Nas - 'Hip Hop Is Dead'
I don't know about you, but I'm a bit worried about Nas. He's always been a bit of a grump, but doesn't he seem a bit more under the weather than usual lately? It could be something as small as Mrs Nas, aka Kelis, failing to correctly iron the pleats in his low riders. But I think it might be something bigger. Something... postmodern.
In a recent interview, he pronounced that "America is dead... Music is dead, our commerce is dead. Everything in society has been done." And that's not all, funtimers! Now he's here to ring the death knell for hip hop too. Oh dear. Warm milk and a cuddle for Mr Nas, someone?
And the worst thing is, on the basis of recent sales, he might just be right. But don't worry fansters! Our boy's got a plan.
First of all, he's going to write a most excellent track about the death of the genre to which he's giving life. Clever, see? And if that isn't hip hop CPR in the making, he's going to get a concept gun (yes, a CONCEPT GUN!), load it up with some rhymes and take out some DJs. Once that's done, everything will be fine.
But in the meantime, just behave as you did when hip hop was alive. And listen to this track. It really is sumpin good.
Released:January 29th
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(Nickie Latham)
Comments
who on earth is he? i've neva heard of him b4! anyway, hip hop rox! so shut-up!!! luff u xxxxxxxxxx
OMG ??? you've never heard of NAS ??????
go back to bed, sweetie !!
hip hop goes beyond eminem and 50 cent, dontchaknow !!!
'Hip Hop rox' but u've never heard of Nas?? What, er??
Nas is tha greatest rapper ever......if you aint ever heard of Nas then you must be from a different planet....welcome to planet earth :-D
Why is that the mainstream society of today just think hip-hop is stupid and whiny Eminem and 50 Cent. There's so much better out there.
People! Listen to Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Rakim, M.I.A......
Good to see one of the grandfathers of Hip-Hop getting bigged up! If you don't know "you got soul" you don't know Hip-Hop.
Quite like this tune by Nas, he's getting quite a lot of air play with it.