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Nas In Conversation with Rick Rubin

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

CHAPTER

The Importance of Hip Hop

"I knew it when I heard the breaks. It was grown folks' music," he says of his first exposure to hip hop. "My pops was cool with it." His mom didn't want him and his brother to grow up to be hoodlums or whatever they called it back then, but she'd laugh at them singing dope around each other,. He's like, what? You know what I'm saying? And she's like, nah, that ain't for you!"

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