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Yeah yeah, aiyyo black it's time (word?)
(Word, it's time nigga?)
Yeah, it's time man (aight nigga, begin)
Straight out the fucking dungeons of rap
Where fake niggas don't make it back
I don't know how to start this shit, yo
Nonton film semi korea. Rappers, I monkey flip 'em with the funky rhythm
I be kicking, musician, inflictin' composition
Of pain, I'm like Scarface sniffin cocaine
Holding an M-16, see with the pen I'm extreme, now
Bullet holes left in my peepholes, I'm suited up in street clothes
Hand me a nine and I'll defeat foes
Y'all know my steelo with or without the airplay
I keep some E&J, sitting bent up in the stairway
Or either on the corner betting Grants with the cee-lo champs
Laughing at baseheads trying to sell some broken amps
G-packs get off quick, forever niggas talk shit
Reminiscing about the last time the Task Force flipped
Niggas be running through the block shootin'
Time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for Houston
Once they caught us off-guard, the Mac-10 was in the grass and
I ran like a cheetah with thoughts of an assassin
Pick the Mac up, told brothers, 'Back up,' the Mac spit
Lead was hitting niggas, one ran, I made him backflip
Heard a few chicks scream, my arm shook, couldn't look
Gave another squeeze, heard it click, 'yo, my shit is stuck'
Try to cock it, it wouldn't shoot, now I'm in danger
Finally pulled it back and saw 3 bullets caught up in the chamber
So now I'm jetting to the building lobby
And it was full of children probably couldn't see as high as I be
(So what you saying?) It's like the game ain't the same
Got younger niggas pulling the triggers, bringing fame to their name
And claim some corners, crews without guns are goners
In broad daylight, stickup kids: they run up on us
4-5's and gauges, Macs, in fact
Same niggas will catch a back-to-back, snatching your cracks in black
There was a snitch on the block getting niggas knocked
So hold your stash 'til the coke price drop
I know this crackhead who said she's got to smoke nice rock
And if it's good, she'll bring you customers in measuring pots
But yo, you gotta slide on a vacation, inside information
Keeps large niggas erasin' and their wives basin'
It drops deep as it does in my breath
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of mind
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Be having dreams that I'm a gangsta; drinking Moets, holding Tecs
Making sure the cash came correct, then I stepped
Investments in stocks, sewing up the blocks to sell rocks
Winning gunfights with mega-cops
But just a nigga walking with his finger on the trigger
Make enough figures until my pockets get bigger
I ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin'
Give me a Smith & Wesson, I have niggas undressin'
Thinking of cash flow, buddah and shelter
Whenever frustrated, I'm a hijack Delta
In the P.J.'s, my blend tape plays, bullets are strays
Young bitches is grazed, each block is like a maze
Full of black rats trapped, plus the Island is packed
From what I hear in all the stories when my peoples come back, black
I'm living where the nights is jet-black
The fiends fight to get crack I just max, I dream I can sit back
And lamp like Capone, with drug scripts sewn
Or the legal luxury life, rings flooded with stones, homes
I got so many rhymes I don't think I'm too sane
Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain
And be prosperous, though we live dangerous, cops could just
Arrest me, blaming us, we're held like hostages
It's only right that I was born to use mics
And the stuff that I write is even tougher than dykes
I'm taking rappers to a new plateau, through rap slow
My rhymin' is a vitamin held without a capsule
The smooth criminal on beat breaks
Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes
The city never sleeps, full of villains and creeps
That's where I learned to do my hustle had to scuffle with freaks
I'm an addict for sneakers, 20s of buddah and bitches with beepers
In the streets I can greet ya, about blunts I teach ya
Inhale deep like the words of my breath
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times
Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind
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| 'N.Y. State of Mind' | |
|---|---|
| Song by Nas | |
| from the album Illmatic | |
| Released | April 19, 1994 |
| Recorded | 1992 |
| Genre | East Coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop |
| Length | 4:54 |
| Label | Columbia Records |
| Songwriter(s) | Nasir Jones, Chris Martin |
| Producer(s) | DJ Premier |
| Audio sample | |
'N.Y. State of Mind' | |
'N.Y. State of Mind' is a song by hip hop recording artist Nas, taken from his debut studio album Illmatic (1994). The song's production was handled by DJ Premier who sampled two jazz songs: 'Mind Rain' by Joe Chambers and 'Flight Time' by Donald Byrd.[1] Premier additionally scratches vocals from Eric B. & Rakim's 'Mahogany' for the song's chorus.[2] Nas raps two verses on the song in which he talks about his rapping talent and describes the dangerous environment that is the city of New York. Nas has attributed the song 'Streets of New York' by Kool G Rap as one of the song's primary influences (Kool G Rap would later sample this song, plus give Nas a guest spot on his album 4,5,6). A sequel to 'N.Y. State of Mind' can be found on Nas' 1999 album I Am...
Background[edit]
DJ Premier revealed the creative process behind 'N.Y. State of Mind'[3]:
'That was just amazing because it happened in this room. Actually, anything from '92 and on, we did it here. It was just amazing watching him work because I was already a fan of him when he did 'Back to the Grill', 'Halftime', 'It Ain't Hard to Tell', and 'Live at the Barbeque'. So when I heard him on those records I was like, 'Yo, I got to do something that's on the same level'. So I came in here. and flipped the ill, gutter, Joe Chambers sample. I can tell you because it's cleared. Nas watched me build the beat from scratch. And he wrote the verse in the studio. If you listen to 'N.Y. State of Mind' you’ll hear him going, 'I don’t know how to start this shit', because he literally just wrote it. Before he started the verse I was signaling him going, 'One, two, three', and he just goes in like, 'Rappers I monkey flip'em, in the funky rhythm'. He did that in one take. After he did that first verse, he goes, 'How was that? Did that sound all right?' And we were just like, 'Oh, my God! The streets are going to go crazy when they hear this!'. It was one take, but he would format it before. He'll sit at the front, cover his mouth when the beat's playing, and would mumble it. So we can't hear what he's saying'.
Critical acclaim[edit]
'N.Y. State of Mind' ranks #74 on About.com's Top 100 Rap Songs.[4]
Rolling Stone magazine placed the song on its list of 'The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time.'[5]
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Marc L. Hill of PopMatters describes 'N.Y. State of Mind' as a standout track on Illmatic claiming that it 'provides as clear a depiction of ghetto life as a Gordon Parks photograph or a Langston Hughes poem.'[6] The song is also one of a few rap songs to be featured in the Norton Anthology of African American Literature.[7] It is featured on Nas' 2007 greatest hits album as the only non-single song in the album, and on the 1999 compilation Best of D&D Studios, Vol. 1. Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews.com states:
| “ | '[Illmatic] was to be an album steeped in the rich traditions of hip-hop history, mixed with the most advanced verbal styles and fat beats that could be put on wax. And if it couldn't be set off any more right already, the DJ Premier produced 'N.Y. State of Mind' was designed to knock you right off your feet. Primo's knack for finding the illest piano loops and matching them to pounding beats was perfected in this track, and paired with a Rakim sample on the chorus that provided the mental link for an analogy most rap heads had already made by now: Nas was the NEW Rakim on the block.[8] | ” |
The song is included on the soundtrack of video games True Crime: New York City and Saints Row 2.[9][10]
Certifications[edit]
| Region | Certification | Certified units/Sales |
|---|---|---|
| United States (RIAA)[11] | Gold | 500,000 |
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone | ||
References[edit]
- ^UltraGraphik.com Sampleur: 'NY State of Mind' Search[permanent dead link]
- ^Scratchfaq.com: 'N.Y. State of Mind' Search[permanent dead link]
- ^Cho, Jaeki. 'DJ Premier Tells All: The Stories Behind His Classic Records'. complex.com. Complex. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^Top 100 Rap Songs.
- ^'50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time'. Rolling Stone.
- ^Hill, Marc. 'Illmatic (Anniversary Edition) Review'. PopMatters. Retrieved January 18, 2008.
- ^'Contents The Norton Anthology of African American Literature W. W. Norton & Company'. books.wwnorton.com.
- ^Juon, Steve. 'Nas' Illmatic at RapReviews.com'. Retrieved January 18, 2008.
- ^'Saints Row 2 Soundtrack Songlist revealed'. videogamesblogger.com. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
- ^'True Crime: New York City Soundtrack Revealed'. IGN. IGN. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
- ^'American single certifications – Nas – N.Y. State of Mind'. Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved February 12, 2019.If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH.
External links[edit]
- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics