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The Prediction by NAS

TRACK

NAS

The Prediction

Release date: 23rd November 1999

From Nastradamus
Track 1
1:19
Hip-Hop/RapMusicGangsta RapEast Coast Rap
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About This Track

'The Prediction' by NAS is a 1999 Hip-Hop/Rap track from the album 'Nastradamus'. The lyrics open with a direct address to brothers and sisters, then move into urgent, politically flavoured imagery, including references to weapons being hidden and an America held up as both fragile and contested, all wrapped in a forward-looking, combative cadence. A line also turns to work in hard conditions, with “lack of sunlight” and battle boots suggesting discipline amid constraint.

"The Prediction" is a track by NAS, from the album Nastradamus, released 23rd November 1999. The track is 1:19 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about NAS.

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NAS

NAS

Lyrics

The Prediction

[Rich Nice]
What's happenin brothers and sisters?
Welcome to our time

[Jessica Care Moore]
Afro-Angels hide my weapons in tangles
Black Star Spangled, fragile like hematite with the East oils I write
In spite the lack of sunlight, got my battle boots tight
Now that the government's gone, can't tell your left from your right
We the assassins laughin while the New World's collapsin
Mother Earth's ribs crashed in, armored carways I'm blastin
As the Earth rebels now womb swells
The birth of Black Magic, savin my people force of habit
You can't find if you ain't never had it
Spiritually crafted blackness and hair-twisted ghetto embargo lifted
Power-shiftin comb-fistin I predict Goddesses you runnin after witches
I kiss my fourteen stitches

Keep all my baby girl wishes
I predict all the oceans turn dry
Not one baby girl will cry as you attempt to grow broccoli from the desert
We will take our pregnant bodies, drink from underground rivers
Wash your face between our legs
While recreating humanity, we will summon yem and yaw
Search for our fertility, ban all pink and yellow pills
Ban all pink and yellow pills
I predict killing fields of ghetto armpatch anti-Hatch
Hate groups will be bombed
Childbirth becomes outlawed
Always will be branded numbered and barred
All paper money is gone
Though few scholars can interpret our scrolls
Your sky has holes
We know the young is old
Nastradamus tell us how the story gets told

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Track details

From Nastradamus

1:191999
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Nastradamus
Nastradamus
NAS
23rd November 1999
Track number
1
Release year
1999
  1. 1The Prediction
    1:19
  2. 2Life We Chose
    4:09
  3. 3Nastradamus
    4:12
  4. 4Some Of Us Have Angels
    4:15

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  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Jessica Care Moore, Rich Nice
    Writer
    Jessica Care Moore, Richard Jackson (12)
    Producer
    Nas, Rich Nice
    Producer
    Nas, Rich Nice
    Bass
    Delroy Cooper
    Keyboards
    Rich Nice
    Vocals
    Jessica Care Moore, Rich Nice
    Additional Vocals
    Rich Nice
    Mastering Engineer
    Chris Gehringer
    Mixing Engineer
    Rich Nice, Rich Travali
    Percussion
    Rudy Bird
    Recording Engineer
    Jason Goldstein
    Sound Effects
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    Vibraphone
    Wilburn "Squidly" Cole
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