Nas NY State of Mind beat breakdown

[mr.africa]

the amount of work that goes into this is

 

[ThaRealness]

Premo swings the drums so well, he makes the sample sound more rhythmically complex then it actually is.

Greatest use of ghost notes in hip hop production history

 

[zerozero]

 

[AkaDemiK]

the amount of work that goes into this is

"sampling is easy...anyone can do it"

the fukk boy shyt that's been said many times around here by nikkas who couldn't tell the different between a hat and an open hat...

 

[zerozero]

DJ Premier:

Nas watched me build the beat from scratch. And he wrote the verse in the studio. If you listen to “N.Y. State of Mind” you’ll hear him going, “I don’t know how to start this shyt,” because he literally just wrote it. Before he started the verse, I was signaling him going, “One, two, three,” and he just goes in like, “Rappers I monkey flip ‘em, in the funky rhythm.” He did that in one take. After he did that first verse, he goes, “How was that? Did that sound all right?” And we were just like, “Oh, my God! The streets are going to go crazy when they hear this!”

 

[Heretic]

Premo is so fukkin great it's ridiculous . His ear for the smallest shyt is unparalleled

 

[AkaDemiK]

DJ Premier:

Nas watched me build the beat from scratch. And he wrote the verse in the studio. If you listen to “N.Y. State of Mind” you’ll hear him going, “I don’t know how to start this shyt,” because he literally just wrote it. Before he started the verse, I was signaling him going, “One, two, three,” and he just goes in like, “Rappers I monkey flip ‘em, in the funky rhythm.” He did that in one take. After he did that first verse, he goes, “How was that? Did that sound all right?” And we were just like, “Oh, my God! The streets are going to go crazy when they hear this!”

the god

 

[Wepa Man]

So simple yet so dope

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

I ran like a cheetah

 

[Heretic]

I always loved this sample here at about :20 which is a dope piece in itself

that he used for this

 

[Turbulent]

dope work but the chop on the piano is slightly off. one of the notes cuts too early.

 

[Marl0 Stanfield]

Fun Fact: "Be havin dreams that I'm a gangsta, drinkin Moet holdin tecs" = It Was Written is a gangster fantasy progression to adulthood in Illmatic Nas' head, hence "If I Ruled The World"... I Am was supposed to be Nas' jump back into reality, hence the memory lane intro and NY State of Mind 2, but the nikka musta started smokin that kawasaki when Carmen started bein Choosy Suzy wit it or somethin, shyt sucked