Kanye West continues putting his Twitter fingers to use with yet another announcement. On Sunday (April 22), the suddenly outspoken Hip Hop force announced the release date for Nas’ highly anticipated solo album with a simple tweet.
“Nas June 15th,” he wrote.
West also revealed he’s the producer behind not only Nas’ upcoming project but also “all the albums” he’s mentioned on social media over the past week, including his collaboration with Kid Cudi, Kids See Ghost, Pusha T’s King Push and an album from G.O.O.D. Music artist Teyana Taylor.
“I’m hand producing all the albums I tweeted about,” he wrote. “Been chopping samples from the sunken place. Pusha May 25th My album June 1st me and Cudi June 8th and Teyana June 22nd and oh yeah.”
Hip Hop fans have been practically salivating at the thought of a new Nas album. After all, it’s been six years since the Queens legend delivered Life Is Good, his follow-up to 2008’s Untitled.
But that doesn’t mean Nas hasn’t been busy. In addition to his duties at Mass Appeal — the media company he helped revive in 2013 — the Illmatic mastermind executive produced the Netflix series The Get Down and most recently, pumped out another Netflix series called Rapture.
In a 2016 interview with HipHopDX, he explained, “I’m in my zone. And that’s just what it is. I always stuck with my message and my way, and that might not work for anybody else. I wouldn’t suggest people follow me, but I feel like the ones that can see where I’m going and they see some good in it, and if I can make somebody happy with the moves and I inspire somebody over there, then I inspire a generation. I inspire one man or one woman; I inspire a generation so anybody that can see the moves that I’m doing,”
Last June, Nas told the New York Times his new album was coming that summer but if failed to materialize.
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Dear God….YES!!!!!
Monster…album Nas!!!! The G.O.A.T
That “Sunken Place” is a shot at that fake Black Shawn King for basically calling Kanye a coon. I’m pro Black but the Twitter slacktavists have made it so hard to be taken seriously.
DAMN. LIFE IS GOOD WAS AWESOME. WHYYYY KANYE?????
Hand Producing means there wont be 20 other names on the Producer Credit List like usually??
Kanye saving Hip Hop
The thing about kanye is that he doesnt even produce anymore. He has other people in his crew make the beats and he just slaps his name on it. He is like the new puff daddy:/.
or the new Dre
Hate on Yeezy all you want… I’ll be checkin on all them albums. Except Teyana Taylor. I ain’t got no time for her unless she wanna smash a ninja. If she readin this, holler.
Sunken Place jokes BY Kanye now??? Y’all gotta realize that even tho he’s somewhat changed that it’s still Kanye West lol y’all ruining a good movie about life lessons by the GOAT Jordan Peele with your stereotypes of what white people are lmfao at this point y’all just forced it onto him…
Been a minute since Nas dropped a project. I’m anxious to see where he’s at lyrically and mentally. One of the best if not THE BEST to ever do it. Can’t wait!
This is the only way to redeem yourself from all those stupid things you’ve been doing Ye
If Drake was the one making all these announcements after Kanye had already said his n Nas’ albums is dropping June, you can imagine the uproar lol
The hell does Drake have anything to do with this? He’s not mentioned in the article, nor did nobody else mention him in the comments but you two. Y’all just looking to start something, huh? Drake is alright, but miss me with that. This is Nas we’re talking about, run along somewhere.
Can we please stop trying to make “Twitter fingers” happen?
Hell nah! Twitter fingers all day, son.
I’ll wait for Nas to confirm this himself, he could be high as fuck tweeting this
Illmatic and It Was Written classics…..I Am not bad…..Everything after that was total trash. If you think otherwise you just lying to yourself. Nas ain’t been relevant since 2000 stop it with the Nas nonsense
Stillmatic, Streets Disciple, and Life is Good were dope albums. You didn’t listen to em, be honest. Just because nothing good happened to you personally since 1998 doesn’t mean no good music was created since then. Straight up though, people correlate the good times in their life with good Art, but it’s just you being nostalgic about those years and kinda bitter about the others. I understand, but be more objective and less self-servile. Peace.
Streets Disciple would’ve been great had he picked the best songs from both albums and made it one. Stillmatic is a certified classic. Gods Son is an uncertified classic. Life is good was fine.
I literally listened to Hip hop is dead on my way from work this evening. Totally slept on. To me, Nasty has at least 7 classic albums. Because you can’t dance to it doesn’t make it less potent. Also, don’t talk to me about dope albums if you really don’t pay attention to the content
LOL@7 CLASSIC ALBUMS SMH. Hey Content Matters your bar is obviously ALOT lower than mine…..Hip Hop is Dead, God’s Disciple, Life is Good, etc. all total garbage. Nothing compared to Illmatic, It Was Written or I am.
Did you just type “God’s Disciple”? You hatin’ so hard that you’re making up album titles now. He ain’t relevant but you’re still on this article.
To me, he just seems like a guy on drugs. Either totally despondent or totally over the top. That can translate to creativity and art sometimes though. We’ll see. People don’t ‘forget’ how to make dope stuff, they just lose all their inspiration and become a shell of themselves. I’d love to hear a dope Nas album NOT made in Florida or Hollywood. Peace.
I mean he is diagnosed as bipolar so he doesn’t even need drugs to be manic
Reply to Truth Teller And u think jay z 4 44 is dope or classic or some shit? eat a fat dck! Nas aint never lost his spunk and thats sum u need 2 respekt. jay z just a fur-ball. i knw u aint talkin bout jay bt fck him. 444 weak as fuck! ETHER still apply!
I prefer Nas over Jay too, but you’re tripping if you think 4:44 is weak. Definitely his best album since American Gangster.
Kanye produced Nas album? Dude! Finally! Okay I don’t know what to say but I’ll wait for it coz since 2016 its been Nas Album Done, son might keep us waiting again haha
Hell yeah!! Bad always needed musical direction. He can provide poetry, but musically he lacks on ecery album. That’s why although I still supported Nas’ albums, I didn’t “love” them. I hope Kanye can bring that missing piece of the puzzle to the table.
Bro. Most anticipated of the year.
Oh hell yes my bros.
Finally Kanye produces Nas album. I might check it out. King Hovs music been trash lately
Kanye fully locked in as a producer is definitely one of the best to ever do it.
“When Nas album done” dropped from the Khalid album were supposed to be getting an album where HIP HOP (Rocafella) hand picked the production..a few years later nothing..and now this. We’ll see.
If kanye do for Nas what he did for jayz with blueprint that Will be da shit we ‘re all waiting for …
Waiting for? Must be your first time hearing of Nas..Fooool
If Koonye is involved with this project it will most likely FAIL……Nas be careful homie……The Sunken Place is real!
I wonder if it will be better than yours…
Its funny cuz I think its actually the otherway around. Most Black people are in the sunken place, following blindly the same stereotypes, the Victimhood mentality etc and when an individual like Kanye “breaks free” and starts to think freely and rational he gets pulled back by the horde of brainwashed hypnotized Zombies, gets called Coon, Uncle Tom and House N*gger and pressured till he caves in again, apologizes and follows blindly the rest of the group.
Whoever deleted the last posted comment @HHDX, please explain yourself.
no smart person believes any of these fucking release dates
right now your the only one looking like an idiot seeing that 3 of these albums have already dropped lol
Ye wouldn’t dare drop the ball on a Nas record. He’d step up like he did with Common, Twista, Talib. He’s too much of a hiphop head to mess it up.
2 premo and an intro short