{"id":18963,"date":"2013-01-07T16:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18963"},"modified":"2013-01-07T16:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:45:56","slug":"cnn-says-nas-is-the-greatest-lyricist-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18963","title":{"rendered":"CNN Says Nas Is  \u2018The Greatest Lyricist Of All Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nas<\/strong> is good, but CNN thinks <strong>Nas<\/strong> is damn good. In a story titled &#8220;A case for<strong> Nas<\/strong>, hip-hop&#8217;s finest MC&#8221; the news outlet defends its stance that the man born <strong>Nasir Jones<\/strong> is &#8220;the greatest lyricist of all time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story cites <strong>Nas&#8217; <\/strong>longevity, he turns 40 next summer\u2014and the the gift of rhyme, of course\u2014as one of the main reasons for the lofty praise, both qualitatively and quantitatively.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>&#8220;Life is Good,&#8221;<\/em> <strong>Nas<\/strong> dropped his ninth No. 1 hip-hop album since 1994. Seven of those have gone platinum, which places him second among rappers only to <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> with 11. (We&#8217;re not counting compilations or collaborations here, only original solo efforts, and yes, <strong>Tupac Shakur <\/strong>had nine, but five were posthumous releases.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nas is good, but CNN thinks Nas is damn good. In a story titled &#8220;A case for Nas, hip-hop&#8217;s finest MC&#8221; the news outlet defends its stance that the man born Nasir Jones is &#8220;the greatest lyricist of all time.&#8221; The story cites Nas&#8217; longevity, he turns 40 next summer\u2014and the the gift of rhyme, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}