No Limitation
Build up our nation. I’m still working on fleshing out this list (I think I currently stand at ten songs, trying to get it up to maybe… fourteen) but I’ve already decided that my closer is going to be the brilliant No Limitation. Why??? Well, I feel it did a fine job in closing Pressure’s debut album, the aforementioned The Pressure Is On (probably end up with three songs from that one), that I thought it would well serve the same function here. This song found Pressure aiming for the stars. Be it a general upliftment of the masses or even something in the way of overcoming bad situations, the man said we had no limits on what we were capable of [“Take yuh shackles and chains off yuh brain”].
No Limitation has experienced something of a ‘second wind’ in regards to how I feel about it as, within the last couple of years or so maybe (maybe a little longer), I’ve noticed something very interesting about how it is written. You’ll find the standard, tried and tired sayings that you will find in hundreds of similarly themed songs, such as “stay focused”, for example. HOWEVER, what will follow that, what will come before it is SO far away from “tired” that it’s almost like he’s using the saying just to put it down; as if he’s saying that ‘although it may be true, I’m thinking about you on a deeper level’. So, instead of just saying, ‘you can overcome’, Pressure says: “Never say you can’t cause dat nah work”
Which doesn’t even sound like the well refined and BEAUTIFUL piece of music that it clearly is (and speaking of the music, this riddim sounds like it was constructed in some damn lab somewhere over a dozen or so years) (biggup Dean Pond again) (and biggup Eno Stafford), it comes off as someone who, legitimately has your best interests at heart and is just having a discussion with you about your life. It probably wasn’t THAT complex on his end (forgive me, I am an overthinker) but what I’ve heard from No Limitation TRULY has provided me with endless enjoyment and it more than deserves its place on this list.