Nas has been on the front lines of recent protests against police brutality and has been one of the strongest voices in hip-hop regarding the issues of race and violence against African-Americans in the U.S. During a recent video interview with Time, Nas compared the current era to the Civil Rights movement and declared that the United States looks like Apartheid era South Africa. "It's not cool to look like Apartheid South Africa 1988," said Nas. "How are we gonna be the free world or the most powerful country when inside this country we're fighting over skin color? That's just embarrassing."

Nas goes on to detail the history of black people in America and around the world. Nas is clearly upset with the current state of race relations in America and is open about his distaste in the above clip.

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