Nas provided Hip Hop fans with a little excitement via Instagram on Sunday (March 8). The legendary MC posted a photo of himself alongside Kendrick Lamar, sparking speculation about a potential collaboration between the two lyricists.
The K. Dot and Nas meetup had something to do with Lamar’s recently launched pgLang company, which was unveiled on Thursday (March 5). In the photo, Nas is seen holding The pgLang Times newspaper.
Very little is known about Lamar and his longtime friend/collaborator Dave Free’s pgLang, but it’s being billed an “at service company.” The pgLang website currently features a video starring Baby Keem and Jorja Smith along with links to sold-out merchandise.
Kendrick Lamar & Dave Free Launch 'At Service Company' pgLang With Baby Keem's Assistance
The company’s mission statement says, “pgLang is multilingual. Our community speaks music, film, television, art, books, and podcasts — because sometimes, we have to use different languages to get the point of our stories across. Stories that speak to many nations, many races, and many ages. That is why our writers, singers, directors, musicians, and producers break formats when we build ideas and make them real for the curious.”
Visit the pgLang site here.
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I always fantasize what Hol’ Up and Sing About Me, I’m Dying Of Thirst would’ve sounded like if Nas was featured on both tracks…
worse
Nas is, without a doubt, the most overrated artist ever. Illmatic is a fucking classic and should forever been seen as such but everything after that just eats hard shit. Stinky flows, boring beats, and not very well thought out concepts. I know I might get a lot of shit for this but ?
wachumean oochie wallie is the best song ever
Oh, that’s Kendrick? I saw Nas post that pic and no idea who that was.
Jeez, selling $60 long sleeve shirts and $100 hoodies? Talk about price gouging….
who cares… you couldn’t pay me to listen to K. Dot
Good because he gets paid enough from the supporters that do
Ok boomer
Greatness
I remember after Stilmatic came out, every head was having wet dreams about Nas linking up with the Illmatic producers, especially Premo and/or Pete Rock. We were hungry for that collab because Stillmatic was the return of the Nas we knew. It has been 18 years since that time and that collab never happened. Times have changed, so has the industry, Nas has changed, so have the aforementioned producers. Nas will always be a legend and honestly, we don’t need any more music from him except for a goodbye album whose last track will be entitled ‘Revelations’, then everything will come full circle, especially if he recruits the same producers from illmatic.
Can someone please inform me what I’m missing with Kendrick? I really fucked with GKMC other than that I really don’t know why he’s put on such a pedestal? What can I listen to to see through to that?
Kendrick went mainstream, sadly. You wouldn’t be able to tell by his music he from comtpon anymore. He fully lost his Westcoast sound, which was critical to him getting big in the first place. Kendrick used to rap mono tone and hard, now he pitches his voice high and whiny, sounding like a whiny pop rapper. Very disappointing, as I was a hardcore Kendrick fan.
Lmfao what?
The entire DAMN album? It’s dope. Pimp a Butterfly is dope too but perhaps a bit too rambling and jazzy for alot of heads. DAMN manages to bridge that experimentation with a mainstream appeal. Also there’s tons of one offs and features where he really shines. In particular, listen to “Really Doe”, which is Danny Brown, EARL, and Ab-Soul. Everyone kills it, but in a group of really dope emcees, you see what Kendrick does with it, elevates it with his flow and melodic delivery. Nerd rant out.
If you liked GKMC. I think you’d like section.80.
If you don’t like that, then you won’t like anything else by him lol
You are dead on. Tpab is extremely talented, but not my tastes. It didn’t have great playback value for me. Section 80 though was a classic to me, more so than GKMC… But Kendrick, and TDE in general have disappointed me. Qs last album Crash Talk was his only bad album ever. Jay Rocks Redemption was pop and his worst album. Absouls last two have been let downs, while Control System is AMAZING. I do not like DAMN. at all… I’m a disappointed fan.
Listen to To Pimp a Butterfly full length, specifically listen for the stories in each track and you’ll understand what makes him great.
tpab is for you my friend. Legit the best album in the last 30 years of music
Start with at least Section.80. That’s what did it for me. He’s got a nearly flawless catalog. GKMC, TPAB, and DAMN. all have different doubts but are all each almost universally considered classics.
imo gkmc is his worst album (great album, but his worst)
tpab is the best album I’ve ever heard, like most legends are saying, its top 5 of all time, in any musical genre, from an objective angle
gkmc is kendrick’s worst album…still good, but nowhere near as flawless as the musical masterpiece that is TPAB.
kendrick is the goat, like the goat of any genre
You must be a troll
Kendrick is legit the greatest artist of all time
will forever be thankful for TPAB
So overrated. Kendrick. Gtfoh
NAH.
So i guess soon we should expect more victim panel music from kendrick
Kendrick is most definitely the Prince of hip hop, he can do it all. IWe will probably never see this level of talent in another musician
Listen to TPAB;, thats the greatest album we’ve ever heard in rap music. Flawless musical composition
The more I listen to kendrick’s catalog, the more I realize GKMC was his weakest project
Lmao that albums not even top 50 foh
I love seeing 2 artists from different coasts together nothing like the bridging of both the East Coast and West Coast coming together 2 make great music Nas representing Queensbridge and Kendrick Lamar representing Compton
Much rather Nas collab with Lupe but a k.dor collab would be a dream as well, tho imo nas lyrically is no longer on there levels, he would have to go in his bag, I think he still has greatness just havent seen any earth shattering bars in a while.
Tpab will probably never be topped. You can have the argument it’s top 3 all time, any genre
Kendrick should retire, he alreazdy dropped hip hop’s greatest musical masterpiece in TPAB
Kendrick
Andre 3000
BNiggie
Jay
Pac
the top 5 of all time
I’m a big nas fan but TPAB >>>>> illmatic
Tpab is the goat album tbh
Lupe Frisco’s Tesuo & youth was better than TPAB
Nope, it was 2nd that year though. The only albums I listened to were TPAB and T&Y. Also, Untitled Album when that dropped, Kendrick was too potent that year. I would love a repeat of something similar in these crazy times.
Pictures from events, speculation about collaborations, Twitter beefs. I miss when hiphop was mostly about the music.