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"&lt;p&gt;All it takes is the right beat to send Nasir Jones back to 1994. On the latest preview of the Queens lyricist&amp;apos;s forever-forthcoming new album, a stammering dancehall sample (hacked up by right-hand man Salaam Remi and the late Heavy D) provokes a cascade of self-mythologizing scenes. &amp;quot;Fuck sadness,&amp;quot; &lt;a href=\"../../../music/artists/nas\"&gt;Nas&lt;/a&gt; argues. &amp;quot;Had this been you having this lavish, habitual happiness, at me you wouldn&amp;#x2019;t look backwards.&amp;quot; But looking backward is what he does most deftly on &amp;quot;The Don,&amp;quot; with a concise portrait of the artist as a young man: &amp;quot;I used to listen to that Red Alert and &amp;apos;Rap Attack&amp;apos;/I fell in love with all that poetry, I mastered that.&amp;quot; Bring on the album.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen to &amp;quot;The Don&amp;quot;:&lt;/strong&gt; \r\n&lt;object width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" data=\"https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F39899197&amp;amp;show_comments=true&amp;amp;auto_play=false&amp;amp;color=ff7700\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\"&gt;\r\n&lt;param name=\"data\" value=\"https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F39899197&amp;amp;show_comments=true&amp;amp;auto_play=false&amp;amp;color=ff7700\"&gt;\r\n&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;\r\n&lt;param name=\"src\" value=\"https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F39899197&amp;amp;show_comments=true&amp;amp;auto_play=false&amp;amp;color=ff7700\"&gt;\r\n&lt;/object&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#x2022; &lt;a href=\"../../../randomnotes\"&gt;Photos: Random Notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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