Remember what is was like when "Nas Is Like" dropped?

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

That beat is heavenly, brehs. I remember catchin' this shyt on Yo! MTV Raps when it dropped as a jit.

 

[mobbinfms]

Same here on the bolded, triggered memories for me

We older than dirt breh
Sometimes you gotta embrace the

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Man I couldn't get over that beat, I pretty much thought it was the greatest music I'd ever heard.

That beat made sweet, sweet love to my eardrums.

 

[MikeyC]

The song was dropped in March '99 yet contains the bar " I'm like all races / combined in one man; like the '99 summer jam"


Am I missing something, or....

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Nas is like was written on papyrus in musical form

"Street scriptures for lost souls.."

"Like Greeks Egypt learning something deep from their teachers"

 

[Ricky43]

People in here talking about I am bootleg...that was classic I can't find it though...that was when I was 15 and I'm 30..I really grew up on nas and followed his career for 15 years and counting

 

[spliz]

Gotta agree.

The crazy thing on Nas is Like too is that he didn't even curse on the song.

Yea I had said this early in this thread. It's so dope most people don't even notice.

 

[Knicksman20]

ive said it before n ill say it again

theres a level nas reaches on some of his songs that jay has never attained. and i say that strictly IMO

I'd say this comes close; especially that last verse & it's a Premo beat

 

[IllmaticDelta]

much success to ya, even if you wish me the opposite....

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

You hear people talk about what real hip hop is and all that. Well this is REAL HIP HOP.

 

[StretfordRed]

I think for me, being an out and out DJ Premier stan I always concentrated on the beat too much.

I can just beat box the drum like it was nothing. At the beginning of the track they came in so hard and clean, then birds chirping put my mind in the state of being in a village somewhere in Asia, on a wooden stilt house over a river and the over-arching trees freeing themselves of these singing birds.

Then the hard drums come back in. Then the "Nas is.." scratch comes in and the infamous bars "Freedom of jail, clips inserted..." are revealed to my ears and then I'm taken away from my Asian fantasy and put firmly back in the streets of Queens Bridge, NYC.

This track to me is immovable in regards to the best hip-hop track.

 

[semtex]

Funny thing is the song before that on I Am is probably the worst song nas ever made. I felt embarrassed for him

 

[Piff Perkins]

Premo laced Nas with two amazing songs on I Am. NY State Of Mind 2 and Nas Is Like. Damn I wish they knocked out some more joints for the album.

Come And Get Me is dope too.

 

[Jimmy the gent]

Y'all talking about Jay's Primo tracks but IMO they can't ever touch " I Gave You Power". The concept, beat and storytelling. Whoa . tell me u don't agree

 

[Detroit Wave]

i traded my copy of flesh of my flesh to a classmate for i am

when i first heard this song i was like

and that was when i became a nas fan