Why didn't Nas work with Pete Rock again after Illmatic ?

[Mandizi]

The petty ordeals between them that lead to a low volume of collabs makes "The World is Yours" that more appreciated.

 

[Art Barr]

You can understand Tips sentiment.

To say some of the material on IWW was jarringly in opposition to his debut would be an understatement. None of the producers on the first album had purposefully gone after radio, IWW/Soute/Trackmasters did.

This.
Yet if we let these stockholm syndrome goofie nas stans have their sellout excuse based way.
Making purposeful culturally divisve pop records was cool.


Art Barr

 

[Ziggiy]

You can understand Tips sentiment.

To say some of the material on IWW was jarringly in opposition to his debut would be an understatement. None of the producers on the first album had purposefully gone after radio, IWW/Soute/Trackmasters did.

And yet…Tip and Pete Rock were wrong.


Just goes to show you how smart Nas was in future proofing his career and allowing Stoute at that moment to have a bigger vision regarding Nas and talent that extended beyond just Queensbridge.