Nas Not conscious rapper for the Blood Diamond track?

[Stack]

"Finally, the Nas tune is mediocre. Considering the ironies of so much of hip-hop culture being wrapped up in "iced-out grillz" and "bling" - when did rap music change from Public Enemy's Chuck D's description of "ghetto CNN" to become a ghetto Robb Report? - it would've been cooler if a conscious rapper like Mos Def or Common had dropped the science about what those rocks mean for the people back in Africa."

http://uk.dvd.ign.com/articles/773/773311p2.html

[Nabs]

hahah ign cracks me up sometimes. if we had someone who was labeled "concious" rapping about diamonds, we'd get another song nobody cares about. nas is plenty concious, but i guess ign doesnt see that.

[lobo]

what they dont realize is the lack of attention the song would have received if they would have gone with who ign suggested. not like the song is a banger OR getting attention but it would had been alot less.