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Nas Makes His Return With New Project ‘The Lost Tapes 2’ [STREAM]

Nasty Nas is in the area, and is causing mass hysteria.

One of the greatest rappers to ever touch a microphone, Nas is back with ‘The Lost Tapes 2′, as he opens up the vault once again in one of the most anticipated releases from any MC this year. With production from RZA, The Alchemist, Statik Selektah, Kanye, Pete Rock, Swizz Beatz and more, Nas showcases the vivid Queensbridge lyricism that may be simply the greatest ever.

The second installment of his lost tapes series comes almost 20-years since the original and includes a touching tribute to his legendary QB homie, Prodigy.  Nasir having announced the upcoming release of the third and fourth editions of his coveted archives, hopefully his vault isn’t closing anytime soon.

Stream it below.

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Nas & Travis Scott Discuss Rap & Relevance In The Latest Issue Of Playboy [PEEP]

New school and old school unite in the latest issue of Playboy.

Hip-hop icon Nas and modern day rap superstar Travis Scott sit down for an epic 1-on-1 conversation for Playboy. If you know the slightest thing about hip-hop, Nas and Scott are from two completely different generations, cities with different upbringings. During this interview it is amazing to see the bridging of respect from an older generation to the current new wave.

They speak on topics that range from rap to relevance, such as technology in the rap game, the differences in hip-hop across the generations, story telling through Politics, and more.

Throughout their conversation we are able to read about the many similarities and differences between both men as they openly shares differences in their recording process. This conversation is conducted with tons of humility as both simultaneously display respect and honor to one another.

Nas ends the conversation by offering some words to the younger generation saying, The hip-hop game is about staying and sustaining and keeping it going. You’re a great rapper, but they can’t just put you in a rapper box, because your music is going in so many different directions. You’re a rock star, and it always was like that.”

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New Music: Salaam Remi – “Find My Love” Feat. Nas & Amy Winehouse [LISTEN]

Legendary producer Salaam Remi dropped his new track “Find My Love” featuring Nas & Amy Winehouse. On the song you hear Amy’s angelic vocals in the background of the verses that Nas delivers.

“Find My Love” is set to be featured on Salaam’s forthcoming ‘Do It For The Culture 2’ compilation.

Listen below.

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New Music: Nas, Fashawn & Ezri – “Apostles” [LISTEN]

Nas always makes his presence felt when he’s on a track, he’s assemled a roster on his Mass Appeal label that are capable of doing the same. Esco gathers his artists Fashawn and Ezri for their new single entitled, “Apostles,” produced by the legendary Statik Selektah.

This single is set to be on the Mass Appeal compilation ‘Starting 5, Vol. 1’. Ezri also stopped by our show to flex his lyrical abilities on #Freestyle069. Watch here.

Listen below.

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Ezri Unloads Bars Over J. Cole’s “Middle Child” On #Freestyle069 [WATCH]

Keep the momentum from last year’s freestyles, we’re back with our first of 2019. Mass Appeal Records very own Ezri does the honors as he unloads bar-after-bar over J. Cole’s “Middle Child” on #Freestyle069.

In the nearly 3-minute freestyle, Ezri borrows Cole’s flow while rapping, “N***as been countin’ me out / Countin’ my bullets, I’m loading my clip / I just walked in a million dollar meeting / I’m wearing my grill and I’m holding my d*** / I be on Instagram scrolling / And making a list of the women I want when I’m rich.”

Watch below.

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New Video: Nas – “Adam & Eve” [WATCH]

After coming through with the video for “Cops Shot the Kid” earlier this week, Nas returns with the visuals for “Adam and Eve” off last year’s ‘NASIR’ album. In the video he is shown confessing his sins in a church with other vivid imagery throughout.

Watch below.

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New Video: Black Eyed Peas – “BACK 2 HIPHOP” Feat. Nas [WATCH]

The Black Eyed Peas are taking hip-hop back to its roots with pure lyricism, gold chains and adidas suits in their new video for “BACK 2 HIPHOP” featuring Nas. The boom bap feel with the sample to the classic “Back To Life” by Soul ll Soul pair well with the psychedelic video.

Watch below.

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New Video: Nas – “Cops Shot The Kid” Feat. Slick Rick [WATCH]

Truth and knowledge is something you’ll find in the majority of Nas’ records and his ‘Nasir’ single, “Cops Shot the Kid” is no different.

Today Esco dropped the long-awaited video for the Kanye West-produced single from last year’s album. Kanye is a no-show in the video although Slick Rick, who’s sample was used does show face with a cameo. The visual leaves a cold chilling effect because the type of things highlighted happen too often in inner cities across the country.

Watch below.

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New Video: Swizz Beatz – “Echo” Feat. Nas [WATCH]

There’s nothing like hip-hop legends collaborating and giving us something special in this day. Swizz Beatz and Nas connected on the super producer’s ‘Poison’ and created a fire track called “Echo.” Today the video for this single gets shared and show Esco and Swizz dressed in all white surrounded under reflective lights as they do their thing.

Watch below.

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J. Cole Covers Billboard & Talks Fame, Trump, Nas, Social Media & More [PEEP]

Front Cover Cole!

In the midst of touring the country on his “KOD TOUR,” J. Cole takes some time off for an interview and photoshoot for the Billboard magazine cover.

Coming off of his ‘KOD’ album Cole sat down with Billboard to discuss a wide range of topics in Pop Culture like Donald Trump Dump, social media and in hip-hop like upcoming projects, Nas, fame, XXXtentaction, and more.

“I swear to God, I be thinking about how to get un-famous but, I know it’s impossible” he says regarding fame. “Rarely do I feel the need to hop on Twitter or social media and chime in especially on
rapping music shit this shit is not real this shit is fucking fake this shit is high school this shit is
fucking celebrity worship”

He goes on to address the elephant in the room being Donald Trump Dump saying, “With Trump in office, I love that America gets to see the truth. If Hillary Clinton was in office, it would be the most fucking disingenuous shit because everybody would be thinking that everything’s cool because we got an incredibly qualified female president.”

Check out more topics in Q&A format below.

ON “1985” CRITICISM: “I don’t look at it as being harsh. I look at it as being a rap response record. It’s not even to someone [specific]; it’s a group of people who were on some ‘Fuck J. Cole’ shit, which, when I started peeking my head back into what was going on, was a shock. But even while I made the song, I was fucking with these kids. I was a fan. I was riding around playing Lil Pump just because I wanted to understand what it was, and the more I understood, it was like, ‘Damn.’ I was writing that song from a place of, like, smacking your little brother. I still love you, but I’ma smack you.”

ON XXXTENTACION: “I spoke to him on FaceTime one day in February for, like, three hours. His management reached out to [Cole’s manager Ibrahim Hamad] and asked if he could FaceTime me or call me. It was a super-intense conversation. He left a mark on me, just as a person.”

ON KELIS’ ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST NAS: “Yeah, that hurt. I ain’t going to lie. That hurts. It feels weird because I fuck with Nas, but I just have to be honest. I came up seeing too much fucked-up shit for that to be acceptable. I don’t care who it is. I don’t fuck with people abusing women, and I don’t fuck with people not taking care of their kids.”

Cole’s Billboard cover will hit shelves every where on September 29th.

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Nas Performs “Adam & Eve” On “The Late Show” [WATCH]

Back in May Nas dropped his Kanye West-produced ‘NASIR’ album and last night he made his first television performance promoting the album. The legend stopped by “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” to perform “Adam & Eve” and was joined by his DJ, pianist, and drummer.

Watch below.

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Nas Unleashes Long-Awaited Album ‘Nasir’ [STREAM]

Escobar season has returned, y’all.

After a long six years, Nas makes his comeback with the release of his first album since 2012’s ‘Life Is Good’. The long-awaited ‘Nasir’ album is his 11th studio album and was previously teased on DJ Khaled’s ‘Major Key’ album in 2016 with the song “Nas Album Done.”

Executive produced by Kanye West, the 7-track album finds Nas rapping about different topics from social issues to fashion and Abraham Lincoln to street life to the Met Gala, and more. It includes features from Kanye, The-Dream, Puff Daddy, 070 Shake, and Tony Williams.

The album was recorded in the mountains of Wyoming, just as recent Kanye-produced albums were.

Nas premiered the album on Thursday night in his hometown of Queens with and exclusive listening. Kanye, Pusha-T, 2 Chainz, Fabolous, Chris Rock, Swizz Beatz, and many others were on hand to celebrate the new album.

Stream the album below.

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Kanye West Shares The Track Listing For Nas’ Upcoming Album [PEEP]

Using his unfiltered Twitter account, Kanye West shared the track listing for Nas’ upcoming album that is set to be released this Friday, June 15th.

The album, which remains without a title will be entirely produced by Yeezy and is set to include a total of seven songs, as the Ye, Pusha T, and Kids See Ghosts albums did. In the picture of a whiteboard with song titles that Kanye shared, it’s unclear if there will be any guest features on Nas’ album.

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In another Kanye tweet yesterday, he thanked fans for the support on all the previous G.O.O.D. Music releases so far and confirmed he’s working hard on Nas’ album, saying, “Just wanted to say I’m up in the morning working on the Nas album and I’m so humbled by all the love we’re getting on these albums. We’re still the kids we used to be.”

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Nas’ last album was 2012’s ‘Life Is Good’. If you recall he announced his album was done on DJ Khaled’s 2016 album release, ‘Major Key’. The song “Nas Album Done” included heavy braggadocio rhymes that alarmed fans of the upcoming album that looks like it will finally be released this Friday. “Wait and see.”

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