Nas Doesn't See Any Brave Emcees

[Crakface]

keep for nas, my nikka.

 

[NoHalfWay]

God's Son has spoken

 

[DirkDizzler]

no, they cannot. This is neither an argument you'll win nor one I'll participate in. I have a master's in English lit, breh (no ). Just drop it.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surreal

You're an idiot and you are lying about your Masters. If you really had a masters in English you would have known what surreal means in the context in which he used it.

 

[kermit da hustla]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surreal

You're an idiot and you are lying about your Masters. If you really had a masters in English you would have known what surreal means in the context in which he used it.

here's the definition:

very strange or unusual : having the quality of a dream

here's the quote from nas:

“When I first started I said, ‘You know, it would be cool to talk at colleges...but that would never happen,’” he says. “That’s really what I thought. I didn’t know. It’s kind of like surreal but then at the same time, it’s what it’s supposed to be. Especially for me, at a place like the John F. Kennedy Center, I had like dreams of that kind of stuff early. I didn't think it was really possible. I kind of gave away those dreams. I let those dreams go. Now that it’s here, that it’s come around to this, it feels like this is where it’s supposed to be.”

now, tell me what the fukk he was trying to say. educate me, young scholar.

 

[intilectual recipricol]

Smart dumb nikkaz love naS the way fat women love Oprah

 

[DirkDizzler]

here's the definition:



here's the quote from nas:



now, tell me what the fukk he was trying to say. educate me, young scholar.

Why oh why am I even entertaining you...

“When I first started I said, ‘You know, it would be cool to talk at colleges...but that would never happen,’” he says. “That’s really what I thought. I didn’t know. It’s kind of like a dream but then at the same time, it’s what it’s supposed to be. Especially for me, at a place like the John F. Kennedy Center, I had like dreams of that kind of stuff early. I didn't think it was really possible. I kind of gave away those dreams. I let those dreams go. Now that it’s here, that it’s come around to this, it feels like this is where it’s supposed to be.”

“When I first started I said, ‘You know, it would be cool to talk at colleges...but that would never happen,’” he says. “That’s really what I thought. I didn’t know. It’s kind of like unusual but then at the same time, it’s what it’s supposed to be. Especially for me, at a place like the John F. Kennedy Center, I had like dreams of that kind of stuff early. I didn't think it was really possible. I kind of gave away those dreams. I let those dreams go. Now that it’s here, that it’s come around to this, it feels like this is where it’s supposed to be.”

Use your brain. Seriously. You know what he was getting at.

When something is surreal it means something the is either bizarre, weird, or feels as if it is out of a dream but is being presented in reality. He is saying that he had dreams of speaking in colleges and performing at the Kennedy Center when he was younger, and now that it has come to fruition it is surreal to him.

 

[BigIke]

Smart dumb nikkaz love naS the way fat women love Oprah

Lets play big bank take lil bank with your smart brilliant asss..I have receipts

 

[HoloGraphic]

It's rare to find rappers who rap for the art/fun of it. I fukk with Nacho Picasso tho

 

[Thegospel]

PAC made this chump change his subject matter from his last interview. (Nas and biggie just like the sound of an Italian nikkas name. They getting they Italians mixed up talking bout Luciano, Pacino, that's how you know what type of nikkas you dealing with).


When his bytch ass was on top he didn't make one brave song as a single. If I ruled the world? NO. One mic? NO. How the fukk can HE be the one asking the new top rappers to be brave??????

 

[Wild self]

TBH, I see where he's coming from and it's just really and truly disappointingly true. This generation of rappers...I've never seen a group of more nonsensical and uttlerly meaningless artists in my life. They really do stand for nothing. It's almost like the Brand Nubians, Public Enemies, Lakim Shabazzes, and others were just beaten into submission into these dumb puppets who just brag about killing people, high end fashion, moving bricks, and other flagrant bullshyt. Even rappers who don't do that (Drake, Kendrick, Chance The Rapper, etc) aren't saying anything meaningful or impactful in my eyes. I don't even know if it's rapper afraid to speak their minds moreso than it's people not willing to mess up their money and haven't found their own voice.

I don't know man...this generation is just lost and struggling to find it's identity in general. It's like things are all over the place and like mos def said on "fear not of man" if we are lost, then hip-hop is lost. Hip-hop is just always going to be a reflection of the people and the times so I guess we are beyond lost and trying to find ourselves collectively. That doesn't just apply to the black experience in general from where I'm speaking, but it also applies to hip-hop listeners across the board in general in the internet/social media/gentrification/globalized/etc world. It's almost as if the first world individual in general is too subservient or too passive or too content or too fed off of individual ignorance that they fail to stand for something. Or if they do stand for something, they forget about it and move on to the next thing to be mad about for 2 weeks...there is no struggle. Hip-hop's struggle reflects that of the youth itself. The world has changed and many are about to be left behind on account of their own negligence. While the powers that be are working behind the scenes to change the world without us...we're too distracted by too many things to care about one thing.

The first time I listened to hip-hop was in 1989 at 5 years old. What I saw and heard then changed my life. Fast forward now and I'm just saddened, frightened, freaked out, and generally just disconnected to what hip-hop is now.

The MCs don't stand for nothing anymore. There were real things that we were facing when I was listening to hip-hop in the 90s and just slowly watching it go commercial and become this pacified self-destructive and utterly vain mainstream artform is just bizarre.

Props on this shyt!!

People want to erase Public Enemy and Brand Nubian from history books and think that NWA and gangsta rap is "real Hip Hop"

 

[ManBearPig]

Freddie Gibbs?

 

[Thegospel]

Freddie Gibbs?

Bravery doesn't come from nobodies/people not on top. Lets stop naming these obsolete mufukkas please.

 

[ManBearPig]

Bravery doesn't come from nobodies/people not on top. Lets stop naming these obsolete mufukkas please.

U have to admit that Gibbs retaliated from every shot that was thrown at him and is not scared of no one.

 

[spliz]

He said he used to dream of such, now he's there - it's surreal. It's not an improper use of the word. What you should've picked up on, is where he said "it's kind of like surreal". I think that people tend to get hung up on the "bizarre" definition, but completely ignore that it also describes something grounded in reality but dreamlike in qualities.

Exactly...which is why he didn't respond to what I was saying cause he knew he was wrong...I was sittin here look at him like when he said he had a masters in English lit...like dude is either lying or he cheated his way thru that shyt..