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Confession: I haven't listened to Nas in 400 Days.

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Sccit:

--- Quote from: TraceOneInfinite on October 09, 2025, 04:12:38 AM ---Yes, I agree that Nas isn't in people's faces pushing the "woke" agenda. 

But he also hasn't taken any strong stand either.   To be anti-establishment in the early 90's when Nas was coming up appeared like a strong stance to a white kid in the Midwest Suburbs who had never really heard anything contradictory to the traditional founding fathers America, Martin Luther King "I Have A Dream" 90's version of America.

Now, WOKE does represent the current establishment.  So it's not anti-establishment or a bold take anymore for Nas' to kick the same kind of lyrics he was spitting before Obama.  And his lyrics were still hitting me even on the Life Is Good album I felt they were up with the times. 

But the new Trump/Woke/WEF/Covid/Lockdown/Vxx/BLM Mandate world we live in undermines the boldness of Nas' lyrics.

Let's take Eminem for example.  When he made "White America" in 2002 Eminem Show--he was going after Bush and against the war in Iraq it sounded like a bold take.  He's like "Fucc you dick Cheney" and we all felt righteous like a bold take against the medias push for war.  In contrast the media was all pushing for vxx, mask mandates, lockdowns, and the Democrats were pushing the same narrative and so was Eminem.

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i'm taking a strong stand with maimonides


 :ohwell:

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: HighEyeCue on October 09, 2025, 03:40:52 AM ---I get what you're saying...at least Nas isnt in people face trying to push his agenda like Em is though...that and the fact Em is wack now musically has turned me off to him

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Remember Nas said "I went to hell for snuffing Jesus" was like his first big breakthru line with Main Source.  And the reason it sounded bold was because America was like a white Christian Republican country in those days.  Now, it's actually more bold and revolutionary to be a traditional pro-America Christian like Charlie Kirk.

In the 90's Charlie Kirk would've just been like a regular successful politician and businessman but not a martyr that was assassinated in cold blood for openly discussing politics and allowing the opposition to ask him questions on a college campus. 

So now Charlie Kirk is like the revolutionary guy and Nas is like the status quo guy being invited to speak at Harvard and everyone applauding 👏 on cue and nobody opposing

TraceOneInfinite:
I could put Wutang in the same category as Nas.  Ghostface son is openly gay. 

Ghostface stared me down at a 2001 concert in St Louis.  I was a wannabe 5 percenter at the time I shouted out "what up god" and he thought I was mocking him so he gave me the stare down from the stage and called his boys over like those intimidating dudes that beat the shit out of you if you rush the stage.  So I shut up.

The Predator:

--- Quote from: TraceOneInfinite on October 11, 2025, 12:30:58 AM ---Ghostface stared me down at a 2001 concert in St Louis.  I was a wannabe 5 percenter at the time I shouted out "what up god" and he thought I was mocking him so he gave me the stare down from the stage and called his boys over like those intimidating dudes that beat the shit out of you if you rush the stage.  So I shut up.

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Ahahaha.

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: The Predator on October 11, 2025, 12:44:49 AM ---Ahahaha.



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He gave me a nasty cold stare down, got his boys, tapped them like, "look, this white boy tryin to be funny!"

Like I was trying to mock him—he didn't catch it that I was a wannabe 5 percenter and actually saying it as respect — or he did catch it and I was gonna get a beat down anyway for trying to be down when I wasn't really down...

It was one of the two but I almost caught one that day. 

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