Nas speaks on Slick Rick

[Interlude]

Slick Rick is Shakespeare

Slick Rick is a playwright

An MC, a movie maker

Slick Rick is a, a style, fashion icon

Lyrically and how he dresses

Slick's style, his style is like

You can hear it in my writing

You can hear that, if you listen closely to Rick

And you listen to me, you can hear Rick

You can— you gotta listen close

But you can hear Rick

I mean, sometimes, in some of my songs

I do it like outright, I’m doing like a, a Rick type of thing

You know, you can, you can notice it, it's very noticeable

Other times, not so much, you don't really notice it

With this song with Rick, I didn’t choose this

Rick chose it, he heard me on it

Rick is the greatest storyteller ever

So this is a storytelling song

I didn't wanna do too much storytelling

I, I wanted to throw people off

So I start the rap off on some, uh, Black Bond type of imagery

But then I go into just, just throwing paint on the canvas

And have you follow it, uh, rockin' Burmese and different fabrics on there

And puttin' down different styles, changin' up the flow, so

It wouldn't just be predictable

Um, I had to approach the record like that so it could be as fresh as it can be