Nas and Hit-Boy have revealed the tracklist for King’s Disease 3 ahead of its release on Friday (November 11).
The Grammy-winning duo shared the album’s tracklist on their respective Instagram pages on Wednesday (November 9), further building excitement for their latest collaborative effort.
King’s Disease III clocks in at 17 songs, including a sole bonus track. Guest features, however, appear to have been omitted — if there are indeed any outside guests. (Eminem, Lauryn Hill and Big Sean are among the big names who’ve popped up on previous installments.)
Song titles may provide clues to what fans can expect on the album, with titles like “Thun” — a nod to the Queens, New York slang popularized by the late Prodigy of Mobb Deep — and “Michael & Quincy,” named after Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones.
Nas previously compared himself and Hit-Boy to the legendary duo during in an interview with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden last year.
Nas and Hit-Boy first confirmed King’s Disease 3 last month, sharing the November 11 release date and regal cover art, which features three gold bars engraved with “KD3” in front of a red backdrop.
The legendary Queensbridge MC previously hinted at the album’s arrival on Magic, his surprise collaboration with Hit-Boy from December 2021.
“I’m on offense every day until I see the love / KD3 on the way, this just to feed the buzz,” he rapped on the soul-sampling “Ugly.”
Nas and Hit-Boy kickstarted their King’s Disease partnership in August 2020, and have since become one of the most beloved rapper-producer partnerships in the game.
Boasting appearances from the likes of Big Sean, Lil Durk and Anderson .Paak — as well as a Firm reunion — the first installment in the trilogy debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 after tallying almost 50,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.
Most notably, it earned Nas his first-ever Grammy after winning in the Best Rap Album category at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, beating out Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist’s Alfredo and Jay Electronica’s A Written Testimony, among others.
Success followed with the sequel, which landed in August 2021 complete with cameos from Eminem, Lauryn Hill, EPMD and more. King’s Disease II went one (or two) better by peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, powered by 56,000 first-week units.
However, Nas and Hit-Boy were denied a Grammys double after losing out to Tyler, The Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost in the Best Rap Album category at the 2022 ceremony.
Check out the King’s Disease 3 tracklist, along with the album’s trailer, below:
Nas & Hit-Boy — King’s Disease 3 Tracklist:
1. Ghetto Reporter
2. Legit
3. Thun
4. Michael & Quincy
5. 30
6. Hood2Hood
7. Recession Proof
8. Reminisce
9. Serious Interlude
10. I’m On Fire
11. WTF SMH
12. Once a Man, Twice a Child
13. Get Light
14. First Time
15. Beef
16. Don’t Shoot
17. Til My Last Breath
AOTY INCOMING
AOTY INCOMING
Escobar season has returned
Escobar season has returned
Escobar season has returned
Yawn. Bring out The Throne 2 already
So it can get flushed. GTFOH. Nobody wants to hear Geriatric Jay and YEric Cartman anyways especially after the GayFish’s Meltdown.
Yawn. Bring out The Throne 2 already.
Lol Watch for the groans more like it. All ye does now is critique everything and everyone and look down on them for being at a lower standard of living than he is. His Ego has gotten so large that it’s now classified as a planet by itself. Hell, even his shadow has a restraining order against him for making racist comments towards it.
Cant wait. Look lyk he don’t got no features on there. Luvin the energy God Son puttin out. Salut the GOAT. QGTM
Can’t wait til black americans bootleg this til it sells 20k then complain when eminem fans support him w money and he sells 1m.. will guys make ur legends go Plat like we do our legends, or bootleg and complain more? Wel see
Do you work for a record company? Em can sell more but at the end of the day, who’s albums are actually better? Nas’ recent albums have been better than Em’s.
Can’t wait for this shit.
I hope the album has no features. It would be nice to hear a Nas project with no distractions, and I hope Hitboy gave him the folder with the Game and Big Sean beats too.
I hope the album has no features. It would be nice to hear a Nas project with no distractions; and the Hitboy beats better be leftover’s from his Big Sean and Game sessions too because he gave them fire for their collars.
Let’s see how yall review the album because this publication like many others have always hated on the GOD NaS. Thanks to platforms like According 2 Hip Hop for calling all yall cats out.
Let’s see how yall review the album because this publication like many others have always hated on the GOD NaS. Thanks to platforms like According 2 Hip Hop for calling all yall cats out.
eh, meh.
Clown’s Disease 3, lol! Look at these lame ass song titles. “WTF SMH”? Haha. Let’s hope the real king Jay-Z surprise drops on Friday to deter attention away from this weed plate.
Hopefully we get an unbiased review from all platforms.
Hopefully we get an unbiased review from all publications.
Notorious big will be on beef!
His last 4 albums been kinda weak. The Kanye one and all 3 of the Hit-Boy ones been mediocre if not wack. They’re sloppy and just don’t have any replay value. I say that as a Nas fan from 1994, I’m not a hater. But I’m not a “GOAT!” yelling fanboy either. I’m just being objective. I don’t wanna hear half-done verses about the expensive food he eats over stiff fruity-loops samples. Peace.
Iam also a Nas fan, well since 95 to be exact, and I disagree. Nasir is over hated in my opinion, but I get it. It’s an forgettable “album” overall.
To be honest I didn’t really like KD1 that much and would put it somewhere in the middle of his discography. I have to say on KD2 and Magic they really stepped it up and Hit-Boy made a great job in my opinion. Sure, overall his sound is still a bit clean but very soulful on these two projects. These albums had consistently great beats for me. I guess we all still dream of something like a Premier/Nas album but I guess it should have happened a long time ago. Premier is still nice on the boards, but I doubt the result would be as grand as it would have heen like 20-25 years ago. I’m still there for it if it ever happens.
About Nas, well, I don’t really know what people expect. Overall he is still doing a great job for me and I enjoy listening to his raps.
The fact that Nas only has one Grammy is an absolute travesty.
More weak Hit-Boy beats. Hard pass!!!!
More weak Hit-Boy beats. Hard pass!!!!
Not sure how they pulled it off, but this is better than Magic.