I also heard Kendrick Lamar on the version of "Bath Salts" that Swizz played.
Nah, just some milquetoast j Cole verse on the bath salt beat
It’s a distribution deal but yea just by being in the building again he has the opportunity to release his vault if he wants. Nas seems to be on some “always forward I’m moving never backwards” energy though so who knows. During that Khaled interview last year he said the Sony stuff will never come out. It takes months to negotiate deals, and then you sit on it for months before it’s announced to the public. Was that interview before negotiations, or during/after? If before was he thinking about his next move but Sony wasn’t on his mind yet? Who knows.Nas Pens Angry Letter To Def Jam Execs?
hmm...nas apparently cited that he did decent business w tommy mottola when he was going against def jam even tho he eventually left columbia but then came back recently to do business w columbia. i didnt see that much controversial results from donnie einer
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i wondered about this, but whenever nas pens his letters without an editor, there's random capitalization, fragmented sentence structure, and crazy punctuation -- nas pens his letters like a 2Pac rant....like the open letter to def jam, his instagram 7 pager about kelis, and his album liner notes talking about everything...it's kinda crazy that Nas rhyming skills are impeccable counting bars and putting words into structure but his open journal writing style is all over the place
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I really dont want to wait 50 years down the line for the complete Nas vault to fully open like some Elvis/Beatles infomercial we used to see on TV long after they stopped putting out music, ffs
That you owe me had the girls going crazy in the crowd. If nas fans didnt box him in so much he probably would have made more club bangers like that.Timbo got me playing you owe me lol
I don’t get it. LolI also heard Kendrick Lamar on the version of "Bath Salts" that Swizz played.
yeah, Nas had alternatives alises like escobar, etc just to separate himself from being judged by his illmatic standards but then said, 'fukk it, i'll just be nas'...nas was able to run away from the rakim's comparisons but can't seem to run away from his own debut album's standards because the 'purists' always want to get into a complaint/hissy fit when Nas just wants to make music and experiment with other shytThat you owe me had the girls going crazy in the crowd. If nas fans didnt box him in so much he probably would have made more club bangers like that.
Denzel plays a younger Nas with some CGI
Wonder why this wasn't more of a hit? The opening verse is legendary and the song itself is just one of those classic unsung Mariah Remixes. Maybe it's because it has God in the title idk
yeah, Nas had alternatives alises like escobar, etc just to separate himself from being judged by his illmatic standards but then said, 'fukk it, i'll just be nas'...nas was able to run away from the rakim's comparisons but can't seem to run away from his own debut album's standards because the 'purists' always want to get into a complaint/hissy fit when Nas just wants to make music and experiment with other shyt
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I wrote this a while ago if anybody could help me out: Lost Nas clip from a partial documentary that I can't find on youtube
1) I remember seeing this a long time ago, like 2011ish on youtube, and I have no idea if it came from one of those VH1/MTV/etc video biographies or an excerpt from a hip hop documentary movie or something:
it was a mix blend of Nas recounting his childhood and some narrator voice-over plus some additional vocals from friends and family, where the documentary or episode acted out the scenes with younger versions of Nas and Jungle
Basically, it was recounting how Nas was heavy in the mystical/spiritual books from his father's library when he was younger and how kid Nas and kid Jungle used to put batteries in the freezer to see if it recharged or put an egg on top of the refrigerator, both sit back down at the dining table, close their eyes, and meditated while peeping to see if the egg moved -- Nas wanted to try out the 'spooky shyt' to see if any of the mystical procedures in those books worked.
It was one of those strange/obscure Nas facts I recall. I've been trying refind that clip for a while with no success because the clip was part of a bigger documentary episode, but I'll just post the description here to see if anyone else recall seeing the clip of what I'm talking about and maybe dig up the footage, thanks.
2) Bonus points if you can find the interview clip of someone asking Nas if he was Your Old Droog and Nas said he didn't understand the question and moved on...I should have saved these clips, ugh lol