NAS 101:ETHER

NAS 101:ETHER
NOW In our ”deepest” & “darkest” hour only “one man” has stepped up to the plate. NAS. While others scurried in the shadows like “rats” against the “Hit maker” Jay-Z, NAS took it strait to the Jigga man!!! And not only did he defeat him, but he made him retire for a short period.(In my personal opinion) Some will argue that Jigga went on to bigger & better things like becoming the president of Def Jam,But if that was the "truth" why did he step down and return to rapping??? But check it we all know the truth. Because in most (not all)Hip-hop circles Jigga got flat out embarrassed!!!And the result for most ”REAL” Hip-Hoppers it was a masterstroke!!! Man to put it plain We cheered as Jigga got dismantled, defused and destroyed!!! With song’s like “ONE MIC”, “MADE YOU LOOK” ,and my personal all time favorite “ETHER” NAS will go down in history as one of the best “counter” battle rappers ever to pick up a mic!!! I mean Jigga would say on so many occasions I got 6 model chicks 6 bottles of criss and 6 bla bla bla whatever. NAS dropped him cold with his responce “ONE MIC”!!! Then "MADE YOU LOOK” & the ultimate crescendo “ETHER”!!! Unfortunately the road to NAS’S success has not been without controversy. In my personal opinion he has only mis-stepped once or twice.I mean I loved “IF I RULED THE WORLD” and later "REWIND" but The first mis-step he ever made was with the song and video ”HATE ME NOW” To most it is said to be a classic Anti-Jealousy hit for the term “PLAYER HATER” But ya boy CALLOUS just saw Puff Daddy and *click* I have never been a fan of “the jewelry” or “Shiny suites”!!! I’m a Hip-Hop purest So that was kind of a mis-step. Also morphing himself into Pac did not set well with me either.. And carrying the cross on his back as if he were “JESUS”??? I could write a whole nother blog on this subject. But regardless of these minor mis-steps NAS’s first album ILLMATIC 1994 is considered to be one of Hip-Hop histories greatest golden classics. Getting the highest rank in the Source.. 5 mic’s!!! Plus The Braveheart also reps Queensbridge without batting a lash. This is admirable in my eyes because I fell the same way about my hometown Detroit. Nasir dose mean “helper” or “protector” so I guess the title “fits” about “protecting” his city. I mean even though he dropped out in the 8th grade, NAS is said to be "one" of the most intelligent self educated men on the planet with knowledge of self. Unfortunately in retrospect NAS does spew negative energy like “GOT YOURSELF A GUN” promoting brother’s to carry “HEAT” against each other instead of putting the gun’s down. Also “POSION” is another dope classic but then he rep’s “the coke snifters”!!!on countless times. This is why he is not a contender for “The R’s title as godfather of Hip-Hop“ Plus he’s too young. But this blog is not about my personal opinion it’s about the facts, and with so very “few” revolutionary conscience rappers around now a days what dose a few commercial mis-steps matter??? Hip-Hop is suppose to be about the love and not the money, but you need money to promote and create. He did however admit to the “sway of materialism” in a song he did with one of the Marly brothers, so he has tried to atone for this worldly ways. He knows what he did was wrong. But hey in his defense only one man to ever walk the planet earth was without sin and they crucified him!!! In closing most people are in an uproar now about NAS’S new album NIGGER. Not CALLOUS If he dose it rite. Because more and more of “my people” act like niggers instead of “The King’s & Queens” that they really are!!! Also with his impressive discography of 1994:ILLMATIC 1996: IT WAS WRITTEN 1999: I AM 1999:NASTRADAMUS 2001:STILLMATIC 2002: THE LOST TAPES 2002: GOD’S SON 2004:STREET’S DISCIPLE 2006:HIP-HOP IS DEAD and the up coming 2008: NIGGER You can’t argue with NAS’S effort to give his people knowledge of self.Unfortunately I couldn't find any real dope video's for EITHER only a fan produced video.But after all like NAS say's it only takes “ONE MIC”!!!

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10-8-09 In my opinion regardless of the VMA's lol!,Tending on Twitter or appearing on Opra LMAO! Jigga will be forever ETHERED! NEW FAN VIDEO OF BEST QUALITY...Look up the word "ETHER" in the Urban Dictionary.It's the worst way 2 be defeated in REAL HIP-HOP!WORD!