Nas attacks the track with all the tools in his repertoire: a smooth flow and cadence, complex subject matter, conscious metaphors, and gritty bars. Kanye lays down a choir-like melody that almost feels like a movie score. With almost a decade between these two songs, Nas kicks off the album by letting you know he is still the same lyrical monster he was in his younger days. This was of course a reference to Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug kingpin. Early in his career, one of Nas' monikers was "Nas Escobar". On the new track, Nas starts off with "Escobar season begins". Puff starts the latter track by saying "Escobar season has returned". The intro track "Not For Radio" features Puff Daddy in another "Hate Me Now" (from the I Am album) role. Plus we all know what both artists are capable of (and we saw what Kanye did with Pusha T), so I'm still going into this "LP" pretty excited. But Illmatic was technically nine tracks (I know it's ten tracks but the intro track is more of a skit). I've been vocal about my aversion to this new accepted length for an LP (his daddy called it an EP, I'm gonna call it an EP). So off the bat we know NASIR was getting seven tracks. And after all that, somehow, Nas got pulled into the gravitational pull of the Kanye West/GOOD Music "Wyoming Sessions". So for the better part of two years Nas fans have been fiending for a new full length album. And about this same time last year we got the hashtag #NasAlbumAlmostDone on Instagram from Nas' brother Jungle. Y'all remember that DJ Khaled single, "Nas Album Done" (they even made a music video for it!)? That was two years ago. It's been six years since Nasir Jones dropped a new project.
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