Cyrus Langhorne
New York rapper Nas knows hip-hop continues to evolve and prosper everyday thanks to the likes of heavyweight lyricists. The rap veteran recently named five of his favorite modern day rap elite.
In Nasty Nas’ quick list, he named regional rappers ranging from North Carolina’s J. Cole to California rap star Kendrick Lamar.
“J. Cole, Kendrick [Lamar], Drake, [Lil] Wayne, Rick Ross.”
Over the past few months, Nas has saluted New York legends like DMX, DJ Red Alert and Marley Marl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsj98Rfrzs
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Earlier this year, Nas credited hip-hop stars Drake, J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar for keeping hip-hop alive.
“[Hip-hop’s] in a better place because it gave birth to Kendrick, J. Cole, Drake and a few other great, great artists. All three [remind me of them]. Yeah, yeah, definitely [they reach out to me] which is crazy because they inspire me. So Drake said something on his first album about me, in the linear notes, and J. Cole made an interesting song about me and Kendrick has said some really positive words. He gave me a shout-out when he won his Grammy. So they inspire me.” (“Any Given Wednesday”)
The way ya’ll tried to flip that like “he dont like any east coast artists” or he’s hating EASTCOAST or something was MAD CORNY lol
DA FAKE LIKE FAKE
Really J. Cole? How is Eminem not better than him??
Em has been out for a long time man, sure he took that into account. Wayne has too I know but he really only blew in 04-05.