Nas & DJ Premier- New Album Coming 2025 (Official Thread)

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Preme is my GOAT but think it’ll make sense to have some production from a couple modern producers on there and maybe ALC, I don’t know of the last project where Preme has done the whole album that was of the standard of KD series or Magic.


Then it wouldn’t be Premo & Nas and there’d be no reason to bill it as such.
 

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I'll answer this for myself.. I try to demo a variety of mics that I buy by and having them spit live in the middle of the city or the park. The videos you see with the guy driving around in a convertible having guys like Erick Sermon spitting lyrics, I've been doing that. Do you know 99% of these young garbage azz rappers can't spit over a simple fukking breakbeat????? ONE VERSE OVER A fukkING BREAKBEAT!! They simply can't do it. Sometimes you get the usual, "hey, I got a beat on my phone, can I use that...". And I would pay these fukkers if they can just complete a verse of their own shyt, but i just tell them, "nah it's ok". So this isn't 20-30 years ago when cities were flooding with talent trying to get on. This shyt is crazy out here today... Mfers are talentless and following other talentless rappers.

. . . . fully aware of that shyt and scared for the future because the current "music" is so heavily-quantized - not just the drums but the melodies and probably the lyrics too when shyt goes in for the final mix-down . . .. . . i learned the hard way over 25 years ago when i got my first MPC and the Quantize was auto-enabled and i didnt bother to read the book it came with . . .. . i was confused why my drums were sounding trapped in a square like techno music . .. instead of the smooth patterns i tapped out on the pads .. . . thats basically a real-life analogy for the current mindstate of the younger generations . .. . not just for music . .. . but in all aspects of incoming mental stimulation . . .. . its all Quantized . . . safe and predictable so the masses dont get inspired to do anything but keep swiping scrollin and starin into the void . .. . .

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20 years ago.. Damn!

It's hard to believe time has flown by this fast. 2005 in Hip Hop feels like another Universe, lol. But yes the speculation goes back decades. For me I wanted a Premo beat on every NaS album and for the 1st 5 he was there. The next 5 he wasn't. They just work so well together. Some are going to say this should have happen back then but I'm grateful it's happening at all. "Define My Name" came out almost 1 year a half ago. They really had time to make this right. Can't wait.
 

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This is 20-30 years too late for me. I no longer care even though I should.

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This cover was 19 years ago.

I'm 39 years old now and nothing they make is going to be the soundtrack for my life now........the way something would be if it came out 20-30 years ago.
 

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I hope they put GAME on this album. Nas and Game make classic music.
 
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