"If Cornell West was making an album called ------, they would know he's got something intellectual to say," Nas stated. "To think I'm gonna say something that's not intellectual is calling me a ------, and to be called a ------ by Jesse Jackson and the NAACP is counterproductive, counter-revolutionary."

"We're taking power from the word," he added. "No disrespect to none of them who were part of the civil-rights movement, but some of my n---as in the streets don't know who [civil-rights activist] Medgar Evers was. I love Medgar Evers, but some of the n---as in the streets don't know Medgar Evers, they know who Nas is. And to my older people who don't now who Nas is and who don't know what a street disciple is, stay outta this mutha----in' conversation. We'll talk to you when we're ready. Right now, we're on a whole new movement. We're taking power from that word." - Read the MTV article here

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