I'm convinced Nas - "Memory Lane" is the greatest hip hop song of all time

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yeah its my favorite on illmatic. i could listen to it forever. its nostalgic and eerie and humane and insightful etc...

perfect description

goat :wow:

i swear to god, if nas spit on the genesis, added deja vu, and spit over that nas will prevail beat, illmatic would be absolutely untouchable

deja vu was recorded for IWW and prevail was on the illmatic demo.

i count all the remixes for IWW as part of it as i count the demo tracks toward illmatic :yeshrug:
 

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I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
Hennessey holders and old school nikkas, then I be dissin a unofficial that smoke woolie thai
I dropped out of Kooley High, gassed up by a cokehead cutie pie
Jungle survivor, fukk who's the liver
My man put the battery in my back, a differencem from Energizer
Sentence begins indented with formality
My duration's infinite, moneywise or physiology
Poetry, that's a part of me, retardedly bop
I drop the ancient manifested hip-hop, straight off the block
I reminisce on park jams, my man was shot for his sheep coat
Chocolate blunts make me see him drop in my weed smoke
It's real, grew up in trife life, did times or white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes, and knife fights invite crimes
Chill on the block with Cognac, hold strap
with my peeps that's into drug money, market into rap
No sign of the beast in the blue Chrysler, I guess that means peace
For nikkas no sheisty vice to just snipe you
Start off the dice-rolling mats for craps to cee-lo
With sidebets, I roll a deuce, nothing below (peace God!)
Peace God -- now the shyt is explained
I'm taking nikkas on a trip straight through memory lane
It's like that you all it's like that you all it's like that you all....​


One for the money
Two for p*ssy and foreign cars
Three for Alize nikkas deceased or behind bars
I rap divine Gods check the prognosis, is it real or showbiz?
My window faces shootouts, drug overdoses
Live amongst no roses, only the drama, for real
A nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja
Here's my basis, my razor embraces, many faces
Your telephone blowing, black stitches or fat shoelaces
Peoples are petrol, dramatic automatic four-four I let blow
and back down po-po when I'm vexed so
my pen taps the paper then my brain's blank
I see dark streets, hustling brothers who keep the same rank
Pumping for something, some uprise, plus some fail
Judges hanging nikkas, uncorrect bails, for direct sales
My intellect prevails from a hanging cross with nails
I reinforce the frail, with lyrics that's real
Word to Christ, a disciple of streets, trifle on beats
I decipher prophecies through a mic and say peace.
I hung around the older crews while they sling smack to dingbats
They spoke of Fat Cat, that nikka's name made bell rings, black
Some fiends scream, about Supreme Team, a Jamaica Queens thing
Uptown was Alpo, son, heard he was kingpin, yo
fukk "rap is real", watch the herbs stand still
Never talking to snakes 'cause the words of man kill
True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins
I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane​


:wow:

look at the fukkin lyrics man....who the fukk is better?

*jay -z voice* He's only 19!!!!!
 

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Funny because Premier said he didn't even like the beat originally either, but Nas took it anyway.

Crazy they did that & then "2nd Childhood" seven years later. :whoo:
 

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Wasn't even the best song on the album. :russ:

which is even scarier....not sure why that would be funny....Memory Lane would be the best song in 90% of some of these rappers careers so for it to not be the best song on the album (debateable...It ain't hard to tell is my fav.) says a lot about the song...
 
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