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  • the best thing that comes up when you type halfime

  • nas looks like a grown up michael from the wire

  • YOU CANT CENSOR THIS! CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!

  • @TheNJ6 AMTV bought me back here

  • I listen to Illmatic everyday as its a staple on my turntables (ya I got it on wax) but every time I listen to it I learn more and more and this shit just blows my mind from not only the lyrics, but his flow and the beats, like I think this album should be in the same context as like the Illiad or the Odyssey I young mans journey throught the QB projects...timeless

  • like who cursed hip-hop?

  • one milestone of hip hop, one of the bes lp´s. luv dat

  • anyone else notice Big L used a similar beat on "8 Iz Enuff" ?

  • @HankyWalker Nas and L were eachothers fans and sampled their tracks and made similar shit, both from newyork and both dope artists

  • 10 people hit the bench by the time the first quarter ran out... ; )

  • how did we go from this to shit like lil wayne and nikki minaj?

  • @swearingalien so many pop rappers reinventing hip hop and selling out to mainstream pop for money and fame.

  • The real rap comes at half time.

  • @klassickk i would agree...but you gotta remember ny state of mind, if i ruled the world, and the world is yours...but ya this is a dope ass song

  • best song he ever did

  • Im the 1,000 person to like this

  • thank god Large Professor gave nas a shot

  • i remember back in late '09 to early '10 when i was in the 8th grade, my old school rap knowlegde was expanding my the second yall!! damn! i got into 90's rap when around micheal jackson died in the summer of '09 damn. i clicked on the wu tang clan video C.R.E.A.M....it was all over. no longer i had a passion to listen to the bullshit that was comin out then. now look at me now...10th grade, about 700x the knowledge of rap, got taller, permit, damn...i changed. i swear old school rap 4 life son!

  • i keep my mind on my money , money on my mind , finger on the trigger nigger hand on my 9

  • @cowboybuttsex13  Fuck off.

  • damn, large professor is so nice

  • @xertaqaadka

    Fuck you man. I'm not dumb or deaf and your an asshole for calling me names while I'm trying to be respectful about other peoples feelings and opinions. So fuck you, prick

  • @solbaddude989

    I can kind of agree, I think it was jay z who said that dumber lyrics sell more albums.

  • Nas, why did you do it?

    You know you got the mad fat fluid when you rhyme, it's halftime

    briliant

  • I said this multiple times. I don't want to argue about this. Idk why people keep commenting about me. I'm trying to squash this. Not everyone in the world likes nas.

  • @solbaddude989

    did u say my generation can't think for themselves and that they are basically pussies who think they are the shit? Rap is now about partying? At least that's real then listening to gansters and you judging my gen saying we all wear skinny jeans, that's like me saying that you are all wanna be gansters. I hate when people are so steriotypical. Rap now is not just about weed, and fucking. Listen to eminem, he raps about his childhood and real problems.

  • @bloodprince113 i was making the argument that just because something is mainstream that doesn't make it good. to be honest i was way more against the gangster rap generation then this one. but i find the 90s generation artist projected there voice/themselves in there songs with more intelligence, people like ATCQ,nas,common,etc the problems is todays mainstream rappers sell themselves out to be unintelligent&shallow. young people look up to them copy em giving black ppl bad rep

  • @bloodprince113 nigga rap sucks 2day man...u dont even understand. smh. u needa wreckonize. im bout to hit 16 in may n ive been into this shit for almost 3 years. u missin out. n no skinny jeans are dead. thats true but there are alot of pussies in this generation. u needa get into this shit. wayne n drake n all dem are goin 2 b forgotten. now i listen to SOME new school but otherwise i rep the 90's rap vibe. i rep it in a new way and thats what makes it raw! i even gotta bishop goin on now.

  • @bloodprince113 Hip Hop is an art form and a form of expression, some people want to hear what they can relate to whether if its about partying or if its about being from the streets as long as you're being true to the material that you're talking about but I can say that most rap songs today are made for the party and club crowd than for the ones who take hip hop as an art form.

  • I just want to end this. Nas isn't terrible. I don't hate nas or think that he sucks. I just wouldn't put him as my favorite. So just get off my back about it.

  • @bloodprince113 well, beside having a prefference and opinions but you either be dumb or deaf for not liking Nas but hey like Nas said. '' this are the lyrics of the man that you never understand'' so say whatever u want....

  • @nutlil2

    I am under 25 but I like jay z, biggie and tupac. I just don't like nas that much. Also I am white but I listen to rap all the time and I do relate to what he says (btw I'm from queens, NY). I mean seriously I don't like nas and everyone argues with me. We all have opinions.

  • *wouldn't say they are better

  • @hackjerer

    Of course they would say they are better, they don't want people to think they are jerks, and just because rap now isn't ganster rap, doesn't mean that now its pop. Ether was cool though, ill give you that. And I don't think anyone likes nicki minaj. I think nas is good, but not the best like everyone says he is.

  • @bloodprince113 you must be under 25

  • @bloodprince113 or your not black and cant fully feel and relate to his lyrics and style!

  • super bowl halftime next year oh what>???

  • Clint Eastwood said it's HALFTIME.

  • Dont compare, just listen.

  • I'm not going to argue with people anymore. We all have different opinions. Maybe if I listen to nas more I will like his music.

  • @bad10ification

    I think tupac is the best ever.

  • Also Mr.Mecodeperro doesn't like nas either. Why am I getting bitched at?

  • Oh and also, I'm not a faggot for not liking nas. Also rap and gangster rap are both rap. I agree there was more gr in the 90s then now, but no there is still hip hop.

  • I don't understand why everyone is getting so mad at me for not liking nas, I like 90s rap, just not nas. And mainstream isn't garbage, otherwise they wouldn't be mainstream. Also I don't see how 1960s gangsters are smarter and better at crimes then gangsters now. Also rap now is rap and not pop or whatever some dude said it was.

  • @bloodprince113 cause nas is the best rapper ever how can you not like him!

  • @bloodprince113 mainstream can be defined by a simple economic term called consumer sovereignty and what the consumer I.E. the latest skinny jean wearing pants sagging the world owes me everything attitude generation wants to hear to music that reflect how the famous people on TV seem to live there lives by partying,fucking,smoking weed, swagg?,ect. music ind. use these themes in every song to attract the people who cant think for them self's to love and worship& make profit

  • @solbaddude989 WELL SAID!!, especially that part about rappers who rap about themselves like the world owes them everything. I definetly can't stand the rappers that are so flamoyant about their money and fame and then they try to be deep and then talk about struggling and being real.

  • @bloodprince113 fucking faggot go lisen to your shit pop this is called Hip-hop if you dindt know

  • why do people compare lil wayne and drake to rappers like rakim and nas ? oh right because their 9 and 10 years old. shut up faggets

  • @musicseshh

    I don't understand why people put him on top ten lists. I don't think he's that good. Also rappers like fabolous, the game and a few more are better then him in my opinion. Like Eminem.

  • @bloodprince113 youre on crack if you think game and fab are better than nas, as a matter of fact, both fab AND game wouldnt agree with you on that statement(look it up). all i have to say is ETHER. and fyi when nicki minaj's "superbass" plays on a HIP HOP radio station, it goes to show you that HIP-HOP has been taken over by HIP-POP.

  • @bloodprince113 fabolous? hahaha no way man

  • @bloodprince113 fabolous doesn't even compare to nas, and em isn't new? also the game isn't new either and you cant compare him to nas also

  • This is gay

  • @bloodprince113 please tell me how this is gay? Nas will shit on any of the new rappers today

  • @bloodprince113 this is the fucking classic. compare this to 1960 italian gangsters in nice suits who were experts at extortion and crime, and gangsters now who are just plain uneducated and mildly retarded. Nas, classical 90's rap, and underground rap is the good stuff, and that mainstream shit that you probably like is pure garbage.

  • YMCMB artist are nothing but pop starts. Besides, I can't even understand what the fuck they're saying half of the time. Also I love how people compares mainstream artists to Nas while he put in work way before this fools started rapping.

  • who is this fuxing fool talkin about ymcmb all the time.......yo go sux a dix yo

  • dis son sux. nas is garbege. drizzy will botty him. karaoke an unforgattable are way better songs. YMCMB Bitches. Twist got a new single with buster. YMCMB hittin hard BITCHES

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  • "Versatile, my style switches like a Faggot"

  • nas is one of my fav rappers!

  • The dislike beam is Justin biebers penis

  • Something might be wrong with me i don't know but i tune out to Nas every day & i only listen to him.

  • Any song, instrumental, remix, accapella, straight to your e mail inbox. Send me a message for more info.

  • the song that opened up the doors for NAS !

  • The album will take your mind on a journey.

  • best rap album of that century. I learned my English from this album. Ye that's right, even immigrants listen to Nas.

  • @soundscare how, too much slang that u cant learn shit.

  • Def Classic!!! Illmatic one of my first Vinyl's!

  • that old school vibe never gets old! this song takes me back....real hip hop here. search the group "INRG MUSIC - FEELIN’ IT"- classy hip hop style!

  • Nas a living legend. Nigga neva comes second. Raps #1 brigante spitting bars like a reverend.

    Nas is the best rapper alive. Fuck lil wayne

  • illest beat 

  • damn....music will never reach this level of lyricism again perfect..just perfect a classic!...this artist j'lynn from brooklyn hes actually 18 his wordplay remind me a lot of nas....#illmatic

  • this was in 92.....illmatic came out when he was 20 going on 21, he was either 18 or just turned 19...either way name a rapper who was dope by the age of 18???? LIl wayne?????hell naw he dropped lights out then 500 degrees.....those are both weak ass albums.....sorry wayne fans

  • @ici2k643 they too pussy these days to make music like et, they want radio hits

  • @Jeezymusic just because this video has low views doesn't mean that Eminem + Lil Wayne are faggots, I agree Lil Wayne is probably the weakest lyricist with the worst flow that just means he has a huge fan base and Of course a video made in 2011 is gonna have more views than one made in 1991 with all this technology and internet access and as for Eminem his early music likes Nas is considered to be Classic

  • Does anyone has the live at bbq song when Nas spits some other verse. They have a little bit of that version on his biography on youtube when he is performing it in a club with the Main Source. Nas vocabulary was ill at a young age.

  • this is the origin of real hip-hop yo!

  • with more kicks than a baby in a mothers stomach

  • beat sounds just like put it on by big L

  • Real shit right here. Fuck 2011.

  • i wont plant seed dont need a extra mouth i cant feed thats xtra philly change and mo cash 4 damp weed.....classic shit.my fave album.

  • B.I.G. Party and bullshit is bettter. This is still sick.

  • @japanesetyperdriver yeah cuz B.I.G is the king of hip hop but NaS is my second favorite

  • @MrDrummer1223445667 VERY TRUE!

  • @japanesetyperdriver NO NO MY BROTHER 1,RAKIM 2.NAS 3.Q TIP 4. BIGGIE

  • @japanesetyperdriver gtfo no point in going here

  • old school nas was the illest, by far my fav but now he is changin

  • @nintendo929daking I guess he is, i just listened to Nasty.

    Definetly changed, but people are too scared to say it, I guess the truth hurts.

  • @nintendo929daking nas isnt changin, ppl sayin that about every old skool rapper now! hes the only one who had the balls t say hip hop is dead! nas will always be the man hes not changin just hard to beat anythin like illmatic

  • @usernameisbrian Theres nothin wrong with change. Change is good. It would be stupid to say the same thing in every song every record. He already made Illmatic, It Was Written, and I am... about the same shit. They were good. Maybe its time to progress.

  • @usernameisbrian mainstream hiphop is dead, underground hiphop is 4 ever!

  • @nintendo929daking he's not changin

  • Nas>Lil Wayne,Soulja Gay,Whack-a Floka,Eminem,Drake, etc

  • nas best song ever

    

  • This has 200.000 Views

    Eminem , Lil Wayne etc. have 300.000.000+ -.-

  • @Jeezymusic Whats your point?

  • @roddy308 Its pretty unfair

    This genius song has only 200.000

    and faggots like lil wayne or eminem get 300Mil+Views on their video eventhough they're talentless...

  • @Jeezymusic Oh, thats what you mean. Thought you were saying that since lil wayne and them have millions of views they're better. xD

  • @roddy308 I HATE people who say that -.- to me record sales and youtube views doesnt mean nothing

  • 8 people missed the Half Time show

  • Thank god I have some beats to cancel out the sound coming in, and YouTube on my iPod touch to watch this sick as freestyle from a true rapper cause my friend is bumping up the most overrated rated/worst rapper in the game drake, the only advice I'm taking from drake is to "Take Care" of my ears

  • Cant wait for Nas to come back to London England and drop more science,peace!

  • nice spelling... (y)

  • WELL I WILL SAY A FEW THINGS

    1. IF YOUR NOT AN EMCEE YOU SHOULDNT COMMENT ON SHIT THAT REAL EMCEES ARE SAYING......

    2. NAS WAS WAY AHEAD OF HIS TIME SO MOST STUPID ASS PEOPLE LISTEN TO GAY ASS LIL WAYNE, AND AUDIOTUNE SOUND EFFECT BULLSHIT FAKE HIP HOP.. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL FROM LONG AGO WERE MOST A YOU SUCKAS WERE EATIN JU JU BEES AND PEEPIN ON YOUR BABY SITTERS. SO ANYONE WHO KNOCKS THIS SONG YOU ARE NOT ONLY STUPID BUT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HIP HOP

  • Hey yall its halftime.......im about to bag bitches up

  • i remember when nas used to hike the Q train from Q-bridge to 34th street for dolo, just for sneakers. those were the days, he was at the height of his lyricism then. makes you wonder... the Pre-bling era.... "Cause when it's my time to go, I wait for god with tha 4-4!"

  • why are there jingle bells in the back round?

  • @ricky932093 so you can feel the christmas spirit becouse the album is like a lirical give

  • More kicks than a baby in a moms stomach, hard!

  • I hate a rhyme bitters rhyme...

    Half the cats do that shit now. sound a like

  • I listen to this everyday. If you don't, something is wrong with you.

  • damn big l should've been on this ! too bad he wasn't in the game yet,

  • Shout out to all my people still bumpin my nigga Nasty nas in 2011 #RealMusik !!

  • @BenjaminIsMyName what does he mean with "... Who kills for phone Time?"

  • @Mrprincejannisg in jail everybody wants to use the phone so its a rare resource. Its like countries on the outside fighting for resources like oil etc. peep it shit is the same in the jail house as in the outside

  • This needs Million views!!! The real hip Hop is still Alive!, cuz my man Never forgets the real!

  • classic...wow!!!

  • To think he was 17-18 here, you don't see people that young doing shit this deep anymore at all.

  • @ici2k643 that astro boy kid on x factor has potential to ha..

  • @cakestastegood Yea I agree, that kid Astro gives me hope for hip hop

  • @ici2k643 well j.cole was

  • @superkingkid11 ah, true, j cole is awesome, i discovered him when he was a bit older tho haha

  • @ici2k643 hes either 18 or 19 depending on what time of year this was recorded..he was born in september 1973 so he couldnt have been 17, just saying..this was made in 1992

  • @whiptyme lol well still, not too much of a difference, point still stands. An amazing piece of music from someone that young, I don't see stuff like that anymore.

  • @whiptyme he recorded this when he was 17. this video was made when he was 18

  • @2rojas3drummr9 he couldnt have made it when he was 17....that mean he would have recorded it in 1990....but in the song he says '92 not '90...

  • @ici2k643 yeah thats sad smh most people have become close minded n cant thinkoutside the box to come up with rhymes like they did back then

  • classic !!!nas jest kocur prawdziwy artysta a nie plastikowy jay z czy lil wayne

  • ill!

  • Dopest rapper alive yo

  • Nas is a fucking real artists in every sense ye digg?

  • Greatest Hip Hop Artists All Time

    1. Nas

    2. Nasty Nas

    3. Nasir Olu Bin Dara Jones

    4. Nastradamus

    5. Nas. Again.

  • @MaddMan621 5. is Nasir Jones

  • @Jeezymusic or Escobar :)

  • @MaddMan621 u forgot Escobar

  • NAS SCOBAR

    

  • @MaddMan621 DONT DICKRIDE TOO MUCH PLZ

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  • @MaddMan621 u 4got Nas Escobar.........and Nas

  • how does this only have 192k hits?

  • @rjnagao Because it was uploaded in 09, the dark ages of hip hop.

  • "I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time" Legendary!

  • @MulattoWoman well its going to be hard to determine when they dont rap about the same things or even i the same style.

  • 1:34 shorty doo wop

  • nas hit the scene just before wu tang. golden era of rap.

  • why is nikey bleeped out

  • I meant to say Hip-Hop Icon rapping icon doesn't make much sense. Nas is the best.

  • A classic legend Nas is one of my favorite rapper's he's real and true no one come's close. He's the greatest rapper alive he's deep, he's amazing, and he's an rapping icon.

  • I won't plant seeds because I don't need an extra mouth I can't feed

  • Im so proud to say illmatic was the first album i ever bought :'') lol #NastyNas !!

  • ich muss in die vergangenheit zurück reisen und 7 kondome verteilen

  • lil wayne is good and nas is the best so quit hating and enjoy the music.

  • 7 people need to kill themselves

  • I WAS BORN ON THE STREETS

  • shut the fuck up.fuck this Illuminati bullshit live your fucking life,

  • @SKRAPP718 word up too that

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  • @SKRAPP718 word, that's what I'm saying