In addition to serving as executive producer for Netflix’s The Get Down, Nas also took on the gargantuan task of writing all the raps that appear in the series.
Given the heaviness of such a task, the Queensbridge lyricist was asked what the most challenging part of writing such a variety of rhymes was, during an interview with Rolling Stone.
Given that The Get Down takes place in the 1970s, he explained that he had to get used to writing a style different than what he’s used to.
“I don’t just write Ezekiel’s part … I write for the group,” Nas said. “This is an early style. This is the Seventies. These are the tapes that the older guys were playing in my neighborhood, listening to, partying to. This is a different style, this is not what I normally do…I placed pictures around myself of parties like Harlem World, the Roxy, jams out in the Bronx in the park, DJs like Jazzy Jay on the turntables, of course Grandmaster Flash photographs everywhere, the Furious Five photographs around me. I really just went into that world.”
Nas later revealed that The Get Down could be “just what they need,” in regards to younger Hip Hop fans.
“I was watching a documentary on Chuck Berry a little bit yesterday, and his music is not really my time, but music is timeless at the end of the day…At my concerts, I see kids,” he said. “I see all ages, but I see kids! And, if I’m their first concert, or one of their first concerts, they have so much more to learn. I’m excited to be a part of Get Down, ’cause this could be just what they need.”
The Get Down will premiere on Netflix on August 12.
This is gonna be classic
This is gonna suck, like everything else Nas does.
Eat shit you feet wap and drake blowing h..m.o
I don’t even like Fetty Wap. I don’t like Drake’s music, but I respect his hustle. He’s learning from the master, King HOV, unlike broke Nasir.
its on Netflix they do not care about numbers
But Netflix write million dollar checks that Nas has the pleasure to add to his millions for being an executive producer and song write for every episode. You mad? and Nas is rich!
Eat a dick, dickhead !!!
Your breath smells like camel’s semen.
Beyonce doesnt even turn to look at Nas lol no wonder his wife left him
So you’re replying to your f.a.g @ss self now but with a different nickname? F.O.H. and find yourself a REAL friend LOL 😀
The only thing that sucks is your mouth on camel’s balls.
Wow, writing rhymes for a whole movie; Dope……Them Royalty checks gone be crazy.
What royalty checks? This shit gonna flop hard. Broke ass Nas needs to learn a thing or two from King HOV.
The King HOV!?? Hahahaha, you love them camel lips, don’t you?
You, me and King HOV…. We’ll teach you about camel lips. Nas doesn’t know about that.
I knew you were a f.a.g. lol, but no need to include me in your wet dreams.
Keep wetting your panties for King HOV hahahaha!
Wet dreams? Have you ever had your ass pounded in by a 50 year old man? Fucking Nas stans, don’t mess with the ROC! We’ll be up in that ass.
What’s with all the g@y sh*t?? And I’m far from a Nas stan. I’m just laughing at the Jay-Z g@yest stan you are hahahahaha!! And keep being in other man’s asses, you f@g 😀
We know, Nas been called y’all out. “We Roc hoes, y’all Roc fellas”……..Now go away.
The “Get Down”?? More like “The Let Down, am I right? Lol
Still replying to yourself, you schizophrenic Jay-Z stan??
But Netflix write million dollar checks that Nas has the pleasure to add to his millions for being an executive producer and song write for every episode. You mad? and Nas is rich!
“Ask Russell Simmons”
Speaking of Get Down, that track is a great intro to God’s Son
God’s Son is so slept on. Top 10 album ever.
Your really a clown and a troll.. Is someone paying you to do this? Smh what a clown.