NAS SHARES HIS PASSION FOR CASSETTE TAPES WITH TDK (VIDEO)
Today the world wide web gave me a gift, it gave me the gift to reminisce like I so love to do! In this video by TDK, Nas talks about the tape culture and how cassettes were important to him and an entire Hip Hop generation. Everything Nas says in this video is exactly what I did and felt about tapes. To this day I hold on to my collection of at least a thousand cassettes. I also started my musical journey on the backs of cassette tapes. While tweeting, reading and facebooking about this video and Cassettes in general, I remembered I was once sponsored by TDK. I was lucky to get in good with a rep at TDK and he use to send me packs of blank cassettes for me to copy my mixtapes to. There is no way to explain to someone now how important of a role cassettes played and what we truly lost. It seems that with every new technology the true essence of music culture is lost.
TDK: Nas carved some time out of his busy schedule to catch up with us and
drop knowledge about his experiences and memories of making and
collecting mixtapes. We caught up with Nas at Silvercup Studios,
appropriately located in his hometown of Queens, NY. Nas goes deep
reminiscing about cassettes, mixtapes and musical influences (Tribe
Called Quest, MC Shan, Kurtis Blow & Queen, just to name a few)
while reflecting on his early life in the Queensbridge housing projects.
Tags: DJ EFN, Mixtapes, Nas, Video