This.
I can relate cause I used to be the same way as Nas for a longtime. During study groups I would sound like I didn't know what I was talking about it because I couldn't verbally, off the cuff, articulate my thoughts very well. People be looking at me like
Test time comes and I'd have the best grade in class. I'd be looking at people like
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I had to train myself how to pause and organize my thoughts when I started working in the corporate world since so much of success is based on influencing others with verbal speech.
has this same problem. He is one of the greatest orators of all time and has a genius level intellect based on his success in law school. But off the cuff, he is not very eloquent in the way a Michael Eric Dyson might be. He pauses a lot to collect his thoughts. He says "uhhh" "Well" etc to fill those gaps. Ghost does the same except he fills those gaps with "Nah I mean" "Boom...Boom".