Nas - You Can't Stop Us Now Lyrics

“Cannibal ways of the ancient Caucasian” .... ppl missed that one! Spitting straight facts

Sample crazy!

super underrated album

Fucking love this album

Hey guys, I think he may be talking about Malcolm X in one of his verses.


Purse snatcher shot in the back


Malcolm was once a criminal, more specifically a thief. The only problem with my "theory" is he was never snitched on.


I know your hunger, kid


Malcolm had a terrible childhood. His family was terrorized by racist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Legion, and would often go to sleep tired and hungry.


I know they hung your dad


Malcolm's father was killed in what was called a "street accident", but Malcolm and his mom both suspected that the Black Legion were the ones that killed him. The "hanging" is symbolic and powerful, portraying Malcolm's father as perhaps a fallen soldier, or better yet, a martyr.


Burnt your mama crib


Malcolm's mother was a strong and powerful woman, that was torn down to insanity. After her husband's death, she was the single mother of seven children. After the government used technicalities to prevent her from necessary welfare, she finally met a man who she thought she might get married to. All of that disappeared once she was pregnant with her boyfriend's son. She had a mental breakdown and was sent to a mental facility where she died. All her children were separated and put into different foster homes.


I know that hurt you bad


Malcolm was notoriously a criminal. He led teams in burglaries, and played the part of an American gangster. It was only in prison that he was spiritually introduced to Islam, and was able to reflect on his childhood. By the time he wrote his autobiography, he described his past in the most heartbreaking and articulate response I've personally ever read.

It's Crispus Attucks, not Christmas addicts. He was an African American who was the first person killed in the American Revolution.

Albums is fire end of story

this is the first thing i thought of when Nike pulled their stunt. we can't let corporate america make schmucks of us to make few a bucks from us. how do we bridge the gap?

Still listening to the song for like 23hurs, still can't stop✊✊

No matter how hard you try 🤝

RZA - you can't stop me now
Mos Def - undeniable

Three kings in their own leagues

Cannibal ways of the ancient caucasian......

43 lames dont like this wow this era smh

G.O.A.T -NAS

Cant stop us!!!!

Peace 2 the gods

Not "Christmas Addicts"....... it's Crispus Attucks, the first American killed in the Revolution in the Boston Massacre. He was black.

Great update of the Temptations' "Message From A The Black Man" (please give the original a listen) featuring Eban Brown (not Thomas), who replaced Russell Thompkins Jr. in The Stylistics and Abiodun Oyowele of the Last Poets. Good enough to appreciated by members of either generation.

Star of David not David star references banks Jews

38 people cant stop Nasty NaS!!!

‘No matter how hard you try you can’t stop us now’ Last Poets 👏🏾

The line comes from the original, "Message From A Black Man" by The Temptations.

Sickest mf doom beat

untouchable nas!!!! people bash on his beats but his beats are perfect. Thats NaS.

Nas beats don't overwhelm the consumer & allow one to focus on what Nas is delivering instead of the beat

i mena fuck dj vlad he is a tool bag nas is legendary

What u talking about , rza,beat.

Hear are some of my favorite sounds like these songs are relaxing to me a mind set of a sixty baby I hope the new generation can appreciate it and I hope you and yours enjoy my straight music records line up Darcel Drake inc.

Its Crispus attucks not christmas he was the first black to die in war over flag

Nas is the G.O.A.T

Classic!

that 1st verse...God damn...I forgot how deep this album was

im young from the new generation but my dad always show me these real hip hop music and my mom shows me RnB from their time. I love it though the beats the sound the lyrics and stuff. i dont care what people say ill be jammin this music in the car or with my friends😂😋

I am a little confused, I was lead here to see the culture reference to Crispus Attucks, but I don't see it.

Rhonda Brockman for you to listen

0:39 "Crispus Article, the first blasted"

No back and forth consistent style when we advocate kick it a while kick in a while when we eat together and sing and pray a sermon about Harriet Tubman just fucked up my day in the right fuckin way take three pills of hate a day and throw up and make a hill of beans guillotine guaranteed is where the haters hate to be hanging from a tree written about later I want to throw it up and tell y'all let's not clean slate er let's not forget about the whiteness that didn't do it didn't Jew it maybe they did maybe I don't know what the fuck to do but I will be here right for you.

If only these subjects were in todays lyrics....

Bobby Lee Jay Z getting all the credit for rhyming like this.

nas murdered this joint.....Witch doctors to good old pick pockets

NAS KILLED THIS TRACK

No doubt I think so too!!

The Whatnauts -Message From A Black Man

the temptations sang this

+Sheldon Taylor Indeed its their original song

Heavily heavily SLEPT on album. This is in my top 3 nas albums

Ronnel Parham facts facts facts!! Nas is a artist who happens to entertain...most don’t realize that

💯💯💯

As a whole project, it's second for me. I've listened to as much, if not more, than Illmatic

Nah it was ok, it had some good songs like this one, but it just wasn't complete. There's no way you can put this over Illmatic, Stillmatic or It Was Written.

@Baste GOD agreed. even gods son is better but its still fire

Only White Bitches that love black men and White Men who chill with black men r aloud in this comment section motha fuckas

King Geedorah aka MF DOOM 5 years earlier. And folks complain about Robin Thicke

wheres the lyrics

Black man RISE UP....we are the Gods and all others are Men

we live the acting to HOLLYWOOD...we need to know and be aware that we are.

Jush Gabby preach BLACK MAN

Shalom brother

We all gods.

I SAY DAMN, NOICE!!! 🏆BEST COMMENT ON THE INTERNET👑

Tarantino shouldve put this in Django

that wouldve been sick

Senor Chronic u right or Obama first inauguration

should have swapped that rick ross track for this one for real .

Django II soundtrack

i dont know why im bringing this up here but whatever....
I really don't like or even get why white people are refered to as Caucasian. The Caucaus region encompasses the land between the eastern Baltic and west of the Caspian Sea. I'm Iranian, and our cultural influence has historically extended just into this region. Aside from us Armenians, Azeris, and Georgians are real Caucasians. But even this gets complicated because Azeris actually belong to the Iranian culture, being more closely related to Persians, Armenians and Georgians create their own ethnicity, although have been heavily influenced by Pontic Greeks, Turks, Slavic Russians, and, of course, Iranians. So, the word Caucasian does little to unify a group of similar peoples into a broader category, it does so geographically more than culturally. Most early white Americans, including the slave-holders Nas is adressing, descend from Western and Central Europe. So, to find a term that unifies a general population of white people words like Germanic, Latin, Norman, Anglo, Saxon, etc.
It rhymes tho.
Also evidence of cannibalism has been found in nearly every region of the world from Germany, Ethiopia, Iberia, Colorado, etc. It's one of those qualities that transcends geographical and cultural boundaries, like farming and literacy.
But, I love this song...

Most of Europe benefited from slavery

NASTY NAS the G.O.A.T

OWWWWWWW

the "ANCIENT" Caucasians, not anti caucasians.

we shooting and killing each other anyway so whats ya point

+Big L
Ignorant statement Big L, reason why ur ppl never stop being hated, ignorance and hatred like ur comment.

solemn mender some of us dont give af if you hate us

TGC 100  thats why you are trash.

I love this song... No, fuck that, I love this album... Nas is forever...

Wu is forever brother

Sean Rochford Hey, True Wu-Tang fans know Nas is one of the rumored "10th" official members of Wu..... As Raekwon himself once confirmed. But now Redman is in that spot, so I guess Nas is the 11th? It was obviously a fan service type confirmed rumor, but I like to think Nas is one of those official affiliates of Wu since he was featured on one of the earlier solo albums, back when they didn't fuck with anyone outside the group... Regardless, if Wu-Tang is forever, then Nas is forever as well.

FUCK............................................................................THIS SHIT IS HARD..

my favorite rapper . period !

One of the best and we'll put together albums

I'm white but I can fucking relate

i feel ya white boy. that's wats up.. ya alright wit me bruhhhh

+TheCameltotem Was your family lineage traced to slaves as well and you feel the oppression that non-ignorant blacks feel everyday? That's the only possible way you could relate to this song...maybe...

Jonel Howard hey bru its some white people out here that love hip hop just like we do its white in them trailor paks struggling to they just to got this skin to deal with

i'm white and i have had a shit life and can relate to struggle on many different levels!!! imho Hip Hop is for poor people who haven't got a voice. Hip Hop should unite the streets and the people in em. black, white, pink, blue, Barny the mother fucking Dinosaur... who gives a fuck!!! the real scum wear suits and spend your tax money. in the u.s and over here in the u.k! I have gained more knowledge from Hip Hop than i ever did school that's just a fact. for black people assuming all whites are either trailor trash or skin head racists. is like us saying every black guy has a gun tucked in his waistband. The governments (illuminati puppets) always wanted blacks and whites to fight. cos they know full fucking well if we unite and realise they're the division. well need i say more..... One day the human race will grow a brain and fight against what really needs fighting against not what we're brainwashed to believe! food for thought....

Deuteronomy 28:15-68 explains it all

We unstoppable

Great update of the Temptations' "Message From A The Black Man" featuring Eban Brown (not Thomas) of The Stylistics and Abiodun Oyowele of the Last Poets. Good enough to appreciated by members of either generation.

MF DOOM BEAT !!!!!

@Rip Billies not at all ... much love to DOOM but RZA is a RZA

@thefatalveli1 Yea I got nothing against RZA hes dope But DOOMs the mother fuckin super villain, each to there own i guess

@Rip Billies True Truee

No way good call

Sounds Of Oz. NO IT SOUNDS OF WONDER😥

Who else used this thread besides MF Doom and RZA?

Mos Def the song he made using this sample is called Undeniable and the album True Magic

one love gawd!

Damn those drums in the background, the trumpets playing, and Nas Lyrics...Man this song is fire!

King Geedorah. thumbs up if you know what i'm talkin' about

what is the original song if there is one?

Eban on vocals is the icing on the cake for this song ! SOunds sooo good

everybody you named was rap lol

you are an idiot.

So which one was made first "You Can't Stop Us Now-Nas" or You Can't Stop Me Now-RZA"

shut ya dumb ass up, you sound stupid map, u havent went thru anything but a bunch of convience stores

yea i love this album, i always listen to nas n.i.g.g.a album when i'm doing good in life .thanks nas, real talk..

Wu tang in the 90's at it's peak was not underground music.. Tupac, Biggie, Mobb, Ras Kass are all hip hop.. Like Krs-1 said best, a Hip Hopper can always be a rapper rap is easy but a rapper can never be a hip hopper.. Your mixing the music Rap shyt is mostly drugs alcohol and women and hip hop is uplifting

Hip Hop and Rap music are 2 different genres of music sir

Nas is a Hip hop dude, Rap is lil Wayne 2 chainz shyt like that, common hip Hop Dead Prez hip Hop

nas el mejor!

Nas #1 rapper Wu Tang #1 group 'nuff said

thumbs up if u think Nas should be King of Hip Hop!

Lo mejor de Nas

El arte de Hip-hop

wtf is "fbi list"? do you mean their watchlist or their most wanted list or what do you mean?

Reminds me of someone who once said "there is limit to human will but no limit of will and accept this limit"

"From gold to shackles and back to gold "
by Nas

LOLOLOL YOUR AN IDIOT KID NAS IS NOT ILLUMINATI. HES BLACK. HES ON THE FBI LIST BECAUSE OF THIS ALBUM YOU IDIOT STOP BELIEVING THAT BULLSHIT NAS AIN'T NO MASON. GO LISTEN TO THE SONG ''TESTIFY''

this should be on the Django soundtrack new QT movie

I believe it's "Crispus Attucks," and "Minstrel shows"

...Also the racism towards black people is almost laughable. The war on drugs is basically slavery. People smoking things that comes from the ground? People can't take whatever drugs they want? How about police brutality or that poverty and shitty schools makes them look towards a criminal lifestyle? Imagine black people coming to your home, takes your weed, beats you up and throws you to jail for 2 years. Obviously there are black police, but white people have written the laws....

I'm not going to act like I know the answer since I'm white too but I think it has to do with the history obviously, but also how things look today. If a black person gets into trouble, the one giving him punishment is usually a white man/woman. The principal, the police, the judge. The ones in power are all mostly white. The congress, the senate. And also, white people are notoriously known to have done the worst things in history. So I can understand where they are coming from sort of...

To all the black/asian people reading this: Please oh please stop calling yourselves ''african-americans'' or ''asian-americans'', and call yourselves americans. It's ridicilous that white people in america are called americans. I say this especially to black people in America, if anyone refers to you as an african american, you should get angry since you're obviously as much american as anyone else.


Whoever has power, will use it. Language is a powerful thing.

Ok man that's a fair point. To be honest you get racism from both sides and I agree with you. I'm not going to argue with you because arguing on the internet is for mugs, but I will just say that there are definite double standards when it comes to racism, much like there is with sexism; and leave it at that. Have a nice day dude.

Wow, I think you've misjudged me a bit my friend. I've had many black friends over the years. Oh you know my family do you? You nothing about me or what I base my assumptions on. I'm not saying all blacks are racist or all blacks play the racism card. Just that there are a larger proportion of black people who will openly discriminate against whites and be yet be quick to blame others for racism than whites. Chill man. No need to be calling anyone a dumbass.

This is what rap and hip hop ought to do more often... invoke us to discuss things. If you filter through hateful comments, there is always an intelligent conversation to be had.

IMO funniest ironic comment way too many people say:

'I'm not a racist' followed by racist comment - you know who you are..

the fire next time is such a classic

@parkmw331 No, he's saying that the only way that black people can stop this cycle of self destruction they have got themselves into is to stop acting like stereotypical "niggas". I.e. stop all this gangbanging shit and actually start contributing to society. Which they are doing but it's slow progress unfortunately.

they arentthough. they still suck.

@garvoee
calm down there

@parkmw331 go head man, thats right on

every song on that album is fucking amazing
one of my favourite nas albums and i owne all of them so i can actually say that

C'MON IF U MISS'N THE MESSAGE U BLIND...THEY DNT NEED CHAINS TO INSLAVE US NOW ITS MENTAL...IT HURTS ME TO SEE THIS SHIT MAN...WE MADE THIS COUNTRY BLIND N CHAINED ...ALL WE HAD WAS HOPE...WHY U THINK MF' CAME ALL THE WAY TO AFRICA TO GET US .. DO SOME HOMEWORK ..WERE R GODS N EARTHS ..BUILD LKE NO OTHER STRUCTURE 1OF A KIND ..LOOK IN THE MIRROR U DA SLAVE N DA MASTER..PEACEGOD

shits dirtyyyy

White people always trying to tell Black people about how long ago slavery was and we should get over it. When white people get over being prejudice and racist then maybe we will.. its still racist acts going on every day from 200 years ago and still in 2011you think we should just forget about it just because yall tired... when yall try to explain our history and how we should feel about it yall just dig a dipper hole.

hes definetly the best rapper alive