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Shaka Senghor talks meeting Nas for the first time and the one thing he told him

Name: Shaka Senghor talks meeting Nas for the first time and the one thing he told him
Uploaded: 2017-09-28T22:54:19Z
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Shaka Senghor
Description: Shaka Senghor recounts a personal story from his 45th birthday when friends Ben and Felicia Horowitz took him to a Nas concert where he met Nas. He…

28 Sept 2017 · 1 min

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Shaka Senghor recounts a personal story from his 45th birthday when friends Ben and Felicia Horowitz took him to a Nas concert where he met Nas. He describes how Nas's song "One Love" (from Illmatic, which he has tattooed on his arm) served as a soundtrack during his incarceration, offering empathy and compassion when loved ones were taken away. The clip is a reflective monologue about music's emotional meaning and a memorable meeting with an artist who influenced him.

I have some great friends, Ben and Felicia Horowitz, who just this past birthday, they threw me the most incredible birthday party that a person can ask for. It's my 45th birthday. And, you know, we went to Nas concert, we hung out with Nas. And it was so crazy because I have on my arm. I have Illmatic tattooed on my arm because Nas wrote this song called One Love. And that song became kind of like the soundtrack to my incarceration because it spoke to the empathy and the compassion that one should have when a loved one is taken away. And my friend Ben, he was like, yo, we gotta go to Nas concert. Got a chance to meet Nas, hang out. And I got a chance to share that with him and tell him, like, yo, this is what the song meant to me in my darkest moments.