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.

 

[JerseyFinest!]

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

What are the pop records on IWW?

 

[ajnapoleon]

has this ever been explained fully?

mfs put out the goat rap song and never worked again until Lost Tapes 2

i know they had beef over illmatic royalties but still

From what I understand 2 of my favorite producers of all time

Pete rock

9th wonder










Are insufferable a$$holes

 

[DontEemTry]

I'd like these two to work together again, especially since Pete now knows what NOT to do after hearing "Light Years"

They could drop some dope shyt. But I feel like Pete burned those bridges over the years

 

[Awesome Wells]

People said similar about Nas for a couple decades.

This is true, lol.

Nas and Pete were in the studio in '95, while Nas was working with Tip, Marley and Premier on IWW.

Pete said they did some demos, but never finished any of the songs. He was working on IWW and AZ's Doe or Die, at the same time. So the three of them would be together all the time, at Electric Lady and Chung King. That was when Nas did "Gimme Yours" with Pete and AZ in '95.

Pete's "Street Dreams" remix beat, is one of the beats he said he gave Nas for IWW, but Stoute and Columbia didn't want Tip and Pete for the album. So all the music they had in the works, got shut down. They were still cool for years. But around the late 90's, some personal sh*t caused issues and they stopped speaking for a minute. They're good now though.

 

[ManBearPig]

Pete rock beats didnt fit Nas's direction