For reasons probably even unknown to them, Nas and Lupe Fiasco have never recorded a track together.
Luckily for fans who have been patiently waiting for such a song to materialize, the day may be near.
On Wednesday (May 1), industry maven Sky Gellatly uploaded an Instagram photo of both renown lyricists posted up inside the Mass Appeal studio. While no official announcement has been made regarding any sort of musical output, the picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words.
The excitement-inducing photo-op was actually the Queensbridge and Chicago legends’ second run-in with one another in for the week. On Monday (April 29), they both attended non-profit organization City Harvest’s annual gala, which raised $4.1 million for the city’s starving population.
“He taught me a lot. Gave me half my name and still…@Nas,” Lupe tweeted of their encounter. Nas, also returned the favor, praising the Drogas Wave creator for his humanitarian spirit writing, “At @cityharvestnyc gala helping our fellow man, woman and child. Great to see my guy @lupefiasco here as well !!.”
Lupe’s affinity for Nas’ craft has been well documented unto this point. Last year, he told the world Nas was secured in his Top 3 rapper dead or alive list and has repeatedly named It Was Written (Nas’ sophomore album from 1996) as his favorite Hip Hop album of all time and template for creating his own debut album, 2006’s Food & Liquor.
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HYYPPPPEEEEE!
This could be crazy.
Good for hip hop! Another win
This is one of my dream collabs. Can’t believe its finally happening! Two of the greatest lyricists of all time!
About time! Been wanting a Nas x Lupe track for the past decade.
Little NAS X and NAS would be a better collab
Yaaaaassssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lupe was the real sucessor to Nas, not J Cole.
*Successor
With the right producer this could be epic.
Crazy, these two fellas use to be my favorite rappers. Taught me a lot, good to seem them together, hopefully they’ll cook up something in the studio?
*see
Is it just me or does lupe seemed photoshopped into that studio pic. Dope collab, though. A remix to king nas featuring nas would be epic. (Yes I know, the song isn’t about nas) still though……
They need Preemo there too
Love Preemo but nah, get them the same production team that Lupe had on Tetsuo & Youth and Drogas Wave. With the lone feature from Damian or Stephen Marley.
2 of my top 5 favs of all time
King HOV easily washes both of them on record. Remember “Pressure”? King HOV killed Lupe on that and he wasn’t even trying. Y’all fools listen to that verse and tell me he didn’t snap. And we already know about him destroying broke woman beater Nas with “Takeover” and all the songs they did together after. Nas’ verses were boring and simple as hell. King HOV had double and triple entendres for days. But you broke loser Nas stans will hate and say otherwise. It’s the ROC!
U wish.all u do is just wait on my name pop up thn be on my dick.murder verse.like em did u.like did ur ads dirty on black republicans.I’m news lose only win.duck marsey bitch
I’ve been waiting for a Lupe Fiasco + Kendrick Lamar joint
Real Rap!!!! The only 2 rappers who deserve to have their songs stored in a museum. Civilisations deserve to study their music 200 years from now like they do those overated paintings by dead whites
I’m not pressed about a song from these two together. The moment is enough.
@fuck queensbridge, ure really infatuated with nas and Queensbridge.Nas is always on ur mind.I guess it burns ur soul to know that 2pac and Biggie Smalls respected him when JAY was yet to release his debut!!! Such is life.