Nas: “Drake is like fresh water”

Written by Rizoh. Posted in Gumbo

Published on June 29, 2009 with 8 Comments">8 Comments

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Nas has just snuggled up to the coziest seat on the increasingly crowded Drake bandwagon. In an interview with Omaha World-Herald, Esco was quoted as saying that hip-hop is “always looking for that one artist that changes rap into another direction and makes all the other artists follow.” He described Young Drizzy as that next guy. How original?

Proceed for an excerpt:

Q. So who is that guy for you? Who are you listening to?
Nas: Drake and always Scarface.

Q. Why?
Nas: Drake is new. (He’s a rapper from Toronto.) He’s here to show anybody who questions him that he’ll get at you. He’s like fresh water right now on dry land. Scarface is the realist rapper. He’s the most musically serious, besides Kanye (West), right now. What Scarface says in his rhymes is real. You can’t get away from (Lil) Wayne right now. So that’s what I’m listening to. I’m waiting on Dr. Dre’s album.

Hop on over to Omaha.com for the full gist.

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  • whatever

    anyone here likes a drake’s cake?

  • whatever

    anyone here likes a drake’s cake?

  • IT’S COOL FOR WHITE BOYS TO RA

    Nas doesn’t know WTF he’s talking about anymore. Drake is fuckin’ wack. Too much R&B shit in his music and sounds too much like a lot of the other rap shit playing now a days. Another direction, lol. If by another direction you mean the same one, then yeah, I agree. Otherwise, Nas fell the fuck off years ago, so I’m not sure he knows a damn thing about hip hop anymore. I mean, how’s dude gonna claim hip hop is dead, then a few years later hail Drake as fresh water. Haha!

  • IT’S COOL FOR WHITE BOYS TO RAP NOW

    Nas doesn’t know WTF he’s talking about anymore. Drake is fuckin’ wack. Too much R&B shit in his music and sounds too much like a lot of the other rap shit playing now a days. Another direction, lol. If by another direction you mean the same one, then yeah, I agree. Otherwise, Nas fell the fuck off years ago, so I’m not sure he knows a damn thing about hip hop anymore. I mean, how’s dude gonna claim hip hop is dead, then a few years later hail Drake as fresh water. Haha!

  • D Money

    Wait wait wait

    Nas NEVER said he was good. He said he is the most musically serious at the moment. Wayne is musically serious but Wayne isn’t really good.

    And for being the fresh water right now, I agree. He is not doing southern music, has a different sound(though copies styles) and rhymes are somewhat decent.

    All in all though, with the crap that people have been putting out in hip-hop recently, it doesn’t say much. This is in Nas’s defense, just actually looking at what he said.

    When so much crap out today, decent stuff sounds great.

  • D Money

    Wait wait wait

    Nas NEVER said he was good. He said he is the most musically serious at the moment. Wayne is musically serious but Wayne isn’t really good.

    And for being the fresh water right now, I agree. He is not doing southern music, has a different sound(though copies styles) and rhymes are somewhat decent.

    All in all though, with the crap that people have been putting out in hip-hop recently, it doesn’t say much. This is in Nas’s defense, just actually looking at what he said.

    When so much crap out today, decent stuff sounds great.

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