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Song Name: It Ain't Hard To Tell
Song Origin: Nas
Song Link:

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Nominator: Dragon66116 (8/15)


I'm hard as nails, it ain't hard to tell
I break 'em down whether they solid or frail

...I know it's a common saying and this song predates the Dreamcast, but I can't read the song title without having flashbacks to Knuckles' SA theme.

Anyway, what I like most about this track is that it invites direct comparison to "Nas Will Prevail" ; while I was told Prevail was basically the demo of this song, almost all the lyrics have been changed and the background music is radically different. It's really interesting to listen to both songs side-by-side.

I vastly prefer the background music on "Nas Will Prevail" (to a point that I think that song may have hit the top 40, had it been nominated instead), but "It Ain't Hard To Tell"'s line about Shotguns in Hell might just be the most brilliant line in any song on this list; the line, by itself, is so evocative that it works even if you don't understand it (suffice it to say that I did not), then it takes on new levels of brilliance once you actually get what he meant.

....granted there's no way I would have ever put any of that together without the help of YouTube commenters, but that's probably why it's so brilliant.

[FINAL NOTES: This song joins Jeopardy & Winter as the third in the "you nominated the wrong version of this song" trio.]

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