After Hit-Boy produced Nas‘ thirteenth studio album King’s Disease in full, the pair are back at it again.
Both the legendary rapper and HipHopDx’s 2020 Producer Of The Year posted up from the studio on Monday (February 8) to confirm their latest collab “E.P.M.D.” will arrive on Friday (February 12).
“E.P.M.D. we back in business/I visualize what it is not what it isn’t/We at the mafia table next to the kitchen/Eating Michelin Star, countin’ a million!” Nas begins on the track – with a title that pays homage to the iconic rap duo comprised of Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith.
Released in August, King’s Disease was entirely produced by Hit-Boy and featured 13 tracks with appearances from Fivio Foreign, A$AP Ferg, Big Sean, Don Tolliver, Lil Durk, a reunion of The Firm and more. The album became Nas’ 10th top 5 debut, coming in at No. 5 with approximately 47,000 album equivalent units in its first week. The effort has been nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards, and was also named one of HipHopDX’s best rap albums of 2020.
King’s Disease was just one of many projects Hit-Boy had his hands in throughout 2020, and he dropped collaborative albums with both Big Sean and Benny The Butcher in the months that followed – making for quite the onslaught.
“Big Sean’s stuff was supposed to drop in like March and it didn’t drop and it got pushed back,” Hit-Boy explained to HipHopDX. “I was like damn, this is really lining up for like three projects just to drop month after month from Nas to Benny to Sean. I was like this is going to be a crazy stretch. For it all to have panned out like this, I couldn’t have planned it any better.”
Revist King’s Disease below.
Hell yeah Nas and Hit Boy keeping the movement for true hip hop heads going into the new year!
True Hip-Hop heads don’t do trash trap beats and generic rhymes.
Exactly fam…
I was joking, you fuckin piece of shit! I love trap beats and da baby is the GOAT!
That just speaks volumes about you, you worship a creepy AF, giant mouthed, ugly AF, violent and ignorant bozo!!!
Can’t wait
All hail this dynamic duo!!!!! If the Trackmasters were starburst working with Nas, then Hit Boy is Hi Chew!!!
That album was dope, everybeat was good, only shame that idiots like big Sean and lil durk are on this,
Now Jay gotta drop this Friday!!?
Better get Young Guru on speed dial…
It’s cool n all but where’s the Premo collab album. Nas sounds best with premo. Wtf yo.
Let it go man. That project has been dead for a decade. Nas doesn’t even work with “Hip-Hop” producers anymore, much less listen to Hip-Hop. He lives down south and looks down on artists like Premo. He’s not this hiphop loyalist that you think he is. He resents it, and if he could just quit it altogether, he would, but it’s his brand so he can’t.
You are dumb as fuck you nothing about hip hop , u goat fucker
I was born into HipHop in the early 80s when you weren’t even swimming around in you dad’s tiny white nutt sack. I’ve forgotten more about hiphop then you’ll ever fathom in ten lifetimes. I’m grown enough to be objective, not a fanboy.
Now Jay gotta drop too!
Get Young Guru on speed dial!!
Let’s go…
Can’t wait
Nah. Name dropping or adding a metaphor is paying homage. A song titled EPMD? Trying too hard.
“Back in business” that’s the ultimate, lazy EPMD reference. Not feeling it
Damn!!!…How u gonna hate without hearing.
the song first !?
He was raised that way….
If Erick and Parish making dollars are getting mentioned it’s already dope, I mean I do hope so that it will be dope. EPMD forever
Nas is the Tom Brady of Rap! GOAT
Naw…more like Joe Montana…shit was way more difficult back then plus Nas shitz ain’t tAinted…..
King Hov need to be on this and this would make me wet! But Nas doing his thing
Damn, that broke woman beater Nas keeps dropping trash after trash. And disrespecting legends in his songs too. Remember that Rakim shit? And now he does this to EPMD? That Nastradamus track was wack too. Saps below is right, King HOV needs to drop something on Friday to get our minds off this bullshit. For the sake of hip hop. It’s the ROC in here!
Nas has a catalog longer then my arm and this guy picks a select few whack songs to be the emphasis of his entire body of work. Stop trolling, in the age of streaming you can’t convince people to stop listening.
That’s how u feel? Man this iz only music!! Stop this unnecessary beef ++t! Both are good !!! Stop it
Plainly stated u jus a hatin ass troll..??
RAP HAAAAAANDS!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
If you are not feeling the song , please go fuck yourself or go to the studio do your own damn song and stop hating
Man I’m straight elated that Erick & Parrish are back at it. Just hope their pen game is still as strong as it ever was – legends stay legends, for real