Kendrick Lamar Is Hip-Hop’s ‘North Star,’ According To Nas

Getty Image Nearly 20 years ago now, Nas sparked controversy with his declaration that Hip-Hop Is Dead. Fortunately, his prediction turned out to be wrong, but when asked to reflect on the moment by Rolling Stone in a new interview about the Mass Appeal collaboration with Marvel Comics, his perspective was much brighter — something that could be attributed to the presence of visionary Pulitzer Prize-winning Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar. After Rolling Stone‘s Andre Gee (who we miss a lot here at Uproxx) compared the title track “Hip-Hop Is Dead” with Kendrick Lamar’s 2024 song “Watch the