Greatest of All Time!I Can
Nas built an entire hit single's beat around a loop of 'Fur Elise' and aimed the finished record at children -- a genuinely strange move for one of hip-hop's most acclaimed lyricists that worked anyway.
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Queens, New York rapper widely regarded as one of hip-hop's greatest lyricists, breaking through with 1994's Illmatic. "I Can" (2003), from God's Son, built its entire beat around a loop of Beethoven's "Fur Elise," turning a piano-lesson standard into a hit single aimed at children.
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