Ok I got some gripes about this song, but I can't help to just let it go and enjoy it and be happy something positive actually made the popular rap world. The problem comes when NAS goes into this "HIS-Story" verse with flat out incorrect information and lies. Heres the verse: "Be, be, 'fore we came to this country We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys It was empires in Africa called Kush Timbuktu, where every race came to get books To learn from black teachers who taught Greeks and Romans Asian Arabs and gave them gold when Gold was converted to money it all changed Money then became empowerment for Europeans The Persian military invaded They learned about the gold, the teachings and everything sacred Africa was almost robbed naked Slavery was money, so they began making slave ships Egypt was the place that Alexander the Great went He was so shocked at the mountains with black faces Shot up they nose to impose what basically Still goes on today, you see?" How many historical inaccuracies CAN YOU FIND? And why does he attribute EGYPTIAN culture to BLACK? They are 2 seprate races. In fact Egyptians held blacks as SLAVES. But I guess I cant really complain because A) Its better than having the other rap crap playing on the radio and B) It's got a cool old school beat.
what the fu$$ do you know yousheltered lost boy. Real egyptians were black..read your history books..and no not the ones that have been manipulated to suggest everything good came from greece