"“Now I’m the only black in the club with rich yuppie kids / Sad thing, this is the top, but where the hustlers went / No familiar faces around, ain’t gotta grab the musket / It’s all safe and sound, champagne by the bucket…” Here Nas not only touches on how getting older looks, but also how it feels. As a listener, I can appreciate that Nas made a song about feeling out of place and unfamiliar in a nightclub. This is clearly not the same guy with the mink, pouring out Cristal with Puff in the “Hate Me Now” video. And that’s not to say there’s even anything wrong with being in the club. But the general consensus is, when the mid-30s come knocking—no one wants to be the old, balding guy in the club still getting bottle service. It’s not that the surface material that initially made Jay and Nas appealing doesn’t appeal to me or presumably any other person in their 30s or 40s. I just think it’s a matter of having our perspectives change with age. Different things are important." - Eric @ CS Techcast