New Nas Interview

Sixshot.com: In your music you address the problems that African Americans go through but you also mention the problems that other races go through from Italian to Irish. How is it that you have such a good grasp on the fact that people in general have their struggles that they go through regardless of race?

Nas: Anybody with two eyes knows that just being human is hard. Just waking up and getting in a pair of pants ain’t easy all the time, you know? It don’t matter who I am. I don’t wake up everyday and want to make a “Ni^#er” album about the pain and the struggle of a Black man. Everybody goes through the struggle, you know? It’s life. We live in this world where money rules and some are going to make it and some are going to fall. This album is for everybody because everybody goes through it, not just black people.

Sixshot.com: Was it a big issue for you when you had to change the album title to Untitled?

Nas: Nah we knew from the beginning you know what I’m sayin’? We were just throwing it out there to see if it stuck. That was no surprise and anybody would have a hard time getting that in stores but we went for it.

Sixshot.com: Now Nas, AZ did a mixtape project and he said in interviews that he thought it would kind of be similar in theme to your album. You two have known each other a long time. Did you listen to it and did you like it?

Nas: I didn’t hear it.

Sixshot.com: You have platinum and gold plaques, multiple albums, a ton of fans, are considered maybe the greatest MC ever, hit singles, groundbreaking music, and everything else that an MC can hope to achieve. At this point in your life do you feel like there is anything else left for you to accomplish in hip-hop?

Nas: Yeah man I mean I want to make seventy more albums. When I first got into this business I wanted to make one album and be out. A lot of times you just don’t want to deal with the industry but I kind of found a way to not deal with the industry. I still want to make it as long as I feel it, you know what I’m sayin’? I still want to make albums just for me. They’ll be just for me and for people who want to listen to it.

Sixshot.com: How have you found that balance where you could not have to deal with the industry so much?

Nas: I’m me. It’s just like anything else whether you’re a ball player, whether you’re a scholar, or whatever you have your life at the same time. You can’t be too consumed with anything because too much of anything is probably going to kill you. You just have your life man and if you don’t have one you should definitely figure out how to get one. There’s so much in this life to learn. Music is just one thing that takes up a lot of my time but yo there’s a downside to that.


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