Truth be told, Nas did this track in one take. His brother Jungle and up an up and coming R & B singer Craig Live provided the conflict in the hook and at the end of the song. Recorded at Ft. Greene Studios with producers from the movie Street Fighter breathing down our backs to have the song recorded, mixed, and mastered within 72 hrs to meet a tight deadline. Thanks for the positive comments. It's was an epic experience with one of the GOATs in hip hop.
Yea it was definitely around the Illmatic album. I remember Pete Rock playing this song on him & Marley Marl’s Pirate Radio show in 94. They had an underground radio show afew years after Marley Marls In Control Radio show in the early 90’s on WBLS. That’s a New York radio station for all the non New Yorkers who don’t know.
"In the rotten apple, take a bite and taste the worm/Embrace the world in reality and we're faced to learn/" Dopeness for the 94 era. Wow classic shit!
Nas last track from Illmatic era. You can tell by flow n patterns. This was late 94. In 95 he transformed into Escobar. Different flow. Different persona.
@@JRock424 Nas did the right thing post illmatic if Nas stayed on the illmatic type style his career wouldn't go no where his status would've been lower he had to change in order to sell records they want another illmatic yet still they didn't buy it shout out to Nas after illmatic u did the right thing hard work need to pay off
@@joeljoseph9017 unfortunately you are right, there would not be a Nas without IWW. Though times have changed now he could make this type of music again.
@@Noob12369 excalty bro if Nas didn't go the direction he went he wouldn't be mention with the jay pac big In order to be mention.with those guys u had to sell records lyrically of course nas is better than them
@@myronpitts354 I said "mainstream" film, as in, film that was not primarily targeted at a black audience, backed by a major studio, and had a $10M+ budget. The House Party movies had obviously come out by that point too lol... I LOVED the House Party movies and soundtrack
nas is one of the few rappers who will make you proud to even just be breathing when you hear him. he can say almost anything and you will just have this unexplainable sense of pride and confidence and this song cements that idea.
@@Warped_Physics Yeah, I could see it: A montage of Ryu and Ken working the streets as detectives getting leads. Then as the song fades, they're on a plane to Shadaloo.
Ive never even seen street fighter, i discovered this song on his “Half man Half amazing mixtape that came out on livemixtapes, came out my sophmore year
@@cucucanu Yep I know....that's one of my favorite songs and that's how I found out about this one. I was on whosampled one day and listened to the tracks that used the sample 🤣🤣🤣
I'm a hardcore fan of hip hop who loves Nas. I'm also a hardcore gamer who loves Street Fighter. Mix those two together. Wow! Then you think "Maybe this movie was worth making just for this one song." And this song seriously sounds like it has the quality of illmatic. Way too underatted!' This is probably the best song ever made for me!
I was the exact same as a kid, except for Ice Cube. Loved video games, loved Ice Cube, and his opening track is also a fucking banger. This soundtrack is basically just wall-to-wall bangers.
I can't wait my kids to be old enough when I can start introducing the Street Fighter soundtrack to them, including the movies and games. :) This song is fantastic. It was and still it is
The saddest part that get's me is that the production team knew that the Jean Claude Van Damme version of Street Fighter was going to suck from the start due to it's lack of fresh material from the video game, so Priority Records got involved with the project to help establish an off the wall Hip-Hop field to bring some redeemable qualities and Nas is one of the artists who keeps it 100% realistic.
Slept on then and now/ take a bow to the greatest poet hailing from the bridge/ living at this time man I wish I woulda did/humble leader with the vision check the wisdom that Nasir provides/ it’s only right we bump this track til the end of time
This is that illmatic aftermath. Gives me that early 95' Where Nas was a King of NY....if only "It was written" was like this song. Back to back 5 mics.
It was written is almost as good as illmatic though? I gave you power, take it in blood, suspect. Straight classic, best rapping performance of all time and Nas lyrically better than on illmatic 🤷♂️
This brings back so many memories . I can't believe I'm still alive to jam to dis. We was crazy in da 90's damn. Life was on da line so many times. Thank you Jesus.
Leigh Dappa Tupac gave a shoutout to Nas on the song “Untouchable” and gave props to Illmatic in interviews, and there’s photographs of the two of them together in 93-94. They only were beefing in summer of 96. They knew each other before that and were cool.
@@jons5658 they squashed it after that and 2pac died later after that tho. they never had much hate plus at the time this was recorded there were secret 2pac disses at nas
I remember buying this soundtrack on cd 💿 , this one of the illest Nas songs Fred. The rest of the soundtrack is bangin still to this day . LA Zoo , Pharcyde ect
This song is still straight fucking fire. I remember the god awful film but my brother got the soundtrack, which to this day remains a mystery why. Played Street fighter since the snes and this film comes out and though I was a bairn at the time, 7 years old, it was still awful. My brother, obsessed with the likes of Bon Jovi, got the soundtrack and I listened to it non stop. It's been a guilty pleasure since I was a kid but it's always been there. This song in particular stood out to me so raw even as a kid. The piano is haunting as fuck, Nas literally slayed the lyrics. I'll go as far to say this is perfection. I'm not sure anything could make this song better. And seeing some backstory behind it in the form of Christopher Jones just makes it more magical. Some of his stories and anecdotes are top class. Willingness to share a little insight to those that have no idea what goes on behind the scenes when making gems like this. 72 hours? It would take me 72 weeks to make something as phenomenal as this. Who needs time when you have straight talent all around to create a song that sticks in a young kids mind and is still in their life nearly 25 years later. I'm thankful my brother got this soundtrack. This song, and the others, were rays of light in an otherwise dark and tumultuous early period of a kids life. Kudos to Nas and the gentlemen that made something so memorable.
I always loved this track. reminds me of freshman year of college, winter of '02. parties, cuties, blunts, acid trips in the snow and pure hip hop. get some.
@@tommylong2598 People trip me out at times about the 1994 Nas . For the most part people took him for granted in 1994. For as many times I heard he haven't been the same since 1994 that album didn't go platinum until 2001 I think I could be wrong. But it didn't do so well in 1994. Like around 1999 people started saying that I'm like when the world is yours video was around where was all this action then . He probably should have won a Grammy that year and he should have gotten lyrics of the year in 1995 Biggie said it. They waited almost 30 years to give Nas a Grammy when he had why better album the 2020 KD.
@@traviscarter1023 I’ve been a hip hop head since I was very young. Probably second or third grade. Started writing rhymes by 7th grade (1997) and making beats a few years later. Still make beats to this day. I must admit, I was not a Nas fan in 1994. I started listening to Nas and AZ right around the exact same time, probably like 1998 or 1999. Before that he was just another face in the crowd to me. I was obsessed with Wu Tang. Then by 2001 or so, I considered him to be best rapper alive, with iLLmatic being my favorite album. He was def underrated at first.
Did any one get the Street Fighter Sound track with Street Fighter the Movie on VHS when it was released in 1996? I did when I bought the movie in Woolworths.
