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Hip Hop Is Dead
Hip-Hop · 2006 · 17 tracks · 1h 3m

Hip Hop Is Dead

Nas

A conceptual wake for a culture in transition. Nas delivers dense, elegiac bars over polished but dusty production to interrogate the state of the art form.

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It's a high-concept funeral for the rap game led by its greatest living poet.

A sophisticated and somber interrogation of cultural legacy and commercial decay.

Hip Hop Is Dead · vs · Nas
Defiant+1.1σ

Defiant saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 17 Tracks · 1h 3m
01
Money Over Bullshit
4:16
02
You Can’t Kill Me
3:15
03
Carry On Tradition
3:49
04
Where Are They Now
2:44
05
Hip Hop Is Dead
3:46
06
Who Killed It?
3:10
07
Black Republican
3:45
08
Not Going Back
4:10
09
Still Dreaming
3:38
10
Hold Down the Block
3:58
11
Blunt Ashes
4:03
12
Let There Be Light
4:28
13
Play On Playa
3:33
14
Can’t Forget About You
4:34
15
Hustlers
4:07
16
Hope
3:05
17
The N…
2:49
Moments Worth Waiting For
The cinematic tension of the title track where the Iron Butterfly sample creates a funeral march for the genre.
The historic lyrical trade-off with Jay-Z on Black Republican over a grandiose, operatic backdrop.
Nas adopting a 1920s noir detective persona on Who Killed It? to investigate the death of hip-hop.
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