Jay Z Sends Subliminal At Nas
Last year, a “retired” Jay Z went on the Summer Jam stage and performed Dead Presidents with Nas and announced that Kelis’s husband was signing to Def Jam and that truce was declared by the former battling rivals. A year and a few months later and we are still waiting for a new Nas album and Jay Z has already released his come back single Show Me What You Got. In general I find the song underwhelming. The track relies too much on the horn sample that was already used in Rump Shaker and by Public Enemy before that. In addition, the lyrics while better then all the Yung Joc, Rick Ross, and Jibbs type gibberish we have been hearing of late, were not extraordinary. There is one line that caught my attention though:
Get the fuck out the throne you clone
The King’s Back!
Yall got less than 2 months to get yall shit together. Good luck!”
Prediction: Nas album is somewhat poppier then usually. (Will-I-AM is producing on it for god’s sake.) But despite the attempted pop appeal, the album underperforms in sales causing finger pointing between Jay and Nas and the ultimate demise of the partnership and Nas eventually releasing a good album without help from Jay sometime in 07.


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