Boomin’ From The Stoop: Nas’ Second Single

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I remember when Nas used be called possibly the greatest MC of all time: Illmatic was classic, It Was Written was classic, Stillmatic was classic, and God’s Son was nearly there. Then he dropped Hip Hop Is Dead and that debate STILL goes on 2 years after the fact. I’m not going to lie, Nas has messed up several times in his career: he dropped Nastradamus, failed to make Ill Will stand out as a record label, and who could forget that song “Who Killed it” off Hip Hop Is Dead? However, no matter what, you still liked Nas because of all he had done in the game and more importantly how real he was.

Now, it seems like Nas’ album Untitled has stalled in sales, and didn’t even go Gold, making it his least selling album to date, even though it’s one of his best without any doubt. Now, the QB veteran himself has released the second single from the album, “Make the World Go Round”. Though B-Easy said that this was probably the weakest track off the album, I gotta say I’m liking it. Should be a hot single, so watch out for it on your airwaves.

Below this post is the music video for it; Nas is pretty much chillin’ in the background while rapping; pretty ill video. Game’s verse is hot, and Chris Breezy’s singing is pretty infectious. I’m also really feeling the beat; it’s something I feel like I could just chill to. What do you think? Check it out, and don’t forget you got this video straight from The Stoop!

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  1. The song’s alrite…. Nas didn’t give himself many choices on this album nor did he have any noteworthy features. For the most part the beats are on the weaker side so that kinda kills any chance of him moonlighting a beat over lyrics to reach commercial…. it’s not rocket science he didn’t go gold.

  2. I think the CD is that shit. Make the world go round is one of the weakest but its a really good song so that just goes to show you what else is on the CD. I think America should have been his next single. Its one of my favorite on the CD.

  3. I don’t really know. I mean, “Make The World Go Around” firstly, is defintely the stand-out from the album. Kind of like a black sheep from a mob of white sheep, kind of like that thing. While the song isnt’ bad, it isn’t the level of Nas. It seems a bit pop-oriented too, and even that, theres a weird combination (I know The Game and NaS did a song in “Hip Hop Is Dead” but, Chris Brown?) Well, I don’t think it’ll be a very hot single. It doesn’t have that appeal.

  4. Make The World Go Around is by far the weakest joint on the album, I thought he should have picked another joint. By the way God Son was a really good album, I liked it better than Stillmatic. I feel Stillmatic was overrated just because of the infamous “Ether” song which was great of course, but the whole album was not a classic to me but you are right about It Was Written and Illmatic though, I am could have been really good but it was missing some elements, I think Lost Tapes was a really really good album as well.

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