Hip-hop legend nas discusses releasing two albums in a year, survivors guilt, leaving the no-Grammy award club and music as therapy.
with Ye. That was your first release in about six years – the longest break you had taken from music. What did you learn about yourself at that time?About myself? That I’m just getting started. I haven’t done it all yet and I have so much ahead of me. I realised that I am my own movement. And I don’t just talk it, I’m walking it. I want to be something that people can see and know, “Hey, I can do that too.
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Gerrick: Your music has always been cathartic, but what do you do when it wakes something up in you? Do you sit with a therapist, or do you just go and make another record?I don’t see a therapist. That’s on my to-do list, and it has been on my to-do list for the past two years. A lot of friends of mine do and they love it. I plan to do that. I also thought I could do that with a girlfriend – maybe I could do that – but that’s not fair to them. So maybe one of these days. The music does help me.
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