Do you think Nas would have quoted Rudyard Kipling if he knew ... :

[BlackDiBiase]

The start of Made you Look video, Nas quotes from Rudyard Kipling :

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in and which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son

Rudyard Kipling also wrote the white mans burden which talks about whites having to "civilize and help" people of color.

Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.

Take up the White Man's burden—
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain.
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden—
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper—
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead!

Take up the White Man's burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden—
Have done with childish days—
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers

The White Man's Burden - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[get these nets]

The video director inserted that, not Nas.

Nas gave white chick a pass to call him/ use N word, so he probably would have greenlighted it anyway.

 

[CHICAGO]

WHY NOT?

NAS SAID GWYNETH PALTROW
CAN SAY nikka WITH IMPUNITY



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[RickyDiBiase]

the real question is, did Kipling ever respond to Mark Twain

To the Person Sitting in Darkness - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

“To the Person Sitting in Darkness,” which Mark Twain published in the North American Review in 1901, attacks Western imperialism as it was manifesting itself in South Africa, China, Cuba, and the Philippines. It names its villains – [William] McKinley, Joseph Chamberlain, the Kaiser, the Czar – and their instruments, especially the Reverend William Scott Ament, a Congregationalist minister who was affiliated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.[8]

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Impossible to get inside of Nas’ head….If and the message and sentiment behind it has kinda transcended Rudyard Kipling though…it’d be like finding out the author of the Happy Birthday song was a racist

 

[BlackDiBiase]

The video director inserted that, not Nas.

Nas gave white chick a pass to call him/ use N word, so he probably would have greenlighted it anyway.

WHY NOT?

NAS SAID GWYNETH PALTROW
CAN SAY nikka WITH IMPUNITY



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Nas was bugging on that

You think it was just the video director? Nas is a known deep thinker he called Gandhi a fool and etc and has some interesting beliefs.

A lot of information about these yesteryear philosophers and writers are coming out so he might have not known.

He is a Dr Malachi York student so lol, his about that life.

 

[BlackDiBiase]

Impossible to get inside of Nas’ head….If and the message and sentiment behind it has kinda transcended Rudyard Kipling though…it’d be like finding out the author of the Happy Birthday song was a racist

I hear that.

But Rudyard Kipling was a known Imperialist and believed deeply in colonialism and believed in white superiority.

You make a good point though, the saying is very popular regardless of the roots but I feel perhaps it should be corrected. Like when people try an insult someone by calling them an 'Uncle Tom' when Sambo was the villain and 'Uncle Tom' was the good man hero.

Anyway, I hear that though.

 

[The Dust King]

funny how people are like nas is gwenth paltros savior

years later same people;

supported trump, both sides, tariq, kanye, etc

 

[get these nets]

Nas was bugging on that

You think it was just the video director? Nas is a known deep thinker he called Gandhi a fool and etc and has some interesting beliefs.

A lot of information about these yesteryear philosophers and writers are coming out so he might have not known.

He is a Dr Malachi York student so lol, his about that life.

Nas is self educated, and he learned things independently , outside of the framework of a curriculum. If it was his decision to include the quote, there's a good chance that he wasnt aware of Kipling's background or who he was.

 

[BlackDiBiase]

funny how people are like nas is gwenth paltros savior

years later same people;

supported trump, both sides, tariq, kanye, etc

It's funny too because Jay is actually Gwyneth's BFF well used to be when he was on his Baphomet sh1t.

Said she was 'Becky with the good hair'

Nas was just babbling probably off the liquor it was around that time he told Funk Flex the first time he met Kelis he said 'He would marry her'

Nas a sucker for love lol, but his krptonite are pretty women. They get him breaking flower pots on opps heads and all that.

Nas is self educated, and he learned things independently , outside of the framework of a curriculum. If it was his decision to include the quote, there's a good chance that he wasnt aware of Kipling's background or who he was.

That's what I feel too. I know Nas is a deep thinker so he might have not been aware of too many revelations about Rudyard Kipling.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Nas is self educated, and he learned things independently , outside of the framework of a curriculum. If it was his decision to include the quote, there's a good chance that he wasnt aware of Kipling's background or who he was.

Appreciate providing the context.

 

[DrexlersFade]

It's funny too because Jay is actually Gwyneth's BFF well used to be when he was on his Baphomet sh1t.

Said she was 'Becky with the good hair'

Nas was just babbling probably off the liquor it was around that time he told Funk Flex the first time he met Kelis he said 'He would marry her'

Nas a sucker for love lol, but his krptonite are pretty women. They get him breaking flower pots on opps heads and all that.



That's what I feel too. I know Nas is a deep thinker so he might have not been aware of too many revelations about Rudyard Kipling.

Yo

@Cladyclad

 

[get these nets]

Appreciate providing the context.

You're welcome.

"The school dropout, never liked that shyt from day 1"

Think he stopped going to school in the 8th grade.

 

[L. Deezy]

same crew.. same agenda in these threads

 

[BlackDiBiase]

You're welcome.

"The school dropout, never liked that shyt from day 1"

Think he stopped going to school in the 8th grade.

What I like is he is afrocentric with it, he likes dropping black jewels.

He introduced me to a lot of dope civil rights leaders, writers, activist, untold stories of past and present.

It's like that 'I Can' record but all over his catalogue and the fact he is a Dr Malachi York student and introduced me to him as well as Langston Hughes, Donald Goines and so many more important historical figures. First person to let me know they can make liquor out of potato skins in old school jails lol.

'God painted me black, thanks for that, I'm original man watch the mac move right in my hand' - Nas.