Nas- I Am...The Audiobiography

I see heads are starving so much for this life is good album they're not finding sleep no more..
So here's my promised gift to y'all Nas fans. Hope you like it.

I always thought there's a huge amount of Nas tapes on the net but there's mostly best ofs & blends. Rarely anything to match or at least pay homage to nas' unparalleled creativity.

Not saying that I did, but I tried. I Am the AUDIO-BIOGRAPHY tells a story. I took some of his best & most personal verses, as well as some of his Escobar persona verses to retrace all the stages Nas went thru during his life & rap career.

So this goes from him telling how he viewed the world from his mama's womb, to growing up in the QB projects, getting caught up in crime, drug trafficking..living the life & portraying the mirage of a drug lord...til the unavoidable downfall...loneliness, depression, and eventual death...god given second chance, glorious comeback for God's Son... coming full circle, reflectin back on life, good & bad decisions, honest & humble like only Nas can be in his raps!

tracklist

01-intro
02-fetus_(belly_button_window)
03-poppa_was_a_player
04-teenage_thug
05-project_windows (original)
06-new-york_state_of_mind_part_II
07-the_message
08-one_love
09-eye_for_an_eye_ft_raekwon
10-escobar_'97
11-give_it_up_fast_ft_mobb_deep
12-firm_fiasco_ft_az
13-phone_tap_ft_az_dr_dre_&_nature
14-life_is_mine
15-mo'_money_mo'_murder_mo'_homicide_ft_AZ
16-street_dreamer_ft_r.kelly
17-gangsta tears
18-worst enemy
19-drunk_by_myself
20-undying_love
21-the_afterlife
22-amongst_kings
23-stillmatic_intro_(remix)
24-one_mic_(ty_fyffe_remix)
25-you're_da_man
26-my_way
27-rise_&_fall

To add creativity to this tape, i blended some of the songs with the original songs they sampled, you'll find many here & there throughout this listening experience.

I have 2 other volumes coming : one is nas straight spitting, murdering beats, the other one is nas on his more conscious, socially aware, mystic tip. They have even greater replay value than this one to me, as the Audiobiography tape is more of a concept mixtape. Hope i can release them in the next few days before the album drops, i need a title and cover for them. Overall there will be over 100 nas tracks mixed and 300+ of his best verses.

Speaking of covers, the Audiobiography was done by Ar El
contacts http://www.kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=20236

I asked him to make me a blend of the I Am cover, of course, and the Greatest Hits CD cover, which i believe, in a few back & forth sessions, he did perfectly

here's a short teaser i had done of the tape with the successive covers he made

before i let you discover the tape, a few things you will need to bear in mind while listening :

1/ i did the 3 tapes in 2005, around the time Streets Disciple dropped i think. i would love to have the time & talent to remake it bigger & better but i cant because....

2/ im no way a dj. i did these with a wack ass free software called Tplayer, with no beat synch, effects and alla that, just a cross fader... i literally mixed these songs with the arrow on the keyboard of my laptop... so not all the mixes are gonna be perfect... i tried to redo them last month but with my son i just dont have the time... you wouldnt believe how many time & patience i took me to do these 3 tapes...

3/ this is an AUDIO-BIOGRAPHY and not an Autobiography. So dont take this 1st degree. I obviously took verses where Nas spoke about his life but also storytelling verses or verses of his escobar era and tried to make a new story with all that, the story of his rhyming career from 1994 to 2005..

peep the comment section for what ur looking for!