Key Takeaways:

• Nas delivers a uncommon co-sign to Doechii, Kendrick Lamar, and SZA on De La Soul’s “Run It Back!!”
• The monitor is a part of De La Soul’s upcoming album, Cabin In The Sky, dropping Friday (Nov. 21).
• Nas additionally name-drops Shaboozey and Leon Thomas, spotlighting rising Black artists throughout genres.

Nas is rarely stingy on the subject of displaying like to the youthful era. Wednesday (Nov. 19), De La Soul premiered their forthcoming collaboration, “Run It Back!!,” the place the rap legend shouted out Kendrick Lamar, Doechii, SZA, and some extra comparatively new faces in music.

Taking over within the music’s second verse, Nas dished out traces like: “It’s wild as the ‘80s, ‘90s, and ‘00s, how it was sick, how did this slip? / Now it’s just Doechii, Dot, and SZA with most powerful hits.”

The Illmatic artist has been vocal about his assist for Lamar recently. Last month, he mentioned that he’d “love to work” with the Compton native in a sit-down with Complex. Meanwhile, Doechii and SZA have been holding it down as Top Dawg Entertainment’s main girls.

Although Nas’ verse might’ve very properly been written final yr, all three artists he name-dropped are at the moment having huge 2025s. Lamar and SZA wrapped the European leg of their “Grand National Tour” collectively in August. On the opposite hand, Doechii grew to become the third girl in rap to win Best Rap Album and is at the moment driving the success of “Anxiety.”

Elsewhere within the music, Nas spat, “Leon Thomas, Shaboozey with the country raps / Only Black artists on top of the charts.”

In 2024, Shaboozey made history as the primary Black man to concurrently high the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts with “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” That identical yr, the monitor tied Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” because the longest-running No. 1 on the previous chart.

“Run It Back!!” is slated to hit streaming companies on Friday (Nov. 21). The report will seem on De La Soul’s Cabin In The Sky, which additionally consists of options from Killer Mike, Q-Tip, and Black Thought.