Reacting to Life's a B*tch | First Time Hearing NAS | Behind the Beat (Reaction!)

You guys should do Wu-Tang Clan! They are going on tour with Nas this year actually. You should do C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) by the Wu tang Clan. Their most popular song. From their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). They are 9 members I think. You can also do Protect Ya Neck from the same album. The album is a classic.

ILLMATIC is the GOAT HipHop Album and every song is a MASTERPIECE! 🙏🏿🐐

FYI- Nas wrote the majority of this album when he was 17-19 yrs old! #GENIUS

Az had the first verse and chorus, Nas was second. Great reaction!

The difference in the 90s east n west aesthetics is west coast beats tend to sample more funk records while the east sampled more jazz records. The signature west coast style is sometimes called p-funk and east coast is known as boom bap

I switched my motto. Instead of saying fuck tomorrow that buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto. Those lyrics literally changed my life 🤯

Nas is the Undisputed Best Ever in Hip Hop period... And His latest Run with the KD Series and Magic is Unbelievable...

NAS & AZ IS PURE MAGIC AND WOULD PUT THEM UP AGAINST ANY DUO IN MUSIC PERIOD!!!! 💯😎

AZ, who is the only featured artist on this seminal album, was unknown back then. This song was the first time we heard him on wax, and he managed to land a record deal off this one verse (which is considered a hip hop classic). Nas has released (and continues to release to this day) many amazing songs. Here are some of his most iconic songs if you want to react to one of those: "NY State of Mind", "The World is Yours", "Memory Lane", "It Ain't Hard to tell", "The Message", "I Gave you power", "Nas is like", "One Mic", "Made you look"... Also, Nas and AZ have many songs together and they always sound good as a duo. They were also part of a supergroup called The Firm, which released one album on Dr Dre's label Aftermath.

Exactly! The greatest to ever touch the mic Nas untouchable aint no debate. Do more nas 🔥

it’s wild how perfect AZ’s verse is. people who don’t even listen to rap recognize it within a bar.

Large Professor is known as one of the greatest iconic hip hop producers he also is an MC (rapper) he played a big part in launching Nas career

my favourite part of the solo as well is when it hits that flat note, adds so much emotion

Fun fact..Nas’ father is a jazz musician.That’s him playing in the background

Nas is truly the GOAT! Illmatic never disappoints on every listen

Fun fact about this record is it was the last one they recorded last minute before they had to turn the album in. Another fun fact not a Dropout of school in the beginning of 9th grade as a fourteen-year-old and somehow recorded the greatest hip hop album of all time between the ages of 18 and 20

NaS is our greatest poet in hip hop history

His dad is a big jazz player he plays the sax at the end and I love how they covered the Gap Band’s Yearning for your love

The person playing the cornet is Olu Dara who is Nas father.

AZ did the 1st verse and Nas was the 2nd verse. Nas father is a jazz musician and that's him playing at the end.