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The Aries Spears Interview: Rap Music These Days, Why He Hasn't JOed in 30 Years, Cancel Culture

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How Much Attention Do You Pay to Rap at This Point in Your Life?

I go to war with these young motherfuckers about rap. I get called old head, you know, I'm bitter. The number of people who are my age that actually are really paying attention to rap just keeps going down year and year. Nas made illmatic at 19, man. And mob deep prodigy, they was in 18. So miss me with the excuses. You know what I mean? They want to be famous. Nobody wrote. Well, nobody wants to be broke. But at what point do you make the art suffer in regards to finances? Yeah. It's almost hard to believe that rap used to be so much about skills since like nowadays, it's like

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