The top 50 Nas songs, 1994-2013 (an unbashed stan thread)

[Dusty Bake Activate]

No Wacky D.

50. Still Dreaming
49. Reason
48. Get Down
47. Undying Love
46. U Wanna Be Me
45. Last Words
44. Black Zombies
43. Street Dreams
42. Silent Murder
41. Cherry Wine
40. Rule
39. You're Da Man
38. Revolutionary Warfare
37. 2nd Childhood
36. Drunk By Myself
35. Fried Chicken
34. Black Girl Lost
33. Star Wars
32. Live nikka Rap
31. Come Get Me
30. War
29. Project Window
28. Loco-Motive
27. What Goes Around
26. You Can't Stop Us Now
25. No Idea's Original
24. A Queens Story
23. Daughters
22. Ether
21. One Mic
20. Stillmatic (intro)
19. Shootouts
18. Halftime
17. Take It In Blood
16. Poppa Was a Player
15. Heaven
14. Represent
13. The Message
12. N.Y. State of Mind II
11. Back When
10. Purple
9. Nas Is Like
8. I Gave You Power
7. It Ain't Hard To Tell
6. Doo Rags
5. N. Y. State of Mind
4. Life's A bytch
3. One Love
2. The World Is Yours
1. Memory Lane

 

[Jos89]

No Book of Rhymes?

 

[THE 101]

No Take It In Blood in the top 5

Nice list. I appreciate the dedication to the GOAT but as much as I love Illmatic it's a little too Illmatic heavy.

 

[Lala718]

I'm going to bash. What a terrible list of songs and catalog, only on sohh/coli n*ggas hype him up!!!!!

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

No Take It In Blood in the top 5

Nice list. I appreciate the dedication to the GOAT but as much as I love Illmatic it's a little too Illmatic heavy.

Take It In Blood is lyrically prolific, but the beat is nothing special, that's why it's not ranked higher.

 

[GETTINIT23]

take it in blood my #1

 

[Majestic Pape]

I think "Book of Rhymes", "The Cross", and "Watch Dem nikkas" would all be in a personal top 50 for me. I can't hate on or even criticize your list at all breh; in fact I'm going to make my own. Nas's catalogue is so strong that he probably has 150 songs that could be ranked in his top 20 depending on your mood or preference... strongest catalogue in hip-hop history.

 

[obarth]

I think "unabashed" is what you were going for, breh

 

[zerozero]

not gonna make a big list... but

for #1? Can't decide between One Love, It Ain't Hard to Tell, and Memory Lane

 

[Wacky D]

you've been trying hard to make threads like these lately.

now I realize that the reason you follow me around talking chit is because you want to be me.''

if you weren't so corny, I would be flattered.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

you've been trying hard to make threads like these lately.

now I realize that the reason you follow me around talking chit is because you want to be me.''

if you weren't so corny, I would be flattered.

 

[livindajetlife]

IMO Lifes a bytch is the best.. even tho he aint even have the best verse that is one of my favorite songs period.. cool to see it top 5

 

[keon]

"thief's theme","n.i.g.g.e.r","the foulness","film", and "life we chose" would have to be somewhere in my top 50

 

[Prae]

Ghetto Prisoners would be on my list. People complain about Illmatic not saying much - but on tracks like this he writes some of the deepest lyrics ever written imo. Dude can do it all.

As the night close down on the Earth like gray dark rings
Light of cities in the nights, destination for Kings
with big dreams, like Castro, overthrew Bautista
from Cuba, and pointed nukes toward the U.S.
About to shoot us for revolution; that's how you gotta move
A lot of rules, some locked in solitude
Curse the day of they birth confused, who's to be praised?
The mighty dollar -- or almighty Allah
I'm like the farmer, plantin words, people are seeds
My truth is the soil; help you grow like trees
May the children come in all colors, change like leaves
but hold before you, one of those, prophetic MC's
with blunted flows, seven hundred souls in me
Each channelin, from past to present times, heaven shines
light on those, innocent to how the world grows
Some men become murderers, and some girls become hoes
And you accounted for, everything that you heard
Do not speak to fools; they scorn the wisdom of your words
My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga never dies

Yo we gotta be God's children, habitats in tall buildings
Rats crawl in filthy hallways, incinerators
Sinners who faithless, still there's hope, pray it's answered
Dreams turned real - what's a wicked nation?
One with blind men - not takin charge of the situation
Empty arguments and real conversations needed
The world'll need it, to hear it
Evil tries to weaken my spirit - it's chronic herb
This hurt come from the honest word
I now try hardest to serve my maker, what I learned
find it's way on the paper, so I could dictate it
Articulate it, luckily - I was put on one of the ships that made it
through strong currents and winds that left the others stranded
to sink in the Atlantic
Satan jinxed the planet, not to get too religious, but
who decides when and if your life is finished?
If Christ is in this, for the sake of your name, oh Lord
may we break away from the chains abroad

You wanna buy time? I'm the seller of minutes
I give you every second low-priced, if I so lies; the truth is
Time waits for none of you, in fact
he can't wait for the date to snatch the ground right from under you
Small visions of better life if cheddar was right
lurk in the mind, of young ones ahead of they time
Trapped in the slums, beggin for nuttin but takin
Headed for nuttin but the state pen, where they cousins be waitin
Judges is not relatin to pleas, guns bustin where the kids play
Richochet off lamp poles and leave damp holes
in bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
Around the way where we from
Hope the future reduce the rate of those buried young
Life is every man's kingdom, a dyin man's past
and a newborn's, first time to be here at last
And shouldn't have to grow up fast, and suffer our pain
Hustlin harder than the generations here before he came
Goin through the same bullshyt as our fathers
Readin history, but who's the authors?
For some the game is easy, for most of us the game is much harder
But never lose faith; through the years just get smarter

 

[Hammer]

where's Surviving The Times?


Take It In Blood is a top 5 Nas song

And The Message is a top 10 Nas song