You may not like Hit-Boy but to suggest he’s not top tier is simple insanity. Bu every metric imaginable he’s a top tier producer and he out-produced, out-rapped, and out-performed Alchemist on the project they just released.
Pete Rock was just trying to sue Nas less than two years ago over some bullshyt Nas had no control over. That team up DEFINITELY ain’t happening.
Nas worked with Alch on Lost Tapes 2 and all of the “Nas needs to work with Alchemist” club went ghost on it. It was a dope song too and only has about 500k listens/views on Youtube while songs like Legit, 40 Side, and The Definition all have over a million. And the funny thing is Lost Tapes 2 had more hype and promotion than any of the Hit-Boy era projects outside of KD1.
Premier is finally happening. I’d love to see a Nas/Q-Tip album happen. As for Large Professor, he seems to go back and forth between supporting Nas and acting as if Nas forever owes him, this despite the fact that when Nas asked him to executive produce Illmatic, he told Nas he couldn’t do it because he had stuff going on with Main Source and told Nas he’d have to do it himself. So when Large had to focus on his own business he (rightfully) did so and Nas went on to focus on his own business, work with other more varied types of producers, and make history. Maybe their dynamic is too weird or tension-filled to knock out an entire project, but there’s definitely a reason why Nas has never even hinted at it the way he’s done with the Premo album all of these years.
