Once upon a time, Nas and DMX were co-stars on the set of the Hype Williams-directed Belly in 1998 as Dark Man X made the quantum leap to rap immortality with a pair of No. 1 albums released in the same calendar year.
Nas joined Desus & Mero for a New York-centric interview on Sunday (October 17). At one point, the Queensbridge legend reflected on the loss of DMX and recalled an emotional moment they shared while filming Belly over two decades ago.
“We formed a brotherhood,” he said of his “Life Is What You Make It” collaborator. “I didn’t have to see him or he didn’t have to call me, but when we saw each other though, it was that! Even working on the film, we cried.
“We were at the Tunnel doing a scene and I was like, ‘You feel that, bro?’ He was like, ‘Yeah.’ And he’s crying and now I’m crying. He was talking with that, ‘Grrr.’ I was like, ‘This man’s energy is something else.'”
Nas then debunked the chatter that DMX didn’t receive the proper amount of love from his peers while he was alive.
“People need to understand, DMX had more love than most rappers would ever see,” Nas declared. “People said when he passed, ‘Where was the love when he was alive?’ You gotta be kidding me! He had more love than 98 percent of rappers would ever have.
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“He walked through any hood, sold millions of records, he had an incredible movie career. Kids ain’t doing that today! I wish he was still here with us, but in this life, he saw more love than 1,000 rappers put together.”
Watch the entire interview below.
First they shootin the they cryin and huggin it out. It all checks out. Foh with that bullsh**
Your handle is off a play from a children’s series. Go back to reading your f@gworts fantasy and shake your booty in front of a magical wand while riding a broomstick. Checks out. Foh. You have nothing important to say ever. On behalf of all of us, stfu.
Oh wow you gonn cry like your idol Nas? It is what it is
Checks Out…lol you act like you was there..what’s wrong with u..sound like a idiot…reading this made me smile…this really made you say sum sucka shit lol..?
Stfu with your hating ass
His words were powerful no question. One of the first albums I legally bought was his first album shit is a classic. RIP X and shout-out to Nas
DMX… it still feel like it ain’t real… fuck all this debate about Pac and Biggie… to me X is the greatest rapper of all time, always has been always will be. His energy, his flow, his storytelling and it goes on and on… Fuck it! He’s the only celebrity I am a hardcore fan of. RIP
I grew up off X I didn’t have a Father, so I looked up to him on how to be a man, how to have compassion for the fellow Brother, how to deal with women, and how not to take no ish, when he died I lost family. This too was the first cd I bought and it changed my life with the positive and gave me understanding of the negative, may the Most High blessed his soul ??
Who ever talk slick about Nas on here you are just a broken ass ball biter hater.
Sho you right. I am 62. Female.Black and a Grandma. I love NAS and DMX. I been waiting on Belly to come on since DMX passing.