Official Nas Thread
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I don't want to over analyze, but I think "You Owe Me" went over a lot of people's heads. On the surface, it's just a simple club jam in which Nas is telling a girl to basically dance for him and in exchange she can hold his ice. He got called out for hypocrisy for making this song, but if you listen to the lyrics, there is an underlying darker meaning to the song. There is a slave/master relationship here and it isn't one of the BDSM variety. This is what I get from the song:
1) The slave (artist) to a record label (master) dynamic. The artist essentially dances (makes music, does promo etc even literally dance) while the record label allows them to hold the "ice". We know a lot of the jewelry in these videos is borrowed or rented. Advance money is borrowed or loaned if the artist does not make the label a profit.
2) Literal slave and master relationship. He references taxes and 40 acres in the chorus. The first verse is celebratory of overcoming poverty and being legit as in I did all this, now you owe me. Not saying a woman owes him, but America owes him for all the work he put in to accomplish what he is, more importantly America owes Black people as a whole. Ginuwine doubles down on it in the bridge as he references shackles. "I put the shackles on your feet, I think you owe me something".
3) Ginuwine and Nas were lowkey
at Sony with this song as both of them were on Sony at the time and Ginuwine was singing "You owe Nas. You owe Ginuwine".
1) The slave (artist) to a record label (master) dynamic. The artist essentially dances (makes music, does promo etc even literally dance) while the record label allows them to hold the "ice". We know a lot of the jewelry in these videos is borrowed or rented. Advance money is borrowed or loaned if the artist does not make the label a profit.
2) Literal slave and master relationship. He references taxes and 40 acres in the chorus. The first verse is celebratory of overcoming poverty and being legit as in I did all this, now you owe me. Not saying a woman owes him, but America owes him for all the work he put in to accomplish what he is, more importantly America owes Black people as a whole. Ginuwine doubles down on it in the bridge as he references shackles. "I put the shackles on your feet, I think you owe me something".
3) Ginuwine and Nas were lowkey
at Sony with this song as both of them were on Sony at the time and Ginuwine was singing "You owe Nas. You owe Ginuwine".Even though that was a club banger. Nas still found a way to throw the owed 40 acres in there. I catch that alot with nas songs, he typically throws that in every song. Most people probably don't catch they he finds a way to throw something positive in most of his songs, even it's just bar.I don't want to over analyze, but I think "You Owe Me" went over a lot of people's heads. On the surface, it's just a simple club jam in which Nas is telling a girl to basically dance for him and in exchange she can hold his ice. He got called out for hypocrisy for making this song, but if you listen to the lyrics, there is an underlying darker meaning to the song. There is a slave/master relationship here and it isn't one of the BDSM variety. This is what I get from the song:
1) The slave (artist) to a record label (master) dynamic. The artist essentially dances (makes music, does promo etc even literally dance) while the record label allows them to hold the "ice". We know a lot of the jewelry in these videos is borrowed or rented. Advance money is borrowed or loaned if the artist does not make the label a profit.
2) Literal slave and master relationship. He references taxes and 40 acres in the chorus. The first verse is celebratory of overcoming poverty and being legit as in I did all this, now you owe me. Not saying a woman owes him, but America owes him for all the work he put in to accomplish what he is, more importantly America owes Black people as a whole. Ginuwine doubles down on it in the bridge as he references shackles. "I put the shackles on your feet, I think you owe me something".
3) Ginuwine and Nas were lowkey
what material? I didn’t even know he was working on a new album
spliz
SplizThaDon
Wow. I didn't even think about that. Crazy.I don't want to over analyze, but I think "You Owe Me" went over a lot of people's heads. On the surface, it's just a simple club jam in which Nas is telling a girl to basically dance for him and in exchange she can hold his ice. He got called out for hypocrisy for making this song, but if you listen to the lyrics, there is an underlying darker meaning to the song. There is a slave/master relationship here and it isn't one of the BDSM variety. This is what I get from the song:
1) The slave (artist) to a record label (master) dynamic. The artist essentially dances (makes music, does promo etc even literally dance) while the record label allows them to hold the "ice". We know a lot of the jewelry in these videos is borrowed or rented. Advance money is borrowed or loaned if the artist does not make the label a profit.
2) Literal slave and master relationship. He references taxes and 40 acres in the chorus. The first verse is celebratory of overcoming poverty and being legit as in I did all this, now you owe me. Not saying a woman owes him, but America owes him for all the work he put in to accomplish what he is, more importantly America owes Black people as a whole. Ginuwine doubles down on it in the bridge as he references shackles. "I put the shackles on your feet, I think you owe me something".
3) Ginuwine and Nas were lowkey
DeuceZ
Li pitit gason
I don't want to over analyze, but I think "You Owe Me" went over a lot of people's heads. On the surface, it's just a simple club jam in which Nas is telling a girl to basically dance for him and in exchange she can hold his ice. He got called out for hypocrisy for making this song, but if you listen to the lyrics, there is an underlying darker meaning to the song. There is a slave/master relationship here and it isn't one of the BDSM variety. This is what I get from the song:
1) The slave (artist) to a record label (master) dynamic. The artist essentially dances (makes music, does promo etc even literally dance) while the record label allows them to hold the "ice". We know a lot of the jewelry in these videos is borrowed or rented. Advance money is borrowed or loaned if the artist does not make the label a profit.
2) Literal slave and master relationship. He references taxes and 40 acres in the chorus. The first verse is celebratory of overcoming poverty and being legit as in I did all this, now you owe me. Not saying a woman owes him, but America owes him for all the work he put in to accomplish what he is, more importantly America owes Black people as a whole. Ginuwine doubles down on it in the bridge as he references shackles. "I put the shackles on your feet, I think you owe me something".
3) Ginuwine and Nas were lowkey
Fam... no
Piff Perkins
Veteran
I don't want to over analyze, but I think "You Owe Me" went over a lot of people's heads. On the surface, it's just a simple club jam in which Nas is telling a girl to basically dance for him and in exchange she can hold his ice. He got called out for hypocrisy for making this song, but if you listen to the lyrics, there is an underlying darker meaning to the song. There is a slave/master relationship here and it isn't one of the BDSM variety. This is what I get from the song:
1) The slave (artist) to a record label (master) dynamic. The artist essentially dances (makes music, does promo etc even literally dance) while the record label allows them to hold the "ice". We know a lot of the jewelry in these videos is borrowed or rented. Advance money is borrowed or loaned if the artist does not make the label a profit.
2) Literal slave and master relationship. He references taxes and 40 acres in the chorus. The first verse is celebratory of overcoming poverty and being legit as in I did all this, now you owe me. Not saying a woman owes him, but America owes him for all the work he put in to accomplish what he is, more importantly America owes Black people as a whole. Ginuwine doubles down on it in the bridge as he references shackles. "I put the shackles on your feet, I think you owe me something".
3) Ginuwine and Nas were lowkey
I don't want to over analyze, but I think "You Owe Me" went over a lot of people's heads. On the surface, it's just a simple club jam in which Nas is telling a girl to basically dance for him and in exchange she can hold his ice. He got called out for hypocrisy for making this song, but if you listen to the lyrics, there is an underlying darker meaning to the song. There is a slave/master relationship here and it isn't one of the BDSM variety. This is what I get from the song:
1) The slave (artist) to a record label (master) dynamic. The artist essentially dances (makes music, does promo etc even literally dance) while the record label allows them to hold the "ice". We know a lot of the jewelry in these videos is borrowed or rented. Advance money is borrowed or loaned if the artist does not make the label a profit.
2) Literal slave and master relationship. He references taxes and 40 acres in the chorus. The first verse is celebratory of overcoming poverty and being legit as in I did all this, now you owe me. Not saying a woman owes him, but America owes him for all the work he put in to accomplish what he is, more importantly America owes Black people as a whole. Ginuwine doubles down on it in the bridge as he references shackles. "I put the shackles on your feet, I think you owe me something".
3) Ginuwine and Nas were lowkey
Nikka what?!
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One album I think is from the nas album done days.
Nas reveals he's working on two new projects, including a collaboration with Hit-Boy
Nikka what?!
Well, as someone who writes, someone with Nas's and Static's pen isn't just randomly throwing around reparations references and shackles into a song without some sort of purpose especially when it is basically paying for dances with jewelry.
pez
All Star
This dude just he’s to actually read the lyrics and understand that everything word and line is purposeful. He’s too lazy to look it up and doesn’t the song. Nas has said in interviews about the 40 acres line.
InstantKlassik
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“Never seen much, but yet I'm never in the house
Move in style, wild, exciting when I do step out”
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MustafaSTL
Achievement In Every Field of Human Endeavor
ThatI don't want to over analyze, but I think "You Owe Me" went over a lot of people's heads. On the surface, it's just a simple club jam in which Nas is telling a girl to basically dance for him and in exchange she can hold his ice. He got called out for hypocrisy for making this song, but if you listen to the lyrics, there is an underlying darker meaning to the song. There is a slave/master relationship here and it isn't one of the BDSM variety. This is what I get from the song:
1) The slave (artist) to a record label (master) dynamic. The artist essentially dances (makes music, does promo etc even literally dance) while the record label allows them to hold the "ice". We know a lot of the jewelry in these videos is borrowed or rented. Advance money is borrowed or loaned if the artist does not make the label a profit.
2) Literal slave and master relationship. He references taxes and 40 acres in the chorus. The first verse is celebratory of overcoming poverty and being legit as in I did all this, now you owe me. Not saying a woman owes him, but America owes him for all the work he put in to accomplish what he is, more importantly America owes Black people as a whole. Ginuwine doubles down on it in the bridge as he references shackles. "I put the shackles on your feet, I think you owe me something".
3) Ginuwine and Nas were lowkey
must have been REALLY good.