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Performer: NaS
Ft: Nashawn

Introduction
Nas was born in New York in
September 14, 1973.
His father Olu Dura, is a jazz and blues musician from Natchez, Mississippi.
As a young child, Nas and his family relocated to the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, Queen. His neighbor, Willy "Ill Will" Graham , influenced him by playing records.
His parents divorced in 1985,when he was in Grade 8. He dropped off school and start wandering with the company of music. Introduction
His songs always use outspoken words to expose the hidden face of street life and various social phenomenons.
He educated himself about African culture through the Five Percent
Nation, the Bible and the Qur 'an.
Last word is the 8th track off of Nas ' fourth studio album Nastradamus.

Basic summary
Last words was seperated by two verses. One is from
Nashawn and the other is from Nas. Nashawn shows the picture of ignorance and the desire of vantage (to kill people he doesn 't like) while Nas was impersonated to a prison cell. Nas 's verse tells the life of inmates and thinks prison is the home to return to.

I wanna be more than that bullet that go through ya zone
Wanna be the lead that tear through ya skin and crack bones
Parallelism
Wanna be the heat you feel makin ya moan sentence Wanna be the hospital bed that you lay on
Wanna be the god you feel when you pray-on
To emphasize the
It 's Nashawn the type that get the hyper calm feeling that the
I 'm gonna kill something
Rap cats be real frontin speaker Fuck shootin legs extremely Cock back put his brains on the pave wanted to hurt
Nigga how bout that
Close range with the gauge get payed and kill people
First rapper to shoot off stage and desire to have
Turn the front page the next day my life is like a book supreme rights
A twenty four hour song without no hook
Millennium Thug computer chips up in my slug and power to
Turn corners when you turn corners, know who to



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