I know Im late, but incase you never heard it. Check out this interview with NaS.


AllHipHop.com: What's the real relationship between you and Murder Inc? They aren't on this album in any way, shape or form and early on it was said that Irv Gotti would at least be an executive producer on God's Son.

Nas: Um, [Sighs] people were saying I was signed to Murder, Inc and so was Irv. He's a businessman. He wanted to sign me. The only thing is, I never had met him so I reached out to him and he's like, "F**k it, I'll fly to Miami. Where you at? We'll chill with you and talk." So they came out there and we had a ball. They respected my move on the radio so much they said it in public and that was a trying time. Nobody had the balls to disrespect the number one rap station in the world and risk yourself not getting played. Everybody else is bootlicking Sambos who kiss ass and suck d**k to be on Hot 97 all day. I was the total opposite. Them being real ni**gas, they respected that shit. Real ni**as are going to see eye to eye. So they were like, "We f**ks wit that ni**a. Hot shoulda let him do his thing." I said, "Where is everybody else at?" It was so amazing that this guy was willing to ride all the way that we did a song together and we had plans to do it up big.

AllHipHop.com: So, you guys are associates or something like that?

Nas: I want to build bigger alliances. I want to build bigger alliances throughout hip-hop. It's time for unity among the whole hip-hop world. We need an annual thing where we BBQ, baseball and brew. Drink brew and chill the f**k out with our women and kids or whatever. Donate some cash to some foundation that we put together for people in the ghettoes throughout the country. It's time for us to do sh*t like that, man. With the IRS [The Internal Revenue Service] sniffin' up everybody's a**, we need to spend some of this money on each other now.

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AllHipHop.com: Is that realistic?

Nas: Yeah, if there's any real ni**as out here, anything is possible. All these ni**as saying they real ni**as well its time to be real ni**as.

AllHipHop.com: Real doesn't necessarily mean giving back to the community these days.

Nas: Yeah, well, they got their real f**ked up. IF they real like they say they are, then maybe we need to educate them about what real should mean when it comes out they mouth. Real doesn't mean, "Hey ya'll I'm a f**kin' gangsta. Don't play with me. I got a gun." Ok, if you are going to use that gun to protect the community and not use that on us, then you a real motherf**ker. Then if you are going to brag because you are going to use that sh*t against us, ni**a you need some enlightenment.

AllHipHop.com: How about you and Suge? A lot of people raised an eyebrow to that.

Nas: I'll explain that now. Ninety percent of the rappers that's selling records now, maybe none of them - never looked Pac in the eye. Never drank a bottle of Henny with him. Never shook hands with him. Never felt his eyes on them. Never met him. Never knew Suge before PAC That's not me. I can't speak for the ones that hang with [Suge] now.

AllHipHop.com: I just said that because you got the clearance for the PAC song and you are also on his album too. How did your mother's passing affect the making of this album?

Nas: Well, I didn't want to do [the album] at first and then I realized I had to. I had to keep myself busy or I would have self-destructed. So that's where that comes from.

AllHipHop.com: I felt this was a contradiction in your overall message, but what made you want to simulate a lynching of Jay-Z on stage?

Nas: War. War means to destroy the enemy. I don't give a f**k if its your mother, your brother, your sister. Whoever the enemy is, eliminate him. What I am telling you does not mean go kill him in the street. I'm talking from a hip-hop standpoint. What rap[/B]pers do is kill each other's careers as opposed to murder each other physically. And that war thing shouldn't be taken lightly. And I would do it again if presented with the situation. With any black man, anybody that was perceived as a threat to my existence, my family, coming after my child's mother. Any situation like that, the repercussions of that - from hip-hop on a lyrical level - is death. The way he tried to kill me and poison my family at the time, so I would do that 100 times over anytime a day.

AllHipHop.com: But a lynching with regard to the history of black people in this country?

Nas: I would have lynched again with a rope made of fire.

AllHipHop.com: [Laughs]

Nas: In Africa, they killed people in way worse ways. The lynching thing - these racist white motherf**kers hung our people like that - why would I hang him like that? Well, guess what? I would also hang a traitor to my people like that. I shouldn't use that technique because that's the shit they did? Judah hung himself with a rope after he couldn't deal with the fact that Jesus was being crucified. My whole thing is, let's make motherf**kers talk. Ni**as who are a traitor to the people - yes, a ni**a can hang them too. Abso-f**kin-lutely

AllHipHop.com: Do you consider Jay a traitor to the people?

Nas: At the time I did. At the time did. Um, I felt like, If I'm your fellow brother, then why try to get underneath my skin and get with my daughter's mom and then blow me up on Broadway so you can humiliate me and destroy everything I built so that my daughter can't eat? And try to discredit my hood by putting my bridge up in your Roc-A-Wear ads and everything like that. He tried to destroy me. The way you get rid of a germ is, you kill it. And I'm talking lyrically and I'm talking music-wise.

AllHipHop.com: I didn't even notice that ad.

Nas: He came at me in more ways than one. I'm not petty like that. I didn't stand in front of any Marcy signs. It wasn't as deep to me as it was to him.

AllHipHop.com: A lot of people feel that you killed his career. I feel that's a strong way to put it, but even Dame admitted...

Nas: Even Dame admitted it?

AllHipHop.com: No, no - Dame admitted that you threw Jay out of his zone - that you got under Jay's skin.

Nas: That was the plan. Either he was going to kill mine or I was going to kill his. He knew this going and I did [kill his career]. I mean, I'm not after anybody's downfall, I don't kick people when they are down. I'm not like him. I'd like to see him come back. More power to him. This is what happens in a battle, I won, and I ended his career - for now. Maybe forever.

AllHipHop.com: Do you have any regrets? A lot of things have happened over the year - at one point you screamed on The Roots.

Nas: Yeah, I saw Black Thought. I told him, "You guys, man, keep it up. I was in a war and anybody affiliated with the enemy at the time was against me. I'm sorry, but that's how I get down." He was so cool. He was like, "Dude, its all good." So, I'm extending my love out to the Roots, you know?

AllHipHop.com: You and 50 Cent did several songs together. But ya'll haven't had much association lately. What happened with that?

Nas: Well, nothing. He was looking for a deal for a while. It makes me mad. 50 should have been getting his play. He he has to almost lose his life for people to pay him any attention. Shyne's record didn't become a hit - it had been hot, but people were so concerned with him sounding like Biggie to give him a chance. [He didn't] get acknowledged until he went to jail. That's the situation [50] was in. He couldn't get a fair shot. It took him to get shot for motherf**kers to f**k with him when he been had talent. And, I wish him the best.

AllHipHop.com: He seemed to be perturbed about you doing that J-Lo remix, where they took his vocals off. He seemed upset that they took his vocals off and yours on and that you hadn't contacted him.

Nas: Oh, that's stupid shit. I can't entertain that. I got a call from J-Lo to do a remix and that's it. I didn't hear the song before, I just did the remix. Who cares, if you mad then grow up. (laughs) Grow the f**k up. Who the f**k are you?

AllHipHop.com: You have been dropping more quality material than you ever have in this last year. Are you going to continue to hit the public with this stuff on a consistent basis?

Nas: The Lost Tapes was an appetizer for the listeners to prepare them for what the near future was gonna be like. [I decided] to give it to them in a "lost tapes" sort of way because it's old shit that I wasn't gonna put out. It was songs I liked but the audience; I wasn't sure what they were going to say. So we put it out in its proper perspective and people got a chance to get into it. It surprised me that people got into it so much because I don't know what people are into these days. The fact that people can relate to these songs made me feel better about the future works I'm going to be putting out there.

AllHipHop.com: For me, I thought the Lost Tapes was the best out of the three. It's just awesome material.

Nas: Wow.

AllHipHop.com: So this the last question regarding anything dealing with beef. Benzino recently, in a roundabout way, dissed you and Jay-Z as the "so -called kings" for beefing with Eminem. Do you have any comment for that?

Nas: I didn't hear it yet. Everybody has their own thing. He has his own opinions and his personal thing with Em. I don't know it. I don't know what Em's thing is with him. That's their sh*t. He can say whatever we want, but at the end of the day all that matters is, there is something personal going on with [them]. When Em and Benzino, I don't know where its headed. All I hope is that it stays peaceful. From my point of view, I'm here to take music to the next level, I'm here to hopefully inspire. I don't wanna battle no more. I will if I have to. I am going to sit back and watch. These guys are going to make references to me and Jay, because that's the only reason they are battling. Me and Jay devastated hip-hop to the point where this may go on for the next two years. Battling between everybody.

What yall think about this. I think he had some nice answers.