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TRACK

NAS

Rewind

Release date: 5th October 2001

From Stillmatic
Track 6
2:14
Hip-Hop/RapMusicHardcore RapEast Coast Rap
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About This Track

Nas constructs a narrative in reverse, beginning with a murder plot and unravelling backwards through a sexual encounter, a phone call, a moment in a van, and finally arriving at the moment the story truly begins. The conceit is simple but demanding: every action moves in the opposite direction, every word and gesture undone. A bullet returns to its chamber. Smoke retreats into a blunt. Clothes fall away and then reassemble. The device forces you to read the song twice to understand it properly, which is precisely the point. The production supports this temporal inversion without fanfare. Nas moves through the narrative with the clarity of someone recounting a sequence of events, his voice steady and unhurried, letting the backwards logic do the work. There's no strain in the performance, no winking at the listener. He simply tells the story as it unreels, and the listener catches up. By the time you reach the voicemail that sets everything in motion, the song has already shown you where it ends.

"Rewind" is a track by NAS, from the album Stillmatic, released 5th October 2001. The track is 2:14 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about NAS.

About the Artist

NAS

NAS

Lyrics

Rewind

Listen up gangstas and honeys with ya hair done
Pull up a chair hon' and put it in the air son
Dog, whatever they call you, god, just listen
I spit a story backwards, it starts at the ending

The bullet goes back in the gun
The bullet hole's closing this chest of a nigga
Now he back to square one
Screaming, "Shoot don't please"
I put my fifth back on my hip
It's like a VCR rewinding a hit
He put his hands back on his bitch
My caravan doors open up
I jumped back in the van and closed it shut

Going reverse, slowly prepared
My nigga Jungle utters out something crazy like, "Go he there"
Sitting in back of this chair, we hitting the roach
The smoke goes back in the blunt, the blunt gets bigger in growth
Jungle unrolls it, put his weed back in the jar
The blunt turns back into a cigar
We listen to Stevie, it sounded like heavy metal fans

I give my niggas dap, jump out the van back first
Back upstairs, took off the black shirt
I'm in the crib with the phone to my ear
Listen up so y'all can figure out the poem real clear
The voice on the phone was like, "Outside right we"
So with my mouth wide, holding my heat
Bullets I had plenty to squeeze, plenty for ya
'Cause Jungle said, "Block your on enemies the"

Hung up the phone, then the phone rang
I'm laid in the bed thinking 'bout this pretty young thing
Who left, she came back, her clothes just fell to the rug
She fell to my bed and gave me a hug
I told her, "No hell"
She talking 'bout, "Me kiss"
Bobbed her head then spit the nut back in my dick
Started sucking with no hands, a whole lotta spit
Then got up and put her bra back on her tits

Got fully dressed and told me, "Stressed really I'm"
Picked up her Gucci bag and left her nigga behind
Walking through the door, she rang the bell twice
I vomited Vodka back in my glass with juice and ice
The clock went back from three, to two, to one
And that's about the time the story begun
That's when I first heard the voice mail on the cell
It said, "Son we found that nigga we gotta kill"

Hey yo son, hey yo son, you hear me, you hear me?
Listen man, this dude right on the block, right now, man
I found him, right now, I see him right now!
Let's kill him

"Yo, this Nas, leave it. Peace"

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Track details

From Stillmatic

2:142001
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Album
Stillmatic
Stillmatic
NAS
6th October 2001
Track number
6
Release year
2001
  1. 1Stillmatic (The Intro)
    2:11
  2. 2Ether
    4:38
  3. 3Got Ur Self A Gun
    3:49
  4. 4Smokin'
    3:48
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Nas — Rewind

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  • 5You're da Man
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  • 6Rewind
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  • 7One Mic
    4:29
  • 82nd Childhood
    3:51
  • 9Destroy & Rebuild
    5:24
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    4:38
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    4:32
  • 12My Country (feat. Millennium Thug)
    5:13
  • 13What Goes Around (feat. Keon Bryce)
    5:00
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    3:29
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  • —No Idea’s Original (Original Version)
  • —You’re Da Man
  • —What Goes Around
  • —Rule
  • —Braveheart Party
  • —Every Ghetto
  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Large Professor, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Nas, Rick Rubin
    Producer
    Large Professor
    Producer
    Large Professor
    Assistant Engineer
    Jake Ninan, Paul Gregory
    Mastering Engineer
    Chris Gehringer
    Mixing Engineer
    Kevin Crouse
    Recording Engineer
    Kevin Crouse
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