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Next Friday night can't wait to fight you
Locked up I would knife you, don't fuck with you
Last month I even bucked at you, you got locked
I felt bad, wait do I got love for you?
I might kill you but do I got love for you?
I want you dead under six feet of soil
At the same time, want you here to witness me while you in misery
We hate each other but it's love, what a thug mystery Nas – Stay
Has addictions that are sadistic, chain of events, habits Nas (Ft. Anthony Hamilton) – World’s an Addiction
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Guess how angry this man gets Nas (Ft. Anthony Hamilton) – World’s an Addiction
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Nas’s album cover for I Am… was shot by Danny Hastings and features a his face as a golden Egyptian one. It was created using a clay face mold, which nearly killed Nas. According to Danny:
The funny part was that the first attempt, Nas was getting asphyxiated. We almost killed Nas. We cleaned him up, and he was like, ‘Let’s do it again!’ […] Nas was a true sport.
Speaking on his album covers, Nas said:
According The first one, you have him being a boy, very young. The second was a little bit older. And the third one, he was a king,“ he continued. "He already conquered the world. He was on top of the world. He was doing a lot of big things. We came with the concept of making a King Tut sarcophagus piece.”
Continuing the Egyptian theme, Nas also has a Pharaoh piece necklace.
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Still get money, lady killer pushing a Bentley
Maybe niggas could see too much of their failures
Through a nigga who realer Nas – Stay
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These bars explore an extreme love-hate relationship & dependency, and are some of the most intriguing of the album. Essentially, these are two bitter enemies that wouldn’t hesitate to kill one another, with one developing a twisted sense of love derived from the other’s pain. From his perspective, he needs his enemy to suffer to increase his own satisfaction with his successes.
Nasir then goes on and seemingly compares a relationship like this to the one between his haters and himself. They want him to suffer and for his career to die, but watching his pain pleases them so they need him. He on the other hand dislikes the haters, but understands the situation and uses it to his advantage. A much calmer look at the matter than “Hate Me Now,” though from a not too dissimilar perspective.
Fun fact: This is one Nas favourite lines on the album as he tells in this interview:
http://youtu.be/YuaJzK2i8as?t=44m37s
Now I think back he was talking about P from Mobb Deep or Mega . I think it was definitely some he was cool with.
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I thought this verse was low key about Jay-Z
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As a general note, the whole line seems pretty akin to what Eminem was writing about in the late 90s and early 2000s about Kim (such as 97' Bonnie and Clyde).