Nas, Wu-tang, Rakim, and others helped brothers like myself coming up as a young adolescent get through a lot of stressful situations by relating to us with intricate and great lyrical content.
The GOAT, who also shares that title with 2Pac, in my opinion. Rewind is the greatest storytelling rap of all-time, to me. How he even thought of the idea, let alone executed it, still baffles me.
I knew Undying Love was going to be discussed and I feel like not enough people talk about that track. It's probably one of the greatest story songs, period. So I'm ecstatic that I'm not the only one who regards it as such.
Yeah nas has it all. It’s easy to explain why pac is better than biggie or eminem because they don’t have substance in their music. But Nas has the full package. But nas can’t pull you in emotionally like tupac or scarface. Also Nas only gives his best when his back is against the wall.
Nas is very huge on detailed descriptions I have been studying Nas specifically for over 6months now and one thing I can tell you for a fact is a bulk of Nas verses are mainly space travels and detailed descriptions the meat of the matter may be discussed in verse 1 but in verse 2 his majorly space travelling and most times in the last 4 bars of verse 2 or 3 he will casually touch on the topic to make the listener understand that he is still very much on topic (this is not a standard writing style of Nas its just one of the few things i have observed studying Nas) In summary if you want to learn how to rap like Nas do a lot of journaling plus have a very keen eye for fashion as well. Welcome to my Ted talk 😁🎤
Represent, Nas Is Like, and The World Is Yours are my favourite Nas songs. I never get tired of Listening to Illmatic. I like all his body of work though.
Some of his greatest examples are Rewind, Ether, H To The Omo, Don't Body Yourself, One Mic, Made You Look, Made You Look Remix, And Life Is What You Make It
Let me add to this, Last Words by NaS. He talks in the perspective of a prison cell. Another one would be I Gave You Power, his POV would be a gun. Nas’ songs are always such an adventure and I love it
It's "the brutalizer, buddha sizer, accelerator"... buddha is NY slang for weed, because it takes you to a higher state of consciousness like the Hindu god Buddha... they get those lyrics wrong a lot.
@@KtotheG crew desizer is a better bar so I'm going with that one. Buddah sizer doesn't make any sense and if he said that then this would be an example of when 90s rappers just say anything that rhymes
@@Music-tf1yn No, you just don't understand the slang... it's understood by those in the know... there were no urban dictionaries back then, because that defeats the purpose. Go back and listen to it and you will hear him clearly saying "Buddha."
Detail is a must. Also, what story are you telling? how effective are you dishing out your pain? how was the environment of said story? what's your motive in it all? what's the synopsis?. Put out the energy you want in return is the ultimate tip I can give.
bro I rate u, because Nas is my favourite artist and I always said undying love is my favourite Nas track. The first four bars of that record is unbelievable and I noticed years ago. thanks
I wrote my first song a month ago. I performed it 2 weeks ago. The feeling is beautiful. Just start writing and it will take shape. Go for it. West London Don❤👊🏿
Hip-Hop, just like Jazz, comes from a culture of musical improvisations. It us therefore hard to teach someone how to Rap. Freestyle Rap has to come from the Soul, from reliving individual life experiences.
U should be able to closely listen and pick all that up he can try n teach u allday but if it isn’t in u it isn’t in u and isn’t gonna come out in your music 🤷🏽♂️
He may not be here to tell, but please do a video on Prodigy. He's right there with the best of them. His verse on The Realest, his song The Genesis. Prodigy is right there with best of them.
Easier said than done, finished my first sentence completed my bars and left the entrance, they held me back 365 my mind was fencing, sharpen my mental to cut defenses, I’m more relentless more senseless, Judgement means nothing to how I work around directions, Navigate ya own life disregard your perspective, My demeanor ruins your composure for breakfast, Im satisfied knowing I’m reckless, but you ain’t just remove me from your guest list,
Do AZ next I’m the biggest nas fan ever, might be my G.O.A.T. Besides Tupac and Biggie but AZ is one of my favorites rappers of all time especially growing up in the same borough that he’s from Brooklyn, than after AZ do Big L
Brother man, could you please do a video on how to count bars. I used to write raps in a letter like form. Its only now im trying to construct 16s,hook and choruses thing. Im struggling a bit with counting the bars.
@@TheLobMob i wanna bring back p’s style of rapping where the story telling made it seem like a crime novel and and i also wanna bring back Memphis horror core rap
P had a similar style to Nas in where there was always a classic line in every verse, P was really that dude ...still listen bone chilling lines to havoc beats to this day
Niggas be runnin' through the block shootin' Time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for Houston Once they caught us off-guard, the MAC-10 was in the grass, and I ran like a cheetah, with thoughts of an assassin Picked the MAC up, told brothers "Back up!" - the MAC spit Lead was hittin' niggas, one ran, I made him back-flip Heard a few chicks scream, my arm shook, couldn't look Gave another squeeze, heard it click, "Yo, my shit is stuck!" Tried to cock it, it wouldn't shoot, now I'm in danger Finally pulled it back and saw three bullets caught up in the chamber So, now I'm jettin' to the buildin' lobby And it was full of children, prob'ly couldn't see as high as I be
This is something special, I deeply believe that we all have a soundtrack to life, and that can be used to stimulate the mind heart physical full experience to serve whatever the purpose we are looking to create for the background director independent and overlaying the universal big screen play each inner extra sensory supreme influence each word, sound, visualization energy emitter to powerfully fund, each of our own projections, and receptive use of this, results in consciously or unconscious freedom and responsibly for whatever creativity exchanged within this developmental transportation system that import export generats individual and economical power. I respect and honor Nas, for simultaneously collaborating new and taboo extreme sides of the same coin, if I ruled the world, and Rewind both have the ability to create or take life, but it's his ownership, expansive, deeply rooted passionate artistic ability that brings the alchemical integrity, harmonious rhythmic paradoxical divinity underneath chaos creative order, his life of universal service is so instrumental in the relationship between so much more then the duality but the connection that it sparks inside each of us is unique, but the feeling is unconditional loving compassion, and hope, energy to succeed, accepting each one of us and where we are at, he plants the seeds and no matter what is seen, the truth is the rose that grew from concrete, and that knowing of the diamonds that came from the rough, the darkness and the light both providing growth, connection, nature's nurture, when whatever role in your 3D life is being seen, the faithful invisible force that symbolism, touching, emotionally fuels these pure intense message synchronicities that enliven and remind each soul that despite all lives the impact of our core connection to unconditional love, and one heart one mind all expressions of lack or unknown unimaginable and abundance giving/reviving illogical and contradictory no right or wrong just universal community based unity Love isn't conditionally judgmental, if you stepped on an ant or blew someone's head off it's still taking a life, and that pain runs deep, so healing comes from understanding that not to persuade or change the system but to create systematic change within you that triggers the recognition of being and allowing others to be in peace, I use lyrical geniuses like Nas and artists and philosophical quotes to create my own feeling of home, so no environmental situational trauma can mentally imprison myself ever again, music heals all wounds but the difference between how the interpretation is focused on generating a universally beneficial equally important quality production profit sharing services provide systematic supply demand value worth evolutionary innovation that transcribes cycle of creation, into a language not of explanation but what is the translator active meaningful reunification exchanged within understanding, and just being, free to love again! That is the bridge that balance that is needed to universally cultivate new life growth and optimize profit! #nasforpresidencialelection
Im very inspired by naa the best story teller of all time living legend greatest poet to ever do it. My dream is to make an album with nas I have visions of it I believe it was meant to be ❤🙏
Nas is one of the most creative lyricists! Who tf tells a story in reverse and raps about himself as a gun?? 🤨 im sorry but thats just insane. Nas will always be my #1 goat🐐💯
Yeah nas has it all. It’s easy to explain why pac is better than biggie or eminem because they don’t have substance in their music. But Nas has the full package. But nas can’t pull you in emotionally like tupac or scarface. Also Nas only gives his best when his back is against the wall.
Dope video but imagine reading Rakims Paid in Full verse without the proper melody. The narrator read all the verses in the video as if he never heard any of the songs.
COMMENT: What is Nas's most lyrical song?
(Eye for an Eye) with Mobb Deep
All of them!!
I gave you power
‘I Gave You Power’ or ‘Rewind’
One Mic
Nas, Wu-tang, Rakim, and others helped brothers like myself coming up as a young adolescent get through a lot of stressful situations by relating to us with intricate and great lyrical content.
tell em! and add Guru to that list
@@Pezzone14 Yes sir. Definitely Guru is on that list.
The GOAT, who also shares that title with 2Pac, in my opinion. Rewind is the greatest storytelling rap of all-time, to me. How he even thought of the idea, let alone executed it, still baffles me.
Genius
He’s lyrically better then Tupac but pac was great in other ways that made him one of the best
@@billpeart4809 Exactly. I always say Nas is the mind, Pac is the heart. Both are essential.
@@scopemaverick8733 facts
Nas is good,.all I gotta say is Rakim (East) - Funkytown Pro's (West) when it comes to lyrics
I knew Undying Love was going to be discussed and I feel like not enough people talk about that track. It's probably one of the greatest story songs, period. So I'm ecstatic that I'm not the only one who regards it as such.
Def one of the greatest rap stories ever 🙏🏽
Of course, dude! Are u crazy! That's a jam!
Since I was young I was in awe of that song
Undying Love was amazingly great. Amazing story. He’s so creative and knows how to put reality and story telling together
Nas been my favourite Emcee for 20 years! Legend and arguably the best ever. In terms of total package.
he is def in that convo...nasir jones-king of the microphone!!!!!!!
Correction: one of the best...don't even dare diss all the other dope emcees cause many of them better.
Yeah nas has it all. It’s easy to explain why pac is better than biggie or eminem because they don’t have substance in their music. But Nas has the full package. But nas can’t pull you in emotionally like tupac or scarface. Also Nas only gives his best when his back is against the wall.
@@OwlCapone8630 curious who you mean with "many" are better. If there already is someone that better.
I'm glad how to rap is still uploading
Nas is very huge on detailed descriptions I have been studying Nas specifically for over 6months now and one thing I can tell you for a fact is a bulk of Nas verses are mainly space travels and detailed descriptions the meat of the matter may be discussed in verse 1 but in verse 2 his majorly space travelling and most times in the last 4 bars of verse 2 or 3 he will casually touch on the topic to make the listener understand that he is still very much on topic (this is not a standard writing style of Nas its just one of the few things i have observed studying Nas)
In summary if you want to learn how to rap like Nas do a lot of journaling plus have a very keen eye for fashion as well.
Welcome to my Ted talk 😁🎤
Definitely picked up on some dope pointers that I'm gonna keep in mind and use for future projects 🔥🤙🏾
💪🏽👊🏽
You here too well hello
Ayeee
Do it, Nas is genuine.
Aye would u check out some of my music and see if u would wanna do a feat
Represent, Nas Is Like, and The World Is Yours are my favourite Nas songs. I never get tired of Listening to Illmatic. I like all his body of work though.
Some of his greatest examples are Rewind, Ether, H To The Omo, Don't Body Yourself, One Mic, Made You Look, Made You Look Remix, And Life Is What You Make It
Let me add to this, Last Words by NaS. He talks in the perspective of a prison cell. Another one would be I Gave You Power, his POV would be a gun. Nas’ songs are always such an adventure and I love it
Thanks for breaking it down like that. Those lyrics are amazing
💪🏽🙌🏽
“The brutalizer, the crew de-sizer” Crazy bar to rhyme that insane
It's "the brutalizer, buddha sizer, accelerator"... buddha is NY slang for weed, because it takes you to a higher state of consciousness like the Hindu god Buddha... they get those lyrics wrong a lot.
@@KtotheG crew desizer is a better bar so I'm going with that one. Buddah sizer doesn't make any sense and if he said that then this would be an example of when 90s rappers just say anything that rhymes
@@Music-tf1yn No, you just don't understand the slang... it's understood by those in the know... there were no urban dictionaries back then, because that defeats the purpose. Go back and listen to it and you will hear him clearly saying "Buddha."
Detail is a must. Also, what story are you telling? how effective are you dishing out your pain? how was the environment of said story? what's your motive in it all? what's the synopsis?. Put out the energy you want in return is the ultimate tip I can give.
Sorry, a bit off topic, but I love how Ghostface Killa said “I was just tying to make words rhyme, and now everybody’s trying to decipher them” 😂
Haha
He still piece them togheder from his subconscious I think.
He's good with that word imagery painting n of course the flow delivery is immaculate
7:40 is pure brilliance. People hate to call rappers, geniuses.
Amazing breakdown/ video...much respect!!
Glad NY State Of Mind Pt 2 & Undying Love Was Mention
bro I rate u, because Nas is my favourite artist and I always said undying love is my favourite Nas track. The first four bars of that record is unbelievable and I noticed years ago. thanks
I've been following elements of Nas' rap formula for years...especially from Illmatic and It Was Written🎤🔥
💯💯💯 And , Lost Tapes 🔥
Thanks a lot man,
I guess its time for me to write that first song
I wrote my first song a month ago. I performed it 2 weeks ago. The feeling is beautiful. Just start writing and it will take shape. Go for it. West London Don❤👊🏿
Nas is one of the greatest ever!
He ain't one of the greatest... He's the Greatest man
@@Tadiwanashe_Munemo You speaking facts my guy!
Im tired.of.rhis one of the greatest talk.. is.he the greatest or not? Every osy is one of the greatest who is the greatest..
Hip-Hop, just like Jazz, comes from a culture of musical improvisations. It us therefore hard to teach someone how to Rap. Freestyle Rap has to come from the Soul, from reliving individual life experiences.
Thank you so much drew!
You've covered “how to write like NAS” and my next request is cover how to flow like nas or how to get his style of flow
Definitely a great video idea!
@@HowToRapOfficial can't wait am a die hard fan of that nas flow
U should be able to closely listen and pick all that up he can try n teach u allday but if it isn’t in u it isn’t in u and isn’t gonna come out in your music 🤷🏽♂️
Great I just want some tips from drew coz everything he teaches is effective to me.
Am now to include details in my lyrics
Undying love is like a movie 🔥
That song "Rewind" has never been done before and never will be done after! Please show me a song like that!
He may not be here to tell, but please do a video on Prodigy. He's right there with the best of them. His verse on The Realest, his song The Genesis. Prodigy is right there with best of them.
Nas the 🐐
I learned how to story tell from " I Gave You Power"
Can you break it down for us too please?
the crew de-sizer..that phrase was always so dope to me.
Easier said than done,
finished my first sentence completed my bars and left the entrance,
they held me back 365 my mind was fencing,
sharpen my mental to cut defenses,
I’m more relentless more senseless,
Judgement means nothing to how I work around directions,
Navigate ya own life disregard your perspective,
My demeanor ruins your composure for breakfast,
Im satisfied knowing I’m reckless,
but you ain’t just remove me from your guest list,
Nice barz 🔥
@@Jayeskool318 thanks fam.
NAS WILL ALWAYS BE NAS AND NOBODY DOES IT LIKE HIM ONE LOVE.
Straight from the master
Do AZ next I’m the biggest nas fan ever, might be my G.O.A.T. Besides Tupac and Biggie but AZ is one of my favorites rappers of all time especially growing up in the same borough that he’s from Brooklyn, than after AZ do Big L
All I got in the end is 3 of my best friends, and we all going out for the death of these ends.
😤💪🏽👊🏽
@@HowToRapOfficial I’m sorry bro but if had to be finished. These videos tho 💎💎💎
With observations like this available it’s inevitable that the next generation of rappers will be the most complex.
Brother man, could you please do a video on how to count bars. I used to write raps in a letter like form. Its only now im trying to construct 16s,hook and choruses thing. Im struggling a bit with counting the bars.
Definitely will
@@HowToRapOfficial Respect 👍🏿
Rhymes are always🔥. tyvm
When I listen to nas his words are so powerful 💪 feels like my soul talking to me og much love and respect fam 💕😘❤
Tupac me and my girlfriend song was about a gun. Genius. Also NAS similar song.
Biggie , Nas & Slick Rick - Rap Charisma!
Useful+ insightful 💯💯
I honestly really wanna rap like lord infamous big L and prodigy of mobb deep
👍
That’s very ambitious of you… wow. I would like to hear that. That’s almost the perfect rapper right there.
@@TheLobMob i wanna bring back p’s style of rapping where the story telling made it seem like a crime novel and and i also wanna bring back Memphis horror core rap
@@user-lw6gg2oh2s Anyone who could pull that off… *THAT* would be something every rap fan would LOVE to hear!!!
P had a similar style to Nas in where there was always a classic line in every verse, P was really that dude ...still listen bone chilling lines to havoc beats to this day
Thank you !!! A video that finally explains why one of everyone’s top 5 is a top 5. Dope video
💪🏽👊🏽
Thanks to your Explanation .. Hey.. Much respect to NAZ you know, I will do this practice as well... hahha well cultivated
Niggas be runnin' through the block shootin'
Time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for Houston
Once they caught us off-guard, the MAC-10 was in the grass, and
I ran like a cheetah, with thoughts of an assassin
Picked the MAC up, told brothers "Back up!" - the MAC spit
Lead was hittin' niggas, one ran, I made him back-flip
Heard a few chicks scream, my arm shook, couldn't look
Gave another squeeze, heard it click, "Yo, my shit is stuck!"
Tried to cock it, it wouldn't shoot, now I'm in danger
Finally pulled it back and saw three bullets caught up in the chamber
So, now I'm jettin' to the buildin' lobby
And it was full of children, prob'ly couldn't see as high as I be
Nas is the greatest to ever do it
Logic and detail is a virgo thing 9/20 in here
Great info, appreciate it
Nas the king 👑
This what the fuck im talking about 💯💯💥💥
Legend. Love "The Message"
Man nas is half man, have amazing, love that guy! Goat
My skin is an ArtGallery right
with paintings of Crucifixes
hoping it saves me
from all the dangers in the music business
I was sleeping on #Nas My utmost apology I hadn’t heard you like that. Pressed Illmatic press play never was the same 🤦🏾♀️
Every rapper wants to be nas I wanna do me and work with nas in the future get my life together for the better
I love Walt Whitman work
GOLD, thank you
This is something special, I deeply believe that we all have a soundtrack to life, and that can be used to stimulate the mind heart physical full experience to serve whatever the purpose we are looking to create for the background director independent and overlaying the universal big screen play each inner extra sensory supreme influence each word, sound, visualization energy emitter to powerfully fund, each of our own projections, and receptive use of this, results in consciously or unconscious freedom and responsibly for whatever creativity exchanged within this developmental transportation system that import export generats individual and economical power. I respect and honor Nas, for simultaneously collaborating new and taboo extreme sides of the same coin, if I ruled the world, and Rewind both have the ability to create or take life, but it's his ownership, expansive, deeply rooted passionate artistic ability that brings the alchemical integrity, harmonious rhythmic paradoxical divinity underneath chaos creative order, his life of universal service is so instrumental in the relationship between so much more then the duality but the connection that it sparks inside each of us is unique, but the feeling is unconditional loving compassion, and hope, energy to succeed, accepting each one of us and where we are at, he plants the seeds and no matter what is seen, the truth is the rose that grew from concrete, and that knowing of the diamonds that came from the rough, the darkness and the light both providing growth, connection, nature's nurture, when whatever role in your 3D life is being seen, the faithful invisible force that symbolism, touching, emotionally fuels these pure intense message synchronicities that enliven and remind each soul that despite all lives the impact of our core connection to unconditional love, and one heart one mind all expressions of lack or unknown unimaginable and abundance giving/reviving illogical and contradictory no right or wrong just universal community based unity Love isn't conditionally judgmental, if you stepped on an ant or blew someone's head off it's still taking a life, and that pain runs deep, so healing comes from understanding that not to persuade or change the system but to create systematic change within you that triggers the recognition of being and allowing others to be in peace, I use lyrical geniuses like Nas and artists and philosophical quotes to create my own feeling of home, so no environmental situational trauma can mentally imprison myself ever again, music heals all wounds but the difference between how the interpretation is focused on generating a universally beneficial equally important quality production profit sharing services provide systematic supply demand value worth evolutionary innovation that
transcribes cycle of creation, into a language not of explanation but what is the translator active meaningful reunification exchanged within understanding, and just being, free to love again! That is the bridge that balance that is needed to universally cultivate new life growth and optimize profit! #nasforpresidencialelection
Nas forever young
Nas🌟🔥🔥🔥
Always related to a type of dude that be pissing in ur elevator..use to. 😆
I gave you power
This is so good!!!
Very helpful video this is appreciated
Mad is the goat he is top 5 hands down
I dont wanna hear top 5 anymore it's been overused.. I only wanna hear number 1 or the god
“Rats drink water drops in the streets”
Nobody does it like nas. The greatest the goat. 🐐 (My opinion)
Top 3 of all time
And people wanna compare this man with JayZ?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just imagine 😂
Im very inspired by naa the best story teller of all time living legend greatest poet to ever do it. My dream is to make an album with nas I have visions of it I believe it was meant to be ❤🙏
So I'm turning 74 next month and you mean you can teach me? Brother I'm all yours. I'm ready to be the next lil pain.
Jayz taking notes
"smooth like a whallabee shoe"
"I woke up 20 on my bornday im 20 its a blessing"
I would love for Nas to teach me how to look young forever
Haha!
No Swine…Start there 1st
Herbs and spices
Notes Taken!
Nas is one of the most creative lyricists!
Who tf tells a story in reverse and raps about himself as a gun?? 🤨 im sorry but thats just insane.
Nas will always be my #1 goat🐐💯
"His an author on Tracks."
Hey what was the beat in step 4 I need it cause I just wrote a fire song to it
Drew, did you get the Nas masterclass?
Insightful
💪🏽🙌🏽
I hope you make a video about DOOM. His pen game is crazy
Who owns this channel/show?
You should do a video on ASAP rocky
Nice
last beat what is that?
500 pages of non-fiction? Pharometrcly
When I'm pissed I rhyme well
he was always so freaking cute
Nas is like
Can you try to do rittz the rapper
Why she talking
🐐 🐐🐐
Trust...Nas or any rapper are not thinking this deep...the only thing they say is what's the illest thing I can say on this beat...that's it...
Purple (The Lost Tapes)
I just realized Nas is a playwright.
Yeah nas has it all. It’s easy to explain why pac is better than biggie or eminem because they don’t have substance in their music. But Nas has the full package. But nas can’t pull you in emotionally like tupac or scarface. Also Nas only gives his best when his back is against the wall.
Basically does what most rappers do make up stories about their life or rap about somebody else's.
Dope video but imagine reading Rakims Paid in Full verse without the proper melody. The narrator read all the verses in the video as if he never heard any of the songs.
Haha
Haha