A Few Joints You Need To Hear
Jadakiss feat. Nas – What If - Click To Listen *Very Dope!!! but I can’t decide if i like this one more than Fredro Starr’s “What If”…both great in my book though*
Tech N9ne feat. Crooked I & Chino XL – Sickology 101 - Click To Listen
Rick Ross feat. Nas – Usual Suspects - Click To Listen *Don’t really mess with ya boy Ricky Ross but I can’t front, this shit is hot*
Lupe Fiasco feat. Matthew Santos – Shining Down (Live Snippet) - Click To Listen * Off of Lupe’s upcoming album “Lasers”…. what happened to “L.U.P. End” ?
Nas – The World (Rough Version)
Nas – The World (Rough Version) - Click To Listen
(Produced By Kanye West)
City of God’s Son by Kenzo Digital
This looks kind of dope
“City of Gods Son” is an experimental hip-hop opera starring Nas, Jay Z, Ghostface, Biggie Smalls, Raekwon, Samuel Jackson, Delroy Lindo, and Laurence Fishburne. It is a crime drama/coming of age tale of three fictitious characters growing up in a crime ridden mythical city in a jungle. This project explores the icon of the gangster in modern media, and weaves musical history and gangster film history into an operatic music based story of brotherhood and survival. An homage to 90′s New York hip-hop, “City of Gods Son” is the redefinition of the remix. Featuring legendary soul singer Joe Bataan.
DL to ENTIRE project for FREE at www.cityofgodson.com
Props to G at Grandgood.com
Illmatic Being Turned Into A Book
Hip Hop scholar, author and activist Dr. Michael Eric Dyson announced yesterday that he is currently writing a book on Nas‘ debut album Illmatic. The 1994 release received the coveted five mic rating from The Source magazine, and is considered by many, to be the greatest single Hip Hop album of all times.
“Every song on Illmatic will be analyzed, interpreted and then re-articulated in a kind of intellectual sense from his own base in Hip Hop and we’re trying to deal with that seriously,” Dyson told AllHipHop.com Wednesday.
Late Wednesday, Nas‘ mentor, and producer of three of the album’s 10 tracks, Large Professor, spoke on the significance of his work going from the musical to the literary world.
“It means a lot. That’s what we were working for though,” revealed the musical creator of “Halftime,” “One Time 4 Your Mind” and “It Ain’t Hard To Tell,” two of which were album singles. Large Professor added to HipHopDX, “It’s finally paying off. It was a lot of hard work put into getting that album how it was – even getting Nas to that point. It’s finally payin’ off. Sometimes it’s a delayed reaction with things. Back in the days, my father would tell me, ‘You’re ahead of your time.’ I didn’t know what that meant. Sometimes that’s a good thing and a bad thing. You get a grasp on it, and you understand what it is, and you realize it.”
From first appearing on 1991′s “Live At The Barbeque” from Large Professor‘s then-group Main Source, the unit spent nearly three years readying the debut, which finally achieved platinum status a decade later in 2004. “That was a lot of power, a lot of energy that went into that. That wasn’t just [a year-long project], that was years in the making. The power is there. It’s still alive.”
According to Amazon, Dyson‘s book, formerly titled Born To Use Mics: Reading Nas’ Illmatic, is planned for January 2009 publication on Basic Civitas Books.
The Game feat. Nas – Letter To The King
This shit is HOT!!!!
The Game feat. Nas – Letter To The King - Click Link
Off Game’s Upcoming album L.A.X
Jordan DeLisser’s Piano Cover of Nas’ Album “Untitled”
Another talent found on Youtube. Hommie is Dope!
Makes The World Go Round = 0:04 -0:34
Queens Get The Money = 0:35- 0:53
You Cant Stop Us Now = 0:54- 1:24
Breathe = 1:25 – 2:00
Hero = 2:01 – 3:35
America = 3:36 – 4:31
Sly Fox = 4:33 – 5:30
Slave and the Master = 5:31 – 6:00
Fried Chicken = 6:01 – 6:22
Yall My Niggas = 6:23 – 7:24
Black President = 7:25 – 8:18
I can + If i ruled the world = 8:19 – 9:17
- Can’t even lie like i found this though lol. Props go to my hommie G over at GrandGood
Next 2 Nas Albums to be produced by Premier & Dre?
No matter how much anyone has enjoyed a Nas album, nearly everyone has clamored for the day that Nas and DJ Premier would link up for an entire album. There was rumor of the two collaborating awhile back but it unfortunately never came to fruition. While Premo has reportedly been busy with his own projects, he mentioned to DX awhile back that Nas never reached out to him for Untitled. But it appears that Nas is now taking the first step in making the dream album come true.
While performing at a concert on July 15th, Nas directed an appeal towards DJ Premier in front of the fans attending. What Nas wants is an entire album produced by the legendary Premo. Whether or not this dream comes true is still a mystery. But Nas isn’t done with his dream collaborations yet.
“I want to do an all-Dr. Dre album,” he told MTV News recently. “A whole thing with Dre and a whole thing with Premier, and drop ‘em on the same day. That’s the real thing. All right, I said it. That’s what I really wanna do.”
While there have been no preliminary talks with either Dr. Dre or DJ Premier, one has to wonder if either of these projects have the remote possibility of coming to life. Link
Nas going IN on 50?
Nas Is Coming. As if 50 Cent doesn’t have enough enemies to contend with – Young Buck, The Game, Fat Joe and Shaniqua Tompkins – Nas is throwing his hat in the ring as another adversary for the G-Unit general.
Apparently Nas is finally ready to take aim at Fif after being on the receiving end of many insults over the past few years. On the track “Queens Get The Money” from his much anticipated album Untitled, Nas seemingly fires a dart at the fellow Queens native. Though he doesn’t directly call out 50, it can be assumed from lyrics like this.
“Niggas is still hatin’ / talkin that Nas done fell off with rhyming / he’d rather floss with diamonds / they pray please god let him spit that oozie in the army lining that shorty doo-wop rolling oowops in the park reclining take twenty-seven mc’s put em / in a line and they out of alignment / my assignment said she said retirement hiding behind 8 Mile and The Chronic / get rich but dies rhyming / this is high science / now add 23 more from Queens to B’more / I’m over they heads like a bulimic on a seesaw / Now that’s 50 porch monkeys ate up at the same time”
Uh oh. Could we be on the verge of “Ether 2?” 50 better be careful here. He has to take into account he’s never been to war with anyone like Nas. While he’s bumped heads (pause) with Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, The Game, and now Young Buck, Nas has been to battle with Notorious B.I.G and Jay-Z. There is no question Escobar would be his toughest lyrical competition to date. Link
