I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.
NasI push my own limits every day, every moment - in the studio, on the stage and beyond so it's truly a genuine fit.
NasI want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it.
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