all joking aside, this is a terrible nas top five
What's wrong with those tracks? Just about any five songs are worth top five, given his god like talent, just as long as it's not something from Nastradamus.
"One Mic" has commendable flow. Have you noticed how he starts off slow on the first verse, then goes off hard, then does the reverse on the 2nd track? That song is all about the grief and the pain of the world and his passion to spread his message out to those with his music.
One on One has a phenomenal production on it and it has some outstanding flow. I like the tongue in cheek take on street conflict.
These lyrics are dope
I hear Jake walkie-talkies in my sleep
Marked money I keep, play the bitches all week
I visualize Coups, alligators in suits
Elevators in my mansion that rises to the roof
Sippin eighty proof, watchin Juice, but hold up
I see some brothers tryin to roll up, wishin I could fold up
It's hard to see their faces in they hoodies, I better boogie
Too late, I tried to swing when they jigged me, I'm out...
I love "I Can" because it spreads a message of education self-respect and importance to our youth. He knows how our black youth get caught up in all this crazy shit on the streets and doesn't want them to fall into that cycle. We need a lot more songs like this for our children to listen to.
"I Gave You Power" is his exceptional piece on the story telling rap. I had never heard someone tell a story from the perspective of a gun. The whole song has a whole foreboding feel to it which perfectly captures the tale of those in a corrupt lifestyle. I love the metaphors and parallels in that track.
Always I'm in some shit
My abdomen is the clip, the barrel is my dick uncircumcised
Pull my skin back and cock me
I bust off when they unlock me
Results of what happens to niggas shock me
I see niggas bleeding running from me in fear, stunningly tears
Fall down the eyes of these so-called tough guys, for years
I've been used in robberies, giving niggas heart to follow me
Placing peoples in graves, funerals made cause I was sprayed
I was laid in a shelf, with a grenade
Met a wrecked-up tech with numbers on his chest that say
Five-two-oh-nine-three-eight-five and zero
Had a serial defaced, hoping one day police would place
Where he came from, a name or some sort of person to claim him
Tired of murdering, made him wanna be a plain gun
But yo, I had some other plans like the next time the beef is on
I make myself jam right in my owner's hand
"Cherry Wine" is fire because of Amy Winehouse's exceptional vocals on the track. The nice blend of jazz on the track is also quite nice, but I really love some Nas. My top five changes all the time.