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Nas Credits Kurtis Blow For His Lauryn Hill Classic “If I Ruled The World”

Nas credited Kurtis Blow’s big-screen ambition with inspiring his Lauryn Hill collaboration “If I Ruled the World,” tracing the song back to Blow’s performance in “Krush Groove.” In an a16z conversation released October 31, Nas said Blow gave him an image of the Bronx that went beyond news of burning buildings. Onscreen, he saw a Black man speaking to the whole world. “You did rule the world.

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