Nasty being Made u Look 2.0, but everything I said is still true.