{"id":63203,"date":"2025-10-09T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/63203\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:49:07","slug":"nas-gives-update-on-joint-album-with-dj-premier-its-a-long-time-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/63203\/","title":{"rendered":"Nas Gives Update On Joint Album With DJ Premier: ‘It’s A Long Time Coming’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nas<\/a> has given fans an update on his eagerly anticipated joint album with DJ Premier<\/a> \u2014 which he says has been \u201ca long time coming\u201d for him and the legendary producer.<\/p>\n

The Queensbridge native briefly discussed the project in an interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>, revealing that it will include a handful of older songs that he and Premo recorded when they first made plans to make an album together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to say at least two of those ideas happened on this album,\u201d he said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t get a chance to do \u2019em when we were talking about \u2019em, but we finally got a chance to put those recordings together this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though he didn\u2019t share a concrete release date, Nas did express his excitement and enthusiasm for the album, saying: \u201cI can\u2019t wait for people to finally hear it. I don\u2019t know about anybody else, but for me and him, it was personally a long time coming for us to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The as-yet-untitled album, which has so far spawned one single in \u201cDefine My Name,\u201d is the crown jewel in Mass Appeal Records\u2019 Legend Has It\u2026<\/a>, a year-long series of releases from some of New York hip-hop\u2019s most iconic names.<\/p>\n

The celebrations began this past June with the arrival of Slick Rick<\/a>\u2018s Victory \u2014 The Ruler\u2019s first album in over 25 years \u2014 which was soon followed by well-received projects from Raekwon<\/a> (The Emperor\u2019s New Clothes) and Ghostface Killah<\/a> (Supreme Clientele 2).<\/p>\n

Next up is Mobb Deep<\/a>\u2018s Infinite, the duo\u2019s first album since the tragic death of Prodigy<\/a> in 2017, which is set to drop this Friday (October 10). Big L<\/a>\u2018s posthumous LP Harlem\u2019s Finest: Return of the King\u00a0is due out on October 31, while a new De La Soul record is also on the horizon (hopefully before the end of the year).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s 1995 all over again,\u201d Nas told Rolling Stone of the star-studded series. \u201cSometimes I feel like 2025 has that feeling. It\u2019s not going backwards, [it\u2019s] going forward, though. It\u2019s that feeling of urgency, that vibration, the celebration of life and these songs and these albums, what they meant 30 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt\u2019s a celebration of a great impact, a standard that they set that we could never forget because it keeps us aiming higher. This series is to encourage [and] inspire hip-hop and remind us all [of] the pureness of hip-hop. I hope that we all can do this together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nas has given fans an update on his eagerly anticipated joint album with DJ Premier \u2014 which he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-63203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}