TheDarceKnight
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Classic classic shyt
Nas "The Set Up" Prod. Havoc
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2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
f*** apologies, i wanna see y’all geeked up
It Was Written will always be a far better album than Illmatic idgaf what anybody say
iLLusoYuN_Da_Adidas_King
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I get goosebumps when Nas says “my mindset “
This definitely sounds like it could have been on Hell on Earth. And people said that It Was Written was too commercial.
Nas said there was a word on this song that he messed up, does anyone know what it was?
mostly magazine critics were saying that but i’d say the streets were bumping this album as much as any in NYC ever that I can remember
This definitely sounds like it could have been on Hell on Earth. And people said that It Was Written was too commercial.
Nas said there was a word on this song that he messed up, does anyone know what it was?
lol i'm gonna take a wild guess here and say you a young ole head (born somewhere around '80 joe budden to '87 kenny)? 70's babies understand it just fine
nas reached out to a different audience on the sophomore both sonically and lyrically, but it didn't denote that it was all syrupy sweet commercial jingles my G. way more nuanced than that. put it this way, both bobbito and stretch loved represent in '94 but live nikka rap was almost exclusively for stretch in '96. can you make the distinction between the two records even if they both feature street content? '69 jay z to '77 kanye rap nikkas can easily
please agree better then alchemist!!Prime Havoc on the beat
ALBERT EINSTEIN MINDS CONNECT WITH
Prime Havoc is in my top 5
u mad son?
All Star
Agreed
2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
f*** apologies, i wanna see y’all geeked up
love Foxy shyt talking at the end...
On the Youtube comments one commenter said it sounds The Set Up beat sounds like the cousin to Shook Ones beat, I never thought about it like that really beforedefinitely sounds like a Mobb track to me, one of the reasons why I like it so much
tho it’s probably one of the least mentioned tracks of IWW, hardly ever hear it brought up
Stuckinthe90s
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Incarcerated Scarfaces retarded cousin.
Stuckinthe90s
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Every beat on Hell On Earth is better.
This definitely sounds like it could have been on Hell on Earth. And people said that It Was Written was too commercial.
Nas said there was a word on this song that he messed up, does anyone know what it was?
THE SET UP” f/ HAVOC
Produced by: Havoc
Nas: I love Havoc’s tracks and wanted to work with him by any means. I wound up with two from him. I was trying to work fast, because I was trying to get so much done with him but he had his own projects to work on.
I wrote that up and was looking for more from him but we only got one more, “Live nikka Rap.”
I must admit, I said something stupid on that record. I was high and changed words around and I said a word that didn’t make sense. I didn’t realize it until the album was mastered. But I won’t put a spotlight on it—I’m not going to tell you what it was. The word makes sense but it didn’t make sense on what I said I was doing. I overthought it.
Tone: We were there for that record, too. We were there for the whole album, because we had to maintain the continuity. It wasn’t about Nas just picking the records.
Poke: We all had like a collective opinion about how the album should formulate. We try and give the person an experience like a movie. You have a beginning, a middle, and an end. It wasn’t, “Pick any beat.” It was, “Yo, which beat is the most appropriate for what we’re trying to do?”
The Making of Nas' 'It Was Written'