Nas and Damian Marley - "Patience"- Video of the Year! From the Album of the Ye

[TraceOneInfinite]

http://www.ballerstatus.com/2011/02/08/nas-damian-marley-patience-music-video/

This is for all you suckaz that dissed me when I said Damian Marley was the illest in the game right now (tell me that he is just reggae and not rappin in this song!).   And for all the people that denied that Distant Relatives was the best album of the year last year.   And lastly, forget trying to find new school rappers to follow, these veteran artist have no need to pass the torch over, because still nobody is doing it close to as well as the Vets. 

[jeromechickenbone]

The video is really dope, best one I've seen in a long time.  This song is over most peoples heads like a bulimic on a seesaw.  Like real knowledge here.

(Verse 1 Damian Marley)
Some of the smartest dummies
Can’t read the language of Egyptian mummies
An’ a fly go a moon
And can’t find food for the starving tummies
Pay no mind to the youths
Cause it’s not like the future depends on it
But save the animals in the zoo
Cause the chimpanzee dem a make big money
This is how the media pillages
On the TV the picture is
Savages in villages
And the scientist still can’t explain the pyramids, huh
Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids
Stereotyping the image of the images
And this is what the image is
You buy a khaki pants
And all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones
An’ a thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones
Some of the worst paparazzis I’ve ever seen and I ever known
Put the worst on display so the world can see
And that’s all they will ever show
So the ones in the west
Will never move east
And feel like they could be at home
Dem get tricked by the beast
But a where dem ago flee when the monster is fully grown?
Solomonic linage whe dem still can’t defeat and them coulda never clone
My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever Own Lord
(Verse 2 Damian Marley)
Huh, we born not knowing, are we born knowing all?
We growing wiser, are we just growing tall?
Can you read thoughts? can you read palms?
Huh, can you predict the future? can you see storms, coming?
The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off
Now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh
The average man can’t prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
And still won’t research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they’re smart and cunning
Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that’s when their nose start running
And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut
Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wed mud
Can you read signs? can you read stars?
Can you make peace? can you fight war?
Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? huh
Can you survive, Against All Odds, Now?
(Verse 3 Nas)
Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote the Qur’an?
And was it a lightning storm
That gave birth to the earth
And then dinosaurs were born? damn
Who made up words? who made up numbers?
And what kind of spell is mankind under?
Everything on the planet we preserve and can it
Microwaved it and try it
No matter what we’ll survive it
What’s hu? what’s man? what’s human?
Anything along the land we consuming
Eatin’, deletin’, ruin
Trying to get paper
Gotta have land, gotta have acres
So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson
Watch niggas play the game like the lakers
In a world full of 52 fakers
Gypsies, seances, mystical prayers
You superstitious? throw salt over your shoulders
Make a wish for the day cuz
Like somebody got a doll of me
Stickin’ needles in my arteries
But I can’t feel it
Sometimes it’s like ‘pardon me, but I got a real big spirit’
I’m fearless…. I’m fearless
Don’t you try and grab hold of my soul
It’s like a military soldier since seven years old
I held real dead bodies in my arms
Felt their body turn cold, oh
Why we born in the first place
If this is how we gotta go?
Damn.

[Regime*Rida]

nice post, my fav track of the album glad they did a vid. props


Peace

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

Not the album of the year, but probably one of the only albums you listened to

[Chamillitary Click]

Not the album of the year

[jeromechickenbone]

Album of the year for mainstream hip hop easily IMO.

What was better?

[Chamillitary Click]

Album of the year for mainstream hip hop easily IMO.

What was better?

I personally prefer Kanye's album, as far as strictly mainstream.

But you really consider this mainstream? No major hit & it didn't sell that well, did it?

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

These were mainstream hip hop albums I consider better

My Beautiful dark Twisted Fantasy
RPM
How I Got Over

So imo 4th best mainstream rap album of 2010. It didn't make my overall top 10 though. Probably top 20 if I bothered to make a list.

[Action!]

video reminds me of an improved Kanye West's Power

[You'll Never Walk Alone]

Dope video. Not listened to the album for a while.

[Jimmy H.]

I can't pick a favorite for 2010 yet but I thought Recovery, Revolutions Per Minute, Beautiful Dark Fantasy, and Distant Relatives were all top contendors.