Seems Nas is just steady pumping out tracks on a song-by-song basis like it was ‘92 or something. First, there was the that Swizz Beatz joint “Be Worried” and now, “Film,” produced by some beat contest winner C-Sick (apparently, some skinny, 18 year-old white kid). Nas comes real heavy-like with an emphasis on cinematic storytelling and vivid imagery.
The beat fits Nas really well and goes along with the melodic, mafioso mode of It Was Written… [EDIT: Hmmm...Maybe more like The Lost Tapes now that I think about it] But what struck me most upon listening to this song earlier today was how clownish it is that he’s the most poetic emcee in Hip-Hop but can’t string a sentence together in prose. He was on the Colbert Report a while back talking about his street single “Sly Fox,” and he couldn’t convincingly articulate his qualms with FOX news despite having written a four-and-a-half minute song on the topic. Interviews with Nas should henceforth be conducted in the format of a freestyle battle with 30 seconds each for the question and response. The Bill O’Reillys of the world will be as out of their element as Nas is in their sterile “news”-talk show setting.
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Hendrik // July 2, 2009 at 6:12 pm |
We watched that Nas interview together, and I was blown away by Nas’ inability to make simple points that Colbert was even setting him up for. Rather than think he has “compartmentalized” intelligence, I am starting to doubt Nas’ overall intelligence and that he may just stick out in a sea of idiots like Soulja Boy and Juvenile.
Thoughts?