Thu 16 Jul 2009
Download: Nas Demo Tape
Aqua says: “Nas’ demo from ‘91. I repeat, Nasty Nas’ demo from ‘91! The songs are raw, but still of a higher caliber than most of the drivel you’ll find on shelves iTunes and bootleg sites today.”
(Props to the homey Aqua @ Slang Rap Democracy) via Blind I For The Kids)
July 16th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Did anyone catch how he mentioned drinking Cristal on the “Understanding” Track… wayyyyy before Jay-Z “made it cool.”
Reason I say this is because talking heads always say how nobody was talking about Cristal until Jay-Z did it.
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BlacHaze Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
It’s one thing to mention it….it’s another to make it popular. You just made Jay-Z’s point clear – “…You made it a hot line / I made it a hot song…”!!!
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Sav Reply:
July 17th, 2009 at 11:01 am
True, but that was about Dead Presidents. Jay can’t claim Cristal… besides he is off that wagon now.
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hot...lol! Reply:
July 19th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Jay could not fuck with Nas on his best day! What point did Jay make clear…that his camel looking ass can be used to make shit hot in the hood and for his ghetto ass stans to go to the club and buy Cristal that they can’t afford! Then when the owners of Cristal see that his camel looking ass is making their value go down…they diss the shit out of him publicly and basically tell Jay to stop promoting their liquor…they don’t need him anymore…he made them enough money in the hood! What does Jay make hot besides promoting liquor for you simple stans to glorify! Jay is a puppet…who the marketing machine knows his fans will follow to hell and back! So why not use the camel to promote their product until they don’t need him to do so anymore! So what’s so hot about that?
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July 17th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Who really cares about which rapper said Cristal first? Neither one of them could afford it when they were saying it…
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July 17th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Man, this made me even more of a Nas-stan than I already am. He has that same quality The D.O.C. had on No One Can Do It Better, in that you could play it today and it would still sound as good or even better than almost everything out right now.
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July 17th, 2009 at 8:42 am
I downloaded this yesterday and it’s fire! Nas was one of the reasons I got into journalism; his music was the soundtrack to my life. When Aqua first twitted about it I was skeptical but thot I should try a listen. This demo says it all; content and character.
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July 17th, 2009 at 11:41 am
DAT DEJA VU TRACK LOL….DAT FIRST VERSE..SOUNDS VERY FIMILAR
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July 17th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
So… I’m bumpin “Illmatic”, and I decide to check out Miss Info’s sight, to see what’s going on today, and this is what I see! True story! What a day! Good shit!
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July 18th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Are you serious? This has been heavily circulated forever. You made it sound like it was some never been heard before shit.
please put a track list up next time you act like you got some new shit…
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July 18th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Thats Nas at his illest, when he flows like thats no rapper comes close!
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July 19th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Thanks miss info. This makes me want to spin Illmatic on repeat!
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July 19th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Miss info always coming with that real hip hop.
Just heard the new Nas-Beastie boys joint. Nas spits ILL on that, reminds me of vintage Nas.
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