Nas feat Travis Scott

[za'kiss]

This shit makes You Owe Me seem like One Mic.

I dont understand the hate that "u owe me" gets. That shit was fire.

"I put the shackles on ya feet"

"Owe me back like you owe your tax"

Lmfao hot garbage.

Then he has the nerve to get at Joe Camel for making successful party anthems. At least he knew how to consistently make them unlike Nas.

Yeah but leave it to Nas to compare his own misogyny to American slavery on a pop song featuring Genuwine. The lyrics give a pretty dark portrait of how a rags-to-riches black man with a slavery mentality develops an overcompensating sense of entitlement and objectification of women. It's essentially Nas' musical version of blaxploitation ("Mack like Goldie, it's the same story"). Nas honestly can't help but be deep, even if it's by accident.

That's a dope interpretation but I'm sure you gave more purpose and meaning to the song than Nas ever intended. Like you said lucky accident.

It's an accident in that I don't think he's trying to be too heavy, but this is still Nas' idea of a pop song. It's like blaxploitation, a lot of comic exaggeration and dark irony, perpetrating stereotypes in a self-aware way. And Nas is so transparent and descriptive in his lyrics that he ends up saying something more meaningful than just about any other rapper making the same kind of song would.

 

[silverfoxx]

I've seen You Owe Me light up a dance floor

I'm also sure no DJ has played in in a club since 2000. Timeless it definitely was not.

They still play it on the radio in Atlanta

 

[Brian B.]

off kilter hook, but Nas was spittin

so, hopefully a Nas album this year?

 

[infamous114]

Nas and Travis are both way better than this. Nas has had a couple shaky verses over the past couple years where it seems like he's trying to do too much. But then he also still has a lot of heat. Usually his collabs with Khaled are pretty good ie: Victory, Hip Hop with Face, Nas Album Done.. This the worst one since his song on Khaled's debut album.

Nas wasn't on Khaled's debut. The song you're talking about I think is "I'm On" off We Global

 

[buttuh_b]

They still play U Owe Me all the time in the clubs. At least in the north east they do. That's a timeless club record

I am in NYC b. Uptown at that. Inwood where it's party central. Never heard that played when they play throwbacks out here. Other Nas tracks yeah. Haven't heard that shit played at clubs since the early 00s tbh.

Oh you in New York. Well down in Philly I go out maybe 3 or 4 times a month to all different types of spots and I hear the record often.

 

[a.mann]

NaS needs guidance

Rather it be a strong executive producer for his albums or a management

Either or ....dude is TOO deep in the game to be making weak each lame bullshit pop commerical shit like this

You the vet....when you on a track new niggas should be conforming to you...not the other way around

 

[Mister B.]

Nas needs to leave all these new and new-ish producers the fuck alone. Outside of the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, none of them has anything that can match his flow and delivery on a track, cause his lyrics are still top-notch.

Primo, No ID, 9th, Ye, Just Blaze, even Salaah fit his style much better.

Oh yeah: This shit is one of Nas's best party bangers

 

[BusterBreeze]

UGH Bad Asahd

 

[Listencloser]

Y’all don’t understand. A bad feature from Nas that makes his fans nervous only means a classic album is about to drop soon!

 

[Dogowner14]

Nigga said nas need guidance haha.

Brah Nas is getting paid of his features.

He droppin it on acapella and sendin that shit whats the problem?

 

[qawshun]

still with nas sending the acapella all the beats they could've stuck this joint on they choose this one and it's off beat smh

 

[DarthRozay]

Nigga said nas need guidance haha.

Brah Nas is getting paid of his features.

He droppin it on acapella and sendin that shit whats the problem?

@dogowner14 do they bump You Owe Me in the swedish clubs tho?

 

[metal face terrorist]

Why doesn't nas just write to the beat? He sounds off on Rick Ross last album too.

 

[Dogowner14]

Why doesn't nas just write to the beat? He sounds off on Rick Ross last album too.

Its not NAs job lol. He sends it acapaella and gets paid lol

 

[dalyricalbandit]

Nas ain't off beat he's just ahead of his time using the Silkk The Shockers flow.

Lol

 

[GetoBoy]

Hardest Nas club record that never got any burn

Off topic but Keri Hilson should have been bigger than what she became it's like the only females in R&B to blow since Beyonce is Rihanna

 

[Chi Snow]

Hardest Nas club record that never got any burn

Off topic but Keri Hilson should have been bigger than what she became it's like the only females in R&B to blow since Beyonce is Rihanna

She dissed B and her career died immediately

 

[its....JOHN B]

Nas and Travis are both way better than this. Nas has had a couple shaky verses over the past couple years where it seems like he's trying to do too much. But then he also still has a lot of heat. Usually his collabs with Khaled are pretty good ie: Victory, Hip Hop with Face, Nas Album Done.. This the worst one since his song on Khaled's debut album.

Nas killed this

 

[sapp08_2001]

Assic

 

[soul rattler]

I don't understand...

How can Nas be the greatest rapper of all time if he can't rap greatly over ANY beat?