Nas's Verse from Live at the Barbecue (1991)

This pre-Illmatic freestyle by Nas from Main Source's 1991 debut, Breaking Atoms, introduced the world to Nasir Jones years before he painted the ceiling with the brains of those who heard Illmatic.

Street's disciple my raps are trifle
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle
Stampede the stage I leave the microphone split
Play Mr. Tuffy while I'm on some Pretty Tone shit
Verbal assassin my architect pleases
When I was twelve, I went to hell for snuffin Jesus
Nasty Nas is a rebel to America
Police murderer, I'm causin hysteria
My troops roll up with a strange force
I was trapped in a cage and let out by the Main Source
Swimmin in women like a lifeguard
Put on a bulletproof nigga I strike hard
Kidnap the President's wife without a plan
And hangin niggaz like the Ku Klux Klan
I melt mics till the sound waves over
Before steppin to me you'd rather step to Jehovah
Slammin MC's on cement
Cause verbally, I'm iller than a AIDS patient
I move swift and uplift
your mind shoot the gift when I riff in rhyme
Rappin sniper, speakin real words
My thoughts react, like Steven Spielberg's
Poetry attacks, paragraphs punch hard
My brain is insane, I'm out to lunch God
Science is dropped, my raps are toxic
My voicebox locks and excels like a rocket

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[HM200894]

He murdred the joint

It ain't rapper who can spitt some sick lyrics like this, exept of Nasir

[smuggz123]

BEST RAPPER ALIVE

[DaOldSchoolRapLova96]

the beginning of a fantastic album! illmatic

[flavjuniorgrill]

@oEREBUSz

Yeh !!! Wit that one too !!!

& wit

I gave you power, lifes a bitch, & defitnely, rewind

[flavjuniorgrill]

@mcmitchell55

hahaha but naww I was being for reals ! I wasn't trying to get thumbs up or anything, I was just being completely honest, & I got 4 likes lol.......

[MrBranman718]

I just heard rack city chick, and had 2 listen 2 this 2 flush out the complete shit i just heard

[oEREBUSz]

@flavjuniorgrill I always do that with his song It ain't Hard To Tell. LOL

[Creptzzzz]

Nas is an absolute genius. He was BORN to rap

[mcmitchell55]

@flavjuniorgrill that makes two of us

[MetsFanDJL]

@HM200894 *for

[flavjuniorgrill]

I'm not gonna lie I was watching porn and I put porn on pause to listen to this shit.

No lie.

[CrackPancakes4Green]

When I Was 12...