Nas - Take it in blood

[wwwTRUEIRONcom]

AND this is why hip hop is dead... REAL HIP HOP IS DEAD. This era is gone and its sad... MONEY took the SOUL from HIP HOP !

[DrApeJohnsonDDS]

LEGENDARY

[ripwoodydawg]

thats the music i live for

[okay813]

I want the instrumental to this song! Royce da 5'9 almost made a remix and that woulda been dope too

[JaGaLoOnZz]

illmatic and it was written.. two of the greatest albums of all time.

[mauriceq23]

what was nas thinkin when he wrote this fucking amazing song....was he high? was this done over several days? did he input shit later on? did he have a dictionary thesaurus a rhyme dictionary? how old was he? all these questions run thru my mind when i hear this incredible track...Thank you God for this lyrical genius.

[stopwhining1]

this is one of my top 5 favorite nas songs ever.. beat is hard as shit and nas kills it

[BigTrip23]

I have always been fond of this song. Nas is defiantly 1 of the best Mc's around. Word is bond!!!

[hurtadoinked0921]

i dont need the words....already have them remembered...thx tho lol

[rashidkasim]

WOW!!! drake shouldnt even be mentioned on a nas video...

[gregb504]

nas=goat rap arist

y u ask - because under all the grime of the streets he spoke about there is also education and love in his music.kids need to learn from this music...

[jkhemizt]

Thinking about it... in a high state of mind that im in.....there are no words that can describe how ill this track is. Beat, lyrics, delivery flow swag all that shit....I love NY

[GabrieltheGood1]

Weed is illegal because it brings u closer to god and this world is coated in evil

[rashidkasim]

nasir jones.....poet of a generation..listen to the words.....

[fearofasnakplanet]

yo its not 'instead of the fake medallions' its 'and studded up fake medallions

[ThatCaKlick619]

this is Why he's illMatic

[sekaipaz]

coomon 4 people had to dislike the god of hip hop

[drawersmcgee]

4 people dont know real rap

[JaGaLoOnZz]

@drawersmcgee all of there favorite rappers are lil wayne

[ripwoodydawg]

@drawersmcgee an one muthafucka wants to get blasted

[PoserBabiie]

yo this shudda bin on illmatic...

[infamous201]

@PoserBabiie

No hate on your comment...but if this was on illmatic it would not have fit the style of the album

Take it in blood is perfect for It Was Written and the whole feel of the album

PS This is one of Nas' best joints he has ever done

[snakeeyes4life]

Vintage Nas, who could've fucked with this dude in his prime.

[MsCIBOO]

DrizzyDrakeIsGod is obviously a retard

[ROKINROD23]

nas true lyricst no sluring of words lyk rappers do now smh rap dead

hip hop surviving

[DrizzyDrakeIsGod]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....th­is shit SUCKS

[italyboyfloyd]

@DrizzyDrakeIsGod your a fool

[octobersorange]

@DrizzyDrakeIsGod stfu you never heard something so real like this. Drake aint gon teach you what music is

[smacccityent]

@DrizzyDrakeIsGod you must love how drakes dicc taste faggot

[509ECS]

@DrizzyDrakeIsGod Hahahah go lisen to ur fagget ass drake! Moans on all of his songs! Guess he lets Nicki Minaj lick hes nasty ass asshole lmao!

[jag57505]

let me nas.

[18nlife]

watch?v=19xar5TfiwE SWEET NAS REMIXES! real hiphop 4 life! ENJOY!

[MrThriller4life]

''doors is locked,rocks are chopped,watch the camera's in the ceilings''...wooow.. Nas got puchlines there just not aggressive..they come off more conversational then angry..He's the best mainstream rapper alive..props to my boy

[deezfatnutz]

@MrThriller4life what you mean "He's the best mainstream rapper alive?"

[ASOTaroundTHEworld]

@deezfatnutz i think maybe he means mainstream as in an ill rapper still publicly known and respected, who has made great sale #'s before, but not the kind of mainstream where pussies sing about lolly pops lol.

I took it like this, there are still hip hop artists who are ill as shit, such as immortal technique, but they arent very well known because they're underground. Nas OTH is the best of both because he is no doubt one of the greatest and he's still pretty well known in the public eye

[MrThriller4life]

@deezfatnutz best commercial rap artist...if you disagree so what..its my opinion,

[AirJordanXVIII]

i still think this was nas' best album

[keciad2]

i miss this nas....

[83ghostman]

i made it like that

i bought it like that

im livin like that

[deezfatnutz]

It makes me mad when people think drake came up with that one style were he spits the subjact than kills it with the topic. but as you can see nas was saying it way back than "They high from sniffin coke of a twenty-cent ...... Andrew Jackson"

[MrConsiglerie]

@deezfatnutz lol oh yh i never noticed that

[JaLomangino]

@deezfatnutz Drake even admitted he was taking Nas' style, he said something like yeah im looking at nas's rhyme scheme and studying it...I don't like his music but he has respect for the past.

[deezfatnutz]

@JaLomangino damn. i didnt even kno tht

[JSpade803]

Best song of Nas 2 me.Some words wrong but not many



[brazilkidd69]

5 dislikes can suck sack

[mabey202]

yea Chip Tha Ripper used this beat too but Nas killed it

[untouchable58]

This song brings me back. some of yall just dont know...

[Ungortable]

Violence is hip hops curse, Nas is the cure.

[BzRk]

Favorite Nas track right here.

[christianlovesjoshy]

Nas is the shit ..

[african4717]

i so get this song, nas speaks the the truth in his songs , awake

[BigMeeks512]

i dont get the blood pimps cum part

[keymani]

@BigMeeks512 He was saying in those two things..."blood money" and a "pimps cum" are good to their respective cultures.

Whores know how to swallow and or take care of a pimps sperm...and stick up kids / murders know how to flip and or take care of their spoils in a caper.

[JR31097]

MAYBE THE SIZE OF NAS MOM! PWNED

[JR31097]

The dislike bar is the size of Nas' penis!

THUMBS UP EVERYONE!!!!!!

[thesteelososick]

@JR31097 you would know motherfucker

[TerminatorX87]

@JR31097 No nigga. That's yo dick, lol.

[Laurie12SlimShady]

@JR31097 mate. you got that one backwards... size of the matter inside your skull maybe

[GoggleMan25]

"Climaxin, my bitches they be laughin

They high from sniffin coke off of 20 cent Andrew Jackson"

[acidsould]

This song+Affirmative action+ I gave you power are sick... the rest of the cd sucks. Shootouts, set up, black girl lost all terrible. Lost tapes>It was written

[RelaxednCaIm]

@acidsould

the only song you could say sucks is nas is comming, the rest are all vintage esco. lol, how are shootouts, black girl lost and the set up terrible? lost tapes is great to.

[Antrizzle2009]

@acidsould You're outta your fucking mind. It Was Written was that shit in '96. I still remember to this day bumpin that shit that summer. Was about to go into high school.

[Kuje007]

If I recorded a track this hot, I wld retire!! Nothing comes close

[graffitibear9]

fuck the beef shit, i love mega

[paperwizzard]

who is mega?

[mycahdbrown]

@paperwizzard cormega..ex member of the firm

[VapidRetrospective]

@paperwizzard I believe thats who Nas had beef with. Listen to The Bridge Is Over. It's directed towards Mega I believe.

[MsMbua]

@VapidRetrospective its not called the bridge is over....its destroy and rebuild

[VapidRetrospective]

@MsMbua ya thats it! I'm think of the hook... its off Stillmatic

[keziah1399]

lets see your mainstream rappers deal these lyrics justice...fuck outta here...

[keziah1399]

who the fuck gave this 5 dislikes....get out of here if you can't handle lyrics...

[Jerkyboy2169]

greatest LP ever made...

[zsivaz]

@Jerkyboy2169 not even his best tho.............

[werabunny]

@Jerkyboy2169 lol

[tyshonne94]

lyrically who's fucking win nas do yall here his word play greatest album of all time hands down

[phackdis101]

nasty nas coming through with nasty lyrics like always

[cannonplo]

please start playing nas on the radio again please i miss hip hop :(

[C4truth]

im pretty sure nas just tought me more about grammar than ive learned in english class all week

[lmao08857]

watch nas be so much more famous when he dies

[bidou678]

5 personne are sick.

[r0yalewithcheez]

"skies are misty

my life predicted by a gypsy,

ill one day walk into shots drunk off champagne from sicily" one of my top 5 nas lines. cold blooded my friends

[FukPhysics]

@icedyounow opinions can be wrong. 'its my opinion that this book is an orange'

you asserted that these people were over rated primarily because they died. Michael jackson is the third best selling musical artist of all time behind elvis and the beatles. He is hardly looked highly upon because he is dead. Heath ledger is remembered as a rising star and an incredible actor for one so young. hardly overrated and certainly not cuz hes dead. now move out of mommy's basement and get a life

[FukPhysics]

@icedyounow No. If you're truly excellent no praise is too high. Now shut the fuck up, man up, and realize you fucked up son.

[Uknone]

It really baffles me at the amount of imagination it takes to write one rap song, but countless platinum albums?

Shit...

[FukPhysics]

@icedyounow evidently you forgot what you said

"I agree completely, I know this is an old comment but I just came across it. It's like the actor Heath Ledger, And Michael Jackson (Just my opinion). They're beyond overrated just because they're dead."

there ya go jackass

[FukPhysics]

@icedyounow Heath ledger was an excelent actor, he was considered one of the best before he died. in brokeback mountain he was amazing and in batman he was the best character, he took that movie over. and michael jackson was the biggest star in the world for years, the king of pop. THE BIGGEST STAR IN THE WORLD by far with some of the best selling albums of all time. Yea, you're an idiot.

[chastityluvsya]

what font is that?

[DUBKAYC213]

"never brag how real i keep it cuz its the best secret" damn too real... fucking lames arite always talking about fuck fakes fuck them cuz they think theyre all real and shit.... fuck them..

[TMaCaVeLi312]

Yoooo just droping by to show love and to let you know a bit about the LETHAL MCZ. We're an up and coming hip hop movement from Miami. We just droped a new remix to Nas's HERO. Open your ears for our 2 cents and let us know what you think. Subscribe and comment for feed back. Much Love and God Bless

[pi950]

at 3:04 i think i hear the phallus nation not the foulest nation, just sayyin

[rapdiamonds]

The most incredible,

sick with rap..

Y'all know about up north,

reside where I clap. That hoodbeat music,

got niggas surprised,

though it may sound confusing,

we'll open your eyes.'

[BarakYarashalam]

never better than pac....too much hypocrisy

[RelaxednCaIm]

@BarakYarashalam

pac was a hypocrite hymself.lol

[kennboy1]

@RelaxednCaIm No, he had different sides.

[ddpboost]

the sickest 

[Rell393]

Excuse me ...Bassline. My fault definite typo

[Rell393]

Top 3 nas tracks "take it in blood" and the extended remix "take it in blood part 2" (check for it). Beat bang out too. I remember back in the days I used to test my box in the trunk to the baseline in this beat. Still do...

[wh0am3ye]

Mad lyrical with it. Nas will forever be nasty.

[malboro1979]

3rd Verse!!!!

Greatest of all time...

[johnnysoofresh]

@icecoldkillz let the great old veteran live

[lakersownsuns]

@icecoldkillz pac is better than nas, and if think its becus hes dead ur dead wrong.

[19cjw88]

QUALITY

[talkdat4]

@olivier654 no. it means paying for a murdered person's family and your okay because your technically not born yet while in the pimp's cum......sick rhyme

[SDiggs1]

This song is perhaps the greatest example of word placement and rhyme scheme... the 1st verse is Nas painting a scene for you; 2nd verse is Nas moving on to hood reflection... 3rd verse is him tying it all together meanwhile the words and flow run like a set up of dominos being knocked down... Lyrical greatness circa 1996...

[SDiggs1]

@icecoldkillz Nas is the best writer of the generation, but Pac was the streets favorite and Big had the best flow.... its a matter of taste... Nas is great but borrowed from Pac

[redchucks80]

@icecoldkillz u sound dumb as fuck lol pac is way better then nas and nas is 1 of my favs

[Jozzybeatz]

After many years... Still incredible when I listen to it.

[femsology]

i dont stunt, i regulate.

henny and sprite, i seperate,

watching cKraB niggas marinate!

Real Hip-Hop

[KissThePavement]

@icecoldkillz totally agree with you mate

[Sonictrick]

ahh this is where Chip Tha Ripper got that beat from

[tehbossman99]

@icecoldkillz kinda true nas remind me of both them and actually has more skill than tupac or biggie wich suprised the hell outta me. well i love pac and respect biggie but i gotta admit nas is better. there job is to entertain and somtiem teach lesson and give life experiences from their music and i think they all have done amazing at it.

[italiafutbol77]

lyrical genious



[Smokegerbs21]

what the hell does nas mean when he said > "you be aiight like blood money is pimps cum"?....i dont get it.

[GEasy5]

Big up to NAS for givin a shoutout to CT at the end

[GEasy5]

I think this is wen him and cormega started beefin thats y he says "mega whateva"

at 4:24

[RealPuma352]

@SheCrazzzy15 Thank You.

[RealPuma352]

@icecoldkillz No i don't think Pac is better because his DEAD i think hes the best because of his Lyrics, his flow and how he influenced the Rap Game forever. I don't think Bigge is better then NAS. When they tell me to name the best rapper ALIVE i say NAS but when they tell me the Best of ALL TIME i say Tupac. I Love Nas but Tupac is #1 for me.

1.PAC

2.NAS

3.Big L

[OneHunnedPercent]

One of Nas' best traccs

[Qbkspit]

@icecoldkillz "i survived livest niggaz around" WoRd!

[joseyo1000]

hip hop gods=lord finesse big l, download "you know what im about" raped that track, ice cube (old days) , guru, biggie, jrue the damager, nas, jay z (old stuff) , double trouble( originators) , furious 5, fat joe eminem( old stuff) , pac, immortal technique (one of the realest of this era, maybe even the only realist left.) ..wu-tang, etc. many more..crap load of rappers that laid it down ...sone of these were the shit in the golden era and some ended up selling out, the sad truth,EMINEM JAY JO

[senorkinney]

That last verse is some of the best stuff Nas has done

[5starwrestlingradio]

@icecoldkillz I agree with you,but I think people simply associate 2pac and biggie with greatness b/c of their untimely deaths.However I think Biggie and pac are the greatest,top five dead or alive.For me its Nas,Pac,Biggie,Jadakiss and Lupe Fiasco.Thats my five.

[prolific1978]

nas best song ever hands down

[Crimsonhye]

@icecoldkillz

Theyre all on the same level. Pac and Biggie talked about most cuz they are dead, thats tru, but they all gave to the history, and for that they are all on the same level for me. 20 years from now you think anyones gonna remember Souja Boy? fuck no. These men paved the way for the others, but they desecrated the path Nas, Pac, Biggie, and others created. The old schoolers told us stories. these songs lulled me to sleep.

[MTEGS]

it's sad when some people who say they are rap fans, yet they don't know who nas is

[TheCorn111]

@MTEGS G damn you never lied,but he not on tv or the radio,so the younger generation probably dont know who he is,thank god for the net

[areology]

@MTEGS I have to argue, sir. You can indeed be a fan of hip-hop music and not know who Nas is. Technically, you can be a fan of rap music and not know any hip-hop artists.

[RottenPeachState706]

@areology um how so

[jlqt5]

@icecoldkillz that's a serious accusation you have. let me break it down for you.

the reason why you probably say that nas is better than 2pac is because what nas talks about is in fact different from 2pac. what Pac talks about is the ghetto, and ghetto issues, and im sure you're not from there. biggie, hahaha i have no argument against the biggie bit.

so if you don't get my view, im not completely disagreeing witcha and jumping on pac's dick. I'm saying, different styles shouldnt be compared

[sifer1htu]

NAS.

[xxjamaalxx]

one of my fav nas songs

[kinghades512]

hip hop is dead

[sifer1htu]

@kinghades512 it just went underground..give it a few more years.

[cobratanker23]

holy shit

[wh0am3ye]

"I never brag, how real I keep it cuz its the best secret"

^^one of my favorite nas lines right there...east coast a.d.e.d much love

[bahriboy]

this is one of my FAV nas tunes...

[itanimulliitnA]

@icecoldkillz He was good, but let's be honest ... Pac and Big ran the scene and did a lot for Hip-Hop ....... and were still ill

[mico2020]

his lyrics are really complicated, you need to read them over and over to get the beauty not only of the message but of the structure of verses, poetry indeed

[GTD9002]

One de Badest Song On It Was Written

[Aphasia17]

you know nas is the realest when they dont play any of his shit anywhere... and jay's stuff is all over mtv, sports center, radio... but empire state of mind is the weakest rendition of ny state of mind... nas had it correct 10+6 years ago

[nsqkist]

who ever did this video is definitly not a new york nigga... lol its Far rockaway not fort rockaway!

[chychy1]

this niggas word choice is amazing wow hes got a huge vocab nas is goat

[ieyeb]

all tyme best lyricist!! hands down!!

[1ronman786]

werdddd

[dmoney668]

Such an ILL song....the bass hits hard, some real hip hop,....so sick

[Thepinkbeastx]

dAmN Nas has some iLL lyrics

[KiMmY33IjDgAf]

eminem is fukken good (:

this sonng is fukken sikk!!

[Tenggggggg]

@KiMmY33IjDgAf this is nas, not eminem. lol.

[HIAMIKE4201]

NAS=A Class

[Yolkix]

G.O.A.T

[thththtg]

I wudnt say nas is betta than pac but his definately up there, on the same level. And i'll say his betta than biggie, waaaaaaaaay betta!! Nas is really a lyrical genius and his flow is just incredible

[21giggles]

@thththtg go fuck yourself biggie is the best rapper of all time!!!

[lmarr07]

@icecoldkillz Yeah man me too, with all due respect to Pac n Big, but Nas is better.

[sportzson96]

i lovee this song

[qu33ns88]

He says "I bet it be some shit when we connect with stretch when we catch them set nikkas with the techs you blessed" stretch knew nas and PAC and was coming out with a book that wouldve told truth to alot of lies and was killed beof0re he could publish. Shorty after this song was out kinda weird huh.. Nas is nice though favorite mc

[doggpound187]

prolly my fav nas song ever

[insomniac2074]

Nas is top 3 Rappers, dead or alive.....Most consistent rapper lyrically, he hasnt had the commercial success like other less talented rappers and maybe not as much general acliam as a Biggie OR Pac, but anyone who loves this artform 'hiphop' knows he has remained true to rap throughout the years,,,

[DaneKnuggs]

gtboy453 he's got it right

[bad4ful]

you l b fuck

[PrezDub]

Music like this makes you wonder how some of these rappers are able to get signed.

[jeenewed]

someone explain this line to me:

"you be aight, like blood money in a pimps cum"

[YoungMarcel19]

The hoe is gone be set if that situation come up with the pimp. She on her period, but since its the Pimp, she aint got nothing to worry about. Get it?

Nas is ill

[jpersaud]

@jeenewed the pimp will make money off of his own kid , his own blood from his own cumm

[gtboy453]

I think its supposed to be blood money AND a pimps cum. Blood money is supposedly very unlucky and a pimps cum probably has God knows what kind of diseases. It's sarcasm for you really won't be aight at all.

[camilo7789]

this shit is heavy,

[drgreenthumb2222]

"how real i keep it cuz its the best secret"