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Labor of Love II: LIGAYA is out now on all major platforms 🌞 ~ LIGAYA means JOY.

32 years ago today. Russell Simmons passed on Nas’ demo, famously claiming that Nas sounded too much like G Rap. translation: great but unsalable. he signed Warren G instead. Illmatic dropped, and is widely regarded as the greatest rap album ever made. Illmatic was the bridge. Melle Mel and Kurtis Blow, to Run-DMC, to Rakim, the Juice Crew, and Big Daddy Kane. now Nas. everyone said he had next since Large Professor brought the chipped tooth kid sporting Gazelles into the studio. the more you listen to Illmatic, the more haunted it feels. when you’re younger, it clubs you with its hail of words and the skeletal beauty of its beats. but the older I get, the more it strikes me as a teenaged requiem for those still living. “Old Soul” is the sort of stock phrase used by yoga teachers and amateur psychics, but it always fit Nas. he’s 20 and prematurely nostalgic, struck by memories of park jams and watching “CHiPS.”, when Shante dissed the real Roxanne, and how much he misses Mr. Magic. Illmatic is a story of a gifted writer born into squalor, trying to claw his way out of the projects. It’s somewhere between The Basketball Diaries and Native Son, but Jim Carroll and Richard Wright couldn’t rap like Nas. not many can. 39 minutes and 51 seconds of perfection.

Man. If yall don’t stop with this “Hip-Hop is Dead” talk… It’s a new beat machine that just dropped that is sold out…EVERYWHERE because legendary producers have been posting their beats with it.. What are we TALKING ABOUT?!

Experiencing this is such a life changing moment cause it’s such a weirdly peaceful feeling like nobody knows you, nobody cares, you’re just existing peacefully and you could just rewrite your whole life.

I think one of the best stories about Eminem I ever heard was when he turned down what was rumored to be a $300–400 million tour deal just because he wanted to be a father. 50 Cent explained that Eminem turned down the request so many times, he had to ask why and Em said; “I just don’t want to go and come back and Hailie’s grown.” Most people wouldn’t understand why he said that. They’d call him crazy. They’d say opportunities like that don’t come twice. But this brother was already rich. He already sold millions of records. Fame wasn’t the prize anymore. What he was protecting was time. Presence. The one thing you can’t buy back once it’s gone. If you really know Eminem’s story, from his mother, to the chaos, to the instability, to the women and the damage you’d understand this wasn’t weakness or fear. It was awareness. He knew exactly what absence does to a child because he grew up inside it. And when he finally had daughters of his own, he made a decision to break the cycle instead of feeding it with more success. He found something money couldn’t buy and that’s why Mockingbird wasn’t just a song. It was a promise to his daughter...

Why she dressed like kendrick lamar

This ngga live in a community college

This a lot of you niggas fr 🧏🏾‍♂️ thinking you got bread 🥖 whole time you niggas in a pickle 💯👌🏾

That sht says 2013??

Corona virus....its coming

Why this ngga look like a white jimmy butler

That nigga Pharrell in there wasting material

Seeing this drawing I made on 2012 become a meme it's still crazy to me

TWINS???!?!?!?

the mexican nigga that did my plumbing got these

Joe Budden as Kratos , God of War would have been wild! 😂😂😂

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Rey Mysterio's debut back in 2002 will always be one of the greatest of all time.

RIP Centel.

Yall thought this was a sane man ???!!