Official Nas Thread

[Illmagic]

Always in my top 10 Nas songs.

One of those songs that came out exactly when I needed it in my life as a young teen. Lowkey might be a Nas song that had the biggest impact on me, ever.

Only If I Ruled the World can compete because that's the first Nas song I remember listening to and made me a stan from first listen till now.

What's love - when you don't give your man dough he wanna stick you?
What's love - you got beef? Nobody rollin' wit you?
What's love - you locked up, and your family don't care
Is love a four-letter word, that deceives the air?

That shyt meant a lot to my dramatic ass 13 year old self.

That 2nd verse is just some incredible stuff.

Same. If I ruled the world was my introduction to Nas. They used to play that video on the box all the time. The first part of the video had the verse from the message. And I heard him on that east coast/ west coast killas and my young ass was was like this dude is amazing. I was maybe 10 years old at the time. I remember wanting to get "it was written" and my dad shut that down quick . He didn't let me hear rap albums at that age cause of the content. Funny enough "If I ruled the world" isn't even in my top 30 nas songs at this point

 

[kes929]

Always in my top 10 Nas songs.

One of those songs that came out exactly when I needed it in my life as a young teen. Lowkey might be a Nas song that had the biggest impact on me, ever.

Only If I Ruled the World can compete because that's the first Nas song I remember listening to and made me a stan from first listen till now.

What's love - when you don't give your man dough he wanna stick you?
What's love - you got beef? Nobody rollin' wit you?
What's love - you locked up, and your family don't care
Is love a four-letter word, that deceives the air?

That shyt meant a lot to my dramatic ass 13 year old self.

This is one of Nas greatest songs. Classic raps

 

[ThirdAct]

Always in my top 10 Nas songs.

One of those songs that came out exactly when I needed it in my life as a young teen. Lowkey might be a Nas song that had the biggest impact on me, ever.

Only If I Ruled the World can compete because that's the first Nas song I remember listening to and made me a stan from first listen till now.

What's love - when you don't give your man dough he wanna stick you?
What's love - you got beef? Nobody rollin' wit you?
What's love - you locked up, and your family don't care
Is love a four-letter word, that deceives the air?

That shyt meant a lot to my dramatic ass 13 year old self.

What's real, when you talk behind a man's back
Then you see him and give him dap, now explain that

 

[HNIC973]

Life we chose what else needs to be said

God forbid one of my nikkas get hit, I'ma go haywire
Won't hesitate, I'ma spray fire
But everybody's different, you won't know how you react
Til you in that position, and that's an actual fact

Went through this exact situation son music just hits different for me real life

 

[TheJet]

Not bad.

 

[HNIC973]

Broken glass in the hallway, bloodstained floors
Neighbors look at every bag you bring through your doors
Yo this had me having flashbacks went I used to help bring my Grandmoms bring bags up the stairs in the projects. She always had this nosey ass friend " What you got in the bag Ms. Jeter" . Nas be making you remember the most random shyt

 

[Big Mark]

This is one of Nas greatest songs. Classic raps

'When you know ya man's girl is a hoe.
And you ain't even let him know
cause you fukked her before"

 

[kes929]

What was that Reddit page that was on here recently? Has he posted anything else?

 

[HHID]

Life we chose what else needs to be said

God forbid one of my nikkas get hit, I'ma go haywire
Won't hesitate, I'ma spray fire
But everybody's different, you won't know how you react
Til you in that position, and that's an actual fact

Went through this exact situation son music just hits different for me real life

One of Nas' and overall hiphop's realest song ever wrote. I know a lotta heads prefer the original but to me the MF Doom version just elevates it to another vibe and status...

And that bar.... "They never know we're enemies til they hear me say it, til their kids on the phone saying Please Daddy pay it"

 

[Pop123]

Legit is such a great rap song man, 🫡. Perfect verses, perfect beat, dope hook

 

[mr.africa]

I'm currently playing Life is good like it's 2012 and it was just released.

Back when is just gawdly...

 

[Surreal]

I'm currently playing Life is good like it's 2012 and it was just released.

Back when is just gawdly...

Top 10 Nas track

 

[mr.africa]

Top 10 Nas track

Amen to that my breh. It's beautiful.

No one reminisces like him. Never been to new York but every time he talks about it, I feel like he is taking me back.

The start ' the ill reminiscer thinking about them fly days, nothing like them 80s summer NY days...

That second verse is just everything I love about hip hop and then the way the song rides out at the end... Glorious shyt!!

 

[Pop123]

I'm currently playing Life is good like it's 2012 and it was just released.

Back when is just gawdly...

That’s crazy, I ran thru that album this morning randomly and it put me in Nas mode all day. Album is greatness…it got love but it’s still underrated

 

[LOST IN THE SAUCE]

One of Nas' and overall hiphop's realest song ever wrote. I know a lotta heads prefer the original but to me the MF Doom version just elevates it to another vibe and status...

And that bar.... "They never know we're enemies til they hear me say it, til their kids on the phone saying Please Daddy pay it"

As long as we're posting remixes, here's a shameless plug for one I did.