Nas’ new album, Nasir, is upon us. To mark the occasion, the Queens legend held a waterfront listening party for the project on Thursday night (June 14) in Queensbridge, New York.
The event was hosted by Mass Appeal, which is co-owned by the Illmatic mastermind. Hundreds of people were bused from a parking lot to a secret location — which turned out to be near the Brooklyn Bridge — to witness the album’s unveiling.
High-profile artists like Pusha T, Swizz Beatz and DJ Clue were on hand, as well as Kanye West and West’s wife Kim Kardashian, who sat on top of a Jeep watching the party unfold.
As the album played, people were so moved by what they were hearing, they started jumping up and down, including Swizz Beatz who danced around to “Adam & Eve.”
The event was also scheduled to be livestreamed at 9 p.m. EST on Mass Appeal’s YouTube channel but it stopped working right as it was supposed to begin. After a shaky start, Nasir finally started playing, but it was riddled with technical difficulties for those trying to watch it online.
Despite the glitches, the energy was high during the event and served as an unforgettable evening for those in attendance.
Check out reactions to Nasir here.
It’s crazy to me the way some people will take what they here and are convinced that it is real no matter what.. especially with women as if women are incapable of lying. The fact is no one but kelis and nas know if those allegations are true or not. No arrest or complaints we’re ever filed with the police..
And God buddy….drop the album or ep excuse me at 12.smh
Kelis said in the interview that THEY HIT EACH OTHER. If they both were fighting each other, why the FUCK are these black bitches and pink devils trying to paint him as an abuser?
Nas is guilty in the court of popular opinion. No one wants to hear the truth when the lie is more entertaining —-Charlamagne the god
I got a Mil for every bump on your face, flexing
Also, kelis better stop playing and promote this album if she wants those spousal support payments to keep rolling in.
Even if there’s any truth to what she says, most of these people deriding Nas are hypocrites. Capacity for evil is part of the human condition and we’re all guilty of it at some point or another. But the capacity for altruism and more importantly redemption exists in all of us too. Trashing another person to make yourself feel less guilt about your own evil deeds is a lot easier than actually atoning for them. And that’s exactly what these people are doing. Capitalist cheerleaders who throw entire meals in the garbage while 5 year olds halfway around the world die from starvation and infected water. Nasir is definitely a classic and there’s nothing all these white #metoo twitterites can say that’ll change that.
Couldn’t have said it better. While we let them tear down every black person with any success, they turn a blind eye to Trump and the rest of the immoral good ole boys who rob them blind, cheat on their wife’s, disavow children, etc
I love Sage Francis’ old stuff, but man, he comes off as such a pussy sometimes. Personally I love Nas, and feel like he’s a better man than me for sticking so hard to his beliefs that he would gladly say fuck him, but then he ruins it by saying fuck Kanye. Like why? Oh, that’s right, because he doesn’t hate conservatives. Not because he IS a conservative, mind you, but because he doesn’t hate them. That’s so childish and resentful. Textbook twattage.
For the record, I was not saying Nas is a better man, but that I thought Sage was for saying fuck this guy over the allegations (I may have wrongly assumed that Sage was a Nas fan in the first place, but what rapper is not a Nas fan), until he ruined it with his soy boy antics. In case that was unclear from my post.
“I love Sage Francis” was all you had to say for everyone to know you don’t know shit about hip-hop and are a whiteboy, coffee shop hipster. Your backpack is on way too tight. Everything else you said was negated by your gay ass opening line. Please feel deeply ashamed… Sage Francis is straight garbage ass safe SKW whiteboy rap. Period. Real nighaz from where’re Hip-Hop originated and evolved from (NY and LA) don’t fuck with that weak shit.
Nas has really fallen from grace and gone against everything be supposedly stands for by aligning with Kanye given his MAGA/Slavery BS..I have lost all
respect for Nas..I can’t support him anymore and it’s sad to see a legend destroy what he’s built..he really doesn’t need Kanye! And should take a stand against his BS
You obviously didn’t pay any attention to what Kanye actually said, or are too stupid to understand. You’d be better off listening to Migos and Drake buddy. Hip-hop doesn’t need you. It does need Ye and Nas…
Kanye is supporting a facist in trump and saying slavey is a choice..he’s ignorant and dangerous as there are idiots who will actually believe him..Kane didn’t even know abt the travel ban was, yet he had the voice to swing votes and damage our communities… Nas is supporting that by doing an album with him..that goes against everything he stands for. I was a big Nas and Kanye fan..both GOAT level artists…which is why this fall from grace is extra sad….
He said Albert I is a choice by falling into what’s the general consensus. Image you put out to load prisons with blacks. TRump is a friend of his going back 20 some years idiot. He made a shit ton of money playing at his casinos. He’s supposed to think Trump Ian racist because everybode Satan só when dude has been nothing but cool to him? You are obviously a dimwit teen cuck SJW coffee shop fucktard. Peobably dressed like a gay pirate with a scarf on to Lee’s your neck warm in case a dick sucking contest breaks out…
If it’s true that the king abused Kelis then that’s a really bad thing. I know I have hit a woman before. Even the one I claim to have loved. What’s really important is where the person is at right now in their life. I’m not excusing the behaviour, but he who has never abused someone before should cast the first stone. Otherwise, let the King live.
Fort of all, nowadays, slavery IS a choice. If you want to sell crack to anyone, let alone your own people, for a car, a chain and some other bullshit, you’re a idiot. 1% of the U.S. population is in prison. 90% plus on drug charges EVERYONE was aware of before being arrested. 65-70% o the inmates are black, when blacks are 15% of the population. “We buying out own chains, the new Slaves…” how did no one get that? Also, Ye is old school friends with Trump. He made tons of money with the guy. Your old crazy ass white friend who owns casinos, marries models and had a reality show becomes president? You wouldn’t stand by dude, specially when it will get you free publicity? You are all morons. BTW, IF NAS HAD REALLY BEATEN KELIS, WHY DIDN’T SHE GO TO THE COPS AND FILE A POLICE REPORT? That would have been a slam dunk in their divorce proceedings. You are all brainwashed Facebook bitches. THE NEW NASIR ALBUM IS A CLASSIC!
GOOD music has taken a giant royal shit on everyone else. This was the cherry on top. Straight classic. I wonder which OVO fuckboys are putting out a garbage ass album other than Aubrey? Hahahaha. He’s crying somewhere with Michael J. Shitbib…
Kelis said this RIGHT AFTER KANYE ANNOUNCED NAS album. Is that as obvious to me as everyone else?
Kelis is a greedy crab. She wants all Nas money and for him not to succeed at the same time. Which doesnt make any damn sense. In other words, shes crazy.
Or that she said this in the middle of a child support fight.
Everything sounds like it has a sample from the movie commando
Disregard ..smh
Notice how every critic is based on allegations made by Kelis and not the actual music and/or for Nas working with ye because they dont agree with his political view and recent statements. Personally, I dont care about none of that. If the music is great Im listening to it.
Everybody has done dirty. Nobody on this earth is perfect. NOBODY. Yet everybody wanna complain about what somebody else did as if they never done bad shit before in their life, and become extremely swift in their judgment of others. So with that said, I could give a fukk less about what went, or is going on, between Nas and Kelis. That is not my problem and won’t ever be. I just want the damn music!! Besides, the baby moma/daddy drama is just way too typical for me to care anyway. ?
Nasir all the way.
There’s bound to be hataz.
Niqqaz got personal issues. That’s not supposed to concern us. He’s a rapper. Rap.
If you Gon beat yo wife afterwards dats on u.
Just give us some damn good rap about it.
Nobody support woman beater Nasir please. He’s broke and beats women left and right. King HOV is a gentleman and rich as fuck with the Queen BEY as his wife. And this album is trizzash by the way. It’s the ROC!
Ur strait clown.u could wait to say some dumb shit.the goat is back.deal with it .nasir.is ?
You just as fugged up as everybody else on tha planet. Sitcho over judgemental azz down somewhere and have several seats.
Didn’t your King HOV admit to cheating on Beyonce with a white woman and put it out on an album? Such a class act Jay Z.
Cops (nas)…santaria (push)… ghost town (ye)… 4th dimension (ksg)…
Hate kanye all you want but he released a classic song every album.
Illmatic dope rest mediocre. Nas is a fake gangsta rapper. He never never sshot his gun or commited a crime so why all the lies on your albums? And why all the commercial songs with popartist and pop rnb artists? You need money? Please retire your are 45 years old nobody wants to listen to your childish stuff. Hiphop is for the kids.
Push edged out kids see ghost album for best of the surgical series.Nas stuff was alright.
Hmmm so just cause kelis said it it’s fact huh who would’ve known smh. Sheep
It’s 2018, guilty in public opinion even without facts or context. And then these moralist are going to pretend to be outraged for a month then back to listening to Nas next week. Same people who said they will boycott Kanye were the same ones talking about how much of a genius he is. People are a fickle bunch
Man, I haven’t got a copy yet!
Nas supports Kanye’s bigoted views.he is dead to me
It was never said that anyone agrees with his views. Pusha T, John Legend and more came out against those views. That being said, do you realize that you interact with people on a daily basis who voted for Trump and don’t agree with everything he does? Nor does Kanye. Think about it.
PS – I voted for Hillary.
did nas say that ??? Or is it because he got a lp produced by kanye he shares his thought and opinions ??? you gotta grow up smh
So Kelis wants 58 thousand a month yet wants people to boycott nas album…nasty bitch.
Maaaan Why is Nas doing an album with Kanye with his trump supporting bullshit smh..
Do you have the same opinion on everything as all of your friends?
No, but Kanye crossed a line in siding with racists and saying slavery is a choice..it’s making real damage to the community..it’s not just an opinion…it goes against everything Nas has stood for his entire career.
You are an idiot. You cross the line by living in this country according to your dumb ass logic. Move away until Trump leaves office then, dipshit. This ain’t a fucking Starbucks, geek. This is street shit. Eat a dick immediately.
Is Jonathan Cherbin in the Bravehearts?
Nas is the best rapper of all time.
LOL Kim Kardasian at a Bad album listening party… who would have thought it… NAS LOST
Your mom lost not swollowing all those loads at the gangbang you were conceived at…
Nas kickin it with kardashians and Kanye’s trump lovin stupid ass….this is a sad day. Respect to Jay for rising above and distancing himself from Kanye..it makes sense now
After this one Kay I’ll be back begging Kanye for beats dumbass. Jay played in Trumps casinos too back in the day. I don’t see him giving that money back…
Is the album any good? That’s all I want to know. I’m not interested in who Kanye west supports as its got nothing to do with the album. I dont care about Kim k because again its got nothing to do with the album. What the hell does all the outside noise have to do with the album?
That party looks fake. I don’t hear and see anyone from QB or Queens for that matter anywhere near this album. You couldn’t take the 7 Kanye tracks and throw together 7-8 more from other producers? Why? Oh, because Kanye made it about him and you fell for it. Kanye West featuring Nas. Made in Wyoming.
youre such a lame faker you didnt notice Marley Marl in the cut
Or Swizz? He’s from ducking DC or some shit? Rough Riders are from Queens, jackass. Jada was there. Kiss, not your boy/girl Jada Smith.
Now see…this is why black ppl can’t come together & unify as 1 because we’re 2 busy hating on 1 another. So you’re telling me that nobody wants 2 bump Nas’ new LP cause Ye & Kelis, FOH! I don’t care what goes on in these artists’ personal lives, if the music they put out is gd then that’s all that matters @ the end of the day. Nasir is fire from start 2 finish, fuck what any of u haters have 2 say. Shit, Jay-Z “supposedly” cheated on Beyonce & ya’ll still went out, supported him, & copped it his LP so how is this any different?!
Disagree – if an artist becomes a KKK member would you still just nod your head and listen to their music like an idiot? Kanye sides with racists over the community that put him in that position…That is a line and Kanye crossed it. And Nas still rocked with him…he’s lost all respect and credibility
Wow. You are a total fuckboy cuck idiot. You compared an unfounded accusation of abuse and using beats from a guy who supports a friend of almost 20 years to being in the KKK? Your mother should have swallowed you. N.W.A. had dinner in the Whitehouse with Bush Sr. Dr. Dre choked a bitch. Without them music in general would suck. Go protest in front of a Walmart bitch. This is Hip-hop, not a Beeklwy antifa meeting, sensitive ass transgender.
How does transsexualism fit into this…?
Lol, all of Nas’ fans are turning on him because he’s a woman beater and he supports Kanye’s opinions by doing an album with him. People are finally waking up and seeing this broke loser for what he really is. Nas may as well retire now since no one will support his bum ass anymore. I thought I’d never see this day, but I’m so happy now. Now, can people give King HOV the respect he really deserves? It’s the ROC!
Damn this dude mastered penis juggling 101 with an A +no one was even fucking with jay z after ether. He lost get over it Bleek !!!
both of yall sound stupid as fuck… have a couple of seats…. JIGGA ASS compared to nas… stop it 5.
Wow, I never thought I’d see the day Nas started using that terrible off beat flow that everyone seems to be using nowadays. This is the follow up to Life is Good? Straight trash.
What “off beat flow”? See you are probably dumb and only know music from a civillian level. Are you talking about triplets? because thats still on beat. Theres no way this would get a national release if it was “off beat”. Rap fans are dumb. thats what happens when you only listen to one genre of music and your parents old ojays records
I’m going to disregard the personal insult bc let’s face it, anyone can talk smack online. Nas (over the course of his career) has always had a special flow, able to fit a ridiculous number of syllables in one bar. Now he’s doing that silly choppy flow that young rappers with limited talent use bc they never really learned how to flow.
I mean you are still dumb and nas has always had as much charisma and presence as an old hat.
Lord Infamous and Krayzie Bone are the OGs of triplet flows. So they got limited talent who just learned how to flow?
Funny how this is supposed to be about Nas’ album and Kanye’s production, yet people are making a big deal about EVERYTHING ELSE surrounding it. Sad times in hip hop when “fans” resort to this bullshit…support it, or go listen to one of those Lil muthafuckas, simple.
Nas turned his back on his fans by supporting Kanye. I been with Ana’s from day1 but no more after this BS. Some things are bigger than music.
All of his fans will make this the #1 album on billboard today, idiot. This shit is fire. Go protest in front of a fucking planned parenthood where you got thrown in a dumpster, bitch. This is hip-hop. Shove your politics in your gaping asshole.
What happened to Nas talking about “blood of a slave”….apparently he agreed with Kanye that his family chose that as a “lifestyle”….Nas is a sell out for sticking with Kanye.
Yo. Kanye is stupid as fuck..I really don’t think he meant that when he made his comment! Think you’re reading to much into it… And he supports MAGA in ignorance. he didn’t even know about the travel ban! He turned his back on the black community..artist like Nas should call him out for his BS.
WHAT A TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRENDOUS, SHITTY ASS “ALBUM” …. NAS YOU KNOW YOU CAN DO BETTER… YOU GOTTA DO BETTER…. WHAT A WASTE OF 25 MINS, SOME OF US WERE REALLY EXPECTING GREATNESS….
#NASLETMEDOWN
Your mom let the world down by not getting that abortion. No money I guess. When you don’t know who the baby daddy is it’s hard to go halves. This shit is classic, straight up.
There’s nothing special abt this album..this is from a nas stan
Man I miss Nas. Good shit. Not his best work but after over 20 years in the game, I don’t expect prime Nas. But it’s still better than most of what’s out there and my favorite of the 4 Good music albums so far. I have a lot good to say about it but 7 tracks for a Nas album was a mistake. This isn’t the case of Illmatic being 9 tracks blah blah blah. This felt way too short and you KNOW Nas had a lot more to say that can’t be filled in 7 tracks. 4/5 off initial reaction
Every day when I turn this page on I’m looking for title like” 6ixn9ne shot dead at age (21?)” But today is not this day again.
Dude shut that stupid shit up. Whether dude makes shitty music, you shouldn’t wish death on anyone.
I can, I have a lot of types to be shot smh. Greetings from Poland ?
stupid people like you will never have a voice in this world. Wishing death on someone is the work of the devil. Please find your soul loser! It is just music fool! You do not even know the 69. Know your worth in this world fool!
Wow.. hip hops now full of gossip queens lol ….is the album any good that’s all I’m interested in… way too much floss on here
Not feeling it at all……..He should’ve addressed the abuse claims by Kelis to clear his name (if he didn’t do it), he should’ve called out MAGA Kanye for his foolish and terrible comments and told his fans that he doesn’t support that clown ish BUT HE DIDN’T…….Nas is cancelled!
how can you simps not realize Kelis is a drama starting crazy baby momma?If he got physical while she was abusing him that does not make him an “abuser”.
Another girl who never listened to Hip-hop ever (or gay guy) logging on to hate. Dude is from a ghetto in Queens. Walk around the hood looking for Social Justice, you ducking moron. Cudi, Nas and Push all supported Hillary, fuckboy. Kanye is an old school Friend of the Donald. Get over it. That has nothing to do with the quality of the art. This must be that OVO kid idiot hating. Hahahaha. BTW, why didn’t Kelis GO TO THE POLICE AND WIN A SLAM SUNK DIVORCE CASE if her allegations where true?
I didn’t know it was possible to determine someone’s sexual orientation based on one sentence……….
Celebrities who diss Trump fall off (Em), those who rightly pay homage excel (Kanye). Can’t wait for the album, and can’t wait for the Trump haters to acknowledge North Korean peace, oh wait……………………………………
Just listened to it. Very disappointed. It has one good song on it in my opinion, Adam and Eve, and that song is not even mind blowing or anything. I’m a lifelong Nas fan. But I gotta call it fair. This sounds like a neo-soul Kanye West throwaway album. His flows are choppy, the hooks are horrible. It’s sappy, it’s contrived, it’s corny. No street edge. No real fire. He mostly just talks about the expensive food he eats and the places he goes that you can’t get into. He has some substance on there, but not much. The Cop song was dope til Kanye jumped on it. Anyone calling this a ‘classic’ hasn’t really hears it yet. Listen, a ‘classic’ is when you’re excited to get up in the morning to hear an album, then you’re thinking about it all day at work, then you’re driving around aimlessly just to bump it, then you see other people bumping it with the same vigor and appreciation, then you listen to it a year or 5 years later and it still bangs. This is not anywhere near that. It’s not even good. Peace.
Great explanation of a classic!
Wow. Sensgay stormcocks with his retarded ass 2c. Go jock Drake, fuckboy. This shit is album of the year easily, cuck. QB all day!
APPARENTLY, coat hanger? feels it’s an undeniable classic that’s gonna bring us into the new millennium lmao
Pusha T supported Hillary and did a full album with Kanye. Guess Pusha T’s fans are less sensitive and bitchmade than Nas fans. *Kanye shrug*
This is a good album/ep/project to wet the fans appetite. Its different in approach but reminiscent of untitled (08), Distant Relatives themes with a hint of Life is Good celebration smooth bragging. Only issue is the cover and the fact that its short. The last track simple things goes out to the people who are not feeling it. He isn’t rapping for you this is him NASIR take it or shut the fuc up and don’t bore the King of Queens haha
dude said the cover lol foh. nitpick much?
Where is y’all listening to it @?..
Youtube.
can someone have the balls to make a dope hiphop record without prolonged moments of fake R&B singing to kill the flow?
you see everybody getting hype to the dope parts right? thats what the people want. the phil collins singing is a buzzkill people look over but no one really feels.
What the duck are you talking about? Phil Collins? Are you on crack? Is this Drake?
this was aaaaaaah ite
Said the dude who just ejaculated inside you then never called you again. Nasir is album of the year bitch.
Hard to believe NAS has stood by MAGA KANYE…damn.
Nas is cancelled. Hip hop is alive but Nas is over.
Wow. You are a fucking idiot. An artists politics or antics have nothing to do with the quality of his art, specially when someone who is making the beats is concerned. GTFOH with that SJW bullshit. Go protest trump with AnQueefah. You obviously aren’t from an inner city. We fuck with this HARD. You are a duckboy coffee shop idiot.
A line has been crossed with supporting racists and saying slavery is a choice…Nas stood by and supported that shit…
You are a fool, probably a little young punk. You know nothing about Nasir! GOAT
I knew Kanye was going to fuck the album up with his weird ass ear. When you have to say it in a verse that beats don’t make you and people buy your stuff for your verses like Nas just did, you know there’s a problem. Yes, I buy your shit for your verses, but I would really like some beats that make sense.
He is talking about all the mumble rappers that sell cuz of the beats not the lyrics
Good catch
the album aint 4 u
I’m a huge Nas fan, but this here isn’t all that. Fans have been waiting a great deal, for this???? 7 tracks???? And I’m only feeling one…. smh
Not feeling the album 2/5. Expected more from Nas and Kanye.
Was hyped when I saw the album had a release and the first photo I see is of Kim K and that fucking loser guy she hangs around with (not Kanye, the other 1) and I was immediately put off.
Sounds ridiculous doesn’t it but the fact these talentless muthaphukkas are associated with everything makes me not want to feed into anything they are even remotely associated with!
I need to hear the official album in my headphones before evaluating the music
Where is the fucking album ????????
Ye fallen off. Played Nas with that wacka$$ production. 4.44 is way better. Nas should get a refund smh
This album is ?! You are wack as well 4:44…you cannot even name a track on Jay’s horrible record.
KANYE IS GOAT PRODUCER
Ellen Degeneres Egg + Stewie From Family Guy Sperm – Vitamin C = Jon Cheban or whatever that f that socialite ghoul’s name is
Even when Nas tries to be “woke”, it just comes off ass pseudo-intelligence. He doesn’t really get dig in and give you real jewels like Prodigy on Hegelian Dialectic. Nor does he show you any real personality or human-ness like Jay on 444. He’s not as comfortable in his own skin as he wants you to believe, and it comes out on the mic. I regard Nas as one of the top 5 MCs of all time, but I can’t front, he doesn’t have “it” anymore. If he does, he’s not conjuring it on this album. Kanye gassed him.
Dude shut the F up! This album is ?! Crazy, lame ass fool. Nas is the G.O.A.T