Nas - “King’s Disease III” | The Daily Show

who else welcome back to the show thank you for having me yeah man welcome back congratulations on the new album you know I was I was thinking about this today when we were talking about you coming on I was like you are a living hip-hop Legend [Applause] for me lies in in the meaning both ways one you are still in the game you're still doing it you're still contributing you're still making great music but also you are a living hip-hop Legend we take for granted how many Legends we've lost in hip-hop we take for granted how many people aren't around who are part of that do you ever wake up in the morning and think to yourself damn so many of the people I started with in this game aren't here anymore and I I'm still here getting to be a part of it all the time all the time somebody a friend of mine today called me and told me he said you you realize how long and you've been around and how much you you survived and things you've been through you know we just lost a a Hip-Hop Hip-Hop artist uh the other week man yeah take off and you know maybe rest in peace and you know I lost so many friends even before I got into music I didn't think I would get into music and then still see it going on you know yeah you've done that you've done more than just survive it you've succeeded in it you've thrived in it and I think what I love about this album is how it feels like you almost reminiscing whilst also writing a piece of the future you know you've always been until this day everyone will say one of the greatest lyricists that's ever lived but the stories that you tell you know the way you weave I mean for instance everyone who was in hip-hop was familiar with like your beef with Jay-Z right and what it was yeah and then I loved how in here you talk about that beef what it was how it disappeared but how you'll still text him saying you know this isn't over right well when I I released the track list for the album the other day he released the picture with all his Grammys yeah shout out to him and a shout out to uh hit boy who produced this album the entire album he produced the other two albums and also the album magic yeah we slipped in four albums in two years and the reason yeah thanks man thanks and and the reason uh it I think it happened is because we started the first one in 2020 when the pandemic hit yeah so at first I was scared to come outside and then he hit boy was in the studio like come on man it's like a month you didn't leave your house and I'm he got me to come outside and had nothing else to do right we finished the first one really quick and we said you know we should do this again and here we are with the third one on my label Mass appeals I would love to know yeah I'd love to know that when you look at hip-hop as a whole you know you you you were there when it was only seen as gangster rap you were there when it was completely ostracized from society now it's at the Super Bowl now it is you know at a hockey game I remember that's when I was like wow okay hip-hop has done it you know no for real I'd love to know you know where you would like to see the game progressing to now that it it's you know it's not in the exact same place it was before I think it evolved and I think people can realize that you don't have to be scared of it it's we learn from our mistakes and then um we can grow in it we don't have to stay doing one thing the ones who stay doing one thing Unfortunately they fall off um and we have to understand that like hip-hop is now is going on 50 years and we've been behind this whole 50 years will be next year uh hip-hop's been alive so we've been behind trying to curate this Museum that's coming up in the Bronx right now it's amazing and and the mayor has even gotten involved that's what mayor Adams and you know and I noticed yeah I noticed one thing with the culture it's like artists don't think they can go past one way or we have to be all in one like area trying to fight for crumbs and it's like hip-hop's a multi uh sound genre so it's like in rock you don't have you know compare kiss to The Rolling Stones you know but in hip-hop for some reason we're fighting it for the same thing and you know uh you feel like you have to be the number one guy all the time so hip-hop is multi-sound genre you can have multiple things going on at once doesn't matter how if you're 20 years old or 40 years old or whatever it's a beautiful culture and I love all of it so I think that we should all as writers get out of your comfort zone and spread your wings and expand with your sound yeah I really like that I Before I Let You Go I want to I want to talk about that idea of being more you know we know you for the music we know you for being in the restaurant business and doing extremely well being successful with that we also know you you know anybody said it sweet chick yeah you've been there yeah it's phenomenal people love it and you know I remember eating and someone was like you know Nas owns this chicken I was like this chicken that I'm holding right now it was it was a weird way that someone said it to me but but but you're also getting involved in a different type of Storytelling which is which is in film you know uh I I I know that you you directed A Documentary yeah you know that talks about you know the Supreme world of like it was this underworld yeah in Queens and I know you're also involved in a really fascinating story about the Civil Rights icons everybody Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr Etc yeah what is it about that world that entices you why why are you stepping into documentaries filmmaking Etc and doing well at it I'm a movie buff I love films and yeah I love films I love them love them love I was Halloween I was going Friday 13th crazy I was doing Halloween crazy I went to see Halloween ends and all of that what's your favorite film what is like the movie that you can never get enough of you watch it over and over and over Peach Street the old school hip-hop films okay that's my favorite then it comes the Godfathers and all of that stuff okay okay you know Godfather's a family movie you know it's a beautiful thing you know um but yeah I love films I love Steven Spielberg I rap about him on one of my first raps and I always wanted to get into it so the Supreme team was one about a underworld organization in Queens long ago we hear about the Gottis and all of those John Gotti's and stuff but we never really hear about this so I like to uncover things The Good the Bad the Ugly in America and his story was some innocent people and some people were guilty some are innocent probably but um the new one the Invaders that just came out you can catch it on Apple Amazon Prime is about this organization of musicians intellectuals Vietnam Vets who got together who were trying to uh strike against a garbage truck company yeah where someone was killed in his in his faulty truck and then there was no pensions the money was bad and Martin Luther King came down there and uh he stood with the Memphis people the people that was striking and he found out who the Invaders were and they wanted to protect the March because the first Mark wasn't bad yeah yeah of course we know the end how Martin Luther King um uh you know what happens but there's another look into that story Through The Eyes of the Invaders right and most of them are still alive and it's a really good picture and in 1967 and um it's amazing so there's so many stories to uncover all over the world and here's my world I want to talk about it another one besides sweet chick I got a tag is coat Michelin star restaurant coat you gotta you gotta go you gotta go that's you yeah I'm I'm it's not me but I'm a part of it yeah so that's you yeah that's me foreign [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 15 2022