Nas - You're da man

this is a song from the 2001 album "Stillmatic"...it has a good vibe

Lyrics:
Uh uh, yo
They plan was to knock me out the top of the game
But I overstand they truth is all lame
I hold cannons that shoot balls of flames
Right in they fat mouth then I carve my name
Nas - too real, Nas - true king
It's however you feel, g'head, you swing
Your arms too short to box with god
I don't kill soloists only kill squads
Fame went to they head, so now it's "Fuck Nas"
Yesterday you begged for a deal, today you tough guys
I seen it comin
Soon as I popped my first bottle I spotted my enemies tryna' do what I do
Came in with my style, so I fathered you
I kept changin on the world since "...Barbeque"
Now you wanna hang with niggas I hung with
Fuck bitches I hit, it's funny I once said...
If I, ever make a record
I take a check and put something away for a rainy day to make my exit
But look at me now, ten years deep
Since the project, ??? ???
I never asked to be top of rap's elite
Just a ghetto child tryna' learn the traps of the streets
But look at me now

(Chorus)
"You're the man" "You're the man"

But wait a sec', give me time to explain, women and fast cars
And diamond rings can poison a rap star
It's suicidal, how I smoke in so much la'
I saw a dead bird flyin through a broken sky
Wish I could flap wings and fly away
To where black kings and Ghana stay
So I could get on my flesh right away
But that'll be the day when it's peace
When my gat don't need to spray
When these streets are safe to play
Sex with death, indulge in these women
Vision my own skeleton swimmin in eternal fire
Broads play with pentagrams in they vagina
Like the Exorcist, then they gave birth to my seeds
I beg for God's help, why they love hurtin me?
I'm your disciple, a thug certainly
I'm the N the A to the S-I-R
If I wasn't I must've been Escobar
Forty-five in my waist, starin at my reflection
In the mirror, sittin still in the chair like my conception
When everything around me got cloudy, the chair became a king's throne
My destiny found me
It was clear why the struggle was so painful
Metamorphosis, this is what I changed to
And God, I'm so thankful

(Chorus to fade)

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[ibistanley]

The guy is simply a professor in the genre. A wordsmith in the genre. Not many artists in the genre have invented lines like "I saw a dead bird flyin through a broken sky." And not many emcees have Wikiquote page. His words as a 21 years old, are still lessons to some of us that are 30 years old today.

Just one among my other Africans here paying tribute to our black brother.

[ripwoodydawg]

@freedfighter96 its not staring at my reflectiion in the mirror sittin' still in the chair like my conception , its starin' at my reflection in the mirror sittin' still in the chair like mike conception mike was a origonal crip niggah from the 60's , 70's

[LesNowoh]

@1Blaugrana My take is that he used to get so high-from weed-that he had hallucinations (simply put).

I'm sure there are others who will make it deeper than that. In the last line of the song Nas thanks GOD for his maturity... and that's what I've based my response on.

[91dwest]

"vision my own skeleton swimming in eternal fire" that is some really deep shit. nobody does it like this anymore. Nas = one of the G.O.A.T

[lubui2583]

@ibistanley well said brother

[The7512]

FAITH WILSON

[The7512]

i did alot of time in intensive care i cried hard GOD IM SO THANKFUL MUCH LUV

[DaleCaliente]

I once said - if I ever make a record, I'll take a check and put something away for a rainy day.. But look at me now ten years deep, since the project bench wit crack in my sock sleep...I never asked to be top of raps elite, just a ghetto child tryin'a learn the traps of the street....but look at me now

[ThetruthisTHEvirtue]

I remember the first time I heard this song. I can relate lord, real brothers raise up bitch niggas stay back. 1 in a million! Peace Nasir.

[ThumbsUpMike]

@1Blaugrana its poetry, it means whatever your perception makes it out to me

Nas meant it in his own way(idk what it is)

To me, I can relate it to how everyone in america is like a dead bird flyin through a broken sky

We're all zombies within a life with no true meaning(dead)

It can mean whatever your perception makes it out to be, thats an element of poetry

[XxOnyx7xX]

If he is my inspiree, than I die trying to one day posess the skills he has, and express words through music like he does. I may eventually find the inner freestyle/writter in me, but I will never be as good as the king, NAS