It Was Written Tabs:
- The Message »
- Affirmative Action
Song-"The Message"
Artist-Nas
Album-It Was Written(1996)
Tabbed By-mAsZ1dAh
*Standard Tuning*
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This Song Is Just Basically A Guitar Riff That Was Sampled From Someone
Else And Looped,But It's Easy And Fun To Play,Just Keep Repeating It
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Chris Average |
#1 by Chris Essery at Jul 15, 1978 at 9:04 PM EST |
| The Fake thug, no love, sentence was a diss to tupac. Saying he was a fake thug, all the sudden got big in hiphop and got into the whole gangsta/thug act | |
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Charley Rhythm Player |
#2 by Charley Hockin at Jun 27, 1987 at 10:14 PM EST |
| what a fucking awesome song cant believe no one has commented | |
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Doolittle Lead Player |
#3 by Doolittle at Jun 19, 1990 at 4:45 AM EST |
| The only connection that I know of is that on "Against All Odds", Pac says something to the effect of "This little nigga named Nas think he live like me, talking bout he left the hospital took five like me" (referencing the "Left the hospital that same night, what" line. Nas was New York, and obviously Pac had his problems with that. He was pretty much saying that Nas was a phony, and was definetly not a thug. | |
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Gladis Wanna Be |
#4 by Gladis McHumphry at Dec 3, 1990 at 6:29 AM EST |
| the line thats goes "a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers" is so true. Nas is hip hops most poetic. this song is real | |
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Mikel Average |
#5 by Mikel A. at Jun 18, 1994 at 9:44 PM EST |
| awesome. | |
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Matt Lead Player |
#6 by Matt Spencer at Mar 7, 2000 at 5:49 AM EST |
| isnt this song about 2pac? i heard its like a sublimal diss 2 him but i cant make any connections ? any help out there? | |
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brian Average |
#7 by brian haun at Oct 19, 2000 at 8:09 AM EST |
| awesome. | |
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Alex Average |
#8 by Alex Zaphiropoulos at Mar 17, 2004 at 1:12 AM EST |
| This song is pretty much ambigous until you ask Nas who he was talking about on certain lines. I think the intro-- "fake thug, no love, you get the slug, CB4 gusto your luck low I didn't know till I was drunk, though" is about 2 pac. I was on a Nas board, a while back, and someone said that 2 pac and Nas had a meeting at a bar before both disses were released. Pac talked to him in great depth--I think the "I didn't know till I was drunk, though" is in reference to that meeting. Then this line-- "You freak niggaz played out, get fucked and ate out Prostitute turned bitch, I got the gauge out" I think he's calling Tupac a prostitue because many people fell that the whole East coast West coast beef was created by Tupac as a way of furthering his record sales. I think Nas is calling him a prostitue of the recording industry. I can't really say where he was trying to go with the little story in the second verse. Pretty crazy song. | |
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