During his appearance at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas over the weekend, Nas confirmed that he did receive his younger brother Jabari “Jungle” Jones’ assistance on his “One Mic” record.
AllHipHop.com reports that while speaking to the audience at the festival, the Queens, New York rapper revealed that he was lacking the motivation to write when Jungle gave him the first four lines to what would become the Stillmatic record “One Mic.”
“Year after year. Another album after another album. Record company bullshit. Life, life. So, I couldn’t write,” Nas said during his Fun Fun Fun Fest performance. “And I listened to what he said, and he gave me the first four lines and then I took it from there. My brother said this—He’s not a rapper, ‘All I need is one mic…’”
Nas’ revelation comes years after music journalist dream hampton accused the rapper of enlisting Jay Electronica and stic.man as ghostwriters on his Untitled album.
In response to the rumors, Nas fired back with his newly-released record, “The Season.” On the J Dilla-produced record, Nas raps:
“Jay Elec doesn’t write it / HOV couldn’t write it, he vacationin’ / Jungle the only brother I take shit from / Hassan give me lines, we talk all the time / So I guess if he inspired my song it ain’t mine.”
Other artists present at Fun Fun Fun Fest included Wiz Khalifa, 2 Chainz, Run The Jewels, and Flying Lotus.
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jay elec doesn’t write it
HOV couldn’t write it, he vacationin’
jungle the only brother I take shit from
Nas is the most overrated wack POS in music history. He also look like Kenny Smith from TNT in that pic LMAO
dudes who hate on other nigas shit r bitch z.what the fuck is missin off Nas records,rakim inspired Nas,how many albums does he have,whatelse has he done apart from being a gaot,GOAT.Real nigas talk real..get ur stellito out of here,
Keyboard Gangasta at his best
Jungle wrote all of Illmatic, Nas fell off big time, so that’s the only way to think about it.
jungle woulda been like 12 when nas wrote illmatic
“What if Jungle wrote my shit, and I’m really illiterate, and the whole Nas catalog was just experiment?”
His brother wrote every song off every album. The ugly truth is now known. Once the GOAT. Now the DONKEY.
lol You wish
why hate NAS clown ,,stupid fan…Nas is dope,insirational shit,the street disciple ,ghetto child,,,some of us we from the hood, we relate and feel he is talking about our situations back here in Africa…”ignorance is a bliss” NAS
lol, no one talks about nas in africa, lol, american struggle and african are two different things compelety, trust me cause im south aftican
Nas confirms Cormega wrote Illmatic
Cormega confirms that’s not true since he was locked up during that time.
people write albums in jail all the time
Doesn’t mean Mega wrote Illmatic. If he did, then fetch some evidence.
Where do they find these people?
I kno u trollin heavy but if megfa wrote illmatic why didn’t he write a album that dope for his goddamn self lmaoo wack ass mega YOU CAME IN WIT MY STYLE SO I FATHERED YOU/ TOOK THE WORLD BY STORM SINCE BARBEQUE
10 posts from haters ,u must be all under 19 clowns ,why hate a good damn rapper like Nas,all ths rappers co signing him,you ignorant to reality .he inspires some of us ,he raps about some of our situations here in the hood .NAS FAN since 1996..ride till i drop..stay away from Pcp`s clowns.
This that nigga, who care he took 4 lines?
Nas is the greatest MC to touch the Mic! For all of you that is on the post talking slick about Nasir than ever rapper that touched the Mic sucks because Nas influence any other rapper after him. Nas is the Lyrical God MC. All the rest just follow!!!