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eldylan said:
We're definitely gonna hear some new Nas soon even if its only guest verses like the track Benny is talking about on that clip above. And its from those Hit-boy sessions so it will be intriguing to see how it sounds if we're getting a bunch of these tracks later or maybe even a full album.
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I think so too. I hope you are correct. Those hit boys sessions are probably crazy too. I like nas working with him in 2020. It can come out dope.
 
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Big Mark said:
My Nas Juneteenth playlist for tomorrow"

Untitled album
Be A ****** too
America (original)
Cops Keep Firing
Proclamation
The Fear
Colors (snippet)

Distant Relatives album
****** tape

No other rapper could do it justice and it is certainly the right climate. I wouldn't be mad if Nas dropped a ****** 2 EP (Untitled 2 of course). If he dropped 5-6 focused tracks, it would be right on time. Its just a pipe dream though.
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Nas said this album is one of the best albums of any genre. This is the inspiration for ****** album.

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JustCKing said:
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 :pacspit: 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".
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hurry up and delete this before a Hov stan comes in here and sees this nonsense :lupe:
 
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Stick Up Kid said:
hurry up and delete this before a Hov stan comes in here and sees this nonsense :lupe:
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:what: People let Jay Z slide for deducing that Nas was requesting oral sex for jewelry, but my breakdown of the song is off? Where in the song is that even suggesting?

In my analysis, I based everything on the lyrics. Do ya'll listen to music and comprehend what you're listening to because I clearly heard talk about shackles, and 40 acres (reparations). Why would those references be in a song that also talks about getting a dance in exchange for ice? Artists often write songs with multiple meanings.
 
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