I laughed at the story I told in the first paragraph back then, mainly because it was way before the disturbing trend of police shooting young black men down became viral videos.
#NASIR ALBUM REVIEW REGISTRATION#
Can you believe it, the cop thought my registration card was a gun! (SMH) I found the card five minutes later, opened my door and yelled, “I found my registration card, sir!” Right after that, he pulled his gun out on me. I initially couldn’t find my cars registration card when he pulled me over, so he decided to do his due diligence and check my tags in his little police system. I almost got shot by a cop when I was 18 years old (No Bulls**t). Now if it was coming out of Puff’s outlandish ass, I would’ve ignored every word. I’m not sure how true all of them are, but what I do know is that since it came out of his mouth, I believe some of them. This song will be remembered for some of Nas’ theories, conspiracies and history lessons. Much like everyone else that puts up an R&B feature on this album, her part is simple yet still very powerful. Fast forward to 2018, and it looks like Nas was trying to recreate the classic in “Not For Radio.” If you ask me, it’s nowhere close, but it does out-controversy the previous effort, as it boasts some pretty rebellious lyrics from the Queens-bridge native.Ġ70 is on the hook to this song, and she adds yet another rebellious element to it. I thought “Hate Me Now” from back in the day was one of the toughest tracks of the 90’s. Common, Kid Cudi and Jay-Z) Can Nas make me and my list look stupid after this album? Probably not, right? The verdict has been out that I’m stupid for years now. With that being said, I do think he is one of the best storytellers of all time, and if you know Kanye like I know Kanye, he brings the best out of storytellers. No shade towards Nas or anything, but I just have a few guys ahead of him at this time (Ask me in the comment section who I have on the list). Nas isn’t on my top 5 rappers list of all time.