I think we ALL should've learned by now that dismissing Nas's vision before we've even heard ONE note of a song is lunacy. People bytched and moaned about Will I Am producing on Hip Hop Is Dead and he laced Nas with some of that album's best beats. People bytched about Nas doing Distant Relatives with all Marley production and that album was straight cooked crack from beginning to end. People bytched about Salaam Remi executive producing Life Is Good and that only led to both of them garnering Grammy nods (Cherry Wine, nominated for Best Rap/Sung collab was produced by Remi and Remi was nominated for Producer OF The Year)
I think we all should just WAIT and trust that the Gawd Nasir, after TWENTY YEARS in the game knows what the fukk he's doing...