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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAlbum: Life is Good
\nArtist: Nas
\nReleased: July 17, 2012<\/p>\n
It has been a long while since we\u2019ve heard from God’s Son- since the release of his \u2018Untitled\u2019<\/strong> album in 2008. His latest release, Life is Good<\/strong> delivers on what all the Nas<\/strong> stans wanted it to be. Nas<\/strong> has stated that \u201cThis is music that I just put together, I\u2019m praying will be the inspiration for my brothers that\u2019s in the rap game. I think a lot of us are confused about who we are. It\u2019s important that we stay ten toes down at all time… Fuck pop, fuck all that shit. We don\u2019t imitate pop, pop imitates us! So that\u2019s why we go back to the gutter…\u201d and this is exactly what he did. <\/p>\n Nas<\/strong> bodied this album and took it back to the streets- to that old New York hip hop sound that has been missing for a minute. It\u2019s a different stage now in Hip Hop then in 1994 when Illmatic<\/strong> came out and listening to Life is Good conveys some of the themes hip hop fans first fell in love with when we first heard Illmatic<\/strong> knocking in the speakers.<\/p>\n Nas<\/strong> collabs with Rick Ross<\/strong> on \u201cAccidental Murdereres\u201d<\/em>, in which he talks about gun violence and how innocent victims are in the crossfire. <\/p>\n \u201cYou thought you had it planned\/ you thought you had your man\/He saw you coming, he ran when you tried to blast that man\/You missed him by inches, he sprinted\/Some of his boys on the corner was who your bullets entered\/Two of \u2018em pull through but one didn’t, son’s finished\u2026\u201d. <\/p>\n Nas<\/strong> spits real shit that makes you think and this song is no exception. Its sad to say Ricky<\/strong> went a little off subject but still a dope track none the less.<\/p>\n The project starts to take a more soulful turn where Nas<\/strong> gets personal for the track \u201cDaughters.\u201d <\/em>This song talks about the trials and tribulations of a father raising a little girl: <\/p>\n \u201cI saw my daughter send a letter to some boy her age\/Who locked up\/First I regretted it then caught my rage like\/How could I not protect her from this awful phase\/Never tried to hide who I was, she was taught and raised like a princess\/ but while I’m on stage I can’t leave her defenseless\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n It’s honest, genuine, and completely different from anything out there in the game. <\/p>\n Now once you hear the \u201cCherry Wine\u201d<\/em> track you know that its definitely a song for the ladies. Nas <\/strong>drops bars on this jazzy track about coming across that perfect someone who is just like you but all in all you never find them. As soon as you hear Amy Winehouse\u2019s voice singing: Where is he\/The man who was just like me\/I heard he was hiding somewhere I can\u2019t see\/And I\u2019m alone and I realize that when I get home\/I wanna go through my red and my cherry\u2026\u201d you know that this collaboration was destined. <\/p>\n Just like the album, \u201cBye Baby\u201d<\/em> is a song that\u2019s is genuinely inspired by the rocky relationship and divorce from his ex-wife Kelis and in this track Nas<\/strong> gets very personal-on the verge of autobiographical- and the heavy R&B production of super producers Salaam Remi<\/strong> and Noah \u201c40\u201d Sabib<\/strong> go great with Nas\u2019s<\/strong> in depth storytelling skills about how a relationship between a man and a woman can go from a storybook romance to hostile fights and eventually resenting each other: <\/p>\n \u201cBye baby, I guess you know why I had to leave\/Seven months in your pregnancy, \u2019bout to have my seed\/Let\u2019s take it back some years, rewind it to the happy years\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n as if hip hop fans needed even more reasons to cop this album. Do yourself a favor and get it here<\/a> .<\/p>\n -Courtney Deleon<\/p>\n