Ras Kass "Jack Frost" (1995)

More Ras Kass (it doesn't get much better than Ras Kass in the mid-90's). Don't know if this cut was ever "officially" released (like "Won't Catch Me Runnin"), found a bootleg of it a few years back. One of the few Christmas songs you can listen to year-round, Ras Kass gives "Nature of the Threat"-treatment (i.e. his own reasoned dissection of convention) to the Christmas holidays.

Ras Kass "Jack Frost" (1995)

I've never figured out who did the original beat for "Jack Frost", shit is dope like everything he was rhyming over those days; Nat King Cole never sounded so forboding. Lyrically, Ras Kass mixes up the battle rhymes, punchlines and stabs at tradition:

My mind avalanches expressions
and from papa's erection and mama's C-section
before nore plant contraception conception
The only exception was the immaculate deception
Cause contrary to what my bereaved mother believes,
Jesus was conceived by a mitocondrial Eve
I leave gangrene when I slang knees below zero,
So n*ggas better bring more "Heat" than Al Pacino and Robert De Niro

The "Anything Goes" remix and "Live from C-Arson" were on the bootleg as well, and I include them here, along with the "Jack Frost" instrumental.