"This is the Seventies. These are the tapes that the older guys were playing in my neighborhood..."

Inte nog med att Nas är exekutiv producent till den nya Netflix-serien ”The Get Down”, han skriver dessutom alla rap-texter som kommer finnas med i serien. I en intervju med Rolling Stone så berättar Nas om hur det var att skriva texterna, och att han var tvungen att anpassa stilen på texterna eftersom serien utspelar sig på 1970-talet.

“I don’t just write Ezekiel’s part … I write for the group. This is an early style. This is the Seventies. These are the tapes that the older guys were playing in my neighborhood, listening to, partying to. This is a different style, this is not what I normally do… I placed pictures around myself of parties like Harlem World, the Roxy, jams out in the Bronx in the park, DJs like Jazzy Jay on the turntables, of course Grandmaster Flash photographs everywhere, the Furious Five photographs around me. I really just went into that world.”

Nas fortsätter sedan med att serien kan vara precis vad som behövs för den yngre generationens hiphop-fans:

“I was watching a documentary on Chuck Berry a little bit yesterday, and his music is not really my time, but music is timeless at the end of the day…At my concerts, I see kids. I see all ages, but I see kids! And, if I’m their first concert, or one of their first concerts, they have so much more to learn. I’m excited to be a part of Get Down, ’cause this could be just what they need.”

”The Get Down” har premiär på Netflix den 12:e Augusti. Se trailern nedan: