After confirming his joint project with Hit-Boy would arrive on August 21, Nas gave fans even more to get excited about by revealing the album’s title and cover art on the iTunes pre-order.
Though not available everywhere, some international markets got access to the pre-order on Thursday (August 13), revealing the cover and the title to be King’s Disease. It also shows there will be 14 tracks, totaling out at 41 minutes. The project’s lead single “Ultra Black” was released at midnight on Friday (August 14).
The album follows June 2018’s NASIR, which had only seven tracks and was executive produced by Kanye West. Rolled out as part of the “Wyoming Sessions,” it came in the midst of a five week period where Ye also released 7-track albums from Pusha T, Teyana Taylor, one from himself and a joint effort with Kid Cudi, Kids See Ghosts.
Dr. Dre, Nas & Slim The Mobster Captured In The Studio
Kanye, Diddy, 070 Shake, Tony Williams, Kanye and The-Dream all appeared on NASIR, but the album received mixed reviews. However, it debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 77,000 album-equivalent units, making for the Queensbridge MC’s twelfth top-ten album.
Stream “Ultra Black” below.
This the first real Hiphop news I’ve seen on this site on days. Also Nas doesn’t need “great beats” to get his point across. He’s the GOAT no matter what he raps over
Talk to Em!
Can’t wait.
Another wack ass album in the works. Jay z bodied his ass a long time ago. Why is he still trying? He can’t even bribe critics anymore to like him. He made one ok album with illnatic and the rest are all garbage
You sound like a hater
I think Nas fucked his mom this has to be personal
he couldn’t keep a girl unlike Jay z
yeah Jay “never give my heart to a woman” Z is way more real than Nas! showing up on SNL looking down like a scolded child rapping the 4:44 song, being the biggest fucking simp of all time. So gangster bro i see what you mean
yeah Jay “never give my heart to a woman” Z is way more real than Nas! showing up on SNL looking down like a scolded child rapping the 4:44 song, being the biggest fucking simp of all time. So gangster bro i see what you mean
Idiot!
Damn.. I thought after all these years. You’d stop being a salty bitch. It’s gotta be sad being so obsessed. Mad cuz Nas is great and you just a nobody
You’ve got problems son
You dwelling on some shit that happened like 20 years ago lol get a life. There friends now and Jay lost that battle and I’m a fan of both.
Buddy Ether sent shawn to Paris…stop the bullshit…j lost…its history
Oh he still rappin ?
Wow she knows math. Lmao “double the tracks from NASIR” … well no shit
U say sum bout Marisa again, Imma fkk u up mfuka
And you know next article Nas will be named as « the double the amount of tracks of 2018´s album Nasir rapper » lmao
The G.O.A.T is back.
Damn that was a quick Doja Cat diss got damn ??
This dude, Fabulous and Drake yawn-rap there a new subgenre
Escobar Season has returned.
I’m so sick of all this “Nas doesn’t pick the best beats” shit. Stop acting like he didn’t work w/ the best of the best production-wise like Swizz, RZA, Preemo, ALC, Timbo, Ye, Em, Dre, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Large Professor, etc. FOH…King’s Disease, 8/21, let’s get it Hit-Boy!
Damn, thank you fam! People gotta evolve their sound. They want to hear one kind of thing from Nas. We gotta evolve.
The GOAT’s back. The best news I’ve heard all week. I’m loving that Ultra Black! Can’t wait for that album to drop.
he wasn’t even anywhere near goat status back in 1994. 2pac and biggie are actual goat artists.
They make art about goats?
Nas top 5 DOA
Nas is an all time great MC no matter what but it seems like he’s got problems fitting into the music/hip hop world in 2020, this shit is nice lyrically but 99% of niggas won’t remember this in a month or two just like with NASIR, he needs some fire I MADE YOU LOOK DIRT OFF YOUR SHOULDER type of ish..
Made you look track for what? To knock in the club? Nas is almost 50. Been there done that! Why does he need a track last that again. Why knock a song we can listen and bop our heads to?
White pride worldwide brother 🙂 y’all are about to wake the sleeping giant and I hope you’re ready.
He still don’t hear his fans complaining about beat selection … The fuck is this garbage ??!! … He chooses Hit Boy over someone like DJ Premier ???????????? Fuck you doing, Nasir ?????
Y’all looking for one sound, you gotta evolve your sound fam.
He is the mat
Nas still making music!!
How old is this guy now? And why the fuck did you sign to big lips.
Raps dead and if you listen to this shit you’re gay. RIP Big and PAC raps been garbage since they went.
So rap is dead because there’s no real rappers left, but you’re shitting on a real rapper for still wanting to put out hip-hop? I don’t think you realize how illogical that is
there’s plenty of real rappers out there. Jay Z, drake, Gucci mane, dababy, lil baby, baby (aka birdman), cardi b, might, and some more I don’t have time to listen.
Nas is as far away as from being a real rapper and got bodied by Jay z 2 decades ago. The kanye west from the early 2000s would never go near him
Jay ain’t body nobody, at the least they both came off good. Other than that Ether was an ass whooping of epic proportions. Ether is part of the lexicon now and the urban dictionary. lol People don’t say you got takeovered, people say you got ethered! ????
Jay ain’t body nobody, at the least they both came off good. Other than that Ether was an ass whooping of epic proportions. Ether is part of the lexicon now and the urban dictionary. lol People don’t say you got takeovered, people say you got ethered!
ether was just nas embarrassing himself and somehow, all the white boys loved it.
Dental dam boy I remember you! What happened to wheezy? R u still his accountant.
Facts if ever heard them
King’s Disease is a nickname for gout, which is short for gouty arthritis. I have it. Can’t eat anything delicious.. red meat, shellfish, anything with yeast, gravy, alcohol, etc, which causes uric acid concentrations to rise to the point where small, razor sharp crystals deposit and flow through the blood stream. These tiny crystals get stuck in the smallest veins in our body, usually in joints in the feet. Wouldn’t wish an acute gout attack on my worst enemy. – shit is another level of painful. Cool name for an album though, I guess. Shit resonates with me on a whole nother level.
Damn man u seem 2 have got d joint b4 errbody else, some natural pre-order type shit. Hahaa lol hey bt i wish u health tho. #BlessUp SMH
Will this stop DJ Vlad from always saying NaS the worst beat picker? We shall see..
Vlad isn’t hiphop
Kool Keith also says this and he’s kinda right. Nas should have a better ear to beats. The problem is he’s always jumping on the bandwagon meanwhile he wants to be considered as a street smart mc. When crunk was trending he made songs with Lil Jon, when 50 Cent had his 15 minutes of limelight, he made songs with him, when JA Rule was on the charts Nas dropped a remix with JA, when Kanye is hyped he makes a whole album with him, Esco even made a song with Omarion and Justin Bieber, moreover he performed with Lil Nas X. And now let’s think about when did you hear Buckshot made songs with an actually fashionable mc? What was the last time when Casual dropped a remix with a pop star? Have you ever heard about Erick Sermon making songs with wack mc’s? And this is the attitude what distinguish them from him. It’s not only about beats, but the attitude.
Nas made joints with 50 way before the mainstream knew who 50 was. In fact, after 50 blew up, they started beefing when Nas dissed him at his Central Park concert. He did joints with Lil Jon, but none of them ever appeared on a Nas album–it was the Braveheart’s album (they needed all the help they could get) and the Crunk Juice joint.