Johnny Cash vs. Nas

dj erb mixes Johnny Cash "Hurt" and Nas "I Can". Additional keyboards, piano, and guitar played by dj erb. Guitar solo by Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine. Download at www.djerb.net

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Music

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• dj
• erb
• remix
• johnny
• cash
• hurt
• nas
• can

[nikquf]

watching this vid just reminds me why im so disgusted with where hip hop ended up....

underground rap is what i found though.

[MultiMuchacho]

This is nas sickest song because he's actually sayin sumthin to the youngins, and you ain't no King you cocksuckin faggot! I'm talkin 2 you Eoin

[dizrokwel]

the acapella is off beat

[ottavio2]

Everything up to the pseudo history was awesome. A little historical distortion is fine (it's inevitable, in my opinion). One part of what he left out was that African tribes were selling "inferior" tribes-people to the Europeans. Certain "red-headed" Africans felt that other Africans were beneath them (like the Yoruba), and sold them. My point? No race has been truly superior to any other, unlike what Nas states: taught the Greeks and Egyptians. Not so. And Egyptians had slaves: Jews.

[zach92zach]

@nikquf Its fucking Johnny Cash. Hes not putting classic Nas over shit ass disney songs. Hes putting it with other form of music that the world would benefit from listening to more.

[freeasaphoenix]

I'm digging Rage at the end.

[ay5k8]

@ay5k8 yes but you say we where brainwashed by his startom he has been giving out constant hits threw out his carreer even in his cover album like gods gonna cut you down and hurt and the reason he sounds like an old man is probably because he is an old man! im not saying he is a god he didn't make his last album for any fans he doesn't give a fuck he just loves music!, i have yet to see an artist as old and beat up as johnny cash was pull out an album with HITS! in it. and his voice is heavy!

[boozeroyale]

@wasapamati Exactly! Well said. "Perceived value" is a perfect way to explain it.

[wasapamati]

@boozeroyale Think I'd have to agree with this to a point. So much of music tends to be "perceived value". People tend to say oh, Johnny Cash did that cover...well it's amazing then! Had the listener not known it was Johnny Cash and instead take the same song and tell them it's done by Bob Smith the local old man from the pool hall, people would listen to it for 10 seconds and go "it's an old man trying to sing Personal Jesus...next". Perceived value.

[boozeroyale]

@ay5k8 Got to disagree with you there. Most of the covers on his last album were horrible. "Personal Jesus"? Uggg, that was awful! He didn't sound like the Johnny Cash I loved, he sounded like an old man! However, you missed my point. My point is that most people are so brainwashed they would praise Johnny Cash if he "meowed" an entire song. He's a legend and a great one but come on people, stop being lemmings.

[ay5k8]

@boozeroyale its not the originalety of the covers that makes him a genius its how he plays them he makes shitty songs amazing you cant seriously tell me that god's gonna cut you down did not send shivers down your spine the guy is a genius! he isn't know as a legend because he had a good start he is know because he plays good music when your covers are better then the originals it means your pretty fucking tight!

[SpiritWalker812]

I am a fan of all forms of music and I will say that I found the mix to be rather well done. If all you people that are hating on this person for doing a good job of mixing two songs together want to hear something truly awful and a blasphemy to any form of music then you should run out and find a copy of Pat Boone's in a metal mood. Where you can hear someone sing crazy train in a big band sounding way.