Nas gives props to J. Cole, Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
It’s been over 27 years since Nas gave arguably the best hip-hop album “Illmatic”, which was his debut effort in 1994, but the legendary rap icon still blessing us with music, and recently dropped his third album in 2 years, which is also the third joint project with Hit-Boy titled “Magic“.
Nas again showed his lyrical capabilities in the 9 tracks album, which featured assistance from ASAP Rocky and DJ Premier. On song number 6, “Wu For The Children”, he also gave huge praise to J. Cole, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, three of the top rappers of this era.
Nas compliments the trio by comparing them with Biggie, Jay-Z and himself. “Tallest buildin’ in Manhattan, sippin’ on Manhattan’s / Listen to The Manhattan’s, Queens to Brooklyn, oh what a feelin’ / I shoulda had Grammy’s when Ol’ Dirty said “Wu for the children” / Shoulda did that remix verse on Gimme the Loot for Biggie / Me, Jay, and Frank White is like Cole, Drizzy, and Kenny,” he raps.
Nas said on a recent edition of his Spotify podcast The Bridge: 50 Years of Hip-Hop that his legendary song Hip-Hop is Dead was mostly addressed towards New York rappers in a recent episode of his Spotify podcast The Bridge: 50 Years of Hip-Hop. “I didn’t think that certain people would think I’m talking about them,” he began. “Oh nah, I’m talking about mainly New York! Mainly New York. I’m talking to everybody, but I didn’t explain it thoroughly enough.”
On the album’s tenth anniversary in 2016, Nas stated that Hip Hop Is Dead “missed the point.” “In retrospect, I missed the mark by miles,” he said. “I didn’t want to pick people apart. It felt like it was for a younger artist to do. I thought the title was enough; to say it’s dead, it was to say, ‘I don’t know where to begin, I don’t know where to start. But at least I’ll name it this and we’ll see where it goes from there.’”
It was recently revealed that Drizzy also wanted to be like Biggie, Jay-Z and Nas before his career started. “We had a nice conversation for the 40-minute flight,” recalled Ed Lover. “I asked him ‘What is your ultimate goal? When you’re done in your career and you’re an OG, how do you want to be remembered?’ And he said, ‘I just want to be remembered in the same breath as JAY-Z, Biggie, Nas, Rakim, [Big Daddy] Kane and all of them.”
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