"How you like me now? I go blaow It's that shit that moves crowds makin every ghetto foul"

[_Menace_]

The 3rd verse was crazy af

Yo, weeks went by and I'm surprised

Still stuck in the shelf with all the things that an outlaw hides

Besides me it's bullets, two vests and then a nine

There's a grenade in a box, and that tech that kept cryin

Cause he ain't been cleaned in a year, he's rusty as clear

He's bout to fall to pieces, cause of his murder career

Yo, I can hear somebody comin in, open the shelf

His eyes bubblin, he said, "It was on"

I felt his palm troubled him shakin

Somebody stomped him out, his dome was achin

He placed me on his waist, the moment I've been waitin

My creation was for blacks to kill blacks

It's gats like me that accidentally, go off, makin niggaz memories

But this time, it's done intentionally

He walked me outside, saw this cat

Cocked me back, said, "Remember me?"

He pulled the trigger but I held on, it felt wrong

Knowing niggaz is waiting in hell for 'im

He squeezed harder, I didn't budge, sick of the blood

Sick of the thugs, sick of wrath of the, next man's grudge

What the other kid did was pull out, no doubt

A newer me in better shape, before he lit out, he lead the chase

My owner fell to the floor, his wig split so fast

I didn't know he was hit, it's over with

Heard mad niggaz screamin, niggaz runnin, cops is comin

Now I'm happy, until I felt somebody else grab me

Damn!

 

[goldenja]

I knew I geard this quote from somewhere

 

[hnic1978]

Fuck that one of the greatest hip hop songs ever IMO!!!

 

[Undergroundraplegend]

Top 5 For me also love this song.

 

[clairvoyance]

*waits for someone to mention pharoa monch's version*

 

[O.G.]

Sick with the pen.

 

[qawshun]

*waits for someone to mention pharoa monch's version*

never heard it what's the name

 

[5th Letter]

I love that song

 

[nillerthekid]

*waits for someone to mention pharoa monch's version*

never heard it what's the name

Stray Bullet

 

[deathrowzorrow]

This is one of the greatest rap songs ever if not the best

 

[Big James]

Top three for me. This is the type of shit that got him that felllowship at Harvard.

 

[R2_163]

*waits for someone to mention pharoa monch's version*

nas version was better. move along

 

[clairvoyance]

*waits for someone to mention pharoa monch's version*

nas version was better. move along

No need to get defensive I never said it was or wasnt in fact I still haven't heard stray bullet. When people type *waits for* it means theyre pointing out the obvious or cliches on the IC like everytime this thread is made someone brings up stray bullet just for the sake of it like one of those "yea thats cool but >>>" scenarios cliches on here.

niller names the song and people hit nosign?? Any way I recall RZA acknowledging this record as the best rhymee ever written in his top 5 mc list.
http://wudisciples.blogspot.com/2011/11/rzas-top-5-mcs.html?m=1

RZA

Nas: “The early Nas, the first three albums of Nas yo, nah mean. I don’t think too many solo MCs will ever surpass the creativity, ideas and individualization that he put inside his lyrics and songs. Two of the best rhymes I thought written was when he wrote the song ‘One Love’ to his man in jail. You look at Eminem’s ‘Stan,’ that’s ‘One Love.’ That was the inspiration of a man sitting here writing a letter to his man in jail.

Then you take a look at him writing his song [about the gun] ‘I Gave You Power’; describing the tech feeling this way, the rusty gun…taking the individualization of a gun describing. The only other MC doing that was the GZA where he took on the labels and made one meaning a whole ‘nother meaning.”