Nas and
Jay-Z were once embroiled in one of the most epic feuds in hip-hop history. But
the two have since not only reconciled, but also collaborated, and Nas recently
proved that he’s not afraid to speak highly of his former foe.
“Hip-hop has a savior in Jay-Z,” Nas said
during a sit-down chat with Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg while at SXSW last week.
“Let me tell you why. As a business man… The fact that he’s doing what he’s
doing is a [wake up] call for all of the Gods and Earths to wake up and
understand—this generation is bigger than what we can even fathom. And he is
one of the only ones out of the whole community that we grew up with from the
Run DMC days, who’s taken his shit seriously. Taken his shit very seriously.
That’s powerful. And you gotta respect that.”
Although just five years ago he named his album Hip
Hop Is Dead, Nas went on to show love to the state of the game.
“We died to get where we at,” he continued.
“This generation of hip-hop, we’re making a stance; we’re saying what we gotta
say. We didn’t graduate Harvard, we didn’t graduate Princeton—nothing against
them, they good schools. We’re setting trends. Niggas is tastemakers, whatever
the fuck that means. We’re that, and then some. Because we’re all one, it don’t
matter [if you’re] Black, White, Asian, Saudi.”
In addition to the lengthy talk with
Rosenbger, while down in Austin, Nas also perfomed at the Red Bull Thre3style
Party and ACL Live. Last week, the queens MC also dropped his new single, “The
Don,” off of his upcoming album.
Credit —Adam
Fleischer
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