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NAS is ready for a Black President

There's an amazing new pre-release NAS mixtape. It's kind of off the hook; they did an amazing thing where NAS shared some of his lyrics, and Green Lantern dropped some beats. It's kind of actually a mixtape where there's parts of the real soon-to-be-released album in there, and lots of original content.

I put a copy up here with a YouSendit link, but there's one track that's kind of amazingly goosebump inducing. I actually came to tears the first few times I heard it; the samples from "Yes We Can" are obvious, but exactly as they should be. I'll put it up here as a single track but i gotta say that the whole mixtape works great together.

Email me if the link expires; I'll re-up it.

I have a particular fondness for NAS because I went to work for his record label and in his town when I first discovered his beats. He kind of powered and motivated more than a few days and nights working on Madison Avenue. It was a weird thing, and I'm a freaking whiteboy so I certainly understand the silliness of me bobbing and weaving with his lyrics coming off my lips, but what can I say? I love it.

June 20, 2008 · permalink · by oof