It's August 29, 2025, 04:20:07 PM
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I think they're all dope as fuck, too hard to choose one. I wonder if Group Therapy recorded anything else that's in the Aftermath vaults somehwere.
All the verses are dope, but I think Nas drops his greatest verse on this track. To me, this may be the greatest and most important hip-hop track ever. The reason I say that is because of Dre's vision and foresight; many people thought he was a fool for leaving Death Row empty handed (getting nothing from his 50% share of ownership) at a time when Death Row was on top of the music industry. But Dre ended up being the smart one, he spoke out against the East Coast West Coast beef and took a stand against violence in hip-hop, and made moves to replace bangin on wax with raw talent, creativity, and great lyricism. This was his statement record. And it was so large it went over the industries head. Many people missed it. But just after this track came out, 2pac was murdered, Death Row's ship sank, and hip-hop faded into it's shiny suit and Master P era. So this song represents hip-hop's last great climax, Summer of 96. The theme of this track was apocalyptic, a one world government takeover, martial law, hip-hop undersiege... and Nas verse fits this theme perfectly, he references prolific figures in world polotics (when I bomb like Sadaam) world history (the world feels the rath of Khan) the last major war (desert storm in this modern day Babylon), and when the whole world blows up he tells you to ("put your hands up"). This verse is gigantic, it's a monster, Nas killed it... this track is larger than life.
its too sad they never made something after this.what are talking about?