I don't know if its cuz the interviewer is a serious fanboy but he asked some good questions and Nas had good responses and this dude listening to nas is just funny itself
6. "Nas fans and haters need to watch this interview" In response to Reply # 0
He gets criticized rightfully for nearly every interview he does, but apparently showed up to this one sober and does a damn good job, lots of topics covered, poor beat selection, lackluster songs making his albums, etc.
14. "funny I was just coming to up this, finally watched it tonite" In response to Reply # 13
but remember there was a post awhile back.
This is by far the best interview I've ever heard with Nas, he seems to be 'all there' & ready to really reflect on things.
He also looks to be 21 years old.
The difference between this interview & a cloying oversharing-and-making-it-about-him tool like Rosenberg is striking.
DeCurtis gave him the space & respect that a legendary artist deserves without a bunch of put-on trying-too-hard nonsense.
But mostly this is a reflection of where Nas is at with his life/career, somewhere along the line (to me really around the Distant Relatives Tour) he finally settled into a mode where he realizes he's been around long enough that really he doesn't need to do anything else but him & he'll have his best results.
He's now a legacy artist with a lane & an artistic foundation via nature/nurture/culture that no one else really does.
So as he said regarding his realization during Life Is Good's creation, if he just taps into that & stays true to himself, he can't lose.
Too many moments in this to list: talking about realizing he enjoyed how his voice could sound when he 'put on the cups' to listen to his demos as a teen then deriving power from that discovery moving forward, the part about young rappers not wanting to skip the dashes between 0-60, the Winehouse 9:14 bit at the end, him kicking his supposedly 9-year-old first rhyme then after doing it admitting 'okay, I mighta been 11' (and I'm still thinking more like 13), Daughters being his fatherly trump card in his battle with a teenager he created, and on and on.
The whole thing was tremendous & the kind of dialogue as a fan I'd always hoped/expected but seldom got in this fashion before.
And I for one am glad that despite a couple nudges from the crowd that there wasn't a single mention of Jay-Z.
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