Anybody got that video of Nas and Jay Z performing Hiphop is Dead @ 106th n Park?
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiEcRbGVxvA&feature=related"]nas feat jay z-hip hop is dead live - YouTube[/ame]
DOUBLE EDIT: Also found the Kanye West/Sway interview, it's cut up with commercials between
http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/57584/no-angel-but-he-didnt-steal-those-printers.jhtml#id=1507845
Here's a transcript of the Kanye/Sway interview
I remember Jim being
at Kanye's comment about how kids would call him gay & he said he acted like his mom because his dad wasn't around 
DOUBLE EDIT: Also found the Kanye West/Sway interview, it's cut up with commercials between
http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/57584/no-angel-but-he-didnt-steal-those-printers.jhtml#id=1507845
Here's a transcript of the Kanye/Sway interview
Sway: Adam Levine from Maroon 5 is on your track "Heard 'Em Say." How did you get him on a record?
West: Rick Rubin gave me his number. We were on a plane to Rome, to some awards show where I didn't win. I got robbed again. Um ...
Sway: Did you throw a temper tantrum?
West: I was really more upset that you couldn't actually see my outfit on the show. I had this dope-ass, pink-and-brown outfit. But I just always like to play people new music, and "Heard 'Em Say" was the first song I had recorded for the new album. So I had it in my iPod, and on the plane over we were sittin' up in first class, where artists sit. And I played it for him and he said, "Yo, this reminds me of a song that I wrote but I don't know if my band will want to do it. It sounds kind of R&B. But I want to do the song." I said, "Yo, we should work together." And that's all it was.
He came to the studio right after the Grammys and he sang the song and the melody fit perfect with it. He added something to it, it was just like the magic, the frosting on top. And that's one of those times that God is working in the studio with you. Those are those days that he's really on his job.
"The New Workout Plan"
The College Dropout
(Roc-A-Fella Records)
One of the reasons I defended the first album so much was I was scared that I couldn't make an album comparable to the first one. Again, 'cause I know I didn't make it by myself — I know that God had heavy involvement in it. And I didn't know if he might have been tryin' to focus on someone else's career, to get 'em to the point where I'm at. Not that he can't do two things at once. But there's times with "Jesus Walks," with the blood diamonds, with "Crack Music," where I know that God is speaking through me. I know that's something he wants me to say. I know he's connecting people. He put me on that plane with Adam to bring out that song.
Sway: Tell me about "Diamonds (From Sierra Leone)."
West: Mark Romanek, the director that did Jay's "99 Problems," and Q-Tip both brought up blood diamonds. They said, "That's what I think about when I hear diamonds. I think about kids getting killed, getting amputated in West Africa." And Q-Tip's like, "Sierra Leone," and I'm like, "Where?" And I remember him spelling it out for me and me looking on the Internet and finding out more. I think that was just one of those situations where I just set out to entertain, but every now and then God taps me on the shoulder and says, "Yo, I want you to do this right here," so he'll place angels in my path and one angel will lead to another angel and it's like a treasure hunt or something. And I finally found the gold mine, which was the video "Diamonds (From Sierra Leone)."
Lil' Kim, Common attend Kanye West's Late Registration listening session
With the remix verse, the diamond industry's thinking I'm doing something to try to hurt them. But how is it hurting y'all for me to just tell people that there was a 10-year war in Sierra Leone where black people were killing each other over diamonds and that it was a monopoly and that there are still situations that are next to slave labor, with people working for two cups of rice a day?
Sway: So you come into that knowledge and put that in the remix, but you still wear a lot of diamonds yourself. What's the logic behind that?
West: How are you a human being, would be more of the question, like, "How are you still human when you know what's going on? How do you still wear what it took your whole life to get?"
Sway: Someone from the outside might say, "There he goes again," and say that that's borderline hypocritical.
West: Yeah, a whole part about being a human is to be a hypocrite. They say that if you're an artist you have to stand for this, and they try to discredit you. Like they'll try to discredit Dr. King or Bill Cosby or Jesse Jackson 'cause they say that they saw them with a woman or something. So what does that have to do with what Cosby's TV show meant for us, what it meant for the black image and meant for our esteem, like "Damn, we could do that, we don't have to be like 'Good Times' all in the projects"? What does that take away from Martin Luther King, from what he did?
Sway: Do you admit to being self-conscious?
West: How could you be in this situation with this amount of pressure and this many people looking at you, waiting for you to show them a magic Houdini trick or a David Blaine, waiting for you to not make it out of your chains when the casket goes into the water, and not be self-conscious? How could you not be scared when you step out on that stage? How can I not be scared on the second album? How could I not be scared when I dropped "Diamonds" and there's people who say, "I don't like 'Diamonds' "?
"All Falls Down"
The College Dropout
(Roc-A-Fella Records)
Sway: With this Late Registration album, when you wanted to get it complete, you went to another producer, Jon Brion, who is known for a lot of records, but it's what he's done for Fiona Apple that attracted you. What made you want to work with him?
West: I always loved that album [Fiona Apple's When the Pawn Hits ...] so much. It hit me in a way and I wanted to know, who got the drum sounding like that? Who went into these dark chords, these string arrangements? Who brought Fiona's pain to life? I needed someone that could bring my plight to life.
And the Fiona Apple album kind of sounded similar to Portishead, too. I just felt no one was doing that in hip-hop, no rapper has ever captured that sound and rapped on it. It's like, how many more sped-up soul samples do you want? We gotta push the envelope a little bit. And I always wanted to feel like I was rapping at the top of a mountain or something. On "Diamonds," when the harpsichord and the music crescendos with the horns in the back and the drum rolls and everything, and I'm like, "Right then, my body got still like a paraplegic .../ Yeah, the beat cold but the flow is anemic ..." That moment in that song right there is what hip-hop is about.
NEXT: 'Anybody that was gay I was like, yo, get away from me'; plus, the situation with Lauryn Hill ...
Sway: What role did your mother play in your life? You have a song dedicated to her on the album called "Hey Mama."
West: After my parents got divorced and we moved to Chicago when I was 3, I would go see my father on Christmas, spring break and summer. My father was my everything, but during the rest of the time, my mother was my everything. Of course there's a good side to that, but the bad side of that is that people call you a mama's boy. It gets to the point that when you go to high school and you wasn't out in the streets like that, and you ain't have no father figure, or you wasn't around your father all the time, who you gonna act like? You gonna act like your mother. ... And then everybody in high school be like, "Yo, you actin' like a f--. Dog, you gay?" And I used to deal with that when I was in high school.
"Get 'Em High" (live)
The College Dropout
(Roc-A-Fella Records)
And what happened was it made me kind of homophobic, 'cause I would go back and question myself, like, "Damn, why does everyone else walk like this, and I walk like this?" People be like, "Yo fam, look at you. Look at how you act." If you see something and you don't want to be that because there's such a negative connotation toward it, you try to separate yourself from it so much that it made me homophobic by the time I was through high school. Anybody that was gay I was like, "Yo, get away from me." And like Tupac said, "Started hangin' with the thugs," and you look up and all my friends were really thugged out. It's like I was racing to try to find that constant masculine role model right there, right in front of me. I would use the word "f--" and always look down upon gays. But then my cousin told me that another one of my cousins was gay, and I loved him, he's one of my favorite cousins. And at that point it was kind of like a turning point when I was like, "Yo, this my cousin, I love him and I been discriminating against gays."
But everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of "hip-hop," I think, is "gay." Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, "That's gay, dog!" And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, "Yo, stop it fam."
Sway: So Kanye, the VMAs are coming up. We know your history with awards shows. If you don't win one this year, will you be upset?
West: If I ain't win, I can't say I wouldn't be disappointed. I definitely wouldn't spaz out and go up there. I did that. I'm supposed to do that every time? I gotta switch the game up.
Sway: What was it like for you when you performed "Jesus Walks" at last year's show?
"Through the Wire"
The College Dropout
(Roc-A-Fella Records)
West: You know what, just to have Syleena Johnson up there [was great]. 'Cause it was a whole thing where they said, "Yo, Lauryn Hill might be able to perform 'All Falls Down' with you." And that's one of those things that you say, "Damn, I could perform with Lauryn on the VMAs." That would be incredible, but I had already got Syleena Johnson her ticket to come out. And I could've gone to Syleena and been like, "Yo, Lauryn is gonna perform." But on the song I said, "Just like a safety belt, you saved my life." Do you think that I'd turn around and tell Syleena she not gonna perform?
Sway: What about Lauryn Hill, because I know she's working on a new album and it was rumored that you guys did a couple of songs together.
West: Sony wanted to put me with her, but I was working on my album, working on Common's album at the time, so I didn't have time to really focus in. And they gave me one opportunity to do a demo track for her, or do one of her tracks but pre-produce it. And I went in, and let's just say it wasn't my best work. I can't say I got kicked off the project, 'cause I was never truly on it. I love Lauryn, I love the music she's done for us until this point. But I always wanted to say this: I've never actually met or spoken to Lauryn.
Sway: So you've never actually met Lauryn Hill?
West: Met or spoken to her. That's such a sound bite right there.
Sway: It was also rumored that you might be working with Beyoncé, too.
West: Yeah, I'm sure we'll do something together. 'Cause I'm mad, mad cool with her boyfriend.
West: Rick Rubin gave me his number. We were on a plane to Rome, to some awards show where I didn't win. I got robbed again. Um ...
Sway: Did you throw a temper tantrum?
West: I was really more upset that you couldn't actually see my outfit on the show. I had this dope-ass, pink-and-brown outfit. But I just always like to play people new music, and "Heard 'Em Say" was the first song I had recorded for the new album. So I had it in my iPod, and on the plane over we were sittin' up in first class, where artists sit. And I played it for him and he said, "Yo, this reminds me of a song that I wrote but I don't know if my band will want to do it. It sounds kind of R&B. But I want to do the song." I said, "Yo, we should work together." And that's all it was.
He came to the studio right after the Grammys and he sang the song and the melody fit perfect with it. He added something to it, it was just like the magic, the frosting on top. And that's one of those times that God is working in the studio with you. Those are those days that he's really on his job.
"The New Workout Plan"
The College Dropout
(Roc-A-Fella Records)
One of the reasons I defended the first album so much was I was scared that I couldn't make an album comparable to the first one. Again, 'cause I know I didn't make it by myself — I know that God had heavy involvement in it. And I didn't know if he might have been tryin' to focus on someone else's career, to get 'em to the point where I'm at. Not that he can't do two things at once. But there's times with "Jesus Walks," with the blood diamonds, with "Crack Music," where I know that God is speaking through me. I know that's something he wants me to say. I know he's connecting people. He put me on that plane with Adam to bring out that song.
Sway: Tell me about "Diamonds (From Sierra Leone)."
West: Mark Romanek, the director that did Jay's "99 Problems," and Q-Tip both brought up blood diamonds. They said, "That's what I think about when I hear diamonds. I think about kids getting killed, getting amputated in West Africa." And Q-Tip's like, "Sierra Leone," and I'm like, "Where?" And I remember him spelling it out for me and me looking on the Internet and finding out more. I think that was just one of those situations where I just set out to entertain, but every now and then God taps me on the shoulder and says, "Yo, I want you to do this right here," so he'll place angels in my path and one angel will lead to another angel and it's like a treasure hunt or something. And I finally found the gold mine, which was the video "Diamonds (From Sierra Leone)."
Lil' Kim, Common attend Kanye West's Late Registration listening session
With the remix verse, the diamond industry's thinking I'm doing something to try to hurt them. But how is it hurting y'all for me to just tell people that there was a 10-year war in Sierra Leone where black people were killing each other over diamonds and that it was a monopoly and that there are still situations that are next to slave labor, with people working for two cups of rice a day?
Sway: So you come into that knowledge and put that in the remix, but you still wear a lot of diamonds yourself. What's the logic behind that?
West: How are you a human being, would be more of the question, like, "How are you still human when you know what's going on? How do you still wear what it took your whole life to get?"
Sway: Someone from the outside might say, "There he goes again," and say that that's borderline hypocritical.
West: Yeah, a whole part about being a human is to be a hypocrite. They say that if you're an artist you have to stand for this, and they try to discredit you. Like they'll try to discredit Dr. King or Bill Cosby or Jesse Jackson 'cause they say that they saw them with a woman or something. So what does that have to do with what Cosby's TV show meant for us, what it meant for the black image and meant for our esteem, like "Damn, we could do that, we don't have to be like 'Good Times' all in the projects"? What does that take away from Martin Luther King, from what he did?
Sway: Do you admit to being self-conscious?
West: How could you be in this situation with this amount of pressure and this many people looking at you, waiting for you to show them a magic Houdini trick or a David Blaine, waiting for you to not make it out of your chains when the casket goes into the water, and not be self-conscious? How could you not be scared when you step out on that stage? How can I not be scared on the second album? How could I not be scared when I dropped "Diamonds" and there's people who say, "I don't like 'Diamonds' "?
"All Falls Down"
The College Dropout
(Roc-A-Fella Records)
Sway: With this Late Registration album, when you wanted to get it complete, you went to another producer, Jon Brion, who is known for a lot of records, but it's what he's done for Fiona Apple that attracted you. What made you want to work with him?
West: I always loved that album [Fiona Apple's When the Pawn Hits ...] so much. It hit me in a way and I wanted to know, who got the drum sounding like that? Who went into these dark chords, these string arrangements? Who brought Fiona's pain to life? I needed someone that could bring my plight to life.
And the Fiona Apple album kind of sounded similar to Portishead, too. I just felt no one was doing that in hip-hop, no rapper has ever captured that sound and rapped on it. It's like, how many more sped-up soul samples do you want? We gotta push the envelope a little bit. And I always wanted to feel like I was rapping at the top of a mountain or something. On "Diamonds," when the harpsichord and the music crescendos with the horns in the back and the drum rolls and everything, and I'm like, "Right then, my body got still like a paraplegic .../ Yeah, the beat cold but the flow is anemic ..." That moment in that song right there is what hip-hop is about.
NEXT: 'Anybody that was gay I was like, yo, get away from me'; plus, the situation with Lauryn Hill ...
Sway: What role did your mother play in your life? You have a song dedicated to her on the album called "Hey Mama."
West: After my parents got divorced and we moved to Chicago when I was 3, I would go see my father on Christmas, spring break and summer. My father was my everything, but during the rest of the time, my mother was my everything. Of course there's a good side to that, but the bad side of that is that people call you a mama's boy. It gets to the point that when you go to high school and you wasn't out in the streets like that, and you ain't have no father figure, or you wasn't around your father all the time, who you gonna act like? You gonna act like your mother. ... And then everybody in high school be like, "Yo, you actin' like a f--. Dog, you gay?" And I used to deal with that when I was in high school.
"Get 'Em High" (live)
The College Dropout
(Roc-A-Fella Records)
And what happened was it made me kind of homophobic, 'cause I would go back and question myself, like, "Damn, why does everyone else walk like this, and I walk like this?" People be like, "Yo fam, look at you. Look at how you act." If you see something and you don't want to be that because there's such a negative connotation toward it, you try to separate yourself from it so much that it made me homophobic by the time I was through high school. Anybody that was gay I was like, "Yo, get away from me." And like Tupac said, "Started hangin' with the thugs," and you look up and all my friends were really thugged out. It's like I was racing to try to find that constant masculine role model right there, right in front of me. I would use the word "f--" and always look down upon gays. But then my cousin told me that another one of my cousins was gay, and I loved him, he's one of my favorite cousins. And at that point it was kind of like a turning point when I was like, "Yo, this my cousin, I love him and I been discriminating against gays."
But everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of "hip-hop," I think, is "gay." Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, "That's gay, dog!" And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, "Yo, stop it fam."
Sway: So Kanye, the VMAs are coming up. We know your history with awards shows. If you don't win one this year, will you be upset?
West: If I ain't win, I can't say I wouldn't be disappointed. I definitely wouldn't spaz out and go up there. I did that. I'm supposed to do that every time? I gotta switch the game up.
Sway: What was it like for you when you performed "Jesus Walks" at last year's show?
"Through the Wire"
The College Dropout
(Roc-A-Fella Records)
West: You know what, just to have Syleena Johnson up there [was great]. 'Cause it was a whole thing where they said, "Yo, Lauryn Hill might be able to perform 'All Falls Down' with you." And that's one of those things that you say, "Damn, I could perform with Lauryn on the VMAs." That would be incredible, but I had already got Syleena Johnson her ticket to come out. And I could've gone to Syleena and been like, "Yo, Lauryn is gonna perform." But on the song I said, "Just like a safety belt, you saved my life." Do you think that I'd turn around and tell Syleena she not gonna perform?
Sway: What about Lauryn Hill, because I know she's working on a new album and it was rumored that you guys did a couple of songs together.
West: Sony wanted to put me with her, but I was working on my album, working on Common's album at the time, so I didn't have time to really focus in. And they gave me one opportunity to do a demo track for her, or do one of her tracks but pre-produce it. And I went in, and let's just say it wasn't my best work. I can't say I got kicked off the project, 'cause I was never truly on it. I love Lauryn, I love the music she's done for us until this point. But I always wanted to say this: I've never actually met or spoken to Lauryn.
Sway: So you've never actually met Lauryn Hill?
West: Met or spoken to her. That's such a sound bite right there.
Sway: It was also rumored that you might be working with Beyoncé, too.
West: Yeah, I'm sure we'll do something together. 'Cause I'm mad, mad cool with her boyfriend.
I remember Jim being
at Kanye's comment about how kids would call him gay & he said he acted like his mom because his dad wasn't around 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiEcRbGVxvA&feature=related"]nas feat jay z-hip hop is dead live - YouTube[/ame]
seeing them on the same stage is just
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@ Jay Z stan ass already memorizing Nas's lyrics to a song that had just recently came out at the time. You know that nikka probably be rapping Nas's lyrics to himself in the bathroom mirror n shyt, I can definitely see Jigga doing that nutt ass shyt 
Nas is his idol, respect the God
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@ Jay Z stan ass already memorizing Nas's lyrics to a song that had just recently came out at the time. You know that nikka probably be rapping Nas's lyrics to himself in the bathroom mirror n shyt, I can definitely see Jigga doing that nutt ass shyt Nas is his idol, respect the God
Asdfhhklpiyrewss
All Star
Jay might become worth a billion but he'd rather be the Gawd's Memphis Bleek instead.
dirty_yo
hired help
adorable isn't it, all jay ever wanted to be was nas' hype man and he finally got his wish. hip hop was dead at that moment
Shammago
By Any Means
haha... that Hip Hop is Dead live performance with Nas and Jay Z was ackward. Jay looked somewhat bored almost looked like he didn't know how to perform with Nas on stage and Nas looked alittle nervous standing with Jay also looked like Nas was gonna forget his lines and struggled to keep up with his own beat. 
haha... that Hip Hop is Dead live performance with Nas and Jay Z was ackward. Jay looked somewhat bored almost looked like he didn't know how to perform with Nas on stage and Nas looked alittle nervous standing with Jay also looked like Nas was gonna forget his lines and struggled to keep up with his own beat.
the first biggie album you ever bought was The Notorious movie soundtrack breh
ur hiphop opinions are void
haha... that Hip Hop is Dead live performance with Nas and Jay Z was ackward. Jay looked somewhat bored almost looked like he didn't know how to perform with Nas on stage and Nas looked alittle nervous standing with Jay also looked like Nas was gonna forget his lines and struggled to keep up with his own beat.
We watch the same $hit??
LogicFirst
Banned
AsAboveSoBelow
The Empire State
Yo what the hell does Jay say at the end of the performance when he's pointing at Nas???
King Biko
A King With A Concubine
Yo what the hell does Jay say at the end of the performance when he's pointing at Nas???
sounds like he said make some noise 4 nas