But then again, I'm not usually a fan of artists revisiting old themes and expecting similar results. For anyone else, this song would probably be that next shit. Nas's brother Jungle fills in the role of the album's introductory hypeman.ĭJ Premier and Nas bring us a calculated attempt to appeal to Illmatic's fan base, with a sequel to arguably the best song off of that album. If I wanted creepy children, I'd watch a Japanese horror movie. The flashbacks to the first two albums are cool, but the creepy children chanting is very unnecessary. Nas's rap album intros leave a lot to be desired. We will never really know how Nas's original vision would have sounded, but since we're now stuck with an amended version, let's go ahead with that. Nas then scrapped the concept and decided on a single-disc release, cutting many tracks (some of which would turn up later on Nas's The Lost Tapes) and recording just enough new material to make I Am. Someone (let's be honest, probably someone from within Columbia Records, his label at the time) leaked the second disc online, and fans snatched it up with a quickness usually reserved for Playstation 3 sellouts. The problem was that I Am.The Autobiography was among the first albums in hip hop history that was sabotaged by rampant Internet bootlegging before its release date. He had the respect from the backpackers and the love from the mainstream with his first two albums, and aimed to attract both audiences with a noble concept a double album, originally titled I Am.The Autobiography, on which every track would serve as a personal glimpse into the life of a rapper from Queensbridge, a stereotype that every white hip hop fan from the suburbs would surely relate to. Nas was rapping with his chipped tooth, as seen in the "Hate Me Now" video, so a lot of "th-" and "f-" sounds similar.Nasir Jones continued chasing his Illmatic dreams with his third solo release, I Am. Did the '99 version of Nas use the same word (in this case, fear) redundantly in the same verse? He's usually known for choosing different words when setting up his bars and rhymes. Nas did say "blind fury" on "affirmative action" (Or becoming a monster is a totally different idea separate from the lines above and is more related to the next bar of talking about himself being a 'monster' and 'being on top.' If these are separate clauses, then 'fury' and 'monster' does not have to link). "inferior" or "theory" of man would not make people become monsters, but "the fury of man" would. ![]() "Guess it's just the fury of man" sounds in-pocket with the lyrics and overall message, because the "fury of man" would make sense when man become a monster on the next line. Nas did say "inferior" on "no idea's original" u/GaryBettmanSucks in the comments said there could be a comma or period between 'inferior' and 'man', making it: "Guess it's just inferior, man" Why would it be "inferior man" if "inferior men" would be more correct given there's more than one person who is inferior? Then, "men" and "understand" would not rhyme as much. ![]() "Guess it's just inferior man" is what the CD insert said, even though it's stated with weird poetic grammar, but weirdly-stated poetic grammar is commonplace for hip hop. Nas quoted Andrew Smith in his lyrics about fear and hate and it is indeed a theory, which would make sense, if only if it sounded definitively that Nas said that. When replaying the lyrics, some people still hear "theory". "Guess it's just the theory of man" is transcribed on a dozen websites, printed as digital posters, creating a psuedo-Mandela effect when people during dial-up days used to print off Nas lyrics like J Cole and read them from bad transcription sites.
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