*Nas  wants rappers to do better in their music.

And that means more honesty and more realness.

This past weekend was the 20th anniversary of “Illmatic” — one of the  greatest hip-hop albums of all time for its realness.

Recently, hospital the “If I Ruled the World” rapper expressed  concern over the lack of rappers taking on serious and real subject matters in  their music.

TheGrio reports, salve Nas’ classic album takes on social  injustices and struggles of young black men growing up in an inner city, generic of  which artists lack the honesty to talk about today.

“I don’t see enough emcees who are brave enough to be honest. I would like to  see more of that. There’s a lot of good stuff, and there’s a lot of bad in rap,” he said.

He continued with:

“The socially conscious stuff can come off sometime as preachy, so a lot of  people tend to stay away from it. It ain’t their bag. That’s not what they do.  But still they kind of have some artistic responsibility to do more than what’s  the latest trend,” he said.

Nas’ calling as a rapper had a lot to do with having a message.

He said many rappers today don’t have to have a message or gain respect in  the game first anymore.

“Imagine me trying to come in that rap game at 19 years old. It was  impossible,” said Nas. ” I had to do something that mattered, or I would not  have gotten that respect from [the rapper at the time]. If I didn’t get that  respect from them it was over. But now it’s a lot easier.”