Overview
- Nas said artists like Lamar will speak up when performers who are not focused on the art are damaging hip-hop’s future.
- The interview explored parallels between Nas’s 2006 critique “Hip Hop Is Dead” and Lamar’s 2024 track “Watch the Party Die.”
- Nas previously praised Lamar’s GNX on Instagram, writing that Kendrick keeps “the essence” of hip-hop alive and saluted him.
- Coverage cited Lamar’s “Wacced Out Murals,” where he rapped that Nas was the only one to congratulate him on landing the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show.
- Nas also addressed his $5.5 billion Queens casino expansion receiving a community advisory committee thumbs-up, noted it still needs State Gaming Commission approval, and downplayed fan-fueled comparisons to Jay-Z after Roc Nation’s Times Square bid was denied.