Nas - Back When Lyrics

What...how dare anyone compare eminim to NASIR...that's just murderous.these bars are heven flow....

Nothing like them 80s summer NY days/ hop on the MB5 days/mopeds pro keds city split 5 ways!! (Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Staten island) fuckin genius!! NAS!!

All yeah it was a process in the 80’s most definitely build and destroy

2019”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””fire”””””””””””””””””””

This is that nyc hip hop type music that was alive when the twin towers were still standing tall. Miss those days.

I can picture the NYC skyline pre 2001 when I listen to this song

isn't that a lady's frock? why!?

Before there was a audience to watch us
I assure you, there was a process

This is a masterpiece nas

Parapa the rapper

Dope MC Shan sample!

This production makes me want to make some beats.

Soult y before I sleep

This song is ridiculously good. The last song I can remember that was this good is Project Window.

To call them fake today is hate, real niggas extinct
Pac left me inside a rap world with niggas that wink
At other rappers, undercover niggas spit every way
Won't be surprised if all their rides have federal plates

This line is too powerful man, god damn nas.

ya love too hear the story how it all got started

hog wash i lite a L for veronn

Nas lit

luv this song so much !!!

always felt this was Illmatic pt2 n this record was memory lane pt2 imo just my thoughts

Nas fan forever

mc shan

Give thanks to the Most High God ALLAH!

Damn bruh thisss shit just fire

Nas is the the greatest fuck all those new mumble rapper this is real rap

This album is classic, but im not feelin his new album nasir, kanye got super wack ass beats.

"Got a donism in me I'm here to enlighten"

The greatest period!!

hot ones bought me back to the bible ... And its pathetic.. miss quoted prophet got the feeling bible was done the same thing... pitch is changed but love hearing young man talk his shit.... I pray we all see tomorrow ..... 2018 and forever... get your knowledge kings live NOW

.....emotional support!! ...two eighteen!

"HOP ON THE MB5 DAYS!" YEAH!

Nas Was in his illmatic/it was written bag here.

San Diego 2012

Nas to lyrical for these new niggaz in the game to listen 💯💯

This song just don't get old man since 2012 i listen to this jam at least once a day

R i p 2 everybody we have lost. I love you all

I really hope his next album is produced by salaam remi and large professor again. I don't know how i'm gonna feel if he's actually teamed up with dj khaled, especially if i gotta hear him scream his name and label at the beginning of every song

I love nas!!♡♡♡

"I'm not a wack performer standing there with corny hype men" All facts. Too many rappers. Not enough MC's.

God I wish Nas spit this over a Preemo beat, would've fit perfectly with how he flowed and what he was saying

.........no

Mike Illmatic What's wrong with this beat?

this beat was perfect

The worst beat picker of all time? Vlad's out his rabbit ass mind.

Michael Argota In my opinion it would be the album known as untilted but was supposed to be called N.I.G.G.E.R. ALBUM. The second album is street desciple.

Cristopher Martinez I could see where your coming those 2 albums didn't have the best production. However I thought the beat for Queens get the money and sly fox off the untitled album were decent and I think Street disciple had some good songs, American way, Just a moment, Disciple and Thief's theme.

Michael Argota zone out is the worst lol, but God's son got dope instrumentals overall.

Michael Argota people think just because the beats don't bump in the car they're whack. Untitled got good production and lyrics, it wasn't meant to be played in the car, it's a conscious rap album

most people don't understand muzik and Nas isn't picking beats for one demographic. What might be wack a wack beat in the USA, could be a banger overseas.

back when i was 10

Just seen The God Son last night and have so much more appreciation for this mans art. Best MC Dead or Alive.

this that sh**t

I light a l 4 Vernon 4 niggas who a burn in hell 4 Vernon ...chill Nas real gangmember talk my son 2 nice

nas stay lacing the world with knowledge. to bad they'd rather hear the ignorance and made up gun bars. much respect to the greatest rapper Alive NAS

macramento2dabay of all time bro.

Such a damn great track. The line about Pac is so relevant to modern rappers and their slave mentality to the industry.

Michaelangelo Hayes to this day

i can't get enough of this!

hi know right

check out the Oracle bred from city housing.... smh the goay

best mc of all time.

I'll be the first to say it. Eminem can't take Nas!!!.

Marquise Johnson facts

They are both GOATS. Saying that one is definitively better than another is bullshit.

Only white people think Eminem is greater than Nas.

Nas would HUMILIATE Eminem lol

Was still. An spit 16 like no other . Art of story telling .

That's that old 80's QB track that got sampled in the hook

The Bridge by MC Shan

+D Pat yeah that one

Song reminds me of the old days

Very cinematic...its like I could see 80's NY...twin towers still standing and all

Nas is definitely the GOAT

My real name, stage name, same thing...how can you let these rappers claim King? I'm so ashamed mane!!!! Classic

That is such a dope line. Damn.

Majid Harps art

Andre Lewis yes!!!!!!!!

Boom true bars

2nd verse is too nice.

Man I simply love this song so much...

melo ig got me here... lol

Nas is the greatest

one of my favorite songs now, sounds like real hip-hop

+lolitsmatt That is because it is.

This song sounds it was from the 90's hip hop. I JUST LOVE IT.

The sample style is so 90's

Real hip hop a genius on the Mike flow is so Picasso

Such a nostalgic sounding song. Life is Good is definitely one of Nas' best albums

Marc NY 3rd on mine mabey 2nd just depends on my mood

In this moment in time it's better than Jay Kenny j cole

Easily his most underrated

Cristopher Martinez it's top four definitely. Illmatic , It was written, lost tapes, life is good

I've found my people. I almost hate how good music like this gets slept on but it's all good.

dope track here

YOU WANT TO HEAR THE STORY HOW ALL GOT STARTED. 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 buddha and bitches with beepers

@visigoth2020 In the streets I can greet ya, about blunts I teach ya.

+Michael Ben Inhale deep like the words on my breath

Sounds like a track out of 96. 

that means it's good

"Before there was an audience to watch us I assure you, there was a process" How the FUCK did he never get a grammy!

He's too real for that shit.

he doesn't want one

...how could we let these suckers claim king ...its such ashame bOY-🤔

tara ratney thats right , like he said himself bob marley never got a grammy.

"I don't get the credit I deserve that's why I hate doing interviews" I'm a huge fan of Nas, but that line was kind of "meh". You are considered one of the greatest rappers of all time, what more do you want?

@Omar Scruggs yeah Eazy-E was like that it took his beef with dre to get a decent interview from him. some people wont open up unless their backs are up the wall. 

Well I can certainly feel him when whack ass hippes like Nicki Minaj and Drake get the spot light and people ignore the realist...how do you expect him to behave? 

Let him bare his soul in peace lol... He's not complaining... Just sharing more of his more personal thoughts... Life is Good was one of his deeper albums for sure..

Mensa MuSSA MuSSA Like when he almost slapped the shit out of Nardwuar for bringing up Ether?

his two great albums

real Hip Hop

this is the type of rap that should be big not the other crap

love the nostalgia feel from this track. if joey badass and Eminem made retros of the 90s-early 00s then j cole made what was to come and nas made a retro of the late 80s

Even though he's a mainstream artist is music isn't, so more popular artist will always get credit before he does. Nas is who turned me on to the artist Basquiat, I can't even remember the song but I know it was a while back b4 JayZ put out MCHG, same thing with blood diamonds, Nas was talking about that from Nastradamas days, who gets the credit for it, Kanye does yrs later... it frigged up, but Nas won't get his just due until he's gone

Reminds me of Memory Lane on Illmatic.

memory lane 2...

yeah it has some Memory lane vibe

Agree fully

He lost to Drake too. It's a conspiracy to keep people dumb

"But I don't sweat it,Annotate study long, study raw
My man Dion said Nas over-think the songs he writing
I'm not a wack performer standing near a corny hype man
I got the Donism in me
I'm here to enlighten"

LuckyNoteProds funny how I was listening to the track and Nas spit the shit u stated in the comments while I was listening to this joint at the same time😎😎

Study long, study WRONG

This my jam, I love bumping this in my ride!

A jigsaw aerial view of the projects, that puts you in the window behind child proof bars dreaming of getting out the projects. Very visual.

and thats how you knew someone did its job. just like Nwa made you feel like you were in la the times of the 80's. like outkast & geto boys made you feel like the south was the chill mello relax place to be. and growing in nyc this is the man you could listen to over and over. he's painting the pic for us as new yorkers and for people around the world. i'd def give him the torch to tell my story.

He wont be on it this year.. he was already nominated last year but lost

No he was nominated last year at the Grammys and didnt win.. I dont know why either

ahhh ok, now i know lol

Because he wont be on the ballet until this year

love this song

I got it on repeat too dawg.

I always have this song on repeat. im in LOOVVe

top comment...try explaining it to someone who just dont get it...they never will

Dope track,,,incredible album.

I dont know... You wouldnt understand and Stay are dope.. so was Cherry Wine

How it gat started! Back When! Pac we need you back!

ok i understand that but this man doesn't take verses off! Nas is the greatest to me! IMO

damm u cute girl

Love Nas for Life !!! Real Artist , got addicted to it when I listened to it 1st time

"My man Deon says Nas overthink the songs he's writing. I'm not a wack performer standing there with corny hypemen. I got the Donism in me, I'm here to enlighten..."

This is an instant classic, worthy of being on an illmatic level

at others rappers

nas is 1 of the greatest...that 2nd verse said it all!!

the cook - high school days

i could care less about the comment, i just liked it when i saw the picture