This, Gimme Yours, & Mo’ Money could interchange on Illmatic with almost any three songs and Nas would still claim the greatest hip-hop album of all time. Some lazy production on a couple tracks, but this album is the B version of Illmatic with a few A++ tracks.
We was already molded into people's minds as mulignanes Now we more fucked up with a mayor named Giuliani You can try to blind me, analyze but can't define me My mind's divine, heavily entwined with Gandhi's Far from feeble, I leave your nostrils hard to breathe through 'Cause my cerebrals are more of a higher plane than the Hebrews My mic devotion brings out my deepest emotions Overdosing wannabes posing, sending them through convulsions Too hard to follow, you took a bite but couldn't swallow Your mind's boggled, but I'm as deep as Donald Goines novels My whole persona's kinda laid back like a recliner And since a minor, I been fucking with marijuana Wavy-haired, my skin got a money getting glare Strictly menace wear, macking offa Guinness beer So where it all begins is here, destiny and me finally meet So how can I be weak? I'm rather unique
WHO HERE IS SAYING THEY ARE CALLING THE FBI OVER THIS SONG AND NEVER HAVE ANY REAL PLANS TO ? Except the fact that that whole post-1926 Macedonia and surrounding countries genocide and that post-1940 NYC Black Nazi German pride and the following genocide did happen
[Pete Rock] rock the house (rock the house) east New York, east New York east New York, east New York east New York, east New York my man AZ to the fullest
[Verse 1: AZ] we was already loyal to people's minds and mulianis now we more fucked up with a mayor named Guliani you can try to bomb me analyze but can't define me my mind's divine heavily entwined with Ghandi's far from feeble, I leave your nostrils hard to breathe through cause my cerebral's are more of a higher plane than the Hebrews my mic devotion brings out my deepest emotions overdosing wannabes posing sending them through convulsions to hard to follow, you took a bite but couldn't swallow your mind's boggled but I'm as deep as Donald Goines novels my whole persona's kinda laid back like a recliner and since my minor, I been fucking with marijuana wavy-haired, my skin got a money getting glare strictly menace wear, macking offa Guinness beer so where it all begins is here destiny and me finally meet so how can I be weak? I'm rather unique
[Chorus:] [scratched in w/ Pete Rock ad-libs] why, why, why I'm rather unique [Big Daddy Kane] why I'm rather unique
[Verse 2: AZ] my verbals rip shit Brains give birth to thoughts in triplets fuck it I'm on some flip shit ready to let my clip spit, dramatical vocals release shells like automatics Do music's magical causing any battle to be tragical I got styles sick as hell, sicker than sickle cell anemia slaughter your circulatory like lukemia filled with larceny, who want parts of me? I'm vicious, mad malicious cause it's real on this road to riches I got this mastered, other rappers'll craft it weak and wicked camoflauged as killers how they speak and kick it peep this uniqueness nonbelievers I'm leaving speechless left to chokers and skunk smoke was coming through the speakers surgically nice with any verbal device trife, breathing life into mics my insight's beyond the twilight so die, fight, no surrender, no retreat techniques speak I'm rather unique
[Chorus: w/ ad-libs]
[Verse 3: AZ] so it's gonna take more than your astrologist to knowledge this a physiologist couldn't even figure out the exoticness raps demolishing certified the way I style it my wordplay blaze with the rays of ultraviolence my culture's smiling, getting more in depth with each breath my biography follows the footsteps of Malcolm X money and sex, Gore-Tex Donna Karan and Guess finesse, success through the life stress mics I blessed puffing trees to get me high as trapeze flipping Japanese at ease when I'm stacking G's so let's discuss, plus degrees how the rhyme forces the source for thoughts that's lost so don't cross cause it'll cost the ghetto savior, smooth, the real playa with flavor moves be major with unexplainable behavior the word's on the street so keep your ears to the concrete [why, why, why I'm rather unique]
Ran into this song back in 2011. College. Such a beautiful time. Real ones do they research and learn the real. This song represents true hip hop. Stay up everyone who’s with the real. In Jesus name.
This is my favorite AZ song.
"…So die or fight; no surrender, no retreat
Techniques speak, I'm rather unique…"
2023 missing the days back when….
Az flow was on another level
My fav track of one of my fav albums. Disposable arts, Illmatic and Doe or Die. East coast kings!
Az Rather Unique and Nas Take it in Blood are my two favorite lyrical performances by them
There a 'reason' why he is the ONLY featured artist on illmatic.
LYRICAL MASTERPIECE
Best flow ever.
Most underrated song in music history
This, Gimme Yours, & Mo’ Money could interchange on Illmatic with almost any three songs and Nas would still claim the greatest hip-hop album of all time. Some lazy production on a couple tracks, but this album is the B version of Illmatic with a few A++ tracks.
I'm gonna see him live tomorrow!
This whole album should be an study guide on how to rap
Damn, AZ had an unreal delivery for the bars♥️
AZ be sitting pretty. Dudes definitely paying millions for his lyrics
I got this mastered other rappers'll graphed it
This song made Christ wanna join the KKK !
simpler realer tougher more soulful times……and people.
Still one of the best most slept on MCs but those who know…he’s rather unique
Those were the days mannn #hiphop
We was already molded into people's minds as mulignanes
Now we more fucked up with a mayor named Giuliani
You can try to blind me, analyze but can't define me
My mind's divine, heavily entwined with Gandhi's
Far from feeble, I leave your nostrils hard to breathe through
'Cause my cerebrals are more of a higher plane than the Hebrews
My mic devotion brings out my deepest emotions
Overdosing wannabes posing, sending them through convulsions
Too hard to follow, you took a bite but couldn't swallow
Your mind's boggled, but I'm as deep as Donald Goines novels
My whole persona's kinda laid back like a recliner
And since a minor, I been fucking with marijuana
Wavy-haired, my skin got a money getting glare
Strictly menace wear, macking offa Guinness beer
So where it all begins is here, destiny and me finally meet
So how can I be weak? I'm rather unique
Pete Rock!!! The man with the GOLDEN TOUCH.
It's a god dammit this is recent , never gets old,.
Realest. Album cover top 10
WHO HERE IS SAYING THEY ARE CALLING THE FBI OVER THIS SONG AND NEVER HAVE ANY REAL PLANS TO ? Except the fact that that whole post-1926 Macedonia and surrounding countries genocide and that post-1940 NYC Black Nazi German pride and the following genocide did happen
"Rather Unique"
(feat. Pete Rock)
[Pete Rock]
rock the house (rock the house)
east New York, east New York
east New York, east New York
east New York, east New York
my man AZ to the fullest
[Verse 1: AZ]
we was already loyal to people's minds and mulianis
now we more fucked up with a mayor named Guliani
you can try to bomb me
analyze but can't define me
my mind's divine heavily entwined with Ghandi's
far from feeble, I leave your nostrils hard to breathe through
cause my cerebral's are more of a higher plane
than the Hebrews
my mic devotion brings out my deepest emotions
overdosing wannabes posing
sending them through convulsions
to hard to follow, you took a bite but couldn't swallow
your mind's boggled
but I'm as deep as Donald Goines novels
my whole persona's kinda laid back like a recliner
and since my minor, I been fucking with marijuana
wavy-haired, my skin got a money getting glare
strictly menace wear, macking offa Guinness beer
so where it all begins is here
destiny and me finally meet
so how can I be weak?
I'm rather unique
[Chorus:]
[scratched in w/ Pete Rock ad-libs]
why, why, why I'm rather unique
[Big Daddy Kane] why I'm rather unique
[Verse 2: AZ]
my verbals rip shit
Brains give birth to thoughts in triplets
fuck it I'm on some flip shit
ready to let my clip spit, dramatical
vocals release shells like automatics
Do music's magical causing any battle to be tragical
I got styles sick as hell, sicker than sickle cell anemia
slaughter your circulatory like lukemia
filled with larceny, who want parts of me?
I'm vicious, mad malicious
cause it's real on this road to riches
I got this mastered, other rappers'll craft it
weak and wicked camoflauged as killers
how they speak and kick it
peep this uniqueness
nonbelievers I'm leaving speechless
left to chokers and skunk smoke
was coming through the speakers
surgically nice with any verbal device
trife, breathing life into mics
my insight's beyond the twilight
so die, fight, no surrender, no retreat
techniques speak
I'm rather unique
[Chorus: w/ ad-libs]
[Verse 3: AZ]
so it's gonna take more than your astrologist
to knowledge this
a physiologist couldn't even figure out the exoticness
raps demolishing certified the way I style it
my wordplay blaze with the rays of ultraviolence
my culture's smiling, getting more in depth with each breath
my biography follows the footsteps of Malcolm X
money and sex, Gore-Tex Donna Karan and Guess
finesse, success through the life
stress mics I blessed
puffing trees to get me high as trapeze
flipping Japanese at ease when I'm stacking G's
so let's discuss, plus degrees
how the rhyme forces the source for thoughts that's lost
so don't cross cause it'll cost
the ghetto savior, smooth, the real playa with flavor
moves be major
with unexplainable behavior
the word's on the street so keep your ears to the concrete
[why, why, why I'm rather unique]
[chorus: w/ ad-libs]
Classic Joint
This song was in heavy rotation as a youth.
i’m 17 and az is hands down one of the most slept in muthafuckas to ever throw down
Eminem entire infinite LP sounds like this song.
This summertime vibes
Ran into this song back in 2011. College. Such a beautiful time. Real ones do they research and learn the real. This song represents true hip hop. Stay up everyone who’s with the real. In Jesus name.
Truly amazing. A timeless masterpiece constructed by two of the best in the game. These lyrics shit on 99% of anything released in the last 20 years.
I always thought he was one of the best rappers