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Queens Get the Money

Nas

Lyrics & Rhyme Analysis

7

End

98

Internal

45

Multi

167

Slant

6

Chain

Rhyme Groups — hover to spotlight
Ayo, Queens get the money,✦ niggas✦ still screaming, paper-chasing
Where presidential candidates is planning wars with other✦ nations
Over✦ steak with Masons
Pregnant teens give birth to intelligent gangsters
They daddies faceless
Play this, by your stomach, let my words massage✦ it and rub it
I'll be his daddy✦ if there's✦ nobody✦ there to love it
Tell him his name Nasir,✦ tell him how he got here
Mama✦ was just having✦ fun with someone above✦ her years
Niggas✦ is still hating✦
Talking that Nas done fell off with rhyming✦
He'd rather✦ floss with diamonds
They pray "Please God, let him spit that 'Uzi in the army✦ lining'✦
That 'shorty✦ doo-wop✦ rolling oo-wops in the park reclining'"
Take 27 emcees,✦ put 'em in a line and they're out of alignment✦
My assignment✦ since he said retirement
Hiding✦ behind 8 Mile and The Chronic
Gets rich but dies rhyming✦
This is high science
Now add 23 more from Queens to B-more
I'm over✦ their heads like a bulimic on a seesaw
Now that's 50 porch monkeys ate up at the same time
Nasty✦ Nasdaq, y'all gon' bow holmes,✦ this Dow Jones✦
.80 cal chrome, needed✦ time alone✦ to zone
The mack left his iPhone✦ and his nine at home
My queen used✦ her milkshake to bring y'all to my slaughterhouses
I do this for the group home kids in boarding houses✦
This that "nigga"✦ shit that's on the album
For them niggas✦ inside✦ the chalk line in 40 houses✦
Bring back Arsenio
Hip-hop✦ was aborted so Nas breathes life, back into✦ the embryo✦
Let us make man in our image,✦ spit it
I'm Huey P in Louis V
At the eulogy✦ throwing Molotovs for Emmett
And you ain't as hot as I is
All of these false prophets is not messiahs
You don't know how high the sky is
The square mileage✦ of Earth or what pi is
I'm the shaky✦ hand that touched George Foreman in Zaire
The same hand that punched down devils
That brought down the Towers

Technical Breakdown

8.3
Multisyllabic Rhymes8.5

Complexity of rhyme schemes (data-driven)

Internal Rhymes9.5

Rhymes within a line (data-driven)

Wordplay / Double Entendres9.0

Clever language, metaphors, punchlines

Cadence / Rhythm7.5

Flow variation and timing (data-driven)

Vocabulary Complexity8.0

Range and depth of words used (data-driven)

Delivery / Breath Control8.5

Performance and control

Computed Score8.26

Production

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Critic Analysis
RAPLEDGER BAROMETER™

Nas balances high-level socio-political observation with aggressive, technical posturing, using the 'Dow Jones' metaphor to signify his market dominance while maintaining a gritty, street-oriented internal rhyme density.

A
8.5
Multisyllabic
9.5
Internal Rhymes
7.5
Cadence / Flow
8
Vocabulary
9
Wordplay
8.5
Delivery
Multisyllabic internal rhyme chainsSocio-political metaphorPop-culture allusionAggressive cadence modulation
Rhyme Architecture: Predominantly AABB/ABAB structures with consistent multisyllabic internal link-ups, specifically utilizing 'chasing/nations/Masons' and 'alignment/retirement/rhyming/lining'.
Verified Doubles & Entendres

"Over steak with Masons"

① Political leaders literally eating dinner with secretive elite organizations.② The implication that wars and global policy are brokered by elite cabals (Freemasons) in private.

"I'm over their heads like a bulimic on a seesaw"

① Physical elevation on a seesaw.② Nas's lyrical skill being intellectually unattainable (over the heads) to peers, while referencing bulimia (purging/unhealthy cycle) as a dark metaphor for his superior positioning.

"Nasty Nasdaq, y'all gon' bow holmes, this Dow Jones"

① Nas as a financial entity controlling the game.② A direct comparison of his lyrical value and status to the stability and importance of the stock market indices (Nasdaq/Dow Jones).

High density of internal rhyming that sustains momentum without sacrificing semantic weight

Effective integration of complex imagery with aggressive braggadocio

Strong structural arc transitioning from societal critique to personal artistic assertion

The 'bulimic' bar relies on shock value and creates a slight dissonance with the high-brow intellectual framing of the verse

Occasional density of internal rhyme slightly obscures the narrative flow for casual listeners

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