Nas - Take It In Blood appreciation thread :ahh:

[Mr. Negative]

Currency is built on trust in the Messiah
I'm spending it to get Higher

Will always be one of my favorite lines.

Earth Wind and Fire singing reasons why I'm
Up early...


Everybody else (including the people ar rapgenius) I've ever heard talk about this song always took it as Nas was flipping the name of the song, "Reasons"....

In my mind, I always automatically pictured



not that it fits "reasons" being mentioned.... it just always seemed to fit better.

 

[TheJet]

When I met Nas I didn't know what to say, so I just told him that "take it in blood" was my shyt he dapped me up and I kept it pushin

 

[mr. smoke weed]

why shoot the breeze about it, when you can be about it???
^line is extremely dope,`top 5 nas song to me

 

[AkaDemiK]

The third verse is a prime example of why the last line in my sig is true.
always saved his best for last by taking over the 4th quarter.
:trillmatic: saves his best for last by murdering 3rd verses. Especially the ones where the beat is altered at the start of the last verse before resorting back to natural form

3rd verse is my fav too. Nas completely blacked out

Yo the time is wasting, I use the mind elevation
Dime sack lacing, court pen pacing
Individual, lyrical math abrasion
Psychic evaluation, the foulest nation

STOP IT NAS...STOP IT!!! YOU'RE TOO GOOD!!!

 

[Obtain Knowledge]

Classic

 

[Never Broke Again]

When I met Nas I didn't know what to say, so I just told him that "take it in blood" was my shyt

shoulda took it a step farther

 

[NV-ME]

this is one of those rare/sacred instances in hiphop when a nikka levitates on a beat for a whole song. good mcs have done it for a few bars or a verse, exceptional mcs have eeked out two verses, all time greats do it for three verses.









nas did it, then did the impossible twice...then threw the second one away even though he got it right.

 

[semicko82]

yea i agree with you guys the best on IWW and that's saying a lot. The song is grimy and beautiful at the same time.

 

[KiD WavE]

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The Message also deserves an appreciation thread



But a thug changes and love changes
And best friends become strangers,

Nas dropping some serious wisdom at a young age .... Ive found this shyt to be 100% true

 

[StatUS]

The quintessential blacking out track.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Yo the time is wastin, I use the mind elevation
Dime sack lacin, court pen pacin
Individual, lyrical math abrasion
Psychic evaluation, the foulest nation
We livin in, dangerous lives, mad leak and battered wives
A lifestyle where bad streets is patternized

 

[Malik]

Fake thug, no love, you get the slug, CB4 Gusto
You luck low, I didnt know til I was drunk through

The way he kicked that shyt off is

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

listening to Take It In Blood, I Gave You Power, and Watch Dem nikkaz are what made It Was Written one of my top 5 albums ever. i bumped those songs prob for 24 hours each. on repeat. and i dont skip a song on the album.

 

[the cac mamba]

love this beat/song

Chip did his thing with the sample too

Youtube

pap too

 

[Trajan]

One of the GOAT songs. Made me a Nas fan.

The song flows so smoothly....you can close your eyes and just zone out.

You must be bugging out, new to my shyt, home on a furlough
Ask around who's laid up, sharp and straight up
Mafioso, getting nikkas' wakes sprayed up
Skies are misty, my life's predicted by a gypsy
I'll one day walk into shots drunk off champagne from Sicily
This be the drama, I'mma pause like a comma
In a sentence, paragraph's indented
Bloodshot red eyes high, yellow envelopes of lye
Opening cigars let tobacco fly
Condos are tune-proof, we're looking out the sky's moonroof
shytting like gin and prune juice
Yo the system wants the c00n's noose, hang 'em high
Courtrooms filled up, it's off the hook while I
Just wrote a statement, like I'm facing twenty years
In the basement, chilling on the VI with Mumia
For wearing chrome, I told the judge snakes slither
Like Sharon Stone but like Capone I'm thrown, yo