Nas's material is over my head somtimes, I have no idea what he's talkin about. But thats no disrespect to him, to me that shows just how talented he is. But does anyone else also feel lost when listenin.

Like his song "queens gets money'. I understand the song as whole, but his metaphors and other vocab is just over my head how he uses his words, and creates his verses

I love that Nas song hero. that has to be one of the best songs of the year.

to answer the question, no i've never been lost listening to Nas. But don't feel bad, theres other rappers that are probably over my head.

I'm over their heads
Like a bulimic on a seesaw

My queen used the milkshake to bring y'all to my slaughter houses
I do this for the group home kids in boarding houses


Hip-hop was aborted
So Nas breathes life, back into the embryo
Let us make man in our image
Spit it, I'm Huey P in Louis V throwing Molotov for Emmit
You aint as hot as I is
All of these fake prophets are not messiahs
You don't know how high the sky is
The square milage of Earth, or what pi is
I'm the shaky hand that touched Geogre Foreman in Zaire
The same hand that punched down devils that brought down the towers


Seriously Nas is a beast ill verse from Esco.

As good a lyricist Nas is, he's elementary when compared to Vakill.

Correction Nas is a great lyricists. And far from elementary.

Who besides the Egyptian-walker, ****ers have a conniption
My existence persistent to bring foes misfortune
I dazzle 'em, like the alderman, Billy Dee in Mahogany, minus the perm
From the tiniest sperm that the mightiest The Almighty can muster
Project prophet, chronic blockage gives Alzheimer's to youngsters
Amongst them is me, can't remembers my beefs
With who? For what? They screw-face me up, my boo laced me up
Bolinsiaga, flimsy condo with bimbos in south of Kalan Gro in pimp mode
The inf' glow on his clothes and you know it's over
Hammer hit pin, pin hit shell, from the shell the slug gonna chew ya
Try not to lose me, I try not to lose'ya
Mamma say mamma sa mu makasa, fly to Cuba
To chill with some politi-kill *****z who ill
'Cause y'all *****z are losers, don't get comfortable *****
Say hello to Mr. Bad Guy, get that cash par, I'm the last don
You'll ever know so, here you go y'all can take these thoughts
Anyway I'm chargin' emcees a late fee cost
So when y'all done with my style, please break me off
But never make Nas mad just in case cross
'Cause ah, lately y'all don't make me happy
To calm my nerve I need the herb GNC don't carry

Nas's material is over my head somtimes, I have no idea what he's talkin about. But thats no disrespect to him, to me that shows just how talented he is. But does anyone else also feel lost when listenin.

Like his song "queens gets money'. I understand the song as whole, but his metaphors and other vocab is just over my head how he uses his words, and creates his verses

lol...tell u what stick wit 1 track till u get...then proceed extactly da same...**** write it down if u have 2! word 4 word.

"Take 27 MC's, put 'em in a line and they out of alignment
My assignment since he said retirement
Hiding behind 8 mile and the chronic
Gets rich but dies rhymin'
This is high science
Now add 23 more
From Queens to B-More
I'm over they heads
Like a bulimic on a see-saw
Now that's 50 porch-monkeys ate up at the same time"

i usually understand most of his stuff, if not on first listen then i'll put the tune on repeat until i catch what he's saying fully.

but one thing i didn't get (on Queen's Get The Money funnily enough) was the "i'm over they head, like a bulemic on a see-saw" punchline... am i being slow? either way explain how that punchline makes sense please, someone... (the bulemic bit)

i usually understand most of his stuff, if not on first listen then i'll put the tune on repeat until i catch what he's saying fully.

but one thing i didn't get (on Queen's Get The Money funnily enough) was the "i'm over they head, like a bulemic on a see-saw" punchline... am i being slow? either way explain how that punchline makes sense please, someone... (the bulemic bit)

Well in terms of the line itself he's just bragging about how "out there" or "complex" he is at rhyming. Bulimia is an eating disorder where you eat and vomit back up what you ate. A lot of girls have this complex about their weight and live of fear of being fat I guess. That's why they do it. What it basically does is keep them low in weight and skinny.

If you take a normally weighted person and a bulimic and place them on a see saw, the bulimic's side will be higher than yours. And it's Nas exaggeration that he's over your head or "above" you like that bulimic on a see saw.

How many people caught that 50 cent diss?

Savers went broke, smokes sour diesel, need no Bowflex
My chest still cut up like a bag of dope

Thought patterns consist of boss matters
Spit Moses' lost commandments like a gross sandwich out my mouth

On the road to riches and diamond rings
In the land of the blind, the man with one eye ("I") is the king

Yeah I'm from the ghetto
Where old black women talk about their sugar level - it's not unusual

Yo, I was thinkin' a little bit
What would it take to authenticate my *****ness?
Ball ridiculous? 26 inches when I call up the dealership?
Aww that's some ***** ****

My father was not a banker, neither was my neighbor
When it came to gettin' paper who the hell was gonna train us?
Oppresion couldn't escape us through the ages
We changed the basis of derogatory phrases

Nas has plenty of gems throughout the album.

Well in terms of the line itself he's just bragging about how "out there" or "complex" he is at rhyming. Bulimia is an eating disorder where you eat and vomit back up what you ate. A lot of girls have this complex about their weight and live of fear of being fat I guess. That's why they do it. What it basically does is keep them low in weight and skinny.

If you take a normally weighted person and a bulimic and place them on a see saw, the bulimic's side will be higher than yours. And it's Nas exaggeration that he's over your head or "above" you like that bulimic on a see saw.
oh yeah, the bulimic would weigh less and go higher, that's the bit i missed lol

thanks


How many people caught that 50 cent diss?

yeah i did (but i read about it on sohh before i heard the song lol)

yeah i did (but i read about it on sohh before i heard the song lol)

your from sohh too?....i miss that site :(

"You be aight like blood money in a pimps cum"

this is the type of line that probably goes over alotta heads but for anyone who dont know hes saying a pimps child ill be aight (or set) financially


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your from sohh too?....i miss that site :(

yeah... any idea when it's coming back???

it's probably gonna get some **** AHH-esque "upgrade", it can't have taken this long just to recover all the forums

yeah... any idea when it's coming back???

it's probably gonna get some **** AHH-esque "upgrade", it can't have taken this long just to recover all the forums

They have a temporary site but it sucks....

http://sohh2.conforums.com/

I've been posting on boxden.com, its not too bad but its not sohh

Alone in my room, looking thru the 32X telescope zoom
adjusting the focus of the moon
One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume
is nothing more then a subjective conclusion
What is the maximum field rate application?
the run away glaciation surrounding the ocean basin
affects the population fluctuation
on a continuous basis but that's just the basics
The juxtaposition of Canibus' position
the precision something no other has written
Way above and beyond what was intended
the unparalleled malleable enunciation of a sentence
You didnt go to college obviously
I can tell by your ungodly unintelligible terminology
A remarkable odyssey, the rhymes of modern speeds
when the brain orders the body not to breathe
Your competency is not up to speed, you not in my league
you couldnt possibly be hotter than me
Or oppositely you're minus 25 degrees, you'd squeeze
but the condensation makes rifle barrels freeze
Allow me to speak figuratively, ***** please
my intellectual properties are about the size of Greece
Your counselor advised you not to speak
my counselor advised me to keep rhymin until they stopped the beat
In the words of Joseph Heller, "I learned how to write better"
even though it sort of irked me
He said he didnt understand the process of the imagination
but he felt he was at its mercy
Which exploits my point perfectly and certainly reinforces
the reason why nobody's probably ever heard of me
Couldnt understand what I mean by ill
unless you try to translate what I print to film
This is the line of will, the circle of time
the cycle of eternity, the emergence of 1 mind
Academic phonetics render critics tounge-tied
Ive personified dry humor of cum-laude alumni
A wise man sees failure as progress
a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic
And loses his soul in the process
obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content
My style is masterful, multi-lateral
I could battle a fool and be naturally cruel
Words of scourn are a disasterous tool
from an existentialist view, I'm a better rapper then you
Grab the mic and rip your physical fabric in 2
my attitude is ****ed up but admirable
Different methods interpreted into different forms
from entirely different perceptions and seen from different norms
Not just spittin a poem there's much more involved
there's much more pieces of the puzzle for you to solve
48 orders of mechanical laws
and rays of creational cause, enhance the cadence of my bars
Maybe I am self-absorbed
but thats the effect, to find the cause you should ask my A&R
Today is what it is, but only because yesterday was what it was
permitting you heard of Beelzebub
A tale of demons and drugs, pissy drunk in the club
with the DJ doing the needle rub
Chances are you'll never see me son
yeah I know my names Canibus but I cant help you if you need a dub


i wonder if canibus knows what he's sayin

i wonder if canibus knows what he's sayin

Canibus writes a pretty average verse and then uses the synonyms function on his microsoft word and picks out the smartest word there.

"About to leave my house"

would become..

"preparing to depart my residence"

It's pure genius i'm telling you/

^lol

Correction Nas is a great lyricists. And far from elementary.

i said compared to Vakill hes elementary, and that was a little overboard, i didnt meanoverall lyricly hes elementary, but seriously, show me a Nas track with better vocab, multis, punches, and metaphors in 1 track than this cause i havent heard one.

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Multi's don't mean you are complex. He came nice but come on Nas has legendary verses that I can post for days. Nas isn't the one to always look for metaphors either way. Bar for bar Nas is the nicest to get on a mic in my opinion.