After an effective teaser last month, Nas is making his long-rumored The Lost Tapes 2 a reality with the unveiling of its release date and commercial.
According to Mass Appeal, the project compiles tracks from his albums Hip-Hop is Dead (2006), the album formerly known as Nigger (2008), Life is Good (2012), and his most recent disappoinment, 2018’s Nasir.
To unveil the tracklist (which sports production from rap royalty such as Kanye West, Pharrell, Swizz Beatz, Hit-Boy, Pete Rock, No I.D., Alchemist, Statik Selektah and more), Nas is rolling out The Lost Tapes 2 merch collaboration with Aimé Leon Dore.
The Lost Tapes 2 hits streaming services on July 19. Watch the compilation’s TV spot above.
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[This post has been updated. The following was originally published on June 11, 2019.]
Diehard Nas fans have been put on high alert.
The Hip Hop icon and business mogul gave a warning signal via his Instagram account on Tuesday (June 11) that the long-awaited second edition of his beloved The Lost Tapes is on deck.
The revelation is in a short video clip of the camera zoomed in on a damaged, marble white prototype being held by Nas wearing white gloves and a matching science lab coat.
There has been no release date announced for The Lost Tapes 2 at press time.
The first Lost Tapes was a compilation of unreleased tracks and debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart when it dropped in 2002.
Several of Nas’s fan-favorite tracks and his concert performance staples from The Lost Tapes include “No Idea’s Original,” “Purple,” “Doo Rags,” and “Blaze a 50.”
Nas celebrated the 25th anniversary of his classic debut Illmatic in April and his latest LP Nasir was released one year ago this week on June 15.
Additionally, Nas will be embarking on the 22-city co-headlining tour with Mary J. Blige beginning in July.
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We gone eat
Coming soon…winter 2020
More like winter 2025
Wit Detox
Lol
This sentence doesn’t have any point
Never forget
Hyped for this! Fall maybe? Nas’s best music has a fall/winter vibe to it.
Bout mofuckin time Nasir!!!!
Lil Nas X is better. Ten times better.
SHUT UP BEFORE WE SEND YOU MALWARE LMAO
This shit just came and slapped Nas fans in the jaw!! I love it!
This prolly coming after the az and nas album
The GOAT strikes again!
U Gotta Luv It!!!
U Gotta Luv It?!
Grow up pal. Get out of here with that child talk…
can he top durags tho
The return of Nasty Nas
knowing nas, it probably wont drop for another 2-3 years from now
I love Nas but he hasn’t been focused on his albums for years now. He got other shit poppin. The Nasir record was done so fast and real fans know that was not the album he was working on for years. Supposedly he had other reocrds stashed away for his REAL album that he bregged about on Khaled’s record. This joint will come out right after trump’s racist ass is shown the door…..you know 2024. Go vote u bastards. LoL promo is dope though.
Good luck with trump not getting re-elected. LOL. Who exactly is going to beat him in an election? Biden? LOL. I hate the guy, and I’ll vote against him, again. Still. Watch, BLM will be huge again before the election, some transgender rights shit will come up, reparations. All kinds of shit that rural America (rightfully) sees as media pushed nonsense. We u fortunately have him for another 4 buddy. The dems don’t have anyone to step up. Shit, 2 elections from now I don’t see the Reps loosing at this rate. We need to collectively squash/ignore bull shut like Antifa, BLM, MeTOo and reparations horseshit for the dems to have a chance again. Problem is, all the morons with blinders on that follow those dumb ass movements don’t get that they are dividing the liberals/left, it’s exactly what the right needs. Sad
I’ll believe it when I’m cruising to it this summer. I’m the biggest nas fan, just tired of disappointments.
What’s with the Mason symbols on the gloves and jacket
You nailed it…kind of looks like one of Jigga’s album covers
Real news OMG tired of this bullshit gay talk man.
Not to disrespect sexuality, but shit man i’m tired of talking about this shit
Broke woman beater Nas is 10 years too late dropping this. And it’s funny he wants to drop it now when a younger, fresh out the closet Nas is having more success in half a year than OG Nas has in damn near 30 years. How pathetic is that? Take this L, Nas. King HOV is laughing at you right now. Buy/stream Maxo Kream’s album instead that day, he made the right choice by signing with the ROC. It’s the ROC in here!
Dude. Nas is worth 20mil+. You and your entire family have 2 nickels to rub together, with your broke ass. Keep fingering your butthole listening to Jay-Z’a shit from 20+ years ago when he could still rap. LOL. Dude is a corny, hypocrite SJW nowadays. Like your transgender mom.
Damn, great writing there buddy. “His most recent disappointment, Nasir?” lol. That was one of the best albums of the last year. Idiots.
Same website that praises Megan thee Stallion and mumble rappers, ignore them. They are idiots
Yes, Nasir is a disappointment, just like all his other albums. They got it right. It’s the ROC in here!
Yeah, because all of those recent Jay Z al uns were so great. LOL. Stop sucking so much dick there, gay boy. Jay Z hasn’t put out ANYTHING dope in over 15 years. Adam and Eve was easily one of the best tracks last year.
Cmon…Jay hasn’t dropped anything good in 15 years? See, this is the problem with HipHop fans. There’s no objectivity, they just pick a side and dig their feet in, no matter how much unreasonable it becomes. I love Nas. But there is no way he has put out as much quality music as Jay-Z in the past 15 years. Not even close. Jay-Z is a dope MC. Just because you like Nas doesn’t mean you have to hate Jay-Z, that’s childish. You’re gonna miss out on what will end up being probably the greatest MC of all time in Jay-Z, because you feel like you have to be on “Team Nas”. This isn’t The Twilight Saga. They’re both all time greats with very different careers. Hagler and Leonard, A-Rod and Jeter, LeBron and Durant. Peace.
So you love Nas but decided to not say shit about F Queensbridge’s comment about “all his albums are a disappointment”? And I love Jay too, but let’s be honest, his only great albums after Black Album were American Gangster and 4:44. Everything else was meh to average at best. You’re really gonna say Magna Carta was quality? Lol. It was only good for the week it dropped. Tried listening to it again some time ago, that album did not age well at all, aside from a few tracks.
I don’t respond to trolls, nor should you. And I enjoyed Magna Carter, American Gangster, and Blueprint 3. I enjoyed the record he did with his wife too. Really the only Jay albums I don’t like are In my Lifetime 1, The Dynasty, and Kingdom Come. The Nas albums I don’t like are I Am, Nastradamus, The N album, and that Kanye record. That’s half of them. Although I do think Nas has a higher musical cieling than Jay, Jay is way more consistent and professional. Peace.
Nas’ Albums Done
I was really hoping for some ‘95 – 2004 era records… but I’ll take it
Much as I love the Nas of old, having a mash of producers like those listed above will create in incoherent album.
To me, getting that many super producers on board tells me his mind was more on the beats than the lyrics, going all out with the ‘check out what producers I’ve worked with’ angle.
Reckon there’s going to be the odd hot track on here but it sure as hell won’t be a classic album with that many different production styles going on – the best albums (imo) are those sole produced by a single producer, or albums with minimal producers getting involved.
He didn’t get anyone “on board.” It’s a collaboration of tracks he never released. You’re incoherent.
You idiot. He’s still collaborated with these people and ‘getting on board’ means in the scheme of the album.
He thought the best shot at releasing an album would be to go down the all star producer route, so my comment still stands.
Maybe YOU should read, and hop off Nas’ nuts while you’re at it.
You’re wrong Andy Pandy. Deal with it. Take the L and move on.
This month we’ll be eating good! Nasir wasn’t bad tho I guess that the 7 track format only worked for Ye and CuDi
Nas has been in the headlines a lot this week. First he comes out as gay and now this? I sense a huge comeback
Everyone’s afraid to say it, but Nas is overrated. He’s very talented, but he’s always put in top 5. I don’t think so at all. He has a bad ear for music itself, and isn’t very creative. Just my opinon, but I’ll still gladly give this a listen!
Fuck is you talkin bout, bruh? Not creative? What? I Gave You Power, Rewind, Book of Rhymes, One Mic, Fetus, 2nd Childhood, Project Roach, Blaze A 50, Black Girl Lost, If I Ruled The World, The Message, World’s An Addiction, NY State of Mind, One Love, Halftime. Hell, Illmatic is regarded as “Hip-Hop’s Bible”. So what is you sayin? And that just skims the surface. He’s been relevant since ‘94. 26 years is overrated? Wtf is underrated to you?
Smh. You new cats are terrible for the genre, with your shitty taste in music. Your opinion is garbage truck juice.
Tell em!
Not creative? Compared to what rappers? Like Water ethered you with that list of songs.
You are the dumbest blogger that ever posted! Nas not creative. You are the worst bruh! Dude have some of the best records ever bar none!
What is the need on throwing shade to artists you’re writing about. Trent, you wouldn’t say that to the man’s face. You’re a bitch.
Nasir was great, the visuals for that project is beyond great, very hard to do something great in 7 songs but he did it, Push did it too so how tf is it a disappointment
Yes, new music from Nas is always a good thing.
Did you just call Nasir disappoinment.
KILL YOURSELF RETARD
It kinda was though. I barely listened to it a couple of weeks after it was out. Out of 7 songs 2 were great, 2 were good and 3 were ok at best, which is mediocre IMO. And I’m saying this as a big Nas fan.
Why isn’ t the Will Smith joint from the Aladdin soundtrack on the DJ Khaled album?
Because it was for the Aladdin soundtrack.
Thanks for the info!
You forgot to mention Rza has production.
Large Professor brings out the best in Nas! Hopefully Nas can slip a Large Pro joint on there.
this had to be the album he was working on before the kanye one
Can you read? Or are you just one to comment for the sake of doing so? Smh…MF It ain’t
Then there was Swizz Beatz with his Summer on Smash nonsense
Nas, the GOAT! This is fire…