This what started it all!!! First song out the gate. 93’. Blew people’s mind. Young boy was only 18 rapping like an old wise monk. This is young Nas hanging out in the background of Rakim and Kool G Rap studio sessions, absorbing game, when he get his shot he come with this heat right here. Rakim changed how people rapped, Nas change how people made songs and what they rapped about.
This is from Nas debut album Illmatic. It's one of the earliest non skip hip-hop albums. Every track had hard beats and hard rhymes. Alot rap records had a formula, radio track, B-Boy track, Love song. Illmatic was street beginning to the end.
Nas was one of those rappers who was embraced by both the streets and the backpackers, because his lyricism was top notch. The two crowds started to really diverge by the late '90s and '00s, when mainstream rap turned extra commercial.
"I drink Moet with Medusa... give her shotguns in hell, from the spliff that I lift and inhale." He gets stoned with Medusa and leaves her "stoned," even though she turns dudes into stone. Somebody in the comment section of that video pointed this out and I never caught that in all of the years of listening to this song.
This was my first time hearing Nas. I slept on the Main Source joint, Zebrahead soundtrack and the MC Serch song. Those all predated "It Ain't Hard to Tell." I played this song for months until the album dropped in April and I was right at the record store on the release date.
This is the last track to arguably the greatest hip hop album created. Produced by Large Professor. Samples Michael Jackson Human nature once Nas agreed to not curse it was green lit.
He wrote this song when he was like 17-18 years old crazyyyy one of the first songs he did for illmatic. Nas is the greatest!! The goat. 🐐 This is sample from Michael Jackson human nature. Do Nas memory lane , nas the world is yours and nas every ghetto!!
Nas - Queens Story 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Nas - Queens Get The Money Nas - The Art Of it Nas - Echo Nas - Stay Chiseled (OG Version) Nas - Store Run Nas - Memory Lane Nas - One Love Nas - Shootouts Nas - NY State Of Mind Pt2 Nas - Small World Nas - Live Nigga Rap Ft Mobb Deep Nas - The Fear Of The black man Nas - Black Bond Nas - Hold Down The Block Nas - Money Over Bullshit Nas - Blunt Ashes Nas - Trust Nas - Sly Fox (Dissing Fox5) Nas - Rise and Fall Nas - Serious ft AZ Nas - Tales From The Hood Nas - On The Real Nas - Carry On Tradition Nas - My Worst Enemy is me Nas - Deja Vu Albums You should React too Nas - Life is Good album (Deluxe Edition) Nas - HipHop Is Dead Nas - It Was Written Nas - Kings Disease Pt1 Pt2 Pt3 Nas - Magic Nas - Stillamtic Nas - I Am Nas - The Lost Tapes Pt1 & Pt2 The Beat is a Micheal Jackson Sample “Human Nature” from the Classic Thriller album (1983) Mike would only cleared it without any curses and you see Nas didn’t cursed at all
Still hard to comprehend that fact! I can’t figure out if that or the fact that he is still going hard rn is more amazing. Just happy to be here to witness it all
@@JA-mj9re He was 20 when he recorded the song, but the verses were probably written when he was 16-17, because most of Illmatic contained rhymes from his rhyme book he kept when he was a kid.
Shout out to Large Professor on the production! You need to hear Nas’ first rhyme on a track…..”Live At The Bar-b-Que” by the group that consisted of Large Professor and two DJs called “Main Source”
One of my favorite songs PERIOD. Nas has said that Rakim influenced his rap style the most. Combined with the Queens machine gun flavor…Amazin. The baseline, MJ sample and a lil James Brown will break your neck You GOTS to check out ‘I Gave You Power’.
U need to hear nas "New York state of mind and " i gave u power " and "whos world is this" and tupac "me and my girlfriend " bury me a G" "so much pain (ja rul version" and "the realist shit I ever wrote" the background music playing "it ant hard to tell" is michael jackson " human nature "
Keep going young Brotha! Love watching your reactions! It’s like experiencing the classic with a nephew! Love how you take time to analyze the lyrics! Follow your instincts! Peace 👑
The "braggadocious rap" style is an MC staple... if you listen to most hip hop from the '80s and '90s, that's mostly what you're going to hear from any artist... because hip hop is based on battling and attitude. You have to believe you're the best and that no one can fw you. Even the B-boys and DJs battled each other. That actually goes back to jazz. Jazz cats were battling each other back in the 1920s. They used to call it "cutting contests," because their instrument was called an "axe."
@DexTVReacts Nas - Sekou's Story, Live Now and The Rest of My Life ! In that order because it's a continuing story! Also U.B.R. (Unofficial Biography of Rakim)🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
FUN FACTS 1- In order for NaS to use the HUMAN NATURE sample by MICHAEL JACKSON, Mike told NaS he could use the sample only if NaS didn't curse. 2- NaS originally was supposed to use the JUICY FRUIT sample by MTUME, but BIGGIE 'S song JUICY blew up first. 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🐐
@BKthoroughbred I'll tell you what, GOOGLE NaS JUICY FRUIT & tell me what is the first article that pops up . I'll wait 👊🏿 B.T.W. , you can also find the song on TH-cam.
@ No Sir, I don’t have to look it up, because I was alive and well when both songs were released, BUT I decided to humor you and look it up, and just as I said: Nas released his song in January 1994 and Biggie song was released in August 1994.
@BKthoroughbred My bad I made a mistake. It wasn't IT AIN'T HARD TO TELL, it was LIFE'S A BITCH. Btw I also lived in that era. I was 20 when LIVE AT THE BBQ first came out.
Nas is to Rakim what Sugar Ray Leonard is to Muhammad Ali , plus he reccesitated Queens which no one had heard a peep from since BDP dessimated the whole borough with the Instant Classic Criminal Minded Album .Matter of fact is 50 on it enough for full album react to it LIVE and DIRECT !! Cheers
3:20 😅This is why I hate beat first people. God bless y'all. I'm sure your mama loves y'all, but I freaking hate being first people. Gd reaction still. 7:47 Gd call
nas & Scarface - favor 4 a favor Nas & Az - flyest gangstas Jadakiss & nas - what if Jadakiss & nas feat styles p - rain Az feat half a mil - throw your gunz 🔥 🔥 Az feat half a mil & nature - love is love Styles p feat az - the hardest Nas & mobb deep- family Nas & Jadakiss - made you look remix Nore & nature - I'm leaving The firm - firm biz remix (nas,Az,nature,half a mil, foxy Brown ) Az - the format Az - the come up Az - I'm known Common & nas - ghetto dreams Cormega feat Nas - glorious
Michael Jackson allowed Nas to sample Human Nature, as long as he agreed not to curse. Nas pulled it off. The GOAT of pop and the GOAT of rap!!
Bingo... Human Nature
This is the first time I noticed there was no cursing!
SWV also sampled that beat that year... around '93-'94... I liked the Nas/Large Professor version much better.
I never heard that story
When your pen is that fire you don't need to curse.
The beat you're hearing is Human Nature by Michael Jackson. It was also sampled by SWV for their song Right Here.
This is ICONIC Nas.
Illmatic will always be my favorite album ever. Just perfection man 🙌🏿
SAME HERE 💯🤞🏽
This what started it all!!! First song out the gate. 93’. Blew people’s mind. Young boy was only 18 rapping like an old wise monk.
This is young Nas hanging out in the background of Rakim and Kool G Rap studio sessions, absorbing game, when he get his shot he come with this heat right here. Rakim changed how people rapped, Nas change how people made songs and what they rapped about.
Welcome to East Coast Hip Hop its different over here 🎙️
Nas Legend..Classic Material
The Beginning of the Legend...
1994 Greatest Year in Hop Hop
Imagine how hard that was the fact that still sound dope 30 years later
Dex what up bro. This is definitely one of dem ones! Nas is the greatest. This whole album is great
Nas is a time traveler
This is from Nas debut album Illmatic. It's one of the earliest non skip hip-hop albums. Every track had hard beats and hard rhymes. Alot rap records had a formula, radio track, B-Boy track, Love song. Illmatic was street beginning to the end.
There isn't one miss on this album....that's why it's studied in college classes
I was like 17 when this dropped. "packing like a Rastah in the weed spot" was the first double entendre that ever blew my mind.
Nas was one of those rappers who was embraced by both the streets and the backpackers, because his lyricism was top notch. The two crowds started to really diverge by the late '90s and '00s, when mainstream rap turned extra commercial.
"I drink Moet with Medusa... give her shotguns in hell, from the spliff that I lift and inhale." He gets stoned with Medusa and leaves her "stoned," even though she turns dudes into stone. Somebody in the comment section of that video pointed this out and I never caught that in all of the years of listening to this song.
I never would've caught that. I'm now a Nas fan.
I'm just catching that now and I bought the album when it first dropped in 94. Nas is the greatest for a reason.
This is what really put NAS up.
He was bubbling with
Half Time and live at the Barbecue..
This was my first time hearing Nas. I slept on the Main Source joint, Zebrahead soundtrack and the MC Serch song. Those all predated "It Ain't Hard to Tell." I played this song for months until the album dropped in April and I was right at the record store on the release date.
1993 Nas was crazy.
Large Professor who made this beat also made beats for Eric B and Rakim
Nas - No Idea’s Original
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This actually dropped in 1994
This is the last track to arguably the greatest hip hop album created. Produced by Large Professor. Samples Michael Jackson Human nature once Nas agreed to not curse it was green lit.
Rumor has it that Nas asked MJ to use the sample and Micheal said yes but ONLY if he didn't curse.
Nas was hacked as the next Rakim, after this.
nas we will survive 💯💯
Billiy 🐐
The sample is Michael Jackson's Human Nature that's why it sounds familiar lol
The Firm- Phone Tap feat Dr. Dre
My favorite track of all time
Nas, AZ & Kool G Rap- Funeral Parlor
Nas wrote this when he was 16!
The sample is Human Nature from MJ.
How do I describe Nas' rapping on this album ? Like Marvin Gaye singing I Want You in rehearsal....two words - Effortless Genius
Another classic i thought you would have been heard since starting reactions to old hip hop.
Vintage Nas 👍🏾
He wrote this song when he was like 17-18 years old crazyyyy one of the first songs he did for illmatic. Nas is the greatest!! The goat. 🐐 This is sample from Michael Jackson human nature. Do Nas memory lane , nas the world is yours and nas every ghetto!!
Nas - Undying Love !!!
He did UNDYING LOVE already.
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Nas - Queens Story 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Nas - Queens Get The Money
Nas - The Art Of it
Nas - Echo
Nas - Stay Chiseled (OG Version)
Nas - Store Run
Nas - Memory Lane
Nas - One Love
Nas - Shootouts
Nas - NY State Of Mind Pt2
Nas - Small World
Nas - Live Nigga Rap Ft Mobb Deep
Nas - The Fear Of The black man
Nas - Black Bond
Nas - Hold Down The Block
Nas - Money Over Bullshit
Nas - Blunt Ashes
Nas - Trust
Nas - Sly Fox (Dissing Fox5)
Nas - Rise and Fall
Nas - Serious ft AZ
Nas - Tales From The Hood
Nas - On The Real
Nas - Carry On Tradition
Nas - My Worst Enemy is me
Nas - Deja Vu
Albums You should React too
Nas - Life is Good album (Deluxe Edition)
Nas - HipHop Is Dead
Nas - It Was Written
Nas - Kings Disease Pt1 Pt2 Pt3
Nas - Magic
Nas - Stillamtic
Nas - I Am
Nas - The Lost Tapes Pt1 & Pt2
The Beat is a Micheal Jackson Sample “Human Nature” from the Classic Thriller album (1983) Mike would only cleared it without any curses and you see Nas didn’t cursed at all
Streets Disciple...Nas
Michael Jackson "Human Nature" is the background sample.
I believe they sampled parts of a song by Mike Jack
This Nas at 19-20 yrs old
Still hard to comprehend that fact! I can’t figure out if that or the fact that he is still going hard rn is more amazing. Just happy to be here to witness it all
Even younger he wrote it before illmatic one of the first songs and illmatic came when he was 19-20 so would guess 18 here.😮
@@JA-mj9re He was 20 when he recorded the song, but the verses were probably written when he was 16-17, because most of Illmatic contained rhymes from his rhyme book he kept when he was a kid.
There go dat jazz sound again!!! Greatest era !!
Best was done by the Large Professor. Michael Jackson "Human Nature".
Nas - fried chicken ft busta rhymes
That came out in the early 90s, not 96. That's off of illmatic, his first album, which was before JayZ 's first. He was like 18.
I believed this dropped around 93-94
Shout out to Large Professor on the production!
You need to hear Nas’ first rhyme on a track…..”Live At The Bar-b-Que” by the group that consisted of Large Professor and two DJs called “Main Source”
One of my favorite songs PERIOD. Nas has said that Rakim influenced his rap style the most. Combined with the Queens machine gun flavor…Amazin.
The baseline, MJ sample and a lil James Brown will break your neck
You GOTS to check out ‘I Gave You Power’.
U need to hear nas "New York state of mind and " i gave u power " and "whos world is this" and tupac "me and my girlfriend " bury me a G" "so much pain (ja rul version" and "the realist shit I ever wrote" the background music playing "it ant hard to tell" is michael jackson " human nature "
He did both those songs already.
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GOAT 🐐👑🌉
Just do what you do Dex. I’m fully entertained.
That 3rd verse is🔥🔥🔥🫡🫡 keep em coming🙏🙏
West Philadelphia is in tha place to be!!! Gota react to that Jada Kiss Rain 🌧️ ft Nas!!!
Keep going young Brotha! Love watching your reactions! It’s like experiencing the classic with a nephew! Love how you take time to analyze the lyrics! Follow your instincts! Peace 👑
That’s what we use to do, talk Brake Beats and Samples from our ancestors from some 60’s and 70’s ✌🏽✌🏽
Nas was 16 doing this.
The "braggadocious rap" style is an MC staple... if you listen to most hip hop from the '80s and '90s, that's mostly what you're going to hear from any artist... because hip hop is based on battling and attitude. You have to believe you're the best and that no one can fw you. Even the B-boys and DJs battled each other. That actually goes back to jazz. Jazz cats were battling each other back in the 1920s. They used to call it "cutting contests," because their instrument was called an "axe."
Jadakiss did a DOPE freestyle on this beat on Hot 97
Meet Joe Black , Nas Magic 2022
Nasir Jones is my favorite rapper❤️❤️
You should react to If I Ruled The World by Nas featuring Lauren Hill
@DexTVReacts Nas - Sekou's Story, Live Now and The Rest of My Life ! In that order because it's a continuing story! Also U.B.R. (Unofficial Biography of Rakim)🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I popped this tape many times in the early 90s. I leave ya froze like heron in ur nose
From this track and ' take it in blood ' rappers either learned how to rap or improved x3 . Take notes 📝 on lyricism
Dang i was hoping you ran the video too
So did I, but he probably thought the video had curses in it.
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@seanant69 i think he prefers the curses lol
@MentuSun
He does ,but the videos are censored.
That's what I meant to say.
Lol
Check out Nas 'Memory Lane'
It's from Illmatic 1993
You need to check out O.C. -"Times Up".
Rich & Black- Raekwon ft Nas
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Run that shit back Dex!! You got to on this one🔥🔥🔥😂😂😂🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Nas flawless……..
FUN FACTS
1- In order for NaS to use the HUMAN NATURE sample by MICHAEL JACKSON, Mike told NaS he could use the sample only if NaS didn't curse.
2- NaS originally was supposed to use the JUICY FRUIT sample by MTUME, but BIGGIE 'S song JUICY blew up first.
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Your first point is on point. Your second point is false. This record came out a least 6 months to a year ago before Juicy
@BKthoroughbred
I'll tell you what, GOOGLE NaS JUICY FRUIT & tell me what is the first article that pops up .
I'll wait 👊🏿
B.T.W. , you can also find the song on TH-cam.
@@BKthoroughbred
MY BAD, It was for LIFE'S A BITCH not IT AIN'T HARD TO TELL. 👊🏿
@ No Sir, I don’t have to look it up, because I was alive and well when both songs were released, BUT I decided to humor you and look it up, and just as I said: Nas released his song in January 1994 and Biggie song was released in August 1994.
@BKthoroughbred
My bad I made a mistake.
It wasn't IT AIN'T HARD TO TELL, it was LIFE'S A BITCH.
Btw I also lived in that era.
I was 20 when LIVE AT THE BBQ first came out.
Nas street dreams remix
Nas is to Rakim what Sugar Ray Leonard is to Muhammad Ali , plus he reccesitated Queens which no one had heard a peep from since BDP dessimated the whole borough with the Instant Classic Criminal Minded Album .Matter of fact is 50 on it enough for full album react to it LIVE and DIRECT !! Cheers
This gonna get you mad views
U gotta get into his first album Illmatic…Its widely considered the greatest hip hop album of all time
Facts
BLACK THOUGHT - Hot 97 Freestyle
Jay z - Can I Live 🔥🔥
Human Nature Michael Jackson, Nas was ill nobody can make a thug joint with MJ but Nas
MJ, SWV then Nas
Classic Material HipHop HOF Shit Right Here
You gotta do the song Represent by Nas , off that same album 🔥🔥🔥🔥
U ON UR GRIND BRO! U SHOULD REACT TO MORE OF THE OLD SCHOOL KNOWLEDGE GIVERS LIKE: X CLAN & POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS.
Michael Jackson
Human Nature sample...
Large Professor on production..go chck him out with his group Main Source "LOOKIN AT THE FRONT DOOR" "FAKIN THE FUNK"
MF Doom x Kool G Rap Assassination Day 🔥🔥🔥
3:20 😅This is why I hate beat first people. God bless y'all. I'm sure your mama loves y'all, but I freaking hate being first people. Gd reaction still. 7:47 Gd call
Dex, Still waiting on that “Money Over Bullshit” Reaction
So many smapled this from MJ, I think SWV was first group to sample it.
2 pac my block show soundtrack
I know you're busy but if you can, please throw in some Rapsody and Sa-Roc on the channel. Real LYRICSISTS.
Check out...
Sean Price ft. Rock "King Kong"...
U won't be disappointed
Do a reaction to bone bet Cypher u wont be disappointed
Can you react to Quiet Storm? Not the remix
Yo what's good for the replacement for Jay-Z Allure??
Check out K-Rino (GRAND DECEPTION) 💯 💯
The foulness
nas & Scarface - favor 4 a favor
Nas & Az - flyest gangstas
Jadakiss & nas - what if
Jadakiss & nas feat styles p - rain
Az feat half a mil - throw your gunz 🔥 🔥
Az feat half a mil & nature - love is love
Styles p feat az - the hardest
Nas & mobb deep- family
Nas & Jadakiss - made you look remix
Nore & nature - I'm leaving
The firm - firm biz remix (nas,Az,nature,half a mil, foxy Brown )
Az - the format
Az - the come up
Az - I'm known
Common & nas - ghetto dreams
Cormega feat Nas - glorious
That sneak uzi in my jacket lining on the da island, he talking about a jail
His first single and this not the beat