A case for Nas, hip-hop's finest MC
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Nas will turn 40 this year, and this summer will mark 22 years since the Queens native first heard himself on the radio. Let's take a look back at some moments in his career. With "Life is Good," Queens native Nas has ninth No. 1 hip-hop album since 1994 Nas: "I just think Biggie was something else. He was the Hitchcock of this thing" Nas dubbed next Rakim, but he says there was not another Raklm, won't be another Nas (CNN) -- Let's begin with a disclaimer: Nas doesn't endorse the following sentence. But he's the greatest lyricist of all time. Those words were carefully chosen: "lyricist" over "rapper" or "hip-hop artist;" "greatest" instead of "most successful;" "all time" rather than "today." Those distinctions are important. Still, Nas isn't buying it.
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Nas
Overall Sentiment: -0.038739
Relevance: 0.885515
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| -0.0117158 | "doing their thing, talking and kicking it," Nas recalled. ... |
| -0.190252 | Nas said he was "humbled" ... |
| -0.145166 | "I just think Biggie was something else. He was the Hitchcock of this thing, man. He told you a story. There was a seriousness that came with it that can't compare with nothing," Nas said. ... |
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Biggie
Overall Sentiment: 0.129232
Relevance: 0.204388
Jay
Overall Sentiment: -0.0358732
Relevance: 0.188767
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| 0.0101359 | Jigga himself called "Ether" ... |
| -0.433752 | Jigga himself called "Ether" an inescapable "figure-four leg lock"). |
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Kendrick Lamar
Overall Sentiment: 0.166669
Relevance: 0.171049
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| 0.168466 | "It's important for me to give an honest opinion on the way the world has changed. I feel like it's just who I am today," he said. ... |
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Snoop Dogg
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Relevance: 0.169023
Tupac Shakur
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Relevance: 0.16433
Talib Kweli
Overall Sentiment: 0.0696197
Relevance: 0.161523
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| 0 | "Takeover," he explained ... |
| -0.192088 | "Takeover," he explained why he had sampled Nas' lyrics on "Dead Presidents": |
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Hova
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Lupe Fiasco
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Olu Dara
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| -0.0851573 | "There wasn't a lot of things that I wanted to do where African-Americans were achieving what we achieve today because it just wasn't allowed, funny enough to say," said the son of jazz cornet player Olu Dara. |
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Langston Hughes
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Damian Marley
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Coleridge
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Ghostface Killah
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Rick Ross
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Pharoahe Monch
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Dr. Dre
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Busta Rhymes
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Aunt Esther
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Luther Campbell
Overall Sentiment: 0.237261
Relevance: 0.134912
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| 0.115 | "It's always going to be youthful expression. It's always going to be a good time. It's always going to be poetry, in the vein of Langston Hughes. At the same time, it's entertaining and party and fun like Luther Campbell," he said, ... |
| 0.152144 | "It's always going to be youthful expression. It's always going to be a good time. It's always going to be poetry, in the vein of Langston Hughes. At the same time, it's entertaining and party and fun like Luther Campbell," he said, "but it's always going to just be the youth expressing themselves over the sounds that move people in the best way." |
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Eminem
Overall Sentiment: -0.262991
Relevance: 0.134402
Ivan Van Sertima
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Dirty Bastard
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Sean Price
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R. Kelly
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Relevance: 0.129958
Huey P. Newton
Overall Sentiment: -0.031717
Relevance: 0.129538
Afrika Bambaataa
Overall Sentiment: 0.301679
Relevance: 0.128675
Raekwon
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.126363
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Relevance: 0.124908
Nases
Overall Sentiment: -0.162367
Relevance: 0.123936
Slick Rick
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Cooley
Overall Sentiment: 0.200708
Relevance: 0.122672
Kanye West
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.11876
J. Cole
Overall Sentiment: -0.55941
Relevance: 0.115804
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