Official Nas Thread

[kes929]

been listening to Untitled all summer.. third verse of Breathe. He's even spitting on Hero. The Louis Farakhan song. We're Not Alone. I don't throw "classic" around too often, but Untitled is an underrated classic to me.

I agree 100%. He murdered hero lyrically. The only song I skip on there is sly fox, but I'm not fond of that beat.

 

[Big Homie Behemoth]

Some of my friends don't like 'Testify' at all, I think it's a classic! That blunted flow, mellow beat, William Cooper reference 'Choke him out with his Confederate flag'

 

[Ukbrotha]

Love Testify personally.

 

[Big Mark]

I'm not a fan of Testify. I would've easily replaced it with the unreleased gem, "Who Are You".

 

[Danie84]

Played LIG to remember how he came back and kilt the game, a whole 2 Decades in

...and, he ended the PIFF so sinister:

It ain't the Truman show; it's the human show
Ask the F.B.I. agent at his cubicle
Chews on his pencil eraser with intents to erase you

That's my GOAT

 

[Asdfhhklpiyrewss]

Played LIG to remember how he came back and kilt the game, a whole 2 Decades in

...and he ended the PIFF so sinister:

It ain't the Truman show; it's the human show
Ask the F.B.I. agent at his cubicle
Chews on his pencil eraser with intents to erase you

That's my GOAT

Honestly the album has stayed on my phone since it came out. Thankfully J Cole passed on the Stay beat, I listen to Nas' version everyday

 

[Danie84]

Sidebar, I hate uppin this thread with no music to talk about too

...but, the beauty of an Illmatic Discography, it always makes the cypher complete

For, when you're GOAT's on Chiligan Island, up a new batch of PIFF

 

[mr.africa]

Played LIG to remember how he came back and kilt the game, a whole 2 Decades in

...and he ended the PIFF so sinister:

It ain't the Truman show; it's the human show
Ask the F.B.I. agent at his cubicle
Chews on his pencil eraser with intents to erase you

That's my GOAT

i love 'where's the love', but 'back when' is my absolute fave.
i mean nas can talk about the big apple and never repeat himself.
always comes up with new ways of saying shyt!!
my GOAT!!

The ill reminiscer thinking about the fly days(DOPE INTRO)
Nothing like them 80s summer N.Y. days
Hop on the NB5 days
Mopeds, Pro Keds, city split five ways
How it all started, fifth floor apartment
A jigsaw puzzle aerial view of the projects(EVERY TIME I HEAR THIS, I PICTURE A OVERHEAD SHOT OF NY)
A kid saw struggle, buried a few of his partners
Now chill in resorts, enjoying massages(LIFE IS GOOD)
Check out the oracle bred from city housing(POETIC AS fukk)
Nas, I'll rise the deads by thousands
I remember seeing Shan chilling near his Audi
Hollis Ave, Run and them but I proudly
Put a poster up of Shan and Marley, that was art kid
You love to hear the story how it started
The bubbly I'm pouring wasn't popped yet
Before there was a audience to watch us(THE COME UP)
I assure you, there was a process(THE ROMANTIC IN ME WILL ALWAYS LOVE THE 90s )

[Hook]


[Verse 2]
To call them fake today is hate, real nikkas extinct(CANNOT CRITICIZE WITHOUT BEING LABELED A HATER.NO REALNESS)
Pac left me inside a rap world with nikkas that wink(RIP TO THE LEGEND)
At other rappers, undercover nikkas spit every way
Won't be surprised if all their rides have federal plates
Let alone their wardrobes and Studio 4 flow
It was real when I appeared, it would've been some jaws broke(HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED)
Nas, my real name, stage name, same thing
How could you let these lames claim king? I'm so ashamed, man(MAN ENOUGH TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS SHORTCOMINGS)
I light a L for Vernon, for nikkas who would burn in Hell
For Vernon; 10th Street, 12th Street, Nightmare on Elm Street
Pimps creep, delve deep inside the editorials
Of the ghetto queens, kings, stories true
Who possesses the testicular fortitude
To blow away myths that's a hindrance to all of you(THIS MAN WILL FOREVER REP QB)
You blame your own shortcomings on sex and race
The mafia, homosexuals and all the Jews
It's hogwash point of views, stereotypical
Anti-Semitic like the foul words Gibson spewed
And it's pathetic, I don't get the credit I deserve
That's why I hate doing interviews
But I don't sweat it, study long, study raw
My man Dion said "Nas over-think the songs he writing"
I'm not a wack performer standing near a corny hype man(THE REASON HE'S LEVELS ABOVE MANY RAPPERS)
I got the Donism in me, I'm here to enlighten(HE'LL ALWAYS TRY TO BETTER HIS PEOPLE)


AND THEN THE MUSIC JUST PLAYS OUT TILL THE SONG FINISHES!!
GLORIOUS!!!

 

[Dat Migo]

Fcuk Gnauze, tired of waiting..

 

[NYK Loyalist]

I had Surviving the Times on repeat this morning. Incredible song.



"Tragedy he used to come through all the time, I'm talking Juice Crew not what the word defines"

Only Nas can put words together like that

 

[Surreal]

Back When in the top 30 rap songs all time
@ Fake winning Grammy rap album when this cut shyts on Fake career alone

 

[Jack Trippa 3z company ho]

Some of yall are acting like whiny bytches.

Nas doesn't owe you guys anything and neither does Life Is Good.

I'm happy Nas has other ventures going, you have to diversify especially being in the music biz where albums are no longer selling. And he gave us the Illmatic tour last year. The arguable GOAT album performed in its entirety. We're not getting that for The Chronic, Paid In Full etc. We were damn lucky to get that.

 

[pez]

Nas the God. Still the soundtrack to my life.

 

[Ukbrotha]

 

[AAKing23]

i love 'where's the love', but 'back when' is my absolute fave.
i mean nas can talk about the big apple and never repeat himself.
always comes up with new ways of saying shyt!!
my GOAT!!

The ill reminiscer thinking about the fly days(DOPE INTRO)
Nothing like them 80s summer N.Y. days
Hop on the NB5 days
Mopeds, Pro Keds, city split five ways
How it all started, fifth floor apartment
A jigsaw puzzle aerial view of the projects(EVERY TIME I HEAR THIS, I PICTURE A OVERHEAD SHOT OF NY)
A kid saw struggle, buried a few of his partners
Now chill in resorts, enjoying massages(LIFE IS GOOD)
Check out the oracle bred from city housing(POETIC AS fukk)
Nas, I'll rise the deads by thousands
I remember seeing Shan chilling near his Audi
Hollis Ave, Run and them but I proudly
Put a poster up of Shan and Marley, that was art kid
You love to hear the story how it started
The bubbly I'm pouring wasn't popped yet
Before there was a audience to watch us(THE COME UP)
I assure you, there was a process(THE ROMANTIC IN ME WILL ALWAYS LOVE THE 90s )

[Hook]


[Verse 2]
To call them fake today is hate, real nikkas extinct(CANNOT CRITICIZE WITHOUT BEING LABELED A HATER.NO REALNESS)
Pac left me inside a rap world with nikkas that wink(RIP TO THE LEGEND)
At other rappers, undercover nikkas spit every way
Won't be surprised if all their rides have federal plates
Let alone their wardrobes and Studio 4 flow
It was real when I appeared, it would've been some jaws broke(HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED)
Nas, my real name, stage name, same thing
How could you let these lames claim king? I'm so ashamed, man(MAN ENOUGH TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS SHORTCOMINGS)
I light a L for Vernon, for nikkas who would burn in Hell
For Vernon; 10th Street, 12th Street, Nightmare on Elm Street
Pimps creep, delve deep inside the editorials
Of the ghetto queens, kings, stories true
Who possesses the testicular fortitude
To blow away myths that's a hindrance to all of you(THIS MAN WILL FOREVER REP QB)
You blame your own shortcomings on sex and race
The mafia, homosexuals and all the Jews
It's hogwash point of views, stereotypical
Anti-Semitic like the foul words Gibson spewed
And it's pathetic, I don't get the credit I deserve
That's why I hate doing interviews
But I don't sweat it, study long, study raw
My man Dion said "Nas over-think the songs he writing"
I'm not a wack performer standing near a corny hype man(THE REASON HE'S LEVELS ABOVE MANY RAPPERS)
I got the Donism in me, I'm here to enlighten(HE'LL ALWAYS TRY TO BETTER HIS PEOPLE)


AND THEN THE MUSIC JUST PLAYS OUT TILL THE SONG FINISHES!!
GLORIOUS!!!

That second verse had me like That's my gawd