| Nas – Undying Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Nas' storytelling skills are unheralded (dude spit a story BACKWARDS on Stillmatic!) but the part of this song I love the most is the very raw, palpable and frenetic tone the song takes when Nas spits: "Heard si-rens, I guess we goin out we out like kamikazes We surrounded, red lights flashin, who's inside? Came out a bullhorn, I'm contemplatin suicide Horse asked me for the Mac, he gave me dap, one love Cocked the strap, then he ran out the back Mad shots couldn't tell what was goin on Sat on the floor near my dead girl, put her in my arms" Nas starts flowin' ridiculous at this point and it really adds to the feeling of rushedness and panic, plus the scene is so vivid you can actually picture all of this crazy dramatic shit happening and Nas' flow makes this a ridiculously awesome song. |
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| Nas – I Gave You Power Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song goes way beyond the personification of the gun and Nas' ability to make it seem more like a human, that's not very innovative at all. I think the brilliant part of this song is how it's a social commentary by nature. Nas chose to use the gun because it represents something violent and emotionless to reflect the state of mind had by most underprivelaged youths during the period (and today). Nas isn't talking about a gun with feelings, the gun represents the hood as a whole and our current society isn't structured to provide any positives or benefits to people in the ghetto. In actuality, society is designed so that these groups of people fail and that's what Nasir means when he uses the gun metaphor. He condemns prison with the line: "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, hopin one day, police would place where he came from, a name or some sort of person to claim him Tired of murderin, made him wanna be a plain gun" The shelf is prison and the wrecked up tec and grenade are felons (the ghetto dwellers all take on a dangerous object when being personified) and the serial number on the tecs chest is his prison number. Prison is a place where we send people that society doesn't want to deal with, not for rehabiliation but for punishment. The tec hopes someday "someone will claim him" or he will find some stability or structure in the world. Nas declares that he's tired of murderin' and wants to be a plain gun, echoing the fact that the plight of the ghetto that produces so many fuck ups is not directly related to the individuals, it's the society they're placed in that causes them to murder, rob, steal, etc. This song is incredibly deep and I could honestly analyze every single lyric but I ain't got that kinda time (although I'd love to). This is probably my favorite song of all time, not just rap song, but song in general. |
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| Nas – I Gave You Power Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song goes way beyond the personification of the gun and Nas' ability to make it seem more like a human, that's not very innovative at all. I think the brilliant part of this song is how it's a social commentary by nature. Nas chose to use the gun because it represents something violent and emotionless to reflect the state of mind had by most underprivelaged youths during the period (and today). Nas isn't talking about a gun with feelings, the gun represents the hood as a whole and our current society isn't structured to provide any positives or benefits to people in the ghetto. In actuality, society is designed so that these groups of people fail and that's what Nasir means when he uses the gun metaphor. He condemns prison with the line: "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, hopin one day, police would place where he came from, a name or some sort of person to claim him Tired of murderin, made him wanna be a plain gun" The shelf is prison and the wrecked up tec and grenade are felons (the ghetto dwellers all take on a dangerous object when being personified) and the serial number on the tecs chest is his prison number. Prison is a place where we send people that society doesn't want to deal with, not for rehabiliation but for punishment. The tec hopes someday "someone will claim him" or he will find some stability or structure in the world. Nas declares that he's tired of murderin' and wants to be a plain gun, echoing the fact that the plight of the ghetto that produces so many fuck ups is not directly related to the individuals, it's the society they're placed in that causes them to murder, rob, steal, etc. This song is incredibly deep and I could honestly analyze every single lyric but I ain't got that kinda time (although I'd love to). This is probably my favorite song of all time, not just rap song, but song in general. |
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| Nas – I Gave You Power Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song goes way beyond the personification of the gun and Nas' ability to make it seem more like a human, that's not very innovative at all. I think the brilliant part of this song is how it's a social commentary by nature. Nas chose to use the gun because it represents something violent and emotionless to reflect the state of mind had by most underprivelaged youths during the period (and today). Nas isn't talking about a gun with feelings, the gun represents the hood as a whole and our current society isn't structured to provide any positives or benefits to people in the ghetto. In actuality, society is designed so that these groups of people fail and that's what Nasir means when he uses the gun metaphor. He condemns prison with the line: "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, hopin one day, police would place where he came from, a name or some sort of person to claim him Tired of murderin, made him wanna be a plain gun" The shelf is prison and the wrecked up tec and grenade are felons (the ghetto dwellers all take on a dangerous object when being personified) and the serial number on the tecs chest is his prison number. Prison is a place where we send people that society doesn't want to deal with, not for rehabiliation but for punishment. The tec hopes someday "someone will claim him" or he will find some stability or structure in the world. Nas declares that he's tired of murderin' and wants to be a plain gun, echoing the fact that the plight of the ghetto that produces so many fuck ups is not directly related to the individuals, it's the society they're placed in that causes them to murder, rob, steal, etc. This song is incredibly deep and I could honestly analyze every single lyric but I ain't got that kinda time (although I'd love to). This is probably my favorite song of all time, not just rap song, but song in general. |
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