My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
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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