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Figures of Speech perform @ The Music Box - Friday 11th April

Figures of Speech performed live @ the music box courtersy of M.U.T.E Manchesters Underground Talent Exposed. Monk, Mischeif and little Ne through down a set including “Nod to this” and “suck on these”; small crowd but a live atmosphere, they then proceeded to go back in the day performing the classic “buddha life” then hit into a beat box, joined by MC’s Locksmith and Sadistic finishing with a freestyle run to be remembered.

Overall Good night.

The acclaimed US artist Nas who’s albums of illmatic and numerous others have flooded the market over the years is set to add two previously unreleased tracks to his upcoming “Greatest Hits” album. This is set for release on November 6 via Columbia Records.

The first of the new release is a track named “Less Than An Hour” featuring the US hip hop artist Cee-Lo, which you may have heard if you watched the “Rush Hour 3″ film.

The other new released track is called “Surviving The Times.”

We’ve heard from an inside source that below is a track list for the Greatest Hits album, please add comments on what you think.

1. Surviving the Times
2. Less Than An Hour featuring Cee-Lo
3. It Ain’t Hard To Tell
4. Life’s a Bitch
5. NY State of Mind
6. One Love
7. If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) featuring Lauryn Hill
8. Street Dreams (Remix) featuring R. Kelly
9. Hate Me Now featuring Puff Daddy
10. One Mic
11. Got Ur Self A…
12. Made You Look
13. I Can
14. Bridging the Gap featuring Olu Dara

Nas-escobar previous released album named “Hip-Hop Is Dead,” was his first release on Def Jam record label after leaving Columbia and has sold 3/4 million copies in the US alone.

Please give you thoughts, is nas past it or sharper than ever?