I don’t wanna say he’s biting DOOM’s style, but damn this sounds so much like a classic DOOM song. The production, the flows, the writing, it’s all there imo. I still think it’s a dope ass song but what would you classify this as?

That “Hollywood gangsta, goons with him everywhere” bar that ends every verse sounds exactly like something from Madvillainy

I’m not hearing it

reach but I think Drake dropping off obv rhymes are a doom homage

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its been a thing since Big L and earlier tbh

fair. don’t think drake used it regularly until around a year after doom passed, but yeah, doom didn’t invent that

Nas is directly inspired by Slick Rick, the OG soft spoken British sounding boom bap guy