{"id":186388,"date":"2025-12-16T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/186388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:13:30","slug":"nas-says-eminem-respectfully-denied-his-request-for-a-feature-on-his-song-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/186388\/","title":{"rendered":"Nas Says Eminem Respectfully Denied His Request For A Feature On His Song &#8216;Daughters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A legend in hip hop on more counts than one, <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphop-n-more.com\/?s=Nas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nas<\/a> recently sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphop-n-more.com\/?s=Joe+Budden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Budden<\/a> to discuss his latest album <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphop-n-more.com\/2025\/12\/nas-dj-premier-light-years-tracklist-stream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Light-Years<\/a> in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphop-n-more.com\/?s=DJ+Premier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DJ Premier<\/a>. Speaking on his thought process on some of these records, and with Budden picking his brains as part of the exclusive interview, Nas revealed a detail that may be shocking for some.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Nas reached out to <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphop-n-more.com\/?s=Eminem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eminem<\/a> for a feature on his song \u2018Daughters,\u2019 only to receive a respectful rejection on Em\u2019s end. Shedding light on the situation, Nas revealed exactly how the conversation went down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery record I do is not a battle,\u201d said Nas. \u201cI remember I had sent the song \u2018Daughters\u2019 to Eminem, and at the time, you know, he had spent so much time speaking on daughters, he was like, \u2018Thank you, but I told my daughter I\u2019m not doing any more songs directly about daughters at the moment because that\u2019s a sensitive issue with all the music I put out.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nas speaking on Eminem:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery record I do is not a battle\u2026 I remember I sent a record to Eminem &amp; he thanked me but told his daughter he\u2019s not doing any more songs directly about that subject at the moment\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nas goes on to share Eminem found it \u2018refreshing\u2019 that Nas sent him\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7R5SOCjQes\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7R5SOCjQes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caleb (@CalebFromX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebFromX\/status\/2000601760453345467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he was like, \u2018Thank you, \u2019cause most people wanna do songs where they\u2019re battling me. It was refreshing to get a record where you\u2019re not coming for me,&#8217;\u201d he concluded, summarising Eminem\u2019s thoughtful rejection. Now, while this means we don\u2019t get to hear two legends together speaking about daughters, it goes on to show how much real relationships matter to two of the biggest names in the culture.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full interview below!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A legend in hip hop on more counts than one, Nas recently sat down with Joe Budden to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-186388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}