Nas: Time Is Illmatic released in 2014
DR. WEST: Historically speaking, you gotta keep in mind the GI Bill was a bill in which persons had access to education, credit, they gained access to houses,
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so you could live in suburbs away from the city. So [Black] folk received very little of the GI Bill money, in terms of housing, only 2.1%.
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That's why you could create a white middle class with [Black] folk gaining no access to it. And then they create these housing projects that go all the way up to pack folk in, like sardines.
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Historically, they were built for working class families, no matter what color. But because the color line is so thick in America, once [Black] folk made their way from the south into the cities and began to, in significant numbers, fill up the projects, you got
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white flight. And that white flight resulted in a withdrawal of money and wealth from the city.
MARLEY MARL: If I was making a beat in the window and it was blasting out and somebody was walking through 12th street, if they didn't stop and do a two-step or something, I would make a new beat.
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Nas's childhood friend Ill Will died after they watched Alien 3 together.
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