Video: "Intro" and "Message to the Feds"

2001's "Stillmatic Freestyle" will live in infamy for all the wrong reasons. Hip Hop historians will remember it fondly for the few clunky Roc swipes pasted on towards its conclusion. The mixtape cut constitutes the first non-sublim shot fired in the most important battle of the modern era, every hip hop nerd's wet dream. It also happened to be one of Nasir Jones' greatest verses in a career long on charged monologues. Fittingly spitting over the Coldcut remix of his idol's biggest contribution, Nas effortlessly hits on every cylinder, delivering a two minute sermon/mission statement the likes of which hadn't [...]

2001???s ???Stillmatic Freestyle??? will live in infamy for all the wrong reasons. Hip Hop historians will remember it fondly for the few clunky Roc swipes pasted on towards its conclusion. The mixtape cut constitutes the first non-sublim shot fired in the most important battle of the modern era, every hip hop nerd???s wet dream. It also happened to be one of Nasir Jones??? greatest verses in a career long on charged monologues. Fittingly spitting over the Coldcut remix of his idol???s biggest contribution, Nas effortlessly hits on every cylinder, delivering a two minute sermon/mission statement the likes of which hadn???t [...]