Rock the Bells Boston Review
Hiptics Photo of the Fox News Protest
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While he wasn’t technically the headliner, Nas owned the day. His penultimate set was a brilliant demonstration of the MC as a singular force of nature. Stoked by the possession of the current No. 1 album in the country, the New York rapper stalked the stage tossing couplets about the state of the union like Molotov cocktails on new tracks like the scathing Fox News takedown “Sly Fox,” the hopeful “Black President,” and the tough-minded rant about race relations the “[Expletive] (The Slave and the Master).” With relentless energy he also peppered in older classics like the triumphant “If I Ruled the World” and key slices of his justly lauded 1994 debut “Illmatic.”
Nas performs at Rock The Bells
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