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[jmood88]

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I pretty much guarentee its Timmy "Merlin" Duncan lol

you would be suprised how many rappers rhymes dont reflect thier intelligence....

David Banner
Killa Mike (youll hear shades of it though)
Ludacris

just to name a few

these guys are actually pretty smart...

Yeah David Banner is a really intelligent guy when he's not rapping.

[Cebby]

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Yeah David Banner is a really intelligent guy when he's not rapping.

He may be intelligent, but I hear he has very poor table manners.

[Ice Cream Truck]

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I pretty much guarentee its Timmy "Merlin" Duncan lol

you would be suprised how many rappers rhymes dont reflect thier intelligence....

David Banner
Killa Mike (youll hear shades of it though)
Ludacris

just to name a few

these guys are actually pretty smart...

You can add Plies to that list, he really displays a different persona in his interviews. He's real humble, to the point where you don't think that was him rappin.

There's a reason people make dumb-downed music. Because that's what people support. Rich Boy put out a video of "Let's Get This Paper" which is something that he actually talked about something on and it didn't get widely noticed. Plies put out "100 Years" video, and it didn't get the recognition 'Shawty' and 'Bust It Baby' got.

[EWRMETS]

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Hero is an incredible single.

[Hassan Darkside]

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Hero is an incredible single.

Agreed. Probably my favorite track. Maybe they'll throw a remix at it.

BTW, The Lost Tapes isn't an official Nas album.

[Cebby]

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Hero might be the best non-club single I've ever heard.

I hope my neighbor like it, because I've been banging that song for the last few hours. If I have to hear her fat *** get her spine blown out, she can hear Nas.

The rest of the album I wasn't really feeling. Up until Sly Fox it was pretty good, but about halfway through that song it becomes overtly political and I hate politics in music.

[Rocky]

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Too many slow tempo songs on the album. He followed Hero with a wack slow tempo song and The Slave and the Master with another slow tempo song. Really messed up the vibe.

As with alot of Nas' albums, there are some songs that stand with his best ever and some are trash.

[ex carrabba fan]

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Hero might be the best non-club single I've ever heard.

I hope my neighbor like it, because I've been banging that song for the last few hours. If I have to hear her fat *** get her spine blown out, she can hear Nas.

The rest of the album I wasn't really feeling. Up until Sly Fox it was pretty good, but about halfway through that song it becomes overtly political and I hate politics in music.

Yeah that's what I was referring to before, if you can get past the Immortal Techniquish/complaining about the way things are/politics stuff then you have a complete album.

I personally don't feel the political content takes away from it, I just wonder how this release will age, and be looked at in the future.

His flow throughout the album is absurd. I really don't think there are much throwaway tracks on it.. I can pretty much listen to it all the way through. It's definitely an album I won't be playing over and over again since it's pretty heavy in content.

[Cebby]

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Yeah that's what I was referring to before, if you can get past the Immortal Techniquish/complaining about the way things are/politics stuff then you have a complete album.

I thought you meant he was rapping about serious stuff.

I can like a song that's a politically charged song, even if I disagree with it (which is pretty likely when you're dealing with high school dropouts). But about halfway through Sly Fox, he pretty much just starts talking. I'm not listening to a song to hear some dude talk about his political views even if it's exactly what I believe. And by talk, I mean literally talk. I hate all talking on raps unless it's 50 goofing on someone.

[Cj7298419]

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Good to see a Nas album receive a 9-page thread on operationsports.com of all places. Props to Nas and real hip-hop.

[ehh]

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I'll be interested to hear this. I liked HHID a lot but my general interest towards hip-hop as all but died. Sounds like this is quite a bit different from HHID but still the same 'ol Nas (which is a great thing) in terms of strong lyrics but questionable beats.

[ex carrabba fan]

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If you liked HHID, and like Nas, which both seem to apply to you.. then I'm certain you'll be satisfied with this.

I feel the beats are nice and organic. Not too overproduced like much of mainstream rap music is.

[Ice Cream Truck]

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I don't see how Nas is going at 50 on 'Queens Get the Money'. People on the net are saying the verse was a shot at 50 but I don't see it.

"Niggas is still hatin' / talkin that Nas done fell off with rhyming / he'd rather floss with diamonds / they pray please god let him spit that oozie in the army lining that shorty doo-wop rolling oowops in the park reclining take twenty-seven mc's put em / in a line and they out of alignment / my assignment said she said retirement hiding behind 8 Mile and The Chronic / get rich but dies rhyming / this is high science / now add 23 more from Queens to B'more / I'm over they heads like a bulimic on a seesaw / Now that's 50 porch monkeys ate up at the same time"

[Streets]

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I don't see how Nas is going at 50 on 'Queens Get the Money'. People on the net are saying the verse was a shot at 50 but I don't see it.

I don't see how it's not a shot at 50, honestly. it's just some real subliminal ish.

Take 27 MC's, put 'em in a line and they out of alignment
My assignment since he said retirement
Hiding behind 8 Mile and The Chronic
Gets rich but dies rhymin'
This is high science
Now add 23 more
From Queens to B-More
I'm over they heads
Like a bulimic on a see-saw
Now that's 50 porch-monkeys ate up at the same time

27 MC's out of alignment + 23 more = 50 (Cent)

50 is from Queens and made a song called Baltimore (B-More) Love Thing.

Hiding behind 8 Mile (Eminem) and the Chronic (Dr. Dre).

"Gets Rich but Dies Rhymin" is a reference to "Get Rich or Die Tryin"

[trobinson97]

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I really really just took Ice Cream's post as sarcasm lol.