"These are our heroes" was the main topic going into that album before its release. You can talk around that all you want. Then when the heat came back from it, he backed away, and didn't stand on business, in typical Nas fashion
And if you think Nas was ahead of the game when he criticized fox news and called hip-hop dead, then you are truly living under a rock.
I popped in here mainly because the NBA finals and draft are days apart. Ain't no garbage takes over here. Y'all be into idol worship, then y'all get in your feelings when somebody with an ounce of intelligence simply just keeps it real about your heroes. Even if I'm not even saying anything bad about them.
And like I said earlier, if y'all weren't patrolling the net with your narratives about how Nas is supposedly relevant; the kid who sparked this whole debate would've never had a reason to say what he said in the first place.