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There's no denying it - nas proved time and time again that his story-telling abilities and delivery are incomparable to most other rappers, confirming him as the greatest rapper of all time!
@@ghost7524 nope, 2004. Listen to the trap songs of the time "oh I think they like me" and one called "lean wit it rock wit it" by Dem franchise boyz listen to their lyrics. I mean this Nas song came out in the 2006, same time Soulja boy tellem was made. Hip hop was most definitely dead at the time
Also crazy is how my man took a sample from Inna gadda da Vida and made a better groove than iron butterfly, I love some rock guitar riffs sampled in hop hop
This track is one of the many reasons why Nas is one of the GOATs. Real Hip hop was dead in the mid 2000s due to it getting dumbed down due to the commercialization, and the South lowering the standards. Nas knew what was up and made a powerful statement by calling out the industry.
I saw "The Roots" at a festival called Moe.Down (8th annual)in Turin NY. They covered this song and it was amazing. The Roots sounded great. You can't refuse to dance with them performing live!!! Never forget! 👍
Many times a DJ would play this song at a Bboy jam, you couldn’t help but get up and get down in the cypher’s. It’s a different energy and type of expression you can’t explain.
Hip hop is 50 years old today happy bday my meditation realy my inspiration hip hop is there when you down and out just to cheer you up long live hip hop
Now imagine he not only put one of the greatest lyrics together, but at the same time he put one of the sickest beat in the background that is rolling until now. Fakin masterpiece. MASTERPIECE.
@@christopher399 The Major Problems That Have ALWAYS Existed is Dumpster Juice Garbage Like Trap Music, Trap Beats, Mumble Rap and Most Of Mainstream Music, Period Dot Dash.
@@VoidDweller86 Personal taste in music. How actively do you actually listen to new hip hop music? I don't do that myself anymore, as I have reached the old age of 26 and seem to just listen to the music I enjoyed when I was young. However, when I was young, I also spoke negatively about all new hip hop, even though I didn't actually listen to any of it. Once I opened my eyes and ears, I realized that hip hop is just as good as ever. It's just different. And now that I am an old man, I have an even better perspective on it. How boring would it be if hip hop stayed the same as it was in the 80's? If every album sounded like 36 Chambers for three decades straight, we'd eventually get bored and we'd wonder if the artists simply didn't know how to make something different. Here is another take I got in my old age: we seem to look back and remember the standouts. When we talk about the 90's, we talk about all the great hip hop music. Why on earth would we be remembering all the trash and all the mediocre stuff? We remember the albums that stood the test of time. Just like when we look back at the early 2010's, we will probably focus on albums from people like Kendrick Lamar, and not one of those rappers that couldn't put a proper project together.
Nah I wouldn't go back dat far, now Ur not far off either RAP Has totally changed and aswell you have these ppl making up remixes of Old RAP Tunes with today's Rappers like for 1 tune der cud be 3 or 4 different Rappers in the tune IE.. 2pac, Eminem logic and tech n9ne and it just doesn't work den U have nutcases trying to remix a tune with 7 or 8 different Rappers my god der running Classic Tunnels just leave them be, Now don't get me wrong because der is Brilliant DJ'S out der doing it properly and it's sounds deadly and if some of the Rappers were still alive the tune wud be a number 1 on the Billboard charts DJ MIMO his good now+ they're are others but most of them are brutal 😂😂 but keep trying it's a learning process
thats fucking hip hop man, over the top beat, nas flows like a god on this one, message is on point, hip hop heads be nodding to this all day, banging since 2006
The people who buy bad music are to blame along with the big headed industry putting bad people on tracks and saying they are good. Hip hop will never die. It just needs more soul focus and inspiration.
Finally someone with a message. I'm so sick of everyone in the mainstream on the radio rapping the same way about the same thing to the same beat. Its like no one has a strong enough will these days to air anything with substance that deals with real issues. Its not even just a problem with Hip Hop either, its industry wide. The only two songs in recent memory that deal with any issues we face today were Same Love and Take Me to Church.
Hip hop truly is dead. I can't even listen to it anymore. The way hip hop is to me is the way disco music was for people in the 80's. Some people are still tryin to keep it alive but it's just not the same anymore.
mustangblack05 go listen to some j Cole and Kendrick Lamar. Yeah hip-hop has changed just like it always changed. The fat boys didn’t sound like Tupac. Slick rick didn’t sound like Andre 3000. Get over it. Sure it’s mostly a business these days (sadly) but don’t pretend that 90s rappers weren’t cocky and rich. Give it a try
No hip hop died in 2004 to 2005. All because songs like "Laffy Taffy, Me in My White T." Then Souljah Boys dumbass coming out and being a pioneer with ringtones and other shit that went south. I remember around 2008 sitting there thinking, "damn hip hop is really dead. This music just keeps getting shittier and shittier." People often look past rock, R&B and many more genres but they were affected by this shift in reality too. Damn I miss the early 2000's and before. Real times.
@@sodurrty7720 Trash hip hop music has always been released ha! We just tend to remember all the good stuff. Quality hip hop music never stopped being released.
hip hop has always been about creating new sounds and evolving, hip hop didn’t die the landscape just changed, hip hop didn’t die the old way of exceeding in it changed
^So just because I said he talks over a beat you automatically assume that I listen to fake rappers? LMFAO! I listen to real hip hop, he might have good message but he talks over a beat and it's boring just.... not worth listening to, only white walls because he actually had a flow
This song is so underrated. Rappers today will never compare to Kool Moe Dee, Nas, Rakim, Kurtis Blow, or the originals. Nobody today is about anything. It's like rappers like Cole, Kendrick, Logic or anybody spreading positivity and an enlightening message won't matter.
2007 was when mainstream hip-hop started to decline, it had a resurgence between 2012-2014 but it quickly went downhill again after that. Mainstream hip-hop that is. Underground hip hop is alive and well if you know where to look, but I noticed it's harder to find now.
