Nas - Good Mornin (Unreleased)

YEAH DJ ENVY THE PEOPLES CHOICE!!! HAHA. I can’t fuckin' stand when DJ’s yell at the beginning of a track and almost ruin the whole experience. Thankfully Nas is so talented you are able to look past the sometimes annoying DJ. But, this is not a rant against DJ’s because after all DJ’s did come before MC’s back when Hip-Hop was in its early stages in the boroughs of NYC.

The next track I’m bringing is an unreleased Nas project ft. Ron Isley on the chorus. It seems more often than not Nas is telling a story or painting a picture of a sequence of events for the listener. Here are the first nine bars of the first verse that sets the mood and tempo for the rest of the song.

Good morning the same old jerks goin' to work/
Garbage man pick up the dirt, the birds don't chirp/
There's this nice Lady I know, she always speak/
Wit her two children, headed to the school building/
Then rush home and again to lit housin/
And they are puttin' out the new ceilings/
Cuz her shit is leakin'/
Water keep drippin'down, so she beefin'/
Husband keep cheatin', he've been out all-evenin'/

The rhyme scheme is simple but the way that Nas manages to use simple words to make the listener they are really with that woman walking her children to work. It is also a real life situation that is common now days and that is a mother practically raising her children without the help of their father who in this case is cheating.

Good morning, police shifts the hood is on-in'/
So they drive around all-day wit bench warrants/
Eatin donuts and sippin' on coffee/
Ooops!, sudden stops spills on the walkie-talkie/
Damn this nigga is a creep/
Whispers to police at the wino in the middle of the street/
Wit missin' front teeth twist blunts deep in the cut/
It's my nigga so I holler it up, niggaz good morning/

The instrumental, Nas’ flow, and the vocals by Ron Isley make this a track I wish Nas would have put on one of his albums. Either way I’m glad this piece of work got to see the light of day. More Nas songs are sure to be featured in the future.