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NAS is trying to explain why he caled the album "I AM...The Autobiography" starting with a one minute mix of NAS's hottest past releases like "The World is Yours' and "It Ain't Hard To Tell" from the five-mic-ed "Illmatic" to "If I Ruled The World" and "Street Dreams" form his For-Sale sophmore effort, "It Was Written." Curiously, the lack-luster mix then slides into NAS's little brother, Jungle profanity-laced assertion that this LP is for the "real niggas" and contains "real gangsta shit" and is not for "faggot muthafuckas." The curious part is that it is Junge and not NAS himself who praises this album. It leaves me to wonder just how many "real niggas" who spit "real gangsta shit" use their little brothers as spokesmen? |
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PRODUCED BY: DJ PREMIER Can Primo do wrong? The track, a continuation of the original "NY.." by Nasty himself has a tight piano bassline that compliments NAS's grimy ode to the life of a NYC hustler. The only problem I had was the narrative's unoriginality. I wish he had taken the sequel to another level on the production and rhyming tip.
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NY State of Mind Part II
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HATE ME NOW featuring Puff Daddy
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PRODUCED BY: PRETTY BOY, MOET, AND THE TRACKMASTERS P Diddy? Pop goes the weasel? Actually naw, the the track is surprisingly intersting and dare I say it..deep? Nas attacks playa-hatas (yawn) but the "first rapper to bring a platinum plaque back to the projects" is fully in control of this track. Although Puff drops an uninspired hook, the Trackmasters show and prove with the violin and tom drum-heavy back up. I feel the authenticity of NAS spitting: "Never falling cause I'm as real as they come/ from day one/ forever balln'" |