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“Not For Radio”, the opener to Nas' twelfth studio album, is a gritty, political statement, mapping out the different racial and financial issues Nas faced after entering the industry. The many cultural nods include references to slavery, religion, and politics.
This track also features the mysterious 070 Shake, who has appeared many different times throughout Kanye’s executively produced G.O.O.D. Music Rollout.
The track also features Puff Daddy/Diddy. This marks the third collaboration between the two. The first being the well-known track “Hate Me Now” and “Everything I Love”. In fact, Kanye also produced the latter track.
The sampled choir/orchestra track is the “Hymn to Red October” from the 1990 motion picture of the Tom Clancy novel “The Hunt for Red October”.
On June 11th 2018, Kanye published a tweet showing the definitions of the 7 deadly sins from Urban Dictonary. Each one of the 7 songs on the album is based on one of the 7 deadly sins, with “Not For Radio” corresponding to pride – being too self-satisfied, where he boasts about Black pride the whole song. Nas later concludes that being overzealous and prideful can lead into irrational behavior.
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