Uploaded by theInfamous3 on Nov 18, 2008
13th track off Nas' third studio album "I Am". Released in 1999.
The song is the sixth collaboration between Nas and producer DJ Premier. It was critically well received as it was a change from the more commercial and pop-oriented singles from It Was Written and The Firm. The song contains a combination of braggadocios and introspective lyrics over a choppy string sample. The song's beat samples Don Robertson's "Why". The main sample is still unknown. In April 2008 an unnamed mp3 was revealed by Dusty Kid from Strictly Breaks to be the original sample, and right after that it was wrongly identified as John Rydgren's "Cantata of New Life". The song also contains scratched samples from Nas' 1994 song "It Ain't Hard to Tell". In the 14 Deadly Secrets by DJ Premier, Primo said:
This shit is crazy : the day I made this record, I was at my house in Long Island, and I found this old record that I was gonna throw away. It was a ten inch record from a Lutheran church. And it was pink with a black fish on it. And I was gonna throw it in the garbage, 'cuz it didn't look like it had anything hot on it. But somethin' told me "before you throw it away, put it on the turntable, see if you can find something on it".
And I found that sample of Nas is like, and I broke it into 3 parts, scratched it live to the drumbeat that I already had, with the little chirpin' birds and from there, nas is like was born, man...
The song's music video directed by Nick Quested shows Nas rapping in the Queensbridge projects and features a cameo by NBA player Ron Artest.
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DJ premier n Nas. wat more cud i say. Dopeness!!!
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Premo flipped that sample amazingly.
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Who's the guy with the WBA title belt @ 3:29?
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YO NIGGA!!! U RAPE MY DOGGIE?
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This beat was on gta3!
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NAS go hard, love this type of music, shit is real and raw
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@washhiteslover Bro your forgetting Drake, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boi, Kanye West and Chris Brown. -3 1:Lil Wayne 2:Drake 3:Chris Brown 4: Lil Scrappy 5: Kanye West 6: Jay-Z 7: Pit Bull 8: Flo Rida 9: Nicki Minaj 10: T-Pain Tupac and all that 90s shit shouldn't even be on here gay cunt.
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classic!
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1.Tupac
2. Nas
3. Biggie
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1- Tupac
2 - Biggie
3 - Nas
4 - Eazy E
5 - Rakim
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