With stains of blood and germ and piss all day/Ĭome on the ave, get sized up, plus appraised/ Streets is black as midnight, the concrete gray/ Plaques, awards, applause when I do my thing/
That's "Godfather" shit, back seat, next lit plans/Īnd you don't want the God to pull out the cars that's sick/Īrms and wrists is lit up, Queensbridge Kings/ I'm like Luca Brasi, Vito's best hit-man/ My niggas bust nines, puff lye and stick up cowards/įor they shine, you resist, then you push up flowers/ Twenties of D, is yo' niggas wilder than mine?/ Nas and DJ Premier connect for yet another banger "Come Get Me" and although it lacks the spark of their previous collaborations on his earlier albums, Nas is still on point lyrically in another rare highlight for this album on the opening verse: Lyrically Nas weaves through internal rhyme schemes and this is one of his best verses on the album, possibly the best overall. Words are the medicine, two teaspoons for goons/Ī cup of it for those thuggin' it, y'all sing the tune/" Might as well be, laughin' with Malcolm X's assassin as we die slow perishing/ Stack loot and guns/ teach the girls karate, school your sons/ Toll on your soul, take it or leave it, just my evaluation/
Think the whole world is crazy, got a 9, watch where you walk/Ģ dollar fine, sign of the times, here in New York/ They lit it up, hit it up, now they dismantled/ Impatient once tried, but in those angels and bamboo/ Light it up, make a wish, and them angels will grant you/ "Yo, if this piano's the cake then my words are the candles/ It's not until we arrive at the Ron Isley featured "Project Windows" that we see Nas in his usual form with a vivid verse. He shows flashes of brilliance at times, with some shots thrown at Memphis Bleek and Jay on the title track, but the first few tracks on the album aren't executed that well. Perhaps it was a sign of the times as the generic production puts a damper on his lyrical composite just a bit, which is admittedly lesser than we've ever seen from him. While in his career he's made some peculiar productions choices, I think he just was too unfocused with picking tracks for this album and it showed. Lyrically his pictures are painted precisely and his imagery is second to none. The Good (by is my all time favorite rapper. Was this Nas album really that bad? Let's examine. Now, as you saw with our Kingdom Come joint, this will be split into three sections: The Good (covered by True), The Bad (covered by Speed), and a final verdict reached. In yet another joint WIRTB edition, we talk about the least critically acclaimed Nas album "Nastradamus".