Rolling Stone: It’s got to be hard to ignore other rappers if they talk shit about you. How do you do that?

Nas: If I was younger, it would be hard to ignore. But those rappers are just trying to get you to immortalize them by saying their names. Like, can you imagine some artist coming out in the Seventies and talking bad about Stevie Wonder? That’s savage, man. If I can inspire one motherfucker to reach beyond a beef, or reach beyond going platinum just once, then I’ve won. I got a lyric on my new album that says, "Oh you went platinum?/That’s nice, now let me see you do that same shit twice/Three times, four times, then a couple more times, please/You’re amateur night, it’s showtime." It’s like show me what you got.


Ну вот как он это show me what you got вкрутил-то, а? Нас, Нас