He flirted with the maximalist bling of Puff Daddy (or whatever he calls himself these days) in the late Nineties and is equally adept at playing the gangster and the activist. The winds of change come quickly to the music industry, especially in hip hop, where the genre is young and ever evolving, and gimmicky fads are a dime a dozen, what allows Nas to endure is that he can be everything but still be Nas. Slim Shady, who officially collaborates with Nas for the first time on King’s Disease 2, also spoke of the influence of Illmatic on a whole: “Everybody knows that is a classic, essential album, I don’t know where you place that in hip hop, but it’s got to be at the top.” I bag b****** up at John Jay and hit a matinee’. But chill, pass the Andre, and let’s slay. He added: “When he said ‘Because when I blast the herb, that’s my word, I’ll be slaying them fast, doing this, that, and the third.
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