One Mic

About One Mic

"One Mic" is a single by rapper Nas, and the third to be released from his fifth album, Stillmatic. The song uses a portion of Phil Collins's In The Air Tonight. It's been considered one of the greatest hip-hop songs of all-time, ranking #54 on about.com's "the 100 Greatest Rap Songs". From Nas: "I'm a huge fan of Phil Collins and I just wanted to take the vibe from "In the Air Tonight". "One Mic" is just about the power. It's almost like Hip Hop is Dead in its infant stages .

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About this song

Credited to

Nas

Album

The Essential Nas · Track 13 of 28

Released

August 20, 2013

Duration

4:29

On Last.fm

231,557 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: The Essential Nas