Atlanta rapper 21 Savage recently said that despite veteran award-winning rapper Nas’s loyal fan base, he isn’t ‘relevant.’
According to TMZ, 21 Savage shared his controversial opinion during a discussion on social media group chat app, Clubhouse. He was reportedly a part of a conversation about the rapper’s legendary career in a room called “Is Nas the greatest rapper or what?”
“What y’all saying, relevant though? I don’t feel like he’s relevant. I just feel like he got fans,” the ATL rapper said.
Ppl are all reacting to this convo 21 savage was having on clubhouse where the topic of relevancy and Nas came up. What r y’all thoughts ? pic.twitter.com/5mc6LqkYJr
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) November 14, 2022
As members began voicing their opinions on his sentiment, 21 continued to double down on it.
“He’s not relevant,” he insisted. “He just has a loyal ass fan base. He just has a loyal fan base, and he still [makes] good-a*s music.”
The Her Loss musician’s thoughts arrived after Nas and producer Hit-Boy released their new King’s Disease III album on Nov. 11. Ironically, he additionally gave the Queens rapper praise regarding the quality of his music. Shortly after, his opinions quickly began making rounds on Twitter where Nas fans criticized him about it.
“Well, I just listened to a Clubhouse, and some dude was saying Nas isn’t relevant,” @CKing864 tweeted. “I think 21 Savage was saying it. It’s pathetic to me that 21 Savage thinks he’s more of a cultural impact than Nas.”
Well I just listened to a clubhouse and some dude was saying Nas wasn’t relevant. I think 21 Savage was saying it. It’s pathetic to me, that 21 Savage thinks he’s more of a cultural impact than Nas.
— carolinaKing864 (@CKing864) November 14, 2022
“21 Savage was on Clubhouse talking about how Nas is not relevant. I swear this album he did with Drake is going straight to his crooked ass nose,” @Jaesrevenge tweeted.
https://twitter.com/JAESREVENGE/status/1592113872156393473?s=20&t=i9C-9BhNxZOBz6Mwljxgmg
“21 Savage said Nas is irrelevant. It’s funny because Nas, at 49 years old, just released four better quality albums than his whole discography. But it’s even funnier when 21 Savage is being relevant exclusively thanks to Drake in the last year,” @HipHopEsp_ wrote.
https://twitter.com/HipHopEsp_/status/1592174531753672704?s=20&t=skV1SSD7HAGq84wicqE0ZA
Nas’ brother, Jungle, jumped into the conversation via a Shade Room post saying, “21 Savage is trash [laughing emoji] glas Nas dropped KD3 so fans can hear real bars… 21 can u do something for me?? [laughing emojis].”
On Nov. 15, 21 cleared up his statements on Twitter.
“I would never disrespect Nas or any legend who paved the way for me y’all be tryna take stuff and run with it,” he wrote.
I would never disrespect nas or any legend who paved the way for me y’all be tryna take stuff and run with it
— Saint Laurent Don (@21savage) November 14, 2022
He also accused fans of artists of being flaky when it comes to purchasing their albums.
“Where all y’all fans be at when these ni**as drop albums?” he asked.
Where all y’all fans be at when these niggas drop albums
— Saint Laurent Don (@21savage) November 10, 2022
