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Nas, your (ex)wife puts out garbage as well…and now you’re going to be paying for her cra*ppy musical productions for a long time. Thanks.

What happened to my Nas?
SMH…

Nas is the only exception I would make since he has potential. oh wait he has 2 kids with 2 different women never mind. Sorry Nas but typical Black American anyway…

Nas is right, music in general is garbage with Lil Wayne, Rihanna, Beyonce and Lady Gaga leading the pact of garbage-ness.

Jay-Z is also pure trash but he knows he is pure trash and he also knows that the majority of you are dumb enough to buy into and support pure trash so I guess in that case trash recognize trash. In more simpler terms fans of Jay-Z and the aforementioned “artist” are pure trash.

BLACK music IS DEAD….All “Rappers’ ain’t nuttin but a commodity….The RENT – A – RAPPER
These Cats TELL US they do it for the Dolla’s

Money is da motive (voice of Lil Wayne)

What are you losers talking about!? Some of these comments are pure TRASH and uncalled for but that is what you get from ghetto hoodrats!

Some of these comments ARE pure trash, seeing as how people can’t even comment without being attacked. You don’t agree, then state your comment and tell us why.
Why do some people need to feel the need to elevate and call others losers for such an inane opinion as concerning this story.

It ain’t all that serious. Acting like we’re talking about your kinfolk or something, shoooot. 8)

if 90′s rappers were so great and did it great…y arent they around today? if its all about the music.

ANYBOOODDYY???

Hey Fat Boy… it’s harder to be “cool” and “Big Daddy Kane” when you are 40, married and have 4 kids.

The torch has always been passed down, and people feel most of the new generation is dropping the ball.

There are just pieces of greatness left in the game….(Jay Electronika)

if 90′s rappers were so great and did it great…y arent they around today? if its all about the music.

ANYBOOODDYY???

You must have never heard of Jay-Z……

I dont blame the artist anymore because they know ignorant people will purchase anything as long as the beat is good. We are the only race who glorifies our struggle and brags about selling drugs to our own people, as well as killing them. What mature adult listens to that? It gets in your spirit and clashes.

charlieblanko point im trying to make is kane was irrelevant before he got real old, he was nothing in the mid to late 90′s. most those real hip hoppers were irrelevant before they got old.

point is nas is trying to say as long as u making good music you will stick around and sell but this isnt true.

NOne of these rappers last long no mater the music they make. so they get money y they can, aint nothing wrong with that.

NAS NEEDS TO GO SIT DOWN SOME WHERE…IT’S BEEN 10 YEARS ALREADY WHERE NEVER GET THE 90′S MUSIC BACK YOU CAN HOPE AND WISH ON IT ALL YOU WANT

NAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT HOP HIP DEAD FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS…IF IT’S SO DEAD THAN BRING IT BACK TO LIFE MOTHERF@#KER

EVEN NAS FIRST BABY MAMA CARMEN BRYAN SAID THAT NAS USE TO SIT AROUND THEIR LITTLE SECTION 8 APPARTMENT BACK IN 1995 AND HATE ON OTHER RAPPERS

CANT YALL SEE THAT NAS IS A TRUE HATER….

Totally agree about the majority of the rappers puttin are out garbage music!

@Kenny

Cosign. Rap music has garbage for years. Hip hop is basically hip pop.

comparing album sales to talent is retarded…..

Nas recognizes GARBAGE because he makes it as well.Hip-Hop may still sell…but it’s still garbage.

Hiphop is back distant relatives wat an album.

I co-sign with Dari. People are dumb enough to feed into the likes of Lil Wayne so why can’t the record lablels capitalize off of people’s dumbness?

Hip hop has been dumb down so that niccas with a 4th grade education can compete. I really can’t believe this mess get played on the radio. I live in Atl & all you hear are little short ignorant hooks.

I got plenty monnnnnnnnnnney
Gucci, u don’t love me (Gucci Mane’s hook sound like some 5th grader girls) He probably didn’t pay them. They only got bragging rights.

NAS, I’M SORRY BUT THERE ARE TOO MANY SELL OUTS MAKING WEAK STUFF FOR THE MAN!
YOU CAN’T PUT WEAK STUFF OUT THAT IS FOR THE POP CROWD THAT REALLY COULD CARELESS ABOUT BLACK FOLKS AND EXPECT TO GET RESPECT.

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@ thatbrutha… exactly

just another case of jews pulling the strings of the black man and all gentiles..they tried and succeded in taking the message and culture out of hip hop 4 there profits..unity and peace dont equal profit 4 the kikes..crack sales guns and jail time do.being a bi.sexual azz shakin hoe.is great 4 tv 2.being a fulltime degnerate sells the image 2 the world..wake up sheep its almost 2 late

He talks about music being garbage, yet he only comes out with an album like once every 5 years! Until he starts consistantly making music, does he really have a right to complain!?

AMEN!

If you really want to know what killed HipHop is because of the late 80′s and 90′s rappers that always talked about the streets or their hood..I respect Nas and i feel bad for what kelis is putting him through but he gotta stop bashing today Hip Hop…. Its nothing wrong with it… People are more into Partying and having fun then talking about killing each other…

um Nas?….when was the last time u had a hit? thats what i thought. i think there is a way u can put out quality music that will be appealing to the public as well. kanye west is in hiding right now but when he was out he had great record sales and to me he has quality lyrics. the trick is to put a few club bangers on the album that the mainstream will like. and then the rest of the songs can go deeper. so that way u kinda trick the public into listening to what u as an artist want them to.

@Dari

Cosign…

@1987 what the HELL does that have to do with putting out GOOD muisc???????????

Oh, yea Nas is a MC he have the right.

I LOVE NAS HE NEEDS TO DROP ANOTHER STILLMATIC MAN.

@I AM SO SICK OF NAS SAYING HOPHIP IS DEAD
^^^ROFLMAO

BEEN SAID IT ALL ALONG.

IF YOU ARE EDUCATED OR ABOUT SOMETHING YOU UNDERSTAND.

THE JAY-Z AND BEYONCE SOLD OUT OR CULTURE IN ORDER FOR THEM TO CROSSOVER. WHEN ARTIST ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH THE MONEY AND CROSSING OVER OUR HIP/HOP RAP IS SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER!!

IF YOU LOVE BLACK NO NEED TO CROSS OVER!!!!!!!

CAN’T WAIT UNTIL OPRAH STARTS “OWN” A REAL BLACK NETWORK!!

CROSSING OVER IS WHAT KILLED OUR RAP-

IN GUINESS WORLD BOOKS RECORDS EMINEM IS THE GREATEST.( A CROSS OVER ARTIST= THANX DRE”)WTF

RAP IS DEAD!!!!

REAL NEGROES EDUCATE N!66A…………….

RAPPERS TODAY ARE THE BLACK OVERSEARS TO RAISE OUR YOUTH TO BE N!66A

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NAS shut up….u turned a hoe into a house wife and got ganked…stop shelling out “advise” and “knowledge”, get a REAL black woman and get ur self together…u didnt learn from ur first baby momma…dummy!

cmon folks it has nothing to do with rappers alone. Its the entire system (school, radio etc… the beast system) our youths getting fed DUMB stuff everyday that why they can create nothing BUT! dumb music they have dumb creativity. Utube THE CURSES!!!!

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Rap died along time ago. Remember when whites tried to blame us for inventing disco? After they had diluted it into soundbites and every celebrity, up-and-coming and over-the-hill trying to put out a disco album. The same thing is happening with rap. It got commercialized to the point you have cartoon like the Trix rabbit and the Flintstones acting like little hip hoppers in tv commercials. It’s so mainstream, no one takes it seriously anymore. And every rapper that comes out now is just looking to make a buck. They don’t really have anything to say, so they just look and act like a bunch of minstrels. There hasn’t been a real legitimate rapper of substance since the 90s. Rap doesn’t even have a real shelf life anymore. It’s a kid’s game. It’s a joke to see 40 yr old rappers still trying to hit the charts. Maybe only a small fraction can still spit without looking stupid.