Queens Wolf
2019 · Mass Appeal · Brooklyn, New York
- Artist
- Nas
- Title
- Queens Wolf
- Release
- The Lost Tapes 2
- Year
- 2019
- Label
- Mass Appeal
- Format
- Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Genre
- Hip Hop · East Coast Hip Hop · Conscious Hip Hop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Rap / Hip Hop Songs
Influential and popular East Coast Hip Hop / Conscious Hip Hop artist, with his highly-rated debut album Illmatic considered a 90s classic. Born Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones on 14 September 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Released two songs referencing the Vietnam conflict: "Doo Rags" (2002) and "Queens Wolf" (2019).The song "Queens Wolf" (Mass Appeal) looked at growing up in Queens, New York, and contained a reference to Vietnam in the violence metaphor context: "I lit the corners up, it sounded, like Vietnam screamin'... them dudes is scared you gon' spray 'em".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Waking up is a pleasure though last night I can't remember / Cash up on my dresser, where'd it come from? This is messed up / What kind of fatal drug am I taking? Who laced it? / Previous night memories who erased it? Wasn't even wasted / I do recall the nightfall, lunar, the stars around it / Then my man called, said what I did, the goons were talkin' 'bout it / Singin' me praises, said I lit the corners up / It sounded, like Vietnam screamin' out QBietnam the loudest / "Homie them dudes is scared you gon' spray 'em, word to Bing / They'll do anything, pay you real good to be on their team / So that explains the money and the chains that's on my dresser drawer / That wasn't there a day before, I should press 'em all
About the artist
Influential and popular East Coast Hip Hop / Conscious Hip Hop artist, with his highly-rated debut album Illmatic considered a 90s classic. Born Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones on 14 September 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Released two songs referencing the Vietnam conflict: "Doo Rags" (2002) and "Queens Wolf" (2019).