Nas Readies Fans For ‘Magic 2’ With Tracklist Featuring 50 Cent & 21 Savage

Nas has surprised fans with the announcement of his new album Magic 2, and it will include features from 50 Cent and 21 Savage.

The tracklist arrived on Nas’ Instagram on Thursday (July 20), just hours before it’s set to be released on Friday (July 21). Escobar fans assumed correctly when he seemingly teased the LP earlier this week, when he posted a video featuring a black-and-white clip of Harry Houdini performing his straight jacket escape with no other context.

“Houdini,” Hit-Boy wrote in the comments — who is the project’s primary producer, much like Nas last four albums: King’s Disease, King’s Disease II, King’s Disease III, and Magic.

Check out Nas’ full Magic 2 tracklist — which includes the previously released “One Mic, One Gun” collaboration with 21 Savage — below:

In other Nas news, Eminem recently opened up about the impact that the Queens rapper’s Illmatic album had on him when he was honing his craft.

“I remember The Source gave ‘Illmatic’ five mics [a perfect score],” Em said in a conversation with The New York Times in honor of Hip Hop’s 50th anniversary. “I already knew I liked Nas from ‘Live at the Barbeque’ with Main Source, because his verse on that is one of the most classic verses in Hip Hop of all time. But I was, like, ‘Five mics, though? Let me see what this is.’

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“And when I put it on, ‘And be prosperous/ Though we live dangerous/ Cops could just arrest me/ Blamin’ us/ We’re held like hostages.’ He was going in and outside of the rhyme scheme, internal rhymes. That album had me in a slump, too. I know the album front to back.”

Slim Shady previously discussed how much Nas’ seminal 1994 debut album taught him during a 2020 interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe as well.

“Everybody knows that is a classic, essential album,” he said. “I don’t know where you place that in Hip Hop, but it’s got to be at the top. It’s got to be up at the top.

“It taught me different flow patterns, different schemes you can do, and then when you start finding your own that you feel like haven’t been done yet, that’s when it becomes fun.”