The instrumental of this, the woman's voice, and Nas' verse give this song a haunting feel to it. Nas' verse on this song is one of the most powerful verses I've ever read/heard. He made the prison cell into a real life monster. It's crazy. On the hook they say "last words of a hanging slave." The thing about this song is that anything that enslaves you--an addiction, evil, another person..etc-- can very well be the prison cell Nas was describing.
The instrumental of this, the woman's voice, and Nas' verse give this song a haunting feel to it. Nas' verse on this song is one of the most powerful verses I've ever read/heard. He made the prison cell into a real life monster. It's crazy. On the hook they say "last words of a hanging slave." The thing about this song is that anything that enslaves you--an addiction, evil, another person..etc-- can very well be the prison cell Nas was describing.