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I'm Jesse Thorn. From time to time on the show, we like to talk to the hip hop blogger Nas of the

popular rap blog Cocaine Blunts to find out what hip hop music is worth our time and worth

seeking out and it's great to welcome Nas back onto the Sound of Young America. Hey, Nas,

how are you doing? Pretty good. How are you doing, Jesse? How are things in New Jersey?

Things are the way they always are in New Jersey. Incredibly exciting.

Let's talk a little bit about rap music.

So I live in Los Angeles where it's perfectly reasonable for a local radio station and this is

true to say that they carry all the hip hop classics from the notorious B.I.G. to Tupac Shakur

to DJ Quick. But while DJ Quick has had some national hits, certainly, I think he is in part

a regional phenomenon. So before we talk about his latest record, maybe you could tell me sort of

who he is and where he stands in the world of hip hop. Yeah, Quick is an LA rap and production

legend. He's from Compton, came up on the heels of the NWA craze and kind of brought a more

playful and fun-loving vibe to the gangster rap scene. It tell me a little bit about Ghetto

rendezvous. This new song we're about to hear. Well, I guess in his recent work, he's kind of

evolved a lot as a rapper. And in his earlier stuff, it was more, it was more straightforward

raps about the world around him and like today, he seems to be using rap omus as like a cathartic

thing where he's just pouring out whatever problems in his life onto the track. Let's hear DJ Quick

and Ghetto rendezvous.

Now let's talk about Max B and his song, where do I

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