Blog: Pretty Much Amazing

Another new one from Nas ’s upcoming Life is Good is the Large Professor -featuring, classic hip-hop-indebted ode to making it through impossible odds “Loco-Motive.” Those subway sounds and Wild West chords (courtesy producer No I.D. ) conjure up images of gritty New York cult films like The Warriors , and Nas hardly lets up on the witty ferocity over the song’s four minutes, with just a little help from the Professor , who mostly acts as hypeman. Nas dedicates this one to everyone “stuck in [...]