The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

the return of nasty nas…

Anyone who has followed the career of rap icon Nasir Jones, better known as Nas, is well aware that while talented, he also has the tendency to come up a bit short once in a while. When he’s on his game, we get classics like Illmatic, Stillmatic and God’s Son. When he’s not all there, we get…Nastradamus.

It’s often been said that Nas is at his sharpest when he takes the street-savvy braggadocio and personifies it in the form of Nasty Nas. In his new single Nasty taken from his forthcoming record tentatively titled Life Is Good, the nasty one comes off just that way. With a hellacious throwback beat provided by Salaam Remi, Nas simply goes off in a manner we’ve rarely heard from him in recent times. It’s almost if the shackles of commercial pressure, the Kelis debacle and his own legacy are no longer weighing him down and he can feel free to simply rekindle the fire that made Nas a hip-hop legend. Respect.

Nas - Nasty