We’re 7 days into Black History Month and the reminiscing on all the incredible black men and women has been amazing to say the least. Today, Google announced a new partnership with veteran hip-hop star Nas to help celebrate BHM even further.

On Google’s Arts & Culture page, the platform is posting a 1-minute video clip of Nas tributing Black History Month, and it’s absolutely beautiful.

In addition to this heartfelt message, Nas also penned a letter, which you can read below:

Music has scored my life since day one.

Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 – WOW. That music really touched me. And the theme music to Marvel cartoons like the Amazing Spider Man and Iron Man – we used to sing those songs in kindergarten. Most kids have flashing memories of being served lullabies by their parents when they were shorties, and in this regard, I humbly fall, eyes closed, into that plush “most kids” box.

I was blessed to have love from both of my parents, and it just so happens that my father’s love for music took him around the globe via his own sonic excursions, both live and recorded. Pops would come back with mad loot (cash money, that is) from around the world. It was a testament to his globetrotting and a cool little nod to me that said, young blood, when you’re ready, the world is yours.

We had oodles of instruments at the family crib, many of them with origins in the Motherland. It was through the blues and jazz and folk music that my father played that I learned the importance of our history – our African ancestry, our struggles here as black Americans and ultimately, our great triumphs too. Black culture was an everyday thing in our household and in the streets that flowed through the great maze of our beloved Queensbridge: the housing projects that taught me and my comrades a plethora of lessons that were harsh, harrowing and humble.

Read the full letter here. Happy Black History Month!