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Boosie Badazz has shared his thoughts on the ongoing debate involving Nas‘ “relevancy,” and said the Queens legend is “relevant to his fans.”
Boosie’s comments on VLADTV were spurred by claims made by 21 Savage on Clubhouse where he said he didn’t “feel” that Nas was “relevant” in rap. An argument ensued in the chatroom, and once things settled down the Slaughter Gang boss claimed the King’s Disease hitmaker isn’t relevant today, but has a “loyal” fan base and makes good music still.
21 went on to clarify his point in a separate statement on Twitter, writing: “I would never disrespect nas or any legend who paved the way for me y’all be tryna take stuff and run with it.” He has since linked up with Nas for a new song called “One Mic, One Gun,” which dropped on Wednesday (November 30).
“What is relevant to him?” Boosie told DJ Vlad. “You say he has a loyal fanbase, he just won a Grammy, I mean at that age…his records are doing great. I think he might be saying relevance as to social media. So he’s definitely relevant to his fan base.”
Later in the interview, he said: “He has a relevance to his fans. Nas is what, about 50-something, you gotta understand his fanbase when you get up there, half of them are dead. So he definitely has relevancy to his fanily. Half of them are dead!
“All of them n-ggas in Queens all them…Nas and ‘Pac fans they’re dead. So for him to be winning a Grammy, he still has relevance in his era for sure. I just can’t say he’s relevant as far as today’s thing, but I definitely agree he has relevance because ain’t too many n-ggas doing what he doing at his age…he doesn’t have a Taylor Swift machine behind him.”
Boosie isn’t the only rapper weighing in on the debate. Juelz Santana and Jim Jones defended 21 in a sitdown with No Jumper earlier this week, telling host Adam22 his comments were misconstrued.
“He wasn’t saying it in a malicious way at all,” Santana said.
“I’m just looking at what 21 Savage was saying. I don’t think he meant it as what people were taking it as,” Jones continued. “In today’s society, in the younger generation, these kids are very lit out here and they put ‘lit’ and ‘relevant’ in the same thing when it’s two different things.”
The Harlem natives went on to say that the younger generation needs to define what they think is “lit,” and that if Nas had instead criticized 21 Savage, the comments wouldn’t have been controversial because of his G.O.A.T. status.
“They feel like because 21 ain’t Nas, he don’t got a right to talk about Nas and that’s the fucked up thing in the world we live in,” Santana said. “We all have a right to our opinion because we all do it every day from the comments we make.”
While Boosie and the Dipset pair clearly have empathy for both Nas and 21, Kodak Black blasted the Savage Mode rapper over his remarks.
“Talking about, ‘Oh, Nas irrelevant.’ How the fuck Nas irrelevant, hoe?” he said on Instagram Live earlier this month while addressing the controversy. “How the fuck Nas ain’t relevant, homie? N-gga smoking dick! Did a fucking Drake [album]. We salute Drake, we love Drake, okay, whatever.”
Kodak continued to defend Nas by saying: “A n-gga fucked up about Nas. I love that boy, homie. I ain’t saying n-ggas ain’t lit or whatever and they on they real. Nas wasn’t bothering you, boy. I wasn’t bothering you, n-gga.”
Why is this bullshit only in hip hop ? You never hear rock fans saying KISS isnt relevant or country fans saying dolly parton isnt relevant. Fuck relevant, and motherfuck social media. People in their 50’s and 60’s own all these tech companies and make billions off of fans under 40. You know whats relevant ? Money…
Smart people don’t air grievances to social media
Look this Lady crying over her BF.
Lol you didn’t have to make the headline seem as he was dissing Nas – he made a lot of sense with what he was saying.
Lol you didn’t have to make the headline seem as he was dissing Nas – he made a lot of sense with what he was saying.
We love to put each other down in the black community. You don’t hear this type of thing in rock or country. It’s always us that disrespect each other. We call the 1st generation of rappers old heads. Everything as a beginning.
Culture-vulture headline. Fix that shit. Boosie wasn’t dissing. You are just trying to start shit between black people
No. It’s hhdx. It’s literally a site for drama, and that’s about it. Hhdx is like TMZ for hiphop. It’s sad. I remember coming here a decade ago and funding great music. Now it’s all tmz type junk.
That’s a any news site does fr
Wow!! Sometimes Boosie say some really dumb s**t! smh!! Dude should just stay in his lane!! These young rappers today have no respect for the older rappers who opened the door for they ***!! They have no idea what the OG rappers had to endure; rap wasn’t even considered music back in tha day!!
Endure what? Getting paid and getting laid? Such hard work huh? These wrappers never worked a day in their god damned life…FACTS!!
Boosie old Af him self!
Just a dumb azz line to throw out there. He made his point then had to say something stupid on top of it
Just a dumb azz line to throw out there. He made his point then had to say something stupid on top of it
Just a dumb azz line to throw out there. He made his point then had to say something stupid on top of it
The new generation don’t know shit about no hip hop. They MAYBE know trap or drill music but Nas didn’t make Trap music. Fool made the arguably The Greatest “Hip Hop” Album of all time. It’s like saying black Sabbath ain’t metal because they don’t have modern post hardcore screaming breakdowns. They CREATED METAL. Look man I know a young sneaker hypebeast who didn’t know who was NOTORIOUS BIG WAS🙄 my ex girl friends had never heard the name Robert Earl Davis or DJ Screw and he is the most important rap icon to come out of my hometown . So my point is these young people don’t know shit about rap.plus the rap game is totally fucked off with the pay for streams
LYC Fu’ ck Ms Oochie Wally!
LYC F u’ck Ms Oochie Wally!
LYC Ms Oochie Wally!
i am convinced half these dudes in the south black and white have cousins who are having retarded offspring together. they say silly shit.
Well… I’m 52 and I’m still here as of this writing being a NaS fan. Here’s a fun fact, I ain’t heard a bossie track nor do I intend too. Salute the hustle but I don’t listen to bossie.
Well, I’m 52 and a big NaS fan… as if this writing I’m still here. Fun fact of the day: I ain’t listened to a hoodie track with intentions. I salute his hustle, but I don’t listen to him.
Well, I’m 52 and a big NaS fan… as if this writing I’m still here. Fun fact of the day: I ain’t listened to a hoodie track with intentions. I salute his hustle, but I don’t listen to him.
These dumb ass rappers still going to Vlad to talk. SMH
Man…make music until you cannot make it anymore! There is no time limit on creative art!
Any self respecting Hip-hop head can name several Nas songs and a Nas album, at least. I one can name a Boosie song or album. This idiot is famous for being a closeted homosexual and abusing his kid.
Any self respecting Hip-hop head can name several Nas songs and a Nas album, at least. I one can name a Boosie song or album. This idiot is famous for being a closeted homosexual and abusing his kid.
Real Talk OG said he has never been to a concert. Any adult have been to one on accident. Bunch of corny bland generic views on a culture never participated in.
Fuckin clown