Nas - Take It In Blood appreciation thread :ahh:

[Big Mark]

as explained many times on sohh..nas recorded 4 versions, the LP version is mixed of two versions including the part 2 that was released by whoo kid!
i really miss the times when i got to visit studios and chill with certain heads and got to peep exclusives before i even shyt went out to the public.

I believe it was a strategy of Nas' to record alternate versions on certain songs. Off the top of the dome, I can think of about 3 or 4 tracks that are rumoured to have alternate versions or an additional verse.

1. Ether
2. You're The Man
3. Watch Dem nikkaz
4. Street Dreams

Now Take it In Blood

I'm wanting an anniversary version of It Was Written so stories and other work from those sessions can be uncovered.

 

[Oroko Saki]

I heard someone (Papoops?) sample this beat recently....



Aint nobody fukkin with the goat

 

[Urahara_Kisuke]

My favorite song off my favorite album!

 

[Foxmulder]

The flow
The lyrics
The goat

 

[l3lackstarr]

.. when I worked overnight, this was my going to work and getting off joint.. one of my all time favorites

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Skies are misty, my life's predicted by a gypsy
I'll one day walk into shots drunk off champange from Sicily


#NasSunday

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Skies are misty, my life's predicted by a gypsy
I'll one day walk into shots drunk off champange from Sicily


#NasSunday

he sounds so infatuating and boss-like with that line..

 

[mr. smoke weed]

^^^^breh's I can't make that shyt flow in any possible way. One of the most perplexing and dope couplets ever

 

[Lord Scion]

In case anybody missed it, I cleaned up "Part 2" as best I could... Still hoping for a real NODJ...

That was you who did this?? I listen to this version of Part II damn near every time I'm on Youtube.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

had to fukkin play this now..
about to sniff a fat line and sit back..

 

[Trajan]

Bloodshot red eyes high, yellow envelopes of lye
Opening cigars let tobacco fly

 

[neo6289]

top 5 nas track IMO

 

[Figaro]

I can't recite the lyrics without nearly drooling....the flow

 

[SirBiatch]

I prefer Part 2 way more. Flow's more passionate and the beat goes harder. I never listen to Part 1.

Master class in rhyming, and hip hop in general

 

[SirBiatch]

Take It in Blood 2 is proof that you give Nas a great beat, he'll absolutely kill it. Every time. Amidst all the beat criticism, people forget that Nas has rhymed on some of the best beats in hip hop history.

Take It in Blood is one of them

yea i agree with you guys the best on IWW and that's saying a lot. The song is grimy and beautiful at the same time.

99% of the greatest hip hop records fall in this category. That street feel done beautifully.