Albums Nas & DJ Premier - Light-Years (December 12th)

[T.he I.nformant]

How Nas and DJ Premier Got the Last Say

Mass Appeal spent 2025 reminding the world why New York rap still matters. Ending the series with Light‑Years is their way of saying: the people who built the era get to tell you what it meant.

www.shatterthestandards.com

This was a fantastic article, thanks for sharing. As we all look forward to how this album will sound there’s something bigger about this album and campaign that has already happened. Hope you all are able to reflect on the power of how hip-hop has inspired and impacted us from the very beginning and how cool it is to still have legends who still have us excited about projects decades later.

 

[areohbee824]

Day Ones Vinyl already shipping out

 

[Budda]

I don't think you can pull a Hungry Amputee

By Far , The most Unconfident Swagless Nas Fan ever

Eagerly anticipating your "but what did so n so say" posts . And your screenshot of some random guy with 2 replies on tweeter that said something negative.

Every album release, right on cue...
lol n smh

I think Youve confused me with someone else.

 

[NormanConnors]

I thought the clip sounded dope from what we could hear.

 

[Frump]

Only on here can people write off an entire album off a 10 second snippet where you could barely hear the song

 

[C-Styles]

See this is why we can't have anything nice! Yall mfs done bullied Preemo to delete the snippet and yall gon f*ck around and make him cancel the album

Can't win with both their fan bases. I actually enjoyed the snippet, the sh*t sounded hard sonically with the full layers in those thumps, yall ain't even let it breathe

Someone said Nas was about to spit on some Country experimental sh*t

 

[Stick Up Kid]

What is it with Nas threads that turn people here into idiots?

I’ve always said Nas has some of the woat fans in hip hop… they are whatever that comes before retard.

 

[Dylmatic]

See this is why we can't have anything nice! Yall mfs done bullied Preemo to delete the snippet and yall gon f*ck around and make him cancel the album

Can't win with both their fan bases. I actually enjoyed the snippet, the sh*t sounded hard sonically with the full layers in those thumps, yall ain't even let it breathe

Someone said Nas was about to spit on some Country experimental sh*t

I don't think he deleted the clip because of that, the comments were mostly positive on Instagram, he probably doesn't know what people on here or reddit think.

Maybe he was asked to put it down cause he wasn't supposed to post it in the first place to keep the album as a total surprise instead of letting people hear a low quality snippet two days before the release.

 

[Jamaro85]

I don't think he deleted the clip because of that, the comments were mostly positive on Instagram, he probably doesn't know what people on here or reddit think.

Maybe he was asked to put it down cause he wasn't supposed to post it in the first place to keep the album as a total surprise instead of letting people hear a low quality snippet two days before the release.

Yep, pretty sure it’s this. They have to this point not given us a glimpse of the album at all and seem to want everyone to hear the body of work as a whole. Seems the team is staying steadfast to that.

 

[HNIC973]

The plug said the beat didn't kick in yet

 

[ArchStanton]

Only on here can people write off an entire album off a 10 second snippet where you could barely hear the song

To be fair, people were basking in hating it on Reddit too.

I've come to terms that there are going to be people who hate this no matter what. It is what it is. But I'm not letting them ruin it for me. Only Nas and Premier could do that and I don't think they will.

 

[Prolific_1011]

Dudes acting like Preme played a "Summer on Smash" level record. It sounded like a pure Hip Hop beat and Nas was about to go off.

 

[Icewatermetallik]

I come in here sometimes to get my daily dose of Nas/ Coli comedy and you nikkas never disappoint.

Judging a 10 second snippet, where apparently the real beat didn't even drop in yet, in some hazy Euro concert venue with audience noise on your cheap ass Wifi iphone speakers just has me like

 

[L. Deezy]

Just coming back in here.. heard the snippet.. I could tell the beat hadn't even dropped. Nyggas are weird.

 

[spliz]

The plug said the beat didn't kick in yet

Of course not. nikkas straight up loco fam. lol