Rass Kass: Nature of the threat

[lurkin2long]

I don't see how so many could sleep on the Water Proof MC. So much talent...what a waste...

simple, when u ever hear ras on radio??? real heads know, but he gets NO radio love and almost no video love!

 

[DreDee]

a dope song, beleived all of it when i first heard it

then i did my own research and read the lyrics, and alot of the shit he's saying isnt valid

for instance constatine commissions michael angelo to paint pictures of a white jesus. Both of them happened to live a thousand years apart from each other.

but props to a song of 7 mins of straight flowin

Yea, I figured that but if all it does is inspires you to pick up a book to check it for yourself thats a good thing, but don't ever take a "rapper" word for it. lol

 

[Hunter]

a dope song, beleived all of it when i first heard it

then i did my own research and read the lyrics, and alot of the shit he's saying isnt valid

for instance constatine commissions michael angelo to paint pictures of a white jesus. Both of them happened to live a thousand years apart from each other.

but props to a song of 7 mins of straight flowin

For sake of attention spans, it made sense for the lyrical flow to go that way. I mean it easily could have been a breath take and he ommited the noun. There has to be some artistic liberty when you try to do history in a 10 minute rap session. Certainly a King, in the same spirit as Constantine and wanting creative image control commissioned the painting. This is the important aspect of what he was saying. To me, it doesn't disturb the validity as much as it doesn't get thorough in naming guys working in the same vein. If that is your gripe then you are nitpicking. In any history of this length you would usually have interpretive gripes.

 

[Mello Mello]

Yea, I figured that but if all it does is inspires you to pick up a book to check it for yourself thats a good thing, but don't ever take a "rapper" word for it. lol

Yes...yup!

Ras Kass - Soul on Ice Demo's

Track Listing
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 1. Everything I Love
 2. Core Audience  
 3. High IQ              
 4. Won't Catch Me Runin'    
 5. Capital RAS              
 6. Blood Is Thicker Than Water  
 7. Interlude                
 8. Take A Deep Breath        
 9. Remain Anonymous          
10. Take A Deep Breath (Remix)  
11. WalkThe Walk

http://rapidshare.com/files/6498222/Soul_On_Ice_Demo_s-1994.zip

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

simple, when u ever hear ras on radio??? real heads know, but he gets NO radio love and almost no video love!

Back in the 90s in college I used to have his stuff in the Discman all the time on campus. A couple of times heads in class would ask me what I was jammin', and I noted the 1994 and 1996 projects. They'd never heard of them, let alone Ras for that matter. "Raz Kazz? What's that?" - I felt like knockin' some of these dumb fucks upside the head. So when the teacher asked (in a French class) what I was playin' ... I said ... "Le Ras Kass." - and she asked me to explain the sound/genre of hiphop dude was all about. Talk about awkward. Too many Lilith Fair people in one room listening to what I had to say.

 

[CPT Callamity]

Rass had a curse. That was he was one of the greatest yet had some of the shittiest productions in the world. He made a few good songs but if you listen to his music, the beats can't keep up with him. In college I was one of his biggest advocates because he was using vocabulary and painting pictures. If you can find the song "Still #1" download that. Rassasination did begin his fadeout but I still listen to Soul on Ice.

 

[Onyx]

Some was from Fracis Cress Welsing: http://www.blackconsciousness.com/sshop/welsing.html

and some was from REV. DR. ISHAKAMUSA BARASHANGO (RIP):

http://www.blackconsciousness.com/sshop/barashango.html

amongst other sources of course.

 

[Noketown]

Rass Kass is a fuckin genius. White people fear people like him that’s why they keep us listening to Two Step and the money hungry sell outs continue to make that type of music. It’s a damn shame people like Rass Kass will never be mainstream in this day and age.

 

[Count23]

Shame at what happened to dude's career...I've been hearing about this song for years, and now I've finally had the chance to listen to it...I knew about alot of what he was talking about already but a good drop none the less....THANKS!

 

[Cristar Mymine]

Shame at what happened to dude's career...I've been hearing about this song for years, and now I've finally had the chance to listen to it...I knew about alot of what he was talking about already but a good drop none the less....THANKS!

That's what happens when you rap about shit the masses don't want to listen to over shitty beats.

Same old shit with all these "great" lyricist. Why waste your time writing songs when you can't even get a good beat to go with it. You have to know that doing shit like that will put your lyrical work in vain.

 

[Mentor B]

That's what happens when you rap about shit the masses don't want to listen to over shitty beats.

Same old shit with all these "great" lyricist. Why waste your time writing songs when you can't even get a good beat to go with it. You have to know that doing shit like that will put your lyrical work in vain.

It's all about money. If Ras Kass could afford it, I'm sure he would get some beats from top producers like Kanye, Swiss, Premier, 9th Wonder, Alchemist, etc. for his upcoming project, The Autobiography of John Austin. See P. Diddy's Press Play

 

[playahaitian]

 

[Backshot Bully]

Dont forget "interview with the vampire." These are nmbers one and two on my sickest hip hop tracks list. Ras Kass know- the -ledge like a muuufucka. I just wished he could have put out more of this. only 2 i ever found.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vfxzjn Fuckin ridiculous

Ya'll late as fuck but this track was hot like dude above said peep interview with a vampire too Ras was a monster

 

[snark9]

i always loved 'the nature of the threat.'

i dont like the fact that he seems to try and walk back some of the song's tone for vlad in this interview.
he needs to own it.

also he needs to clean up some of his knowledge.
for example, what he says about humans, suggesting that the name 'hue'man is derived from meaning colored man, is wrong.

human comes from the fact that, unlike other animals, we bury our dead.
the root word for exhume, as in exhume a corpse from the grave, [ex being the prefix for un and hume for bury = unbury]
is the same for what gives us our name as a species.

 

[playahaitian]

i always loved 'the nature of the threat.'

i dont like the fact that he seems to try and walk back some of the song's tone for vlad in this interview.
he needs to own it.

also he needs to clean up some of his knowledge.
for example, what he says about humans, suggesting that the name 'hue'man is derived from meaning colored man, is wrong.

human comes from the fact that, unlike other animals, we bury our dead.
the root word for exhume, as in exhume a corpse from the grave, [ex being the prefix for un and hume for bury = unbury]
is the same for what gives us our name as a species.

i didn't feel he was walking it back

I respected the fact he said that some info on their wasn't exactly accurate

that shows maturity and the fact that STANDS behind it and wants it to be ACCURATE.