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APRIL 15, 2014 2:25PM ET
Nas: My Life in 20 Songs
From before ‘Illmatic’ to ‘Life Is Good,’ the storied Queens rapper looks back on two decades of music
By
JASON NEWMAN
Nicole Fara Silver
“Nastradamus”
Nastradamus (1999)
The song was a EPMD sample and I just freestyled it. I was riding high off multi-platinum sales off I Am…, and just didn’t want to do anything but freestyle that single and put it out. We had a concept to make the video 3D, but we didn’t figure out how to get all the glasses to people and time was against us. Glasses were made, but obviously not enough for every household, so we fukked that one up a little bit. On that album, there’s a couple of songs that have a certain sound to it that doesn’t sound like anything else I’ve done. And it was a gray area in my life and that album represents that gray area. It was personal stuff that I'd rather not elaborate on. But I have nothing against that album.
APRIL 15, 2014 2:25PM ET
Nas: My Life in 20 Songs
From before ‘Illmatic’ to ‘Life Is Good,’ the storied Queens rapper looks back on two decades of music
By
JASON NEWMAN
Nicole Fara Silver
“Nastradamus”
Nastradamus (1999)
The song was a EPMD sample and I just freestyled it. I was riding high off multi-platinum sales off I Am…, and just didn’t want to do anything but freestyle that single and put it out. We had a concept to make the video 3D, but we didn’t figure out how to get all the glasses to people and time was against us. Glasses were made, but obviously not enough for every household, so we fukked that one up a little bit. On that album, there’s a couple of songs that have a certain sound to it that doesn’t sound like anything else I’ve done. And it was a gray area in my life and that album represents that gray area. It was personal stuff that I'd rather not elaborate on. But I have nothing against that album.
