It Ain't Hard To Tell
by Nas

Album: Illmatic (1994)
Charted: 64 97
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Songfacts®:

  • This uses a sample from Michael Jackson's song Human Nature from his Thriller album.
  • The video is a tribute to Wild Style, which was the first movie about Hip-Hop culture. Nas shot some of the video on the same stage used in the final scene of the movie. >>>
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    Donovan Berry - El Dorado, AR, for above 2
  • Nas told Rolling Stone: "That was one of the records that jump-started the commercial success for me on my first album, the Michael Jackson sample ['Human Nature']. That was my introduction to the world, my first official single, so I had to do that."

Comments: 1

  • Chris from Nc, CtI drink Moets with Medusa giving shotguns in hell from the spliff that I lift and inhale. It ain't hard to tell.
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