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Bamsyle:dugg,i think u should be the one that needs to check on ya points.u readily attribute every quality i drop abt nas to pac,u fail to dig deep into the shit u claim u serving,u readily praise nas and then going back to ya bitching attitude to diss him,in case u don't know a university in paris started studying the song ''one mic'' immediately the song drooped,rare achievement for a rapper,pac was kind of insecured i'll say it again till the day ya skulls will open to see the truth,illmatic went platinum ten years after,just at 18,and u still gat the mind to say pac is greater,wayback i used to say pac was greater,till i listened to almost everything he drooped and i decided to try sth new,thats when i discovered nas,when he drooped just a moment i went crazy,that boy really gat a good mind,dud go check ''2nd childhood'' i would love to repeat that i give it up to em poets nat to em punchers thats why i ain't feeling biggy,sorry if i hurt anyone. |
Bamsyle:pac aint the only one,but i think he was a great rapper,the real difference between nas and pac is that nas had all the attributes to be the best, some rappers are singing ONLY for money and i can recognize that because i don't feel the energy in their songs, nas had a true lovin heart, tryin to understand all things and people that sourround him and he wrote that,helpin to a lot of people, that is real shit for me,and i call it ART!! that's not the only thing why I admire nas,he was a fighter, aint scared of the society,he recently said that he hates the radio,nas dissed pac with ''the message,''and u shouldn't forget that nas was too young then,before the against all odds track,pac directed the track to mobb deep,p.diddy and nas because he thought nas was stealing his style when he claimed he was shot,he had a line that said''took 5 and left the hospital''same shit pac said,but pac suddenly squashed the beef with,he was about to make it public before he was sprayed. ''illmatic'' ain't one of the best hiphop albums ever to be maid,it;s simply the best album to ever come out of the hiphop community,coming ou at the 18,he gave the hiphop scene sth that was to last forever,''forevermatic''many at times the hiphop community had wanted to confer the crown to nas,but he's alwayz bitched out,i even watched him say pac is greater than him,but when u look at the achievements,i found it hard to place any one ahead,he's sth i regard as a complete artist,no weakness,he keps seeing things clearer as he's getting older,pac had a kind of syndrome that was analyzed after his death,it had to do with fame sth like he let the fame get to his,and i fault u when u said he was watching his back 24\7,there was a story back in the dayz that pac didn't care about his life that much, times at night clubs he would sneak out leaving his bodyguards searching for him for hours,he failed to understand that hiphop ain;t a do or die thing,he gave his life because of his insecurity,nas understands that it's all about skillz,that what counts nth how many u slay or how many times u gat shot,i would ever do shits because this cat did,music ain't supposed to be greater than what it is,pac took every thing going in the studio serious,and to me that ain;t keping it real,he was too blind to look into the future and see what it would look like,lyricwise nas is greater,i would give it to pac with it comes to characterwise but that same shit killed him. concerning biggie,i think he should be compared to jay-z cuz he ain't on the same level with pac and nas,the only rapper alive that i can compare to nas currently iz AZ,lyrically he's somehow near nas. nuff said |
@ bamsyle hom boy,before we start this points sharing proper,i'd love to ask if u've really checked out ''illmatic'',i knw it's old but tell me what u really think of the album,not what peeps think,but ur own review of the lp,i'd love to inform u that ''it was written'' was directed to pac,before pac replied with ''all eyez on me'',thu nas was too young to be given a thought back then,still pac was too scared to call out his name like he did to big, like they say ''skillz counts more than willz'', halla |
Bamsyle:guy,u can't say pac and biggie are miles ahead of nas just cuz they died during their prime,most times i found it hard to place nas above pac,i first started listening to pac,baby don't cry and all all eyez really caught ma eyez abck in d dayz,but i swear to ya nas gat more things to say than pac,nas definitely brings out the beat ouuta the game,thats why he's mad hiphop is been comercialized this way,the untitiled album didi great wonders for him,i owe ma passion for hiphop to nas,he's probabaly the saviour of the rap game,go check slave and the master,u'll understand wht he feels abt the ghetto,before the track started he encouraged peeps still in the ghetto,talked abt hope and all that,before sampling a scene from ''the roots'' where the white masters flooged kuntu and gave him another degrading name just to make him feel inferior,nas silences whites and he's shuting their mouth year by year,he puts himself in sacrificial position where he could be slayed aor mayed,peeps thought he'll be assasinated after tihs lp.but suddenly he trooples lil wayne at billboard top album sales last week,if pac was still alive i guess he'll still be livivng in d past cuz he's already a legend,and wouldn't want to be bugged,nas accepts criticism and doesn't front when he gats bugged,when 50 dissed him with window shopper,nas simply replied by saying that before 50 started dreaming of rocking jewels and fly foot wears,he's been doing it,so who's the window shopper?humility is he's greatest point and ma eyez will never be shut out the stairz as far as nas still lives on, nuff said |
Beginning with his classic debut, Illmatic (1994), Nas stood tall for years as one of New York City's leading rap voices, outspokenly expressing a righteous, self-empowered swagger that endeared him to critics and hip-hop purists. Whether proclaiming himself "Nasty Nas" or "Nas Escobar" or "Nastradamus" or "God's Son," the self-appointed King of New York battled numerous adversaries for his position atop the epicenter of East Coast rap, none more challenging than Jay-Z, who vied with Nas for the vacated throne left in the wake of the Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 assassination. Such headline-worthy drama informed Nas' provocative rhymes, which he delivered with both a masterful flow and a wise perspective over beats by a range of producers: legends like DJ Premier, Large Professor, and Pete Rock; hitmakers like Trackmasters, Timbaland, and will.i.am; street favorites like Swizz Beatz, Megahertz, and the Alchemist; and personal favorites of his own like L.E.S., Salaam Remi, and Chucky Thompson. Nas likewise collaborated with some of the industry's leading video directors, including Hype Williams and Chris Robinson, presenting singles like "Hate Me Now," "One Mic," and "I Can" with dramatic flair. Throughout all the ups (the acclaim, popularity, and success) and downs (the expectations, adversaries, and over-reaching), Nas continually matured as an artist, evolving from a young street disciple to a vain all-knowing sage to a humbled godly teacher. Such growth made every album release an event and prolonged his increasingly storied career to epic proportions. Born Nasir Jones, son of jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas dropped out of school in the eighth grade, trading classrooms for the streets of the rough Queensbridge projects, long fabled as the former stomping ground of Marley Marl and his Juice Crew as immortalized in "The Bridge." Despite dropping out of school, Nas developed a high degree of literacy that would later characterize his rhymes. At the same time, though, he delved into street culture and flirted with danger, such experiences similarly characterizing his rhymes. His synthesis of well-crafted rhetoric and street-glamorous imagery blossomed in 1991 when he connected with Main Source and laid down a fiery verse on "Live at the Barbeque" that earned him up-and-coming notice among the East Coast rap scene. Not long afterward, MC Serch of 3rd Bass approached Nas about contributing a track to the Zebrahead soundtrack. Serch was the soundtrack's executive producer and had been impressed by "Live at the Barbeque." Nas submitted "Halftime," and the song so stunned Serch that he made it the soundtrack's leadoff track. Columbia Records meanwhile signed Nas to a major-label contract, and many of New York's finest producers offered their support. DJ Premier, Large Professor, and Pete Rock entered the studio with the young rapper and began work on Illmatic. When Columbia finally released the album in April 1994, it faced high expectations; Illmatic regardless proved just as astounding as it had been billed. It sold very well, spawned multiple hits, and earned unanimous acclaim, followed soon after by classic status. The two years leading up to Nas' follow-up, It Was Written (1996), brought another wave of enormous anticipation. The ambitious rapper, who had begun working closely with industry heavyweight Steve Stoute, responded with a significantly different approach than he had taken with Illmatic: where that album had been a straightforward hip-hop album with few pop concessions, the largely Trackmaster-produced It Was Written made numerous concessions to the pop-crossover market, most notably on the two hit singles, "Street Dreams" and "If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)." These singles -- both of which drew from well-known songs, Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and Kurtis Blow's "If I Ruled the World," respectively -- broadened Nas' appeal greatly and awarded him MTV-sanctioned crossover success. This same crossover success undermined some of his hip-hop credibility, however, and a minor backlash by purists resulted. Nas addressed his critics on "Hate Me Now," the second single from his next album, I Am (1999). The album had originally been planned as a double-disc concept album comprised of autobiographical material, but when some of the tracks were leaked, I Am was scaled down and released as a single disc, with the DJ Premier-produced "Nas Is Like" chosen as the lead single. Besides "Nas Is Like" and "Hate Me Now," which both broke into the Billboard Hot 100, "You Won't See Me Tonight" and "K-I-S-S-I-N-G" also charted as singles. Originally scheduled by Columbia as a follow-up album comprised of the pirated material from the I Am sessions, Nastradamus (1999) -- released in time for the holiday shopping season, roughly six months after its predecessor -- was instead comprised almost entirely of new material, recorded quickly to meet the late-November release date. Nastradamus signaled a drop-off in quality as well as sales. The album failed to garner the abundance of critical praise that had become customary for Nas. Moreover, unlike its two predecessors, Nastradamus failed to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart, peaking at number seven instead, and failed to go double platinum. Though relatively disappointing on these counts, Nastradamus still went platinum and spawned two charting singles, "Nastradamus" and "You Owe Me," so the album wasn't a failure, just disappointing. In the late-'90s wake of the Notorious B.I.G.'s assassination, Nas reigned atop the New York rap scene alongside few contemporaries of equal stature . In addition to his endless stream of hits by the industry's most successful producers -- "If I Ruled the World" (produced by the Trackmasters), "Hate Me Now" (Puff Daddy), "Nas Is Like" (DJ Premier), and "You Owe Me" (Timbaland), among others -- he popularly co-starred in the Hype Williams-directed film Belly (1998) alongside DMX and contributed to the soundtrack. Furthermore, Nas led a short-lived supergroup of New York rappers known as the Firm (also comprised of rappers Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature, with producers Dr. Dre and the Trackmasters) and assembled a broad coalition of fellow Queensbridge rappers for the QB Finest compilation (2000). Amid all of this publicity, though, criticism began to mount. For every crossover fan Nas won with his dramatic MTV-aired videos, he lost support among purists, some of whom felt he had sold out and abandoned hip-hop ideals in favor of commercial success. The relative disappointment of Nastradamus was symptomatic of this downturn. A series of incidents in 2001 provided a key turning point for Nas' decline. The rapper's personal life was becoming increasingly complicated, as he encountered relationship trouble with the mother of his daughter and, of greater consequence, as his mother began suffering from cancer. To make matters worse, longtime rival Jay-Z pointedly dissed Nas on "Takeover," the much-discussed leadoff song from his acclaimed Blueprint album (2001). Among other charges, Jay-Z called out Nas for not having put out a "hot" album since Illmatic, and also alluded to sleeping with the mother of Nas' daughter. It didn't help that Jay-Z had risen atop the New York rap scene, giving him ample justification to call out Nas, who had fallen from favor and receded from the public eye while he dealt with his personal issues. Nas responded strikingly in December 2001 with Stillmatic, the title a reference to his classic Illmatic album, which had been released nearly a decade earlier. Stillmatic opened with the song "Ether," a very direct response to Jay-Z, followed by the aggressive lead single "Get Ur Self A, " These two songs in particular rallied the streets while the moving video for "One Mic" received heavy support from MTV. Throughout 2002, Nas continued his comeback with a number of guest appearances, among them Brandy's "What About Us?," J-Lo's "I'm Gonna Be Alright," and Ja Rule's "The Pledge," as well as yet more news-making controversy, this time involving his no-show at popular radio station Hot 97's annual Summer Jam. Amid all of the drama, Nas managed to salvage his esteemed reputation and reclaim his lofty status atop the New York scene. Stillmatic earned immediate acclaim from fans and critics alike and sold impressively, while Columbia furthered the comeback campaign with two archival releases, one of remixes (From Illmatic to Stillmatic [2002]), the other of outtakes (The Lost Tapes [2002], which notably includes some of the pirated I Am material). Then at the end of the year Columbia released a new studio album, God's Son (2002), and Nas once again basked in widespread acclaim as the album sold well, spawned sizable hits ("Thugz Mansion," "Made You Look," "I Can" , and received rampant media support. Two years later Nas returned with Street's Disciple (2004), a sprawling double album that delved deeply into various issues, most notably politics and his impending marriage to Kelis. The two-sided "Thief's Theme"/"You Know My Style" single dropped in summer 2004, several months before the album's release, and was followed that fall by the proper lead single, "Bridging the Gap." Street's Disciple came and went, however, without the level of commercial success that had become customary, as it struggled to go platinum. More troubling, new kid on the block 50 Cent took a swipe at Nas on "Piggy Bank," a call-out song on The Massacre (2005), further bringing the veteran rapper's status into question. In a surprising turn of events later that year, Nas made a surprise appearance at Jay-Z's much-hyped I Declare War concert in October 2005. Together the two rivals performed "Dead Presidents," Jay-Z's 1996 debut single; the classic song, produced by Ski Beatz and featured on Reasonable Doubt (1996), features a prominent sample of "The World Is Yours," a 1994 classic by Nas. The reconciliation of Jay-Z and Nas opened the door to a deal with Def Jam. The record label, overseen by Jay-Z as president at the time, signed Nas and, in turn, released Hip Hop Is Dead (2006). The album didn't sell especially well, but it did inspire a lot of commentary about the state of hip-hop and included a much-anticipated collaboration with Jay-Z, "Black Republican." A politically charged self-titled album, at one point considered to be titled N*gger, materialized in 2008, and not without some controversy of its own and for those who don't now now u know, nas shits on pac,pac ain't deep,biggie gave his life to the game,jay-z too bubble gum to be given a thought and for those who think much abt jay-z ya'll should go check him out at www.sellout.com |
if ur child na witch, u be mamae water |
all of you stucking ya neck about obama,should get ready 4 another tragedy to suprress your fears,obama!! will surely be assasinated,heard he's close to one terrorist,,the story's been circulating around town,and it's sth that is inevitable,so embrace yaselves//.never say i never told ya'll |
i do apreciate all the replys,but seriuosly i want to ask if anybody in here knws wht it means to wake up everyday at 5:30.mondayz to saturdayz,stay focused 24/7,go to IT lessons in the evenings and still attend part time lectures EVERY WEEKENDS,DAMN!Never believed life could be so demanding. stilll i'll give the part time stuff a try,but the last time i checked it it was too expensive for an average nigerian,u knw how it is, not really that well financially,but i am wondering if anybody in here have a clue how i can combine the three stuffs together only me.now i can feel the pain of beign an only son,very hard to manage.IDEAS ARE WELCOME.PEACE |
AM JUST 21,COMING UP AT ABUJA,THE CAPITAL OF NIGERIA.THE PROBLEM NOW, IS THAT I POSSES A GREAT PASSION FOR COMPUTER,THU I DON'T HAVE MUCH KNOWLEDGE WHEN IT COMES TO PROGRAMMIN BUT I SINCERELY BELIEVE I CAN DO IT, SO WHERE THE PROBLEM LIES NOW IS THAT I FINISHED SECONDARY SCHOOL LAST THREE YEARS AND CAME OUT WITH 7 CS,AND 2 B'S,SCORED 245 LAST YEAR STILL MA ADMISSION AIN'T COMING SINCE THEN,AND THE REASON WHY AM NOT THAT BENT ON ADMISSION IS THAT MA FATHER GAT A SHOP THAT IS WORTH AROUND 1 MILLA,AND THE PERSON MANAGING THE SHOP IS GOING TO BE FREE THIS YEAR AND AS THE ONLY SON,AM SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE MANAGING THE SHOP NXT YEAR,SO ICAN SAY THAT SHOP IS GOING TO BE LEFT IN MA CARE NXT YEAR,AND IF I GET ADMITTED NXT YEAR WHO AM GOING TO LEAVE THE SHOP TO,I REALLY NEED TO GAT THE CREAM BEFORE AM 24,THATS WHY MY MIND NOW WORKS LIKE OBAMA. BUT DEEP IN MA MIND I DON'T WANT TO GO DOWN THE LANE MA POPS WENT CUZ I BELIEVE IN WE ALL NEED TO ADVANCE WITH THE SOCIETY.AND WITH THAT IM MIND I WET TO ONE ''IT'' SCHOOL AT WUSE ZONE 2 CALLED APTECH,AND HEARD THEIR PRICES ON A LOT OF PROGAMMES AND THEIR PROMISE THAT THEIR CERTIFICATE'S WAY VALUED MORE THAN ANY DEGREE CERT AND I'LL DEF GET A NICE JOB ONCE I GRADUATE FROM THEIR SCHOOL,SO WITH IN MIND I AM SAVING TO START A PROGRAMME WITH THEM NXT YEAR,THEIR LESSONS ARE EVENING PROGRRAMES SO I RUN MY DAY HUSTLE AND GO TO MA SCHOOL IN THE EVENING,TILL I FINISH THAT'S HOW I PLANNED IT. SO BROTHERS AND SISISIS,I WROTE ALL THIS THINGS CUZ I NEED PROFESSIONAL ADVICE WHETHER AN IT CERT'S CAN COVER UP FOR A DEGREE CERT CUZ CASH RULEZ IN EVERYTHING AROUND ME,AND AM ALSO WONDERING WHETHER I CAN LAND A GOOD JOB AFTER MY IT PROGRAMME,PLS PEEPS I'LL REALLY APPRECIATE ANY ADVICE FROM ANY OF U CUZ I AM CONFUSED. |
mi's just an emcee.while gino's a rapper.so i think there's no comperison amongst the two,m.i should be compered to modo,while no one yet 've impressed me to the extent of comparing him with gino. |
we don tire to dey enter bush just to get
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Gino's real as a gift,i'll put ma d*ck where a cunt is, nat where a hole is, |
lalaboi:what u tryng to say? |
men,no body tells me shit abt GINO,cuz i know much abt that dud than most all of u typing shits,i'm his greatest admirer much bigger than a fan,so no shit can tell me any much abt,i could pay 2000 grand to watch him life on stage.true word |
na lie,na 4 naija de, thief am |
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Talking about hiphop,its not just d music,it consists of d dresscode,d way u talk,relate with ur fellow peeps and others.Ma men mode 9 says RAP music started in Africa by d towncriers known as d early MCs.Hiphop travelled round d world & its back 2 d motherland that's why we'll crazy abt d prodigal lifestyle cos 'what goes around comes around'(truetalk).Finally,'hiphop is the lifestyle of d blacks'. |
FLOWSHOW:men,thats d shit,what u think about him?,i've been following that dud's career since he dropped no be god?a lot of his freestyles in d album and a lot of his lyrics are somehow ,he's an intelligent dud but a lot of shits about him could only be discovered by real Hip hop crazy heads,thats why i look up to him 4 inspiration,and also dud loves that green sh*t a lot, |
4 all ya that don't GINO's talented to f*ck,and don't need ya love to stay afloat,guess NAS already saidit''Men fear what they don't understand''that dude ''GINO'' will 4rever remain evergreen,lord have mercy's still ma ringtone till morrow,some peeps im ma hood think he's just like weezy and rhymes d same way,but i think he listenes more to jay-z and he's a combination of scarface, beans and jiggaman.f*ck |
simply a bunch of matured bead busters speaking their mind on rap music precicely,this sh*t kind of reminds me of AHH, |
it's really a small world,thats what i learnt 4rm listening to real Hip hop |
bro,Bleep all dis knowledge u are trying to dig,i know more about the game than any cock sucker over here,his new album is gonn be titled "lax"and is getting fucking postponed cuz game keep getting involved in movies,it's just sad he's still gangbanging, peace, heard sth like the 4st single titled big ''dreams'',not very hot thu |
eyo fo;ks,what u think abt d game trying 2 be a gangster on d the stryt of L.A. pointing a Gun at a civilians in a basketball court |
4st skingo:4st time u said sth nice,but stop hating,lovers of real hip hop can't cope with shits like that,but anyway the industry is still growing str8butha seems to be d future with ''GINO'' |
i think d rason why modo ain't replying to dis niggers that are are dissing is cuz he dosen't want to do d same mistake jay-z did by replying to fifty's diss track while fiddy was still underground,modo don't wann to give any cat chance to shine by dissing him, ,even banks admitted that it was a mistake on hole's side by replying to an unknown rapper,d track was titled ghettto koran |
this idiot skingo is probably d most stupid guy i've encountered all my life,i wish i could meet u 101 to take d life out of u,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, |
ya'll shouldn't even trip,ma best amd mentor all across dis green white green land is d farabale masrer''GINO''.HE'S SIMPLY A MTF BUSSINESS MAN. CEO MOBB RECORDS,WITH A LOT OF TALENTEND ARTISTS THAT ARE ABT TO BLOW, |
fecko,this is my email addy,biggy24rill@yahoo.com,still ya bro in the slump,1 |
sup fecko,been on your myspace a lot of time,but d songs there are kind of skipping,can u send me that track titled ''nwanne'',it reminds me of ma brother that gat sprayed last two years., ''we all bleed''.1 |


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, and received rampant media support. Two years later Nas returned with Street's Disciple (2004), a sprawling double album that delved deeply into various issues, most notably politics and his impending marriage to Kelis. The two-sided "Thief's Theme"/"You Know My Style" single dropped in summer 2004, several months before the album's release, and was followed that fall by the proper lead single, "Bridging the Gap." 