Over at Contact Music Nas explains How he feels rappers’ content should look like during their careers…

“When you first get into the music business, you’re excited to be there, you want to make records that everybody’s loving.
“But, after you’ve got years in the game, you wanna give people the real side of you, show people some character.
“Life is good; there’s yachts, there’s nice cars, there’s movie roles.
“We overcame… but, in the middle of all that… you can’t forget about the ones that didn’t make it with us. Life is good, but that still doesn’t erase all the horror out here.”

Not surprising to here this stuff from Nas because this is basically how he has conducted himself through his career but does he really think that model can work for every rapper? Today we have many rappers talking about the “horrors” of the hood in first person as if they are still living them.

What do you guys think? Should rappers talk about the streets when they haven’t been there for years? Or should they just rhyme about the rich and famous lives they live now?