Nas Salutes A True Music Mogul: “This Man Grew Up Studying The Rap Game Seriously!”

New York rapper Nas will always have love and respect for music mogul Steve Stoute. Nasir Jones has publicly saluted Stoute for keeping hip-hop culture flourishing.

Early Saturday, Nasty Nas went to Instagram with some high praise for Stoute.

Back in 2014, hip-hop mogul Dame Dash publicly bashed Steve Stoute for attacking the culture.

“You know how many black people I tried to put together for movies and it always be that one group that always, you know, or because of Steve Stoute or somebody that’s a culture-robber or doesn’t care about his culture, would break that up. Even other black people break up other black people trying to stick together because it’ll kill that little check because they got to connect with people. Steve Stoute. That’s what he always does so he can bring us to get robbed. A guy like Steve Stoute would always take the people that are protecting the creative and eliminate them, so he could rob the creative. Just so he could get his money.” (Hip Hop Motivation)

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Earlier the same year, Dame jumped onto his Instagram page to side with rap veteran 50 Cent in a Stoute dispute.

Months prior, Steve Stoute shot some dicey words about 50 Cent’s career.

“Are you going to have 50 Cent up here soon? You got to. He got out of his record deal,” Stoute added. “He’s not [in my top five influential rapper list]. He hasn’t had a hit in a really long time. He has not made anything musically that’s changed anything in a very long time. I feel like he’s always gearing up for something that never happens. Hopefully, now that he’s independent, and there’s no record company to blame, his aggressive content, [laughs], can get onto the air. I don’t know. I think he’s trying to get back.” (“The Angie Martinez Show”)