I’m back from Essence Festival 2014 (insert sad face)! But man, did I have a a blast.
First night in town, I was excited to attend the ‘Now Playing’ Concert Series. The line-up included several acts, but I was most excited to see Nas grace the stage. Nas is so dope lyrically and he is so fine. Fast forward, after waiting over 30 minutes in the media room, he emerged. I was lost for words! To be in the presence of greatness, I was silent.
As camera lens snapped left and right, Nas profiled for camera. After a few brief moments of silence, he spoke.
I think I fainted. Naw, just joking. lol. Nas was in the building to represent for Essence 20 years of celebration and to celebrate 20 years since his first album release.
“It’s an honor,” Nas said about have the opportunity to grace the stage at the festival. “Twenty years of Essence at the same time as 20 years of my first album, so it worked out like really crazy.”
After putting the media room in a New York State of Mind, Nas took the main stage in the New Orleans, Superdome.
Hit after hit, Nas took us all down memory lane. I loved every minute of his performance. The crowd was on their feet the entire time. Loved, loved, his performance.
Check out shots we got:
Before starting his final song, “One Mic,” the legendary rapper announced that he would like to dedicate the song to the late Maya Angelou. “I’d like to dedicate this to the queen Maya Angelou,” he said before starting the single’s first set of bars.
Nas often refers to himself as a poet in his lyrics—”Nas is like..a poor man’s dream, a thug poet/Live it and I write down and I watch it blow up,” he raps in his 1999 single “Nas Is Like” — so it was quite fitting that he decided to dedicate one of his most lyricaly-driven songs to the legendary poet.
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