"time is illmatic"

[MINT]

OP is a fan of Drake, it explains everything

 

[Big Mel]

I was gonna say....I've never sat thru it entirely. bytches used to play it.

 

[intilectual recipricol]

More like exposing your fakkit ass

fukk yo subject, your posting history stanks nikka

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[King Biko]

aint none of yall make sense of the line tho

 

[Big Mel]

Remember when Ja Rule & Ashanti did that grease themed video? That was embarrassing. Rap is embarrassing.

 

[Suicide King]

All the wack shiit that dropped lately, and you make a thread to criticize Nas. Nas is not even championed by anyone, so your efforts seem in vein.

 

[King Biko]

All the wack shiit that dropped lately, and you make a thread to criticize Nas. Nas is not even championed by anyone, so your efforts seem in vein.

fukk all that bullshyt, explain the line or

 

[Prae]

I'm just pulling shyt out of my ass here so this probably doesn't make any sense

"Time is Illmatic" - could mean like it's time for the era of Illmatic. Like "it's miller time," "it's illmatic time." It's time for illmatic.
Maybe he's trying to say Illmatic is encompassing much like time is. Maybe he's trying to say Illmatic is timeless.

Also it's kind of interesting reading the full line - "time is illmatic, keep static like wool fabric"
The words time and static are somewhat antonyms - time is continual change and progress of events, whereas the word static involves the lack of change or movement. It's like he's saying Illmatic (his album) is eternal (time) and unchanging (static).

 

[King Biko]

I'm just pulling shyt out of my ass here so this probably doesn't make any sense

"Time is Illmatic" - could mean like it's time for the era of Illmatic. Like "it's miller time," "it's illmatic time." It's time for illmatic.
Maybe he's trying to say Illmatic is timeless.

Also it's kind of interesting reading the full line - "time is illmatic, keep static like wool fabric"
The words time and static are somewhat antonyms - time is continual change and progress of events, whereas the word static involves the lack of change or movement. It's like he's saying Illmatic (his album) is eternal (time) and unchanging (static).

even tho i disagree with what u said atleast u made an effort so. but i think he meant "static" as in "beef", that was the slang for it around that time and it will explain the next line "Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage".

 

[intilectual recipricol]

I'm just pulling shyt out of my ass here so this probably doesn't make any sense

"Time is Illmatic" - could mean like it's time for the era of Illmatic. Like "it's miller time," "it's illmatic time." It's time for illmatic.
Maybe he's trying to say Illmatic is encompassing much like time is. Maybe he's trying to say Illmatic is timeless.

Also it's kind of interesting reading the full line - "time is illmatic, keep static like wool fabric"
The words time and static are somewhat antonyms - time is continual change and progress of events, whereas the word static involves the lack of change or movement. It's like he's saying Illmatic (his album) is eternal (time) and unchanging (static).

Ima give you somewhat of a pass because you admitted you were pullin shyt out your ass... i respect nikkaz keepin it real...

but the bolded... this nikka is a jr high dropout, that cant write well... do you think he knows what the word "static" means in the sense you used it? Nah, he was talkin about not using Downy dryer sheets.

 

[Looty]

Illmatic is the essence or in simplest terms greatness (but it's second meaning as being a description of Nas' own lyrics is evident in its use through many of his earlier records). Static means giving beef to those that don't respect you. Use this understanding when interpreting the line. It makes perfect sense - he is telling all of his haters that he is making them look like fools.

"Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is..."

/Thread


And get this cornball out of here and take out "Intellectual" from your screen name simpleton.

 

[JuvenileHell]

I thought the line meant that times are hard (ill)...and "matic" works because it sets up the rest of what he said "Keept static like wool fabric..."

Could also mean what the guy above me said, that it's pretty much the Illmatic era (Nas coming into his own as an MC), and that Nas is out for his.

Both interpretations work.

It really isn't that hard to understand really. This is a troll thread...

 

[Big Mel]

You don't "give" beef to people numb nuts. Unless you serve them burgers or something.

Static means "having" beef.

 

[intilectual recipricol]

Illmatic is the essence or in simplest terms greatness (but it's second meaning as being a description of Nas' own lyrics is evident in its use through many of his earlier records). Static means giving beef to those that don't respect you. Use this understanding when interpreting the line. It makes perfect sense - he is telling all of his haters that he is making them look like fools.

"Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is..."

/Thread


And get this cornball out of here and take out "Intellectual" from your screen name simpleton.

Look at the great lengths naS stans have to go to in order to try and make sense of his nonsensical ramblings.

Is this really life?

 

[blackslash]

Ima give you somewhat of a pass because you admitted you were pullin shyt out your ass... i respect nikkaz keepin it real...

but the bolded... this nikka is a jr high dropout, that cant write well... do you think he knows what the word "static" means in the sense you used it? Nah, he was talkin about not using Downy dryer sheets.

Im so done