Can naS make a song as lyrically advanced as "D'Evils"

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Yes, but nas only got a few songs of that calibre. Basically that was Jiggas god level lyricism.
 

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Nas and Jay aren't the same kinda lyricist

They're both lyrical just different

Jay is a metaphor, wordplay heavy lyricist
Nas is a multi-syllablic, compound words, inner rhyme, storytelling type lyricist

Both great, but different. Jay is more clever, Nas is more about flipping words

It really is pretty much the same as Big Daddy Kane vs. Rakim argument

I don't pop Molly I rock tom ford, tom ford, ford, tom ford





That metaphor and wordplay heavy lyricism :ohlawd:
 
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it's actually deep as fukk
nowadays every rapper is talking about popping molly to get hype at parties and shyt meanwhile Jay gets high on wearing high end suits only

powerful
Spent all my euros on tuxes and weird clothes
I party with weirdos,
yeah Hov, yeah Hov

in this instance, the great grey hov is talking about how he is an international man. no longer is he held hostage by american standards and pressures. now he is free to do what he has always dreamed

wear weird clothes
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and party with weridos
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"hand around her collar, feedin her cheese/she said the taste of dollars was shytty so I fed her 50's
about his whereabouts I wasnt convinced/i kept feedin her money till her shyt started to make sense" -- Jay

"I ran to houston like a cheetah with thoughts of an assassin" - naS

If you idiots cant see who is an actual lyricist then its more of a statement about you...

:russ: at the way you always capitalize the "s" in naS
 

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If nikkaz could look inside my mind, you'll find
where bodies are buried, first look past the hotties who dimes
Go to the center, enter with caution, past the braincell graveyard
where weed's responsible for memory loss
Let's witness, the horrific, the stench'll make you nauseous
See what I seen every day I live with this torture
Lightin spliffs up to stay high like 24 hours
Sleep with my heat, wash with my gun in the shower
My tongue is power, it thrills women, kills demons
Long as I'm still breathin I'm still winnin, I'll teach 'em
The hood converted from trey bags to 20's a girl
Everybody had money, every summer was real ill
Four-finger rings, dope dealers, 'caine/Kane
"No Half Steppin'" with flat tops when Rakim reigned
Radios on card tables, Benetton, the Gods buildin
Ask for today's mathematics, we Allah's children
And this was goin on in every New York ghetto
Kids listened, Five Percenters said it's pork and Jell-o
We coincide, we in the same life, maybe a time difference
on a different coast, but we share the same sunlight
Your part of the world, might be like colors and gangs
While on my side, brothers'll murder for different things
But it all revolve around drugs, fame and shorties
Stuck for your bling, stripped for your chain, the same story
From, Czechoslovakia to Texas metropolis
Them, treacherous rocksters in the Mexican mafias
Be scrappin with tats on they back, violent wars
Nothin less than a lethal injection if ever caught
Courtrooms, eagles and flags, American style
While in our world, the ghetto stays incredibly foul
Watchin for paint chips, don't want no led in yo' child
But them gangstas put lead in yo' child, the bezzy be out
The chain be like a hundred K
Shinin since Roxanne Shante' made "Runaway"; that's been a minute
Genesis is deep, my features are that of a God
It's not a facade it's a fact, these rappers wanna be Nas
My Exodus doesn't exist
I'll never leave the streets, it's all in my mind
Even with sleep I'm duckin nines in my dreams
Si-rens, wide awake, why'd I think it would change
Can't hide when you famous or even try to do the same things like
Somebody's always watchin, my life
Before I, walk out the door I size up every option
Eyes cut every direction, it's like God or guns
Which is better protection? Can't decide, that's a hard one
I mean they wanna see me in prison, the chains bamboozled
Headline readin "Rapper Slain From a Man Shootin"

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