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What else? Customers who bought this album also bought:. Get Dirty Radio. Jay-Z Kingdom Come. Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt. The Game Doctor's Advocate. Help How to create an account? How to pay? How to download? The son of jazz musician Olu Dara , he was raised in the infamous Queensbridge housing projects in Queensbridge, New York. According to the Nasty Songfacts, as a teenager rapper, Nasir first went by the nickname Kid Wave before adopting his more commonly known alias of Nasty Nas. By the time he released his landmark solo debut album Illmatic in , Jones was known as Nas.

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He flip-flops between declaring that it has already gone, to warning of its imminent departure, to promising 'to carry on tradition,' to resurrecting it. But these inconsistencies don't come from contradictions in Nas' beliefs; rather, they stem from the fact that his biggest problem with hip-hop has nothing to do with current talent, but what hip-hop itself has become -- how it's magnified from an art form, from a way the ghetto expressed itself, into a commercialized, corporate entity that Nas himself is part of, something about which he feels more than a little guilty.

This is most openly addressed on 'Black Republican,' which appropriately features an equally guilty in terms of both improving and commercializing rap music Jay-Z, who spits out better lines than anything he did on Kingdom Come. The track, which ingeniously samples 'Marcia Religiosa' from The Godfather II a film that, in many ways, parallels Nas' ideas about hip-hop as it deals with the dark side of making money and the problems that befall an overly zealous pursuit of the always crafty American Dream , finds both MCs lamenting the state of the genre while also acknowledging their own participation -- and enjoyment -- of what it's given them.