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Nas – Made You Look: God’s Son Live

May 29, 2010 2:02 pm
jmcguiness03
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(photos by DJ Starchild, who stood in line for 2 hours to be in the front row, soooo…props for that!)

Nas – Made You Look: God's Son Live

This a bootleg/unofficial release from the "Made You Look: God's Son Live" DVD. I was lucky enough to get to see Nas and Damian Marley at the Wiltern on Wilshire/Western last night for the Distant Relatives tour. Both the show and the album are solid, and it was my first time seeing Nas live, though I had seen Damian two times previously at the Mateel and Reggae On The River up in Humboldt. The show was tight, and the band was off the wall, but there's something about the dichotomy between Nas & Marley seemed to me to be a little off sometimes…like how can you go from a great cover of Damian's father's (Bob Marley) "War", and then transition into Nas's "Hate Me Now"? That shit doesn't make any sense…One song a speech by Haile Selassie turned into a timeless song, a militant call for equality for the continent of Africa and it's peoples spread across the globe, the next a song about being hated for clothes and jewelery? Just didn't seem to fit in with the theme of the album or the show, but of course, maybe the album is named "Distant" Relatives for a reason.

Of course, hearing the old jams off the Illmatic album, as well as "Nas Is Like", "If I Ruled The World" among others, performed by a full band who absolutely handled business, makes any complaint I may have trivial, and I was so hype after that it was absurd. Marley handled business as well, and even though it was the third time I had seen him live, the first two times were before Welcome To Jamrock or Distant Relatives were released. Every time I've seen him though, he's held it down, and there's something special about seeing Bob Marley's son continue to make music and put on shows in the same spirit as his father. This album was released in 2004, and as far as I know, the only live album Nas has out, even though it's an unofficial release, so until the DVD/Soundtrack for the Distant Relatives tour gets dropped, enjoy. And buy a ticket, it's worth the doe.

A1 - The Cross
A2 - Got Ur Self A
A3 – The World Is Yours
A4 – It Ain't Hard To Tell
A5 – N.Y. State Of Mind
A6 – Life's A Bitch
A7 – Sweet Dreams
A8 – If I Ruled The World
A9 – Nas Is Like
B1 Zone Out B2 You're Da Man B3 Rewind B4 Last Real N***** Alive B5 Get Down B6 Mastermind B7 One Mic B8 Ether B9 Made You Look

Nas – Made You Look: God's Son Live

A1		The Cross
A2		Got Ur Self A
A3		The World Is Yours
A4		It Ain't Hard To Tell
A5		N.Y. State Of Mind
A6		Life's A Bitch
A7		Sweet Dreams
A8		If I Ruled The World
A9		Nas Is Like
B1		Zone Out
B2		You're Da Man
B3		Rewind
B4		Last Real N***** Alive
B5		Get Down
B6		Mastermind
B7		One Mic
B8		Ether
B9		Made You Look