When I first listened to IWW some years ago, it was easily one of my favorite songs on the album.
Go online and see that most fans generally hate it. I was shocked.
Great lyrics, ok beat, TERRIBLE intro
Probably the pac disrespect
and I ain't get it.
I used to think it was this + Jay Z fans being petty
But I've seen even diehard Nas fans act like this joint wasand I ain't get it.

Aside from the cheesy hook I never understood why cats front on this song so hard. The beat is dope (prototypical 95-96 Dre beat.) And needless to say, Nas killed it.
"The Golden Child shot that ass up cause you was holdin out
Let the streets be the court, the corners hold the trial
Fatal not fictitious, I rock the cable 86 shyt
Foreign cars young with crazy bytches
Mad smoke makes me able to quote
Solicitin, ill editions of that Murder I Wrote
A provocative plan, can bring a knot to my hand
As the pyramids that stand on top of the sand
In the heat of the moment
Like Farrakhan said, we need atonement"
"In the black limo, Jack Daniels through the cracked window
I spot the fake, red dot his face like a Hindu"
"Rap hero, black DeNiro
Federal Bureau, tapped my line and got zero"
Muthafukking Dre..........
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH![]()


Silent murder???? Da hellsong had no hope after "SUPPPP NASSSS"
lyrics were tight but easily worst song on the album
Yeah the song has always been underrated.
Nas' flow is so smooth. In fact his flow throughout IWW is
And I like the spacey, hypnotic beat.
No doubt it could've been better but Dre wasn't really putting out much heat around this time anyway so it's about as good as can be expected.