Tony Yayo explains why he was shocked by Nas on tour

Former member of G-Unit Tony Yayo is one in every of hip-hop’s underappreciated abilities. Born and raised within the South Jamaica neighbourhood of Queens, Yayo has been rapping alongside 50 Cent for the reason that mid-Nineteen Nineties.

Nonetheless, he hasn’t simply labored with Fifty, the lyricist (actual title Marvin Bernard) has labored with a lot of artists, together with his Queens counterpart Nas. Moreover, he has even toured with the Illmatic creator. Nonetheless, in an interview with DJ Vlad with Vlad TV, the ‘Bullets Whistle’ rhymer admitted that was shocked by Nas’ behaviour on tour.

In 1999, Nas (actual title Nasir Jones) requested G-Unit to accompany him on the promo tour for his 1999 album Nastradamus. Nonetheless, Jones didn’t behave the way in which Yayo had anticipated. As an alternative of smoking weed, ingesting cognac and turning up with him, Yayo noticed the rap legend always buried deep in books.

Telling DJ Vlad what he thought touring with Nas could be like, Bernard admitted, “I thought it was going to be a lot of weed smoking, like bitches on the bus, but Nas was reading books and shit. I’m going up for Illmatic, ‘I’m an addict for sneakers, 20’s of Buddha and bitches with beepers,’ so I thought we was going to be smoking hella weed and bitches going to be running through that shit!”

Nonetheless, Bernard expressed that Nas wasn’t too critical while studying, detailing, “But he was kind of like a laid-back cat reading books and shit, so I was just like, ‘That’s Nas, this muthafucka is reading books and shit.’ [He] really wasn’t smoking too much weed on the bus that was more of Jungle and them thing, but Nas is one of them smart muthafuckas, and I see how he come with the lines.”

Yayo’s G-Unit counterpart, 50 Cent, has additionally spoken about touring with Nas and praised him in an interview with MTV, revealing, “Nas was the first person to do something for nothing for me.”

Fifty continued, “He allowed me to go on his promo tour for Nastradamus. He said, ‘The way you came out with that record [‘How to Rob’], it felt like when I came out [with Illmatic].’ He wanted me to be out there. Me and Tony Yayo, we went on that promo tour. At that point, me and Nas was cool.”

You may hearken to Tony Yayo talking about Nas’ 199 tour within the video beneath.