Albums Nas - The Lost Tapes 2 (Discussion Thread)

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The art of it is... The lyrics, flow and production are all on the same level of insaneness. These are exactly the type of Nas verse's I love hearing. The flow, the griminess.... It like he's letting people know that no one can go on that level.
 

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The Production
The Bars
The Flow
The Emotions
The Sequencing
Lost Freestyle lettin the beat ride out (That sample damn)
RZA time warping me back to 95 with both beats
Pharrell with the banger
Trying to figure out the years each song came out like a puzzle
I must say...Swizz delivered and coming off "Echo" too.
Pete Rock brought me back damn.
Prodigy gone...it still hurts.
The References
The Biggie homages
The Samples
No ID with the closer
7 Mac 11's = It Never Ends, ALC damn.


:whew: Gonna be a Hot summer




Always for the Art of it yall....
 

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[Verse 1: Nas]
Heard you got your master's, did college up
Never looked back, now that's what's happening
And it's good to see you made it out the hood

With a degree, a true man with passion
Now you could enter the so-called
"White Man's Society" and go right past them

Looking in the Wall Street Journal for your face
But it's always absent

There he go, that's him eating flan and ambrosia
Watch on his arm, golden, laughin'
Try to get his attention
But he's flinching, guess my grimy clothes threw him off, so I mention
We were neighbors some time ago
He was kinda cold, in this restaurant
Full of his kind and more
He sighed, tried to look surprised,
I know
His side of the city where he resides, so
I had to go
I heard him laugh hard at some sad black jokes

Hate so-called "intellectuals"
No balls, he suggests we vote
He stand all proud, speaking to correct his folks

He want to lecture folks
'Cause he professional and he suggest that we don't sell dope

And I guess it's true, but who the fukk are you?

[Verse 2: Nas]
I'm Idi Amin, Marcus Garvey, H. Rap Brown
I'm Muhammad Ali, I'm Reginald Lewis
George Washington Carver, I'm Nas with incredible music

Let's do it, thinking of a master plan
Sipping on disaster, smoking on gangster

Watching nikkas argue, chillin' on my barstool
With my Hell Up in Harlem hat in hand
With a girl named Pat, she more than a waitress
To order your drink with
She divorced a banker and bought the bar
She got an automobile, she gives an order to kill
You get caught and robbed

We could see your walk is off, you could lose your rhythm
When you outta the gutter for a while
You easily go to soft from hard

Now we all about hustlers, number runners
Hoes and sharks and we all know the code of the block
And you talking some gibberish, anti-nikka shyt
'Cause you marched back with Rosa Parks

Brother don't start, go build your Noah's Ark
You could float to the end of the world

And pretend what you not, but I know what you are
While I roll in my car, and I'm spending my knot
While my enemies plot, you ain't out of the shot
Matter of fact, you're an easier target

And I respect everything you accomplished
But I hope I never get old and talk that nonsense

So who the fukk are you?

:wow:

Who Are you isn't getting enough attention
 
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