Official Nas Thread

[Prolific]

How do producers and other cats get writing credits on Nas' album. Does this mean they helped him write the song?

 

[Piff Perkins]

How do producers and other cats get writing credits on Nas' album. Does this mean they helped him write the song?

Producers get name credits. So everyone in Justice League got credit for No Introduction for instance. Dudes that write a string piece on a track, maybe someone did drums on a No ID track, etc

 

[Ronald]

How do producers and other cats get writing credits on Nas' album. Does this mean they helped him write the song?

 

[Prolific]

Producers get name credits. So everyone in Justice League got credit for No Introduction for instance. Dudes that write a string piece on a track, maybe someone did drums on a No ID track, etc

A producer getting writing credits is just weird to me...

 

[Ziggiy]

A producer getting writing credits is just weird to me...

If you look at the credits of pretty much ANY Hip Hop album, the producer gets a writing credit. This doesn't mean that the Producer wrote the lyrics, they may have helped with the arraignment of the hook, they may have assisted in the formatting and placement of the verses. This is what TRUE producers actually do, they aren't writing the lyrics, but they ARE assisting in the overall formation of the song.

Also, if a track is heavily sampled, the sampled artist sometimes also receives a writing credit. For instance the credits on the song IZZO (H.O.V.A) list not only Kanye West, but Berry Gordy and his legendary writing team who wrote and produced the Jackson 5's original 1969 hit record I Want You Back.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Also worth noting the album has a lot of sung hooks, and obviously Nas doesn't write those. So the hook writer/singer usually gets a credit. IE Amy Winehouse getting one for Cherry Wine

 

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basketball season has returned !!!

Nas Radio City Music Hall New Years Part 1 - YouTube part1
Nas Radio City Music Hall New Years Eve Part 2 - YouTube part2

The greatest of all time. It ruined my night that i couldn't go. Can't wait to see what's next for the king...more classics soon come!

 

[HNIC973]

Was the crowd big? Video shows the front basically, can't see how many are in there. Performance sounds dope so far

Show was sold out full house breh

 

[Artfull Dodger]

Sir Nasty Nas hit us with another streak like the ...

Nasty Single [09 August 2011]

to that DJ Khaled_
Hiphop with Scarface [10 Aug 2012]

One Calender year of that Nasty Nas shyt

 

[Asdfhhklpiyrewss]

Live Nas interview

92Y: Cultural Institution and Community Center - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY

 

[Asdfhhklpiyrewss]

Nas talking about people dissing his beats

 

[Tuling]

Live Nas interview

92Y: Cultural Institution and Community Center - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY

holy shyt he looks so cot damn young, motherfukk

 

[3Rivers]

holy shyt he looks so cot damn young, motherfukk

Nas tried to tell us.....

Esco the boss, cash long, nikkas think I'm Blacula
Cause I'm in a castle with a bytch pouring wax on her
I leave my teeth marks in hoes, scoop 'em like a spatula
Pass 'em to my peoples and party like a Bachelor

He don't age cause he's undead

 

[Asdfhhklpiyrewss]

Nas said his favorite songs by himself are NY State of Mind, World Is Yours, and Star Wars

then he said Star Wars was from Lost Tapes