God's Son

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God's Son
Studio album by Nas

Publication
(s)

December 13, 2002

Label (s) Ill Will / Columbia

Format (s)

compact disc

Genre (s)

Eastcoast hip-hop

Title (number)

14th

17 (Limited Edition)

running time

57 min 05 sec

66 min 13 sec (Limited Edition)

production

  • Nas
  • Salaam Remi
  • Alchemist
  • Chucky Thompson
  • Eminem
  • Saukrates
  • Alicia Keys
  • Ron Browz
  • Agile
  • Claudio Cueni
  • Michael Herring
chronology
From Illmatic To Stillmatic: The Remixes
(2002) 		God's Son Street's Disciple
(2004)

God's Son ( German  Son of God ) is the sixth album by the rapper Nas . It was released in December 2002 and includes the singles Made You Look , Get Down and I Can , a song whose melody is based on Beethoven's Für Elise . From Time Magazine was God's Son at the best hip-hop album of 2002 appointed. Nas dedicated to his mother, Ann Jones, who in April 2002 after two years of the album chemotherapy in breast cancer died. Then Nas went into the studio "full of energy" to record new songs for God's Son .

A spark went up a star blazing / Thinking of how amazing she was /
A angel gave me love / I'm thankful, to ever know a woman so real /
I pray when I marry my wife'll have one of your skillz /
But mom you could never be replaced /
I'd give my life up just to see you one more day

(An excerpt from Dance )

Nas chose the title out of respect for his mother. God's Son is referred to as Nas most personal album, as a lot of details from his private life are revealed. Nas himself says that in this phase of his life he gained a lot of experiences that made him mature and stronger. He has focused much more on feelings, mind and soul than on material things and wants to share this knowledge with his listeners.

God's Son entered the American album charts at # 12 and was verified as platinum on January 14, 2003 with 1 million records sold. In Germany God's Son was able to stay in the album charts for two weeks. The sound carrier occupied positions 89 and 91. The first single Made You Look is said to be a kind of New York street anthem. The music video for this was shot in the boroughs of Queens , Bronx and in the famous Rucker Park in Harlem .

Track list

  1. Get Down (produced by Nas & Salaam Remi)
  2. The Cross (produced by Eminem)
  3. Made You Look (produced by Salaam Remi)
  4. Last Real Nigga Alive (produced by Ron Browz)
  5. Zone Out (feat. The Bravehearts ) (produced by Salaam Remi)
  6. Hey Nas (feat. Claudette Ortiz & Kelis ) (produced by Salaam Remi)
  7. I Can (produced by Salaam Remi) uses Beethoven's Für Elise
  8. Book of Rhymes (produced by The Alchemist)
  9. Thugz Mansion (NY) ( feat.Tupac Shakur & J. Phoenix) (produced by Claudio Cuenci & Michael Herring)
  10. Mastermind (produced by The Alchemist)
  11. Warrior Song (feat. Alicia Keys ) (produced by Alicia Keys)
  12. Revolutionary Warfare (feat. Lake) (produced by The Alchemist)
  13. Dance (produced by Chucky Thompson)
  14. Heaven (feat. Jully Black) (produced by Agile; co-produced by Saukrates)

Limited Edition Bonus Tracks

  1. Thugz Mirror (Freestyle) (produced by The Alchemist)
  2. Pussy Killz (produced by Chucky Thompson)
  3. The GOD (produced by Swizz Beatz )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ vh1.com
  2. ↑ Chart tracking from God's Son . ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Musicline.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de