Common Wishes He Wrote Some Of Nas & André 3000’s Rhymes

Widespread stays in awe of Nas and André 3000 as MCs.

Regardless of penning a few of the most traditional rhymes in rap historical past, the Chicago native has admitted he’s nonetheless blown away by the abilities of the Illmatic lyricist and the OutKast legend.

Throughout an interview with Sizzling 97’s Ebro within the Morning on Wednesday (January 24), Widespread mentioned: “Him [André 3000] and Nas, for me, are the 2 that I’ll be like, ‘Rattling, I want I wrote that.’

“I used to be enjoying ‘New York State of Thoughts’ and one of many biggest strains ever written is, ‘Past the partitions of intelligence life is outlined/ I consider crime once I’m in a New York way of thinking.’”

Take a look at his feedback on the 15:30 mark under.

The Windy Metropolis rapper additionally shared his response to André’s New Blue Solar, talking extremely of the considerably divisive flute-driven instrumental album.

“Initially, it’s simply nice to listen to one thing from André,” Widespread mentioned. “After all I wanna hear his raps, however that dude has been such a creator… Once I placed on that flute album I used to be like, ‘Yo, this joint is dope to me.’”

The 51-year-old additionally shared that producers have been hitting him up saying they may loop a few of the instrumentals on New Blue Solar for him to rap over.

This isn’t the primary time that Widespread his given Nas his flowers both. Final 12 months, the Electrical Circus creator hailed “One Love” as “one of many biggest songs ever written” whereas as reflecting on the wonder and energy of Hip Hop.

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“I bear in mind being at a efficiency after which strolling exterior of the present, and this dude got here as much as me, and he mentioned, ‘Widespread, I actually love your music. I wish to let you know that your music ‘Retrospect for Life’ made me determine to have my child,’” he recalled.

“I wrote that music as a result of I had been by means of that have. And there was a second once I was on the way in which to the abortion clinic, and the mom of my little one determined, ‘We will’t do that once more,’ as a result of this was after already having one abortion. Let’s determine no matter we now have to do. That scenario confirmed if you obtain experiences from a spot of reality, it simply resonates differently.”

He continued: “That’s why we associated to when Nas talked about what he talked about on Illmatic. He skilled it, and the way in which he informed it was simply lovely. In ‘One Love,’ he talks to his boy in jail. That’s one of many biggest songs ever written.”