LONG STORY SHORT

Dinosaur Dog was the name we gave to the flavoured musical-blogging whose quality, we like to believe, does not lie in the unstoppable race for news. Long story short it’s also after 2 years of existence the name of an eternal comeback, of an unrelenting struggle between inspiration and procrastination. Anyway we’re not gone, we’re just there. Just to let you know.

A long time ago, Nas was also the name the crowd gave to the quintessence of great hip hop, of a MC who released probably one of the best album in rap history, 1994’s Illmatic. Apart those “ups”, the story of Nas has also been rythmed by great downs, such as in the end of the 1990’s. The god’s Son got lost somewhere in the twists and turns of fame.

  

The discontinuity of Nas discography was probably sealed right after he released the one masterpiece we evocated before. How to compose after such an Everest of poetics and mastered produced beats? History taught us how difficult it is to be a constant game changer in music. But not impossible.

  

Life is good came after 4 years of silence for Nasty Nas, 4 years during which he had to deal with the vicissitude of life: his divorce with R’n’B singer Kelis, his child growing up, or you know just the difficulty of existence. Adult life takes its toll.

And that’s what that album is about. Acceptance. Acceptance of the changing and vanishing of time, of the obstacles one has to face, of what is lost and will never be paid back.  Acceptance and Faith because living is the only piece of satisfaction we have. And in the end it is not that bad. Nas turns 38 and his existential-unbeatable stream of consciousness flow has not dried up.

“Life is good” is no revolution. The floor is not to be shaken. No deepened changes in rap music will occur. “He is no swag, no green and black “. He is where he is supposed to be, becoming a standard, its own genre.

In his kingdom, Nas is the only one to reign.