I told myself I wasn’t going to write about Nas’ new album . . . but how can I not, I mean, it’s Nas. After his first album I fell in love . . . but then he changed (typical guy). There were of course little glimpses of his former self sprinkled throughout his subsequent releases . . . and like a complicated relationship I clung to the good (Memory Lane, The World is Yours, One Mic, etc.) trying to ignore all the bad (and yes, some of it: You Owe Me, Oochie Wally Remix, Zone Out, etc. was really bad)… A few of you sent me cuts from his new album “Nas” (thank goodness he went with this title)– and all I can say is that I’m hopefully optimistic. I figure I’ll spend a day to digest it and get back to you. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

I’ve written about Enstru-mental before (they did that awesome Obama shirt) and I’m loving some of their newest releases. I thought this shirt was especially apropos considering the topic of this post!

Great, now I’m going to have Oochie Wally stuck in my head all day!

Also, on a side note, I spent half of my morning checking out Marcus Troy’s blog (thanks for the e-mail)… I’m still scratching my head at the Obama Obama a-milli freestyle….