The most exciting song off Illmatic, with human wailing production that sends chills down my spine. Nas, the school dropout and drug seller, combines poetry and rap so well the lines are blurred. His weed smoking is fact, of course, and though he probably held weapons I'm pretty sure he didn't shoot up parties. "Breathin' the sniper's breath"...this is Nas showing off his warrior side: he is an officer, with fierce and combative rhymes, and a gentleman, with intellect (afrocentricism, Hobbes). Both sides of the coin are blurred together, as if it has been spun into a speheric motion to the urgent, dramtic beat. Classic, grimy hip-hop from Queensbridge NYC, the largest housing project in the United States.
The most exciting song off Illmatic, with human wailing production that sends chills down my spine. Nas, the school dropout and drug seller, combines poetry and rap so well the lines are blurred. His weed smoking is fact, of course, and though he probably held weapons I'm pretty sure he didn't shoot up parties. "Breathin' the sniper's breath"...this is Nas showing off his warrior side: he is an officer, with fierce and combative rhymes, and a gentleman, with intellect (afrocentricism, Hobbes). Both sides of the coin are blurred together, as if it has been spun into a speheric motion to the urgent, dramtic beat. Classic, grimy hip-hop from Queensbridge NYC, the largest housing project in the United States.