50 Cent had some words for Nas in a recent interview with the LA Times. The feud, which goes back as far as a concert during which Nas called 50 out, continued this week with 50’s latests barbs at God’s Son.
“Hip-Hop ain’t dead. That’s just coming from an artist that’s dead,” said 50, referring to Nas’ album and concept for Hip Hop Is Dead. “Hip-Hop being what it was in his era – the 2Pac/Nas/Biggie/Jay-Z era –
is dead. Right now [fans] don’t want to hear that nonsense.”
Interestingly enough, these comments came right as 50’s album Curtis hit stores. “Those guys that flood their music with too much intellectual
information don’t sell. You could be so creative that you just got a
smock and a French accent!”
This criticism is in the same vein as a previous one, in which 50 said “Nas is a really smart guy. He reads books constantly. We were around
him on the Nastradamus tour. He was almost weirder than me ’cause we
would go to breakfast and he’d be there reading a book. Conceptually, I
think that’s what made him drift away from what his initial audience
enjoys from him and why he’s not hot right now.”
