Truth be told, Nas did this track in one take. His brother Jungle and up an up and coming R & B singer Craig Live provided the conflict in the hook and at the end of the song. Recorded at Ft. Greene Studios with producers from the movie Street Fighter breathing down our backs to have the song recorded, mixed, and mastered within 72 hrs to meet a tight deadline. Thanks for the positive comments. It's was an epic experience with one of the GOATs in hip hop.
"In the rotten apple, take a bite and taste the worm/Embrace the world in reality and we're faced to learn/" Dopeness for the 94 era. Wow classic shit!
Yea it was definitely around the Illmatic album. I remember Pete Rock playing this song on him & Marley Marl’s Pirate Radio show in 94. They had an underground radio show afew years after Marley Marls In Control Radio show in the early 90’s on WBLS. That’s a New York radio station for all the non New Yorkers who don’t know.
Nas last track from Illmatic era. You can tell by flow n patterns. This was late 94. In 95 he transformed into Escobar. Different flow. Different persona.
@@JRock424 Nas did the right thing post illmatic if Nas stayed on the illmatic type style his career wouldn't go no where his status would've been lower he had to change in order to sell records they want another illmatic yet still they didn't buy it shout out to Nas after illmatic u did the right thing hard work need to pay off
@@joeljoseph9017 unfortunately you are right, there would not be a Nas without IWW. Though times have changed now he could make this type of music again.
@@Noob12369 excalty bro if Nas didn't go the direction he went he wouldn't be mention with the jay pac big In order to be mention.with those guys u had to sell records lyrically of course nas is better than them
nas is one of the few rappers who will make you proud to even just be breathing when you hear him. he can say almost anything and you will just have this unexplainable sense of pride and confidence and this song cements that idea.
@@myronpitts354 I said "mainstream" film, as in, film that was not primarily targeted at a black audience, backed by a major studio, and had a $10M+ budget. The House Party movies had obviously come out by that point too lol... I LOVED the House Party movies and soundtrack
@@Warped_Physics Yeah, I could see it: A montage of Ryu and Ken working the streets as detectives getting leads. Then as the song fades, they're on a plane to Shadaloo.
Ive never even seen street fighter, i discovered this song on his “Half man Half amazing mixtape that came out on livemixtapes, came out my sophmore year
@@cucucanu Yep I know....that's one of my favorite songs and that's how I found out about this one. I was on whosampled one day and listened to the tracks that used the sample 🤣🤣🤣
I'm a hardcore fan of hip hop who loves Nas. I'm also a hardcore gamer who loves Street Fighter. Mix those two together. Wow! Then you think "Maybe this movie was worth making just for this one song." And this song seriously sounds like it has the quality of illmatic. Way too underatted!' This is probably the best song ever made for me!
I was the exact same as a kid, except for Ice Cube. Loved video games, loved Ice Cube, and his opening track is also a fucking banger. This soundtrack is basically just wall-to-wall bangers.
I can't wait my kids to be old enough when I can start introducing the Street Fighter soundtrack to them, including the movies and games. :) This song is fantastic. It was and still it is
The saddest part that get's me is that the production team knew that the Jean Claude Van Damme version of Street Fighter was going to suck from the start due to it's lack of fresh material from the video game, so Priority Records got involved with the project to help establish an off the wall Hip-Hop field to bring some redeemable qualities and Nas is one of the artists who keeps it 100% realistic.
Slept on then and now/ take a bow to the greatest poet hailing from the bridge/ living at this time man I wish I woulda did/humble leader with the vision check the wisdom that Nasir provides/ it’s only right we bump this track til the end of time
Leigh Dappa Tupac gave a shoutout to Nas on the song “Untouchable” and gave props to Illmatic in interviews, and there’s photographs of the two of them together in 93-94. They only were beefing in summer of 96. They knew each other before that and were cool.
@@jons5658 they squashed it after that and 2pac died later after that tho. they never had much hate plus at the time this was recorded there were secret 2pac disses at nas
Did any one get the Street Fighter Sound track with Street Fighter the Movie on VHS when it was released in 1996? I did when I bought the movie in Woolworths.
I remember buying this soundtrack on cd 💿 , this one of the illest Nas songs Fred. The rest of the soundtrack is bangin still to this day . LA Zoo , Pharcyde ect
This song is still straight fucking fire. I remember the god awful film but my brother got the soundtrack, which to this day remains a mystery why. Played Street fighter since the snes and this film comes out and though I was a bairn at the time, 7 years old, it was still awful. My brother, obsessed with the likes of Bon Jovi, got the soundtrack and I listened to it non stop. It's been a guilty pleasure since I was a kid but it's always been there. This song in particular stood out to me so raw even as a kid. The piano is haunting as fuck, Nas literally slayed the lyrics. I'll go as far to say this is perfection. I'm not sure anything could make this song better. And seeing some backstory behind it in the form of Christopher Jones just makes it more magical. Some of his stories and anecdotes are top class. Willingness to share a little insight to those that have no idea what goes on behind the scenes when making gems like this. 72 hours? It would take me 72 weeks to make something as phenomenal as this. Who needs time when you have straight talent all around to create a song that sticks in a young kids mind and is still in their life nearly 25 years later. I'm thankful my brother got this soundtrack. This song, and the others, were rays of light in an otherwise dark and tumultuous early period of a kids life. Kudos to Nas and the gentlemen that made something so memorable.
This brings back so many memories . I can't believe I'm still alive to jam to dis. We was crazy in da 90's damn. Life was on da line so many times. Thank you Jesus.
This is that illmatic aftermath. Gives me that early 95' Where Nas was a King of NY....if only "It was written" was like this song. Back to back 5 mics.
It was written is almost as good as illmatic though? I gave you power, take it in blood, suspect. Straight classic, best rapping performance of all time and Nas lyrically better than on illmatic 🤷♂️
Anthony Alvarez Because illmatic came out in early ‘94 and was recorded in 1992 and 1993. This song was made in late 1994 for the Street Fighter the Movie soundtrack.
One of the few fans here who actually enjoyed the movie 🍿🎥 because I was a hardcore JCVD superfan. I LOVED the martial arts choreography in the film & I still remember the trailer for the movie like it was yesterday! It was a PG-13 film @ the time & I bought tickets & went to the movies all by myself on my own, even though I was underage. I was only 10 years old and I STILL managed to sneak by like I was old enough to be 13 & watch it on the big screen! Folks @ the local theater didn't give a Hot Damn, lol. Anyway, this was still one of the greatest films I ever saw on the big screen, along with Dragon:The Bruce Lee Story! That "banana 🍌 kick" from Guile used on Bison was epic! I'm old enough to remember how beautiful that Kick was in a 1994 action film! 📽️ 🎥 Capcom actually did well creating this film. Legend of Chun Li movie SUCKS looking like a "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" film using ropes to complete the stunts. Legend of Chun Li was WAY worse than this film BY FAR! At least most of the choreography here was ACTUAL martial arts without the Ropes! Never understood why people hated this movie so much......
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Truth be told, Nas did this track in one take. His brother Jungle and up an up and coming R & B singer Craig Live provided the conflict in the hook and at the end of the song. Recorded at Ft. Greene Studios with producers from the movie Street Fighter breathing down our backs to have the song recorded, mixed, and mastered within 72 hrs to meet a tight deadline. Thanks for the positive comments. It's was an epic experience with one of the GOATs in hip hop.
Thank you so much for sharing this man.
what the homie above me said ^
Christopher Jones thanks for the info bro
Wow!! Dope! Thank you! What year was this??
Christopher Jones where did you get this info from , that's real interesting
"In the rotten apple, take a bite and taste the worm/Embrace the world in reality and we're faced to learn/"
Dopeness for the 94 era. Wow classic shit!
Nas is too dope mehn ❤️❤️
nas =lyrical genius
dope in all eras
96
15yrs ago your comment
You can tell this was a transition track from Illmatic to it was written. Sounds like it could on either album. 10/10.
It’s got that last bit of illmatic vibe.
Yeah...got that Mafioso it was written flow & lyrics 💯💯
Best thing I read
Yea it was definitely around the Illmatic album. I remember Pete Rock playing this song on him & Marley Marl’s Pirate Radio show in 94. They had an underground radio show afew years after Marley Marls In Control Radio show in the early 90’s on WBLS. That’s a New York radio station for all the non New Yorkers who don’t know.
Word. The beat is so damn similar to Half Time….might as well be the sequel.
Nas last track from Illmatic era. You can tell by flow n patterns. This was late 94. In 95 he transformed into Escobar. Different flow. Different persona.
Y'all didn't buy illmatic
@@joeljoseph9017 Took over a decade for it to go platinum.
@@JRock424 Nas did the right thing post illmatic if Nas stayed on the illmatic type style his career wouldn't go no where his status would've been lower he had to change in order to sell records they want another illmatic yet still they didn't buy it shout out to Nas after illmatic u did the right thing hard work need to pay off
@@joeljoseph9017 unfortunately you are right, there would not be a Nas without IWW. Though times have changed now he could make this type of music again.
@@Noob12369 excalty bro if Nas didn't go the direction he went he wouldn't be mention with the jay pac big
In order to be mention.with those guys u had to sell records lyrically of course nas is better than them
One of the best beats ever crafted.
nas is one of the few rappers who will make you proud to even just be breathing when you hear him. he can say almost anything and you will just have this unexplainable sense of pride and confidence and this song cements that idea.
Perfectly said. I've tried to explain that feeling multiple times.
Well said. This is exactly how I feel when I listen to NaS too.
I just felt like that while listening to this song, and couldn't explain it till I saw your comment.
Little known fact about the Street Fighter soundtrack: it was the first major mainstream film soundtrack to consist almost entirely of hip hop songs
Really? I didn't' know that...
👀 that should be more well known
Soundtrack for Juice was 1992. All hip-hop and a number of legends, though interestingly, not 2Pac, star of film.
It was killer
@@myronpitts354 I said "mainstream" film, as in, film that was not primarily targeted at a black audience, backed by a major studio, and had a $10M+ budget. The House Party movies had obviously come out by that point too lol... I LOVED the House Party movies and soundtrack
"I brawl with Blanka, caught Bison in the thinker"
that's my favorite line from any hip hop track ever.
U ain’t heard shit then
@@QstormtheGod facts, lol
1:24
@@QstormtheGod😂😂
Lmaooooo that line was a dope smooth line for a lil street fighter reference but nas got some crazy lines for days that ain’t shit 😂😂😂
The reason why this was slept-on is because the Street Fighter Soundtrack was slept-on.
gammakrush905 that sdtk was dope af
Yo where can I find it
Can’t imagine opening street fighter to this song
@@Warped_Physics Yeah, I could see it: A montage of Ryu and Ken working the streets as detectives getting leads. Then as the song fades, they're on a plane to Shadaloo.
Ive never even seen street fighter, i discovered this song on his “Half man Half amazing mixtape that came out on livemixtapes, came out my sophmore year
Dude a track like this needs to be on his studio albums! This can't be used for a street fighter track
Mike Illmatic the film was horrible too.
Mike Illmatic The soundtrack was actually the best thing about the film.
To get his foot in the door these are the sacrifices you have to take
It was recorded after illmatic I think
@@kevinumba6281 Yeah this late 1994 going into 1995. But yep it should have been on illmatic.
That ahmad jamal sample......leaving me speechless. Love it...this is a true new york song
My granddad’s best friend in high school ❤️
This exemplified the 90s NYC era
Pete Rock used a different part of the sample for "It's On You"
@@selectamaestro2798 yess!!!
@@cucucanu Yep I know....that's one of my favorite songs and that's how I found out about this one. I was on whosampled one day and listened to the tracks that used the sample 🤣🤣🤣
One of Nas' best tracks! Shit takes me right back to walkin home from school with my squad back in the 90's..... Essence. 💪🏽
just imagine this and deja vu on illmatic
+Mehdi Nobodys that'll be too ultimate that it'll destroy the universe
+simmi352 Haha he knew it this is why he didnt put em in the album
+Mehdi Nobodys
both those songs were made after illmatic.
***** i tought deja vu came out after it but was made before
No. Chris Winston did an interview about a long time ago. It's post illmatic.
This should've been on an album
I was just Finna ask what album this on
Street Fighter soundtrack '94
Should've been on Illmatic. It was released in 1994.
@@thebluntfultruth8475 it was recorded after illmatic
Street fighter and the title goes with the theme of the game
This song has a snowy late night Christmas Eve feel to it
True like a dark winter theme
I'm a hardcore fan of hip hop who loves Nas. I'm also a hardcore gamer who loves Street Fighter. Mix those two together. Wow! Then you think "Maybe this movie was worth making just for this one song."
And this song seriously sounds like it has the quality of illmatic. Way too underatted!'
This is probably the best song ever made for me!
I was the exact same as a kid, except for Ice Cube. Loved video games, loved Ice Cube, and his opening track is also a fucking banger. This soundtrack is basically just wall-to-wall bangers.
I can't wait my kids to be old enough when I can start introducing the Street Fighter soundtrack to them, including the movies and games. :) This song is fantastic. It was and still it is
One of my favorite Nas songs. Great track
Nas bodied the second verse...damn
offbeatbop the god son
"I walk at peace with a deadly shadow" 🔥
If Nas put this on a LP like it was written, it would be known as one of his all time best records.
Thank god we made it through the 90's.....the music held us together. Now it's just like wtf music
this joint was underrated
Extremely..
My favourite song by Nas
Nas went off on this.
The saddest part that get's me is that the production team knew that the Jean Claude Van Damme version of Street Fighter was going to suck from the start due to it's lack of fresh material from the video game, so Priority Records got involved with the project to help establish an off the wall Hip-Hop field to bring some redeemable qualities and Nas is one of the artists who keeps it 100% realistic.
you gotta believe Mary j
One of my favorite nas songs
Same here and it’s underrated not too many ppl know about this hidden gem.
Amad Jamal- the Awakening jazz joint brought me here. And of course Teedra Moses' Be your girl which was about Nas.😊
Ahmad Jamal the GAWD!
Worddd
Slept on then and now/ take a bow to the greatest poet hailing from the bridge/ living at this time man I wish I woulda did/humble leader with the vision check the wisdom that Nasir provides/ it’s only right we bump this track til the end of time
Here because Teedra Moses' "be your girl" was about him and sis even sampled his song!!!
The beat is so good.
😂 dwl
Was looking for this comment 😂
Nas is the greatest!!!!!
Wow, just found out this gem existed and I been a Nas fan for a long long time! 🔥
the greatest ever.
2023 I'm just hearing this damn I cheated myself of this nostalgia . This is illmatic Era. The goat will never ? It again
Came back to this after the mreck TV interview I forgot about this gem
Word
Same here. I loved this. It's like tying to feed Allah lard....
A comment from the Teedra Moses track brought me here 🔥🔥
Reggie Wright
Me too lol.
What was the comment?
Michel Meireles she wrote a song about Nas years ago that featured him. She had a big crush on him
That's how dope hip hop is
shit makes me cry so deep
"I sip 80 proof, watching Juice..."
I bet Nas NEVER thought he would later have a beef with the Actor in that Film...
Funny because Nas is giving props to Tupac's Film...
Leigh Dappa Yo that’s funny actually and 2pac became a superstar what the hell
Leigh Dappa Tupac gave a shoutout to Nas on the song “Untouchable” and gave props to Illmatic in interviews, and there’s photographs of the two of them together in 93-94. They only were beefing in summer of 96. They knew each other before that and were cool.
@@jons5658 they squashed it after that and 2pac died later after that tho. they never had much hate plus at the time this was recorded there were secret 2pac disses at nas
This would of been the perfect final track for *It Was Written* 💯
One of my favorite Nas joints when he first came out. Sick!!!
Teedra Moses sampled this instrumental also on the song “be your girl” she wrote about Nas
Man this song is so freakin' dope!
the beat change on the second verse 👍👌👌👌
Classic Nas
Did any one get the Street Fighter Sound track with Street Fighter the Movie on VHS when it was released in 1996? I did when I bought the movie in Woolworths.
naw not slept on by the real hip hop headz out there and NaS fans. much love to every1 who made it here c/o 99
My dad has been a Nas fan since 94 and he never heard of this
Peace King. Appreciate the history and the music. This has always been one of my favorite Nas records. #salute
One of the best MC's n gets hardly no credit cus hes too real for ppl.
The first Nas song I ever heard on the 'Street Fighter' Soundtrack in 95.
This track should have been on the 1994 Illmatic album!!!
NGL never heard this until yesterday! ❤
Needs to be on Lost Tapes 2!!
I remember buying this soundtrack on cd 💿 , this one of the illest Nas songs Fred. The rest of the soundtrack is bangin still to this day . LA Zoo , Pharcyde ect
I love that I found this track so late because I would have been played it out
This was that work back in the day. It just popped in my head so I had to play it
This song sounds like it should have been in illmatic
Teedra Moses💜💜💜💜💜
“What’s up money....No hands...” no gun no knife just thump it out. Lump nukkas up. Good ole days lol
I been lookin 4 this 4 long time--whoever posted this shall be blessed excessively by the hip hop gods
WOW! The _Street Fighter_ soundtrack. 30 years ago and it's still all good.
I just love good music
This song is smooth 👍! 🐐 STATUS!!
This song is still straight fucking fire. I remember the god awful film but my brother got the soundtrack, which to this day remains a mystery why. Played Street fighter since the snes and this film comes out and though I was a bairn at the time, 7 years old, it was still awful. My brother, obsessed with the likes of Bon Jovi, got the soundtrack and I listened to it non stop. It's been a guilty pleasure since I was a kid but it's always been there.
This song in particular stood out to me so raw even as a kid. The piano is haunting as fuck, Nas literally slayed the lyrics. I'll go as far to say this is perfection. I'm not sure anything could make this song better. And seeing some backstory behind it in the form of Christopher Jones just makes it more magical.
Some of his stories and anecdotes are top class. Willingness to share a little insight to those that have no idea what goes on behind the scenes when making gems like this. 72 hours? It would take me 72 weeks to make something as phenomenal as this.
Who needs time when you have straight talent all around to create a song that sticks in a young kids mind and is still in their life nearly 25 years later.
I'm thankful my brother got this soundtrack. This song, and the others, were rays of light in an otherwise dark and tumultuous early period of a kids life.
Kudos to Nas and the gentlemen that made something so memorable.
This brings back so many memories . I can't believe I'm still alive to jam to dis. We was crazy in da 90's damn. Life was on da line so many times. Thank you Jesus.
"It's 2:10 in the AM on the streets of Queens.." just gives you that chilled, smooth feeling.
Amazing song 🎉
This is that illmatic aftermath. Gives me that early 95' Where Nas was a King of NY....if only "It was written" was like this song. Back to back 5 mics.
@Tay Yasharal did you live thru the mid 90s?...
It was written is almost as good as illmatic though? I gave you power, take it in blood, suspect. Straight classic, best rapping performance of all time and Nas lyrically better than on illmatic 🤷♂️
@@jakep1178 he needed to keep that mafia life style and more jazzy beats to be like illmatic.
Can anyone explain to me why this joint and Deja Vu weren’t on illmatic? They both match Illmatic’s vibe man
Anthony Alvarez Because illmatic came out in early ‘94 and was recorded in 1992 and 1993. This song was made in late 1994 for the Street Fighter the Movie soundtrack.
This is one of my favourite tunes!...mental beat & Nas's lyrical tone is on point...shame the movie wasnt as good as this track!
First time about to listen to this hidden gem.....
The sickiest nas song 😳
Finally just discovering this song from seeing who Teedra Moses sampled the song from. Had no idea. Love this!
Damn what a beat that Uptown feel
produced by Chris Large...he was a great producer
It's like you can picture the credits rolling as this track plays. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽For prod Chris Large lacing
“I flee the country, but only to shed tears 4 years”
“Too wild 4 my own self, hopin help is near”
🥶🥶🥶
Underrated masterpiece 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
same here bro, 17 and there aint anybody around that can fuck with nas
How does this not have 100 million views?
Rare 💎
Going through Nas' discography , and stumbled across this..... Sounds like 96 NYC🔥
This was around 94-95. It was for the '94 Van Damme Street Fighter movie.
This beat is fucking bananas 🔥
Still listening to this in 2023 as Hip Hop Don't Stop... 50yrs!
Still bump this
I remember this song and hearing it is literally melting me
Ahh Man. What a Masterpiece. Lots of young cats out there don't even KNOW this song.
Just got that illmatic sound to it
This still sounds amazing
What crazy I can't find this song on here without just the video song. Either way Nas the legend. Lyrical before his illmatic album
OH MY OH MY THIS IS SLAMMIN'!!!!
Never heard this before and is NASTY HOT!!!!
these beats are out of this world, sample is from the awakening by ahmad jamal. (RIP). shades of brooklyn also sampled it in their song "change"
This one needs to make 'The lost tapes 3' or something. Amazing track!
NO HANDS (PAP!)(PAP!) NO HANDS!....no hands
"Niggas respect violence so i become it" Nas GOAT
heard this for the 1st time on Stretch and Bobbito's radio show back in the days.
Listening to this song on the ps3 while playing SF4 online beating chumps. Those where the days..
NAS doin it again, this song is maad tight.
I walk in peace with a deadly shadow.
One of the few fans here who actually enjoyed the movie 🍿🎥 because I was a hardcore JCVD superfan. I LOVED the martial arts choreography in the film & I still remember the trailer for the movie like it was yesterday! It was a PG-13 film @ the time & I bought tickets & went to the movies all by myself on my own, even though I was underage. I was only 10 years old and I STILL managed to sneak by like I was old enough to be 13 & watch it on the big screen! Folks @ the local theater didn't give a Hot Damn, lol. Anyway, this was still one of the greatest films I ever saw on the big screen, along with Dragon:The Bruce Lee Story! That "banana 🍌 kick" from Guile used on Bison was epic! I'm old enough to remember how beautiful that Kick was in a 1994 action film! 📽️ 🎥
Capcom actually did well creating this film. Legend of Chun Li movie SUCKS looking like a "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" film using ropes to complete the stunts. Legend of Chun Li was WAY worse than this film BY FAR! At least most of the choreography here was ACTUAL martial arts without the Ropes! Never understood why people hated this movie so much......
This song is amazing.
Man never heard this from nas and didn’t know he had a song for this track
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Rare 🔥
I agree, this song really is "slept on" too much!
Nas did a great job!
Much respect