Taken from stillmatic.com
April 13th 2004 Hot 97 Nasir Jones
Thanks to Jigsaw from allhiphop for hookin it up, ill post the rest later, he had some interesting stuff about the direction of street's disciple, and on when he'll hang up the mic.
On His Musical Influences.
"I feel good about that, though. Because that means I did my job. That **** is a good feeling and it made me feel like, 'I should be doing this'. 'Cos if it was the other way around, and I was just copying off somebody else or doing something like that, I wouldn't deserve nothing. I wouldn't deserve anything in this business or I wouldn't feel like I deserved it. Even if I was to have money or whatever, I wouldn't feel as good as Buckshot Shorty or Biggie Smalls - nah, not him. Or Mr Scarface or one of these *****s that I really like. I wouldn't feel like, 'Damned, I mean something'."
On His New Album.
"I'm in between. I feel as if I'm knowledgeable about the separatism between the mother****in' older guys and the young guys. I see what's going on. I just wanna educate both halves like, 'Yo, it's gotta be a 360 (degree turn)', because we getting older and we been through so much that we feel like we deserve whatever we got and we not gonna help nobody else. I've grown in these past few years, and you'll see that on Street's Disciple, I'll mixed it up for both the ladies and fellas so they can both enjoy the music. I've been criticized in the past for ya know for marketing my music strictly for the fellas, but with i gotta get to a bigger audience,ya'naw mean?
On Eminem
Shady (Eminem) is just the corporate slut from the suburbs that Interscope used to steal our music.
He's nothin but a tool, not to knock his rhymes, but he's a tool.
On Hip Hop Today
That's the point. You got different crowds of rap music. When I first came in the game, it wasn't all these little kids. Rap music lost the young generation. When Run DMC came out, they had me; and I was young. I was young following them *****s. But as time grew on, shorties didn't understand rap. As when Rakim came out, they can't understand that **** no more. So by the time my **** came out and Wu [Tang Clan] came out, that was bringing it back. They was seeing young guys doing it again, so young guys got into rap again. But our music wasn't for the young guys. We came on it behind Rakim, [Kool] G Rap, all that ****. So we come in kicking our **** how they kickin' it, but the shorties seeing us being all young and they like, 'Oh ****...'. Now we got the little shorties in there. Now that's what made me wake up and be like, 'It's time to turn the tables around, i gotta be the one that takes it back to the essence, and i think the fans will see that"
April 13th 2004 Hot 97 Nasir Jones
Thanks to Jigsaw from allhiphop for hookin it up, ill post the rest later, he had some interesting stuff about the direction of street's disciple, and on when he'll hang up the mic.
On His Musical Influences.
"I feel good about that, though. Because that means I did my job. That **** is a good feeling and it made me feel like, 'I should be doing this'. 'Cos if it was the other way around, and I was just copying off somebody else or doing something like that, I wouldn't deserve nothing. I wouldn't deserve anything in this business or I wouldn't feel like I deserved it. Even if I was to have money or whatever, I wouldn't feel as good as Buckshot Shorty or Biggie Smalls - nah, not him. Or Mr Scarface or one of these *****s that I really like. I wouldn't feel like, 'Damned, I mean something'."
On His New Album.
"I'm in between. I feel as if I'm knowledgeable about the separatism between the mother****in' older guys and the young guys. I see what's going on. I just wanna educate both halves like, 'Yo, it's gotta be a 360 (degree turn)', because we getting older and we been through so much that we feel like we deserve whatever we got and we not gonna help nobody else. I've grown in these past few years, and you'll see that on Street's Disciple, I'll mixed it up for both the ladies and fellas so they can both enjoy the music. I've been criticized in the past for ya know for marketing my music strictly for the fellas, but with i gotta get to a bigger audience,ya'naw mean?
On Eminem
Shady (Eminem) is just the corporate slut from the suburbs that Interscope used to steal our music.
He's nothin but a tool, not to knock his rhymes, but he's a tool.
On Hip Hop Today
That's the point. You got different crowds of rap music. When I first came in the game, it wasn't all these little kids. Rap music lost the young generation. When Run DMC came out, they had me; and I was young. I was young following them *****s. But as time grew on, shorties didn't understand rap. As when Rakim came out, they can't understand that **** no more. So by the time my **** came out and Wu [Tang Clan] came out, that was bringing it back. They was seeing young guys doing it again, so young guys got into rap again. But our music wasn't for the young guys. We came on it behind Rakim, [Kool] G Rap, all that ****. So we come in kicking our **** how they kickin' it, but the shorties seeing us being all young and they like, 'Oh ****...'. Now we got the little shorties in there. Now that's what made me wake up and be like, 'It's time to turn the tables around, i gotta be the one that takes it back to the essence, and i think the fans will see that"
