Hip-hop is steeped in inspiration from generations previous, so it is solely proper that Nardo Wick would look to a rap god like Eminem when crafting a tune for his newest album, Wick. The Jacksonville, Fla. rapper shares what he’d say to Slim Shady if he acquired the prospect to cut it up with him for XXL’s No Filter collection, during which artists reveal the conversations they’d have with well-known figures they’ve by no means met earlier than. Along with Em, Nardo sheds gentle on no-filter convos with former President Barack Obama, actor Penn Badgley who stars within the hit Netflix collection You, singer Ruth B, actor Wooden Harris from Paid in Full fame, Lil Wayne and actor Chris Tucker.
In February, Nardo dropped his sophomore album, Wick, that includes a tune paying homage to Eminem’s basic 2000 monitor “Stan.” The 23-year-old rhymer selected to name his model “Drew,” drawing inspo from the methods during which Em’s bars dissected a wild fan’s habits. Nardo’s monitor, additionally that includes a pattern from one in every of his favourite singers Ruth B., follows swimsuit with a loopy ending. “I in all probability ask him to take heed to my tune ‘Drew’ and inform him give me his sincere opinion on it,” Nardo says of what he’d inform Marshall Mathers throughout a linkup. “I got here up with the concept for my tune ‘Drew’ from Eminem tune ‘Stan.’ It was impressed by that as a result of I all the time thought it was actual inventive to make that kind of tune to color an image like that and I needed to strive it and see if I may do it.” We predict Em can be proud.
Having a convo with an esteemed president is one thing that has popped into Nardo’s thoughts. If there’s anybody within the political area he’d like to fulfill it is Former President Barack Obama. “I simply wish to see how he speak,” Nardo explains. “Like did he have like slightly little bit of like the place I come from in you, know what I am saying, or is it simply all like white collar, subtle. That is actually it. Like I’m wondering if he relatable.” After his yearly checklist of favourite music picks, Obama’s tuned in to rap.
And whereas everybody has a collection they have been glued to, one which will shock even essentially the most loyal Nardo supporter is that he actually enjoys the Netflix collection You starring Penn Badgley. He’d give the previous Gossip Woman star his props on the present. “If I had one thing to say to Penn Badgley it in all probability can be simply he a great actor, a actual good actor,” Nardo says. “The cause I like that present is ’trigger it is like suspenseful, like thriller. It is scary, nevertheless it ain’t scary, like his creepy and I just like the method they acquired his character like he harmless, however he not harmless on the identical time.” You recognize what Nardo will probably be doing on April 24 when the brand new season premieres.
Have a look as Nardo Wick reveals what he’d say to some fellow rappers and well-known figures he is hasn’t met but, and take heed to his Wick album beneath.
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Take heed to Nardo Wick’s “Drew”
