Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead (LINK INZIDE)

Anywho, I was hoping the album would be stuff in the vein of "Where Y'All At," but this is pretty okay I guess...

New link. The sample works better this time around-

And when are they gonna let those apache drums go?

It also crushes all 3 of the leaked Jay Z tracks so far.

Mark my words, his album is going to be audio crack

i like the nas. prod. by will.i.am, who is actually getting to be more and more interesting (not this track specifically, which is just inna-gadda-da-vidamatic, just in general). esco not blazing any trails, but who listens to nas to hear the future of rap? i dont really get where he's coming from ("if hip hop should die before i wake" = hip hop's not dead yet? but then the old singing dude is all "hip hop died this morning") and am not exactly enthusiastic about the whole "everybody sound the same/commercialize the game/reminiscing when it wasn't all business/it forgot where it started" because, DUDE, have you heard the intro to "life's a bitch" aka, it was all abt. business for you too. couple good lines--"most intellectuals will only half-listen." still. dude can spit.

ts: "roll to every station/murder the dj" vs. "hang the dj hang the dj hang the dj"

I'm not really expecting Nas to deliver a 100% great album at this point. Just a solid 75% good album like his past 3. (I never got the people who thought Stillmatic was as good or better than Blueprint, although there are some amazing songs on it.)

- It sure does.

If so, at least he doesn't rap on the song though.

Sweet chorus bit though, erspecially the "she's DEEEEEAD" part

"The N" - http://www.sendspace.com/file/my7mxz

Not quite as good as the title track from the album, but definitely a grower. Nas definitely rips it, but I need to hear it a few more times first.

Still, better than the leaked jays

The N is getting better by the minute. Good record ahead.

"The n" is aiight but fuck all this shit. Where the Salaam Remi joints over classic breaks at?

"Hip Hop is Dead" has much more going on, and I think his flow is much better than on "Thief's Theme". The ending part of the beat with "HIP HOP !" chanted over it is fucking wicked, that part alone pushes this past "Thief's Theme".

For what it was (a "street" single that was considered a "bonus track" on Street's Disciple) "Thief's Theme" was good, but as a potential first single, "Hip hop is Dead" has way more appeal, and is, in my opinion, a much more fleshed out effort.

But they're both good

haha yeah

yeah, same here. also, the loop point is all off-beat and sounds sloppy as hell, and if he's gonna recycle old lines for a hook it should be cut-and-pasted Premo style, not awkwardly recited.