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think I've seen it but fukk itKaleidoscope Music Festival – Nas hits the stage for Saturday night’s headlining performance
Hip-hop legend Nas performed on Kaleidoscope’s main stage Saturday night for the headlining performance. He performed a list of hits from his albums that included: Illmatic, Stillmatic, God’s Son, and Life is Good.
Nas performs “Daugthers” on the Kaleidoscope music stage for Saturday’s headlining performance. (Andrew Seng/Emerald)
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The Kaleidoscope crowd waits for Nas to perform Saturday night’s headlining performance at the Kaleidoscope main stage. (Andrew Seng/Emerald)
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Nas points his microphone to the crowd while performing “One Mic” on the Kaleidoscope music stage for Saturday’s headlining performance. (Andrew Seng/Emerald)
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Nas performs “Got yourself a gun” on the Kaleidoscope music stage for Saturday’s headlining performance. (Andrew Seng/Emerald)
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Nas performs on the Kaleidoscope music stage for Saturday’s headlining performance (Andrew Seng/Emerald)[/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL]
Hip-hop legend Nas performed on Kaleidoscope’s main stage Saturday night for the headlining performance. He performed a list of hits from his albums that included: Illmatic, Stillmatic, God’s Son, and Life is Good.
Nas performs “Daugthers” on the Kaleidoscope music stage for Saturday’s headlining performance. (Andrew Seng/Emerald)
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The Kaleidoscope crowd waits for Nas to perform Saturday night’s headlining performance at the Kaleidoscope main stage. (Andrew Seng/Emerald)
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Nas points his microphone to the crowd while performing “One Mic” on the Kaleidoscope music stage for Saturday’s headlining performance. (Andrew Seng/Emerald)
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Nas performs “Got yourself a gun” on the Kaleidoscope music stage for Saturday’s headlining performance. (Andrew Seng/Emerald)
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Nas performs on the Kaleidoscope music stage for Saturday’s headlining performance (Andrew Seng/Emerald)[/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL]
Dude looks like the It Was Written cover
That was 17 years Ago
That was 17 years Ago
Nas Reviews Lauryn Hill’s ‘The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill’ – XXL Issue 150
Aug 26th, '13 • XXL Magazine • by XXL Staff • No Comments
lauryn_hill_miseducation
Artist: Lauryn Hill
Reviewer: Nas
Rating: XXL
Anniversary: 15-year
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the September 2013 issue of XXL Magazine.
I kept hearing about the album; there was a hype there, and when “Doo Wop” dropped, it was more than I expected.
There’s always a void when it comes to the female MC world, and she went beyond that. It checked me as an MC because she was pure. There was no chains, no fancy cars, she checked us on all of that. On songs like “Superstar” and “Lost Ones” and “Doo Wop,” she talked to us, she went into who we were as men and women. And that was needed at the time and to this day. To me it was like the soul of Roberta Flack, the passion of Bob Marley, the essence of Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson and the essence of hip-hop wrapped up in one thing. All that was inside that album.
When it starts and you hear the classroom and then they go on to talk about love, she’s teaching people what love is. It made me wonder, “How the hell does this person know about love the way she’s singing about it?” She sang about love and betrayal and hurt and rejoicing and happiness and joy like someone who’s been here longer than she had.
It’s a timeless record, pure music. And that’s what we don’t hear anymore. She birthed her sound, and that’s timeless. She didn’t try to be cool, she was already cool. She didn’t have to fit in with any style, she was the new style, and it’s a positive style.
It represents the time period—a serious moment in Black music, when young artists were taking charge and breaking through doors. It cleared the way for rap music to be what it is today. We demanded that the whole world pay attention, so the music had to be that dynamic, and she represents that. She was one of the soldiers in that mission. Before then, it was in its place. Beyond that, musically, the content—it’s an album that everyone today should listen to if they wanna make an album. No matter who you are—R&B, rap, rock, soul, whatever—you wanna make an album, I would say everyone should take a listen to this before you start working on yours.
And then I’ll go beyond that. It’s a piece of work that’s needed in your deck, in your CD chamber, in your iPod. It’s one of those records that you need, like Legend like Bob Marley, or all those Stevie Wonder albums. See, we didn’t have that, our generation didn’t really have that. We had the soul of Mary J. Blige, but she was pretty much out there alone in terms of an artist who was giving you the music like that, where you can believe it and you feel it. It was the closest thing we have since our parents’ era. She was the other female that gave us the closest thing we had since our parents’ era, Stevie Wonder and all that music that we grew up listening to, no artist in our generation except Lauryn—Mary and Lauryn, as far as women we concerned—and she was doing that thing and gave us a feeling that our parents had, and made sure we didn’t miss out on the feeling. She had that for us.
The album cover is her face scratched into the desk and she’s wearing dreadlocks, and she’s proud of who she is, and today I don’t see enough black women—there are lots of proud black women—but there’s so many that don’t really tap into their natural beauty. She tapped into hers and rapped about it. We were like, yo, this girl, we’re about to embark on a journey with this young woman, and we’re just gonna allow her to take us anywhere we want to go. -@Nas (as told to @Dan Rys)
Aug 26th, '13 • XXL Magazine • by XXL Staff • No Comments
lauryn_hill_miseducation
Artist: Lauryn Hill
Reviewer: Nas
Rating: XXL
Anniversary: 15-year
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the September 2013 issue of XXL Magazine.
I kept hearing about the album; there was a hype there, and when “Doo Wop” dropped, it was more than I expected.
There’s always a void when it comes to the female MC world, and she went beyond that. It checked me as an MC because she was pure. There was no chains, no fancy cars, she checked us on all of that. On songs like “Superstar” and “Lost Ones” and “Doo Wop,” she talked to us, she went into who we were as men and women. And that was needed at the time and to this day. To me it was like the soul of Roberta Flack, the passion of Bob Marley, the essence of Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson and the essence of hip-hop wrapped up in one thing. All that was inside that album.
When it starts and you hear the classroom and then they go on to talk about love, she’s teaching people what love is. It made me wonder, “How the hell does this person know about love the way she’s singing about it?” She sang about love and betrayal and hurt and rejoicing and happiness and joy like someone who’s been here longer than she had.
It’s a timeless record, pure music. And that’s what we don’t hear anymore. She birthed her sound, and that’s timeless. She didn’t try to be cool, she was already cool. She didn’t have to fit in with any style, she was the new style, and it’s a positive style.
It represents the time period—a serious moment in Black music, when young artists were taking charge and breaking through doors. It cleared the way for rap music to be what it is today. We demanded that the whole world pay attention, so the music had to be that dynamic, and she represents that. She was one of the soldiers in that mission. Before then, it was in its place. Beyond that, musically, the content—it’s an album that everyone today should listen to if they wanna make an album. No matter who you are—R&B, rap, rock, soul, whatever—you wanna make an album, I would say everyone should take a listen to this before you start working on yours.
And then I’ll go beyond that. It’s a piece of work that’s needed in your deck, in your CD chamber, in your iPod. It’s one of those records that you need, like Legend like Bob Marley, or all those Stevie Wonder albums. See, we didn’t have that, our generation didn’t really have that. We had the soul of Mary J. Blige, but she was pretty much out there alone in terms of an artist who was giving you the music like that, where you can believe it and you feel it. It was the closest thing we have since our parents’ era. She was the other female that gave us the closest thing we had since our parents’ era, Stevie Wonder and all that music that we grew up listening to, no artist in our generation except Lauryn—Mary and Lauryn, as far as women we concerned—and she was doing that thing and gave us a feeling that our parents had, and made sure we didn’t miss out on the feeling. She had that for us.
The album cover is her face scratched into the desk and she’s wearing dreadlocks, and she’s proud of who she is, and today I don’t see enough black women—there are lots of proud black women—but there’s so many that don’t really tap into their natural beauty. She tapped into hers and rapped about it. We were like, yo, this girl, we’re about to embark on a journey with this young woman, and we’re just gonna allow her to take us anywhere we want to go. -@Nas (as told to @Dan Rys)
Alexander Wiggin
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To think Nas should have been on miseducation, but he didn't really response to Lauryn's invitation and miss the train 
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Canada Goose
Pooping on your head :umad:
The GOAT has his classic song "hate me now" used in the 2K14 trailer 
Also seems like Nas recently recorded a clean version as fill ins are obvious
Also seems like Nas recently recorded a clean version as fill ins are obvious
DeuceZ
Li pitit gason
speaking of placements I was watching this french flick the other day "un prophete"...I had watched it before but forgot about this scene
) but still..
Nas live at North Coast Music Festival
Nas pulled up backstage to North Coast Music Festival 2013 in a black Silverado. He hopped out with limited fanfare, him and three others. He casually took to the side stage, greeted his live drummer and DJ for the evening, and strolled on stage. He looked utterly confident, a feeling he maintained throughout one of the most amazing hip hop performances I’ve seen.
For an hour Nas energetically performed through his vast catalog of hits including “N.Y. State of Mind”, “It Ain’t Hard To Tell”, “Represent” and “The World is Yours”. I forgot how many hits Nas has created, and he wasted no time reminding me why he is one of the greatest rappers alive.
I’ve seen live drumming attempted many times at rap shows, but never as successful as this. The drummer played the beat from “Nasty” while Nas free-styled. Other notable cuts included rapping the second verse of “Got Ur Self A Gun” over Dr. Dre’s “Deep Cover” beat, and a few bars over the beat from “Let Nas Down”.
Despite several flubbed lines and several failed call and response attempts the crowd remained engaged and demanded an encore. Nas performed “One Mic”. It was an amazing set. Extra points go for not yelling at the sound man once and never performing a cappella.
Nas pulled up backstage to North Coast Music Festival 2013 in a black Silverado. He hopped out with limited fanfare, him and three others. He casually took to the side stage, greeted his live drummer and DJ for the evening, and strolled on stage. He looked utterly confident, a feeling he maintained throughout one of the most amazing hip hop performances I’ve seen.
For an hour Nas energetically performed through his vast catalog of hits including “N.Y. State of Mind”, “It Ain’t Hard To Tell”, “Represent” and “The World is Yours”. I forgot how many hits Nas has created, and he wasted no time reminding me why he is one of the greatest rappers alive.
I’ve seen live drumming attempted many times at rap shows, but never as successful as this. The drummer played the beat from “Nasty” while Nas free-styled. Other notable cuts included rapping the second verse of “Got Ur Self A Gun” over Dr. Dre’s “Deep Cover” beat, and a few bars over the beat from “Let Nas Down”.
Despite several flubbed lines and several failed call and response attempts the crowd remained engaged and demanded an encore. Nas performed “One Mic”. It was an amazing set. Extra points go for not yelling at the sound man once and never performing a cappella.
Nas' Vegas Sneaker Shop Called '12AM Run'
August 30th 2013 | 37 comments
words // Brandon Richard
It's been about three months since Nas announced that he's opening a sneaker shop in Las Vegas. Since then, news on the new spot has been scarce, but Nas gave us an update this week regarding a possible name.
The Queensbridge rapper shared another construction photo via Instagram with the caption, "12AM RUN COMING SOON! VEGAS!" With that, it appears that we have a name for Nas' shop.
No additional information about 12AM RUN is known at the moment, but it looks like things are moving along smoothly.
Are you planning on stopping by Nas' store when it opens? Share your thoughts below and stick with us for updates.
Read more: http://solecollector.com/news/nas-vegas-sneaker-shop-called-12am-run/#ixzz2drYU9Fnc
August 30th 2013 | 37 comments
words // Brandon Richard
It's been about three months since Nas announced that he's opening a sneaker shop in Las Vegas. Since then, news on the new spot has been scarce, but Nas gave us an update this week regarding a possible name.
The Queensbridge rapper shared another construction photo via Instagram with the caption, "12AM RUN COMING SOON! VEGAS!" With that, it appears that we have a name for Nas' shop.
No additional information about 12AM RUN is known at the moment, but it looks like things are moving along smoothly.
Are you planning on stopping by Nas' store when it opens? Share your thoughts below and stick with us for updates.
Read more: http://solecollector.com/news/nas-vegas-sneaker-shop-called-12am-run/#ixzz2drYU9Fnc
did the god ever get at the actress who played Faith Evans? 
did the god ever get at the actress who played Faith Evans?
we may never know...
