Nas has formally damaged the silence on his long-discussed collaboration with DJ Premier, revealing that their long-anticipated joint album is lastly full and contains tracks followers have been ready on for years. In a dialog with Rolling Stone, the Queensbridge MC stated the mission pulls from unreleased periods the duo recorded over time. “I’m going […]

Nas has formally damaged the silence on his long-discussed collaboration with DJ Premier, revealing that their long-anticipated joint album is lastly full and contains tracks followers have been ready on for years.

In a dialog with Rolling Stone, the Queensbridge MC stated the mission pulls from unreleased periods the duo recorded over time.

“I’m going to say at least two of those ideas happened on this album,” Nas stated. “We didn’t get a chance to do ’em when we were talking about ’em, but we finally got a chance to put those recordings together this year.”

While the album title stays beneath wraps, Nas made it clear this wasn’t simply one other studio link-up—it’s a reunion a long time within the making.

“I can’t wait for people to finally hear it,” Nas stated. “I don’t know about anybody else, but for me and him, it was personally a long time coming for us to do it.”

The album’s first single, “Define My Name,” already dropped earlier this yr as a part of Mass Appeal Records’ Legend Has It… sequence—a year-long celebration of New York’s Hip-Hop elite.

Nas & DJ Premier – Define My Name

The marketing campaign kicked off in June with Slick Rick’s Victory, his first full-length mission in over 20 years, and has since included new music from Raekwon (The Emperor’s New Clothes) and Ghostface Killah (Supreme Clientele 2).

Next up within the sequence is Mobb Deep’s Infinite, due October 10, marking the group’s first album since Prodigy’s passing in 2017.

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Big L’s posthumous Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King follows on October 31, with a brand new De La Soul mission anticipated earlier than the yr closes.

“It’s 1995 all over again,” Nas informed Rolling Stone. “Sometimes I feel like 2025 has that feeling. It’s not going backwards, [it’s] going forward, though.”

He added, “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.”

DJ Premier first teased the thought of a full-length collaboration with Nas again in 2013. Over a decade later, the album is lastly actual—and in keeping with Nas, properly definitely worth the wait.

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