Nas and Hit-Boy have had a historic run since joining forces in 2020, and with the release of Magic 3 later this week, the duo will finally call it a day and retire their partnership.
On Tuesday (September 12), the Queens MC revealed that the third and final installment of the Magic trilogy will drop on his birthday, September 14, less than two months after Magic 2 was released. This will also mark the end of his collaborative tenure with Hit-Boy that inserted him into the commercial Hip Hop space for the second time in his illustrious career.
“I want to thank everyone for taking this ride with @hitboy & I,” Nas wrote on social media. “It’s been nothing short of Magical!”
Soon after, Hit-Boy confirmed that it will be their final drop, writing: “Nas is dropping his last Hit-Boy produced album on his 50th bday this thursday. Magic 3 [crying emoji, three magic wand emojis]. Those are tears of joy btw. thank you to any and everyone who has listened and supported the movement.”
The cross-coast superduo released six albums in four years, adding up to two trilogies and a Grammy win for Best Rap Album in 2020 for King’s Disease.
“He’s like my Quincy [Jones], you know what I mean?” Nas said about Hit-Boy during a 2021 interview with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden. “So I feel like the next thing I do, if I was to work with Hit-Boy on the next thing I do, I think that we might do something that is going to be magical.”
In the same spirit, Hit-Boy has also flaunted his lethal connection in the studio with Nas.
“It’s just me and Nas in the studio,” he said during an after-party for King’s Disease 2. “There be n-ggas in the studio. It’s just me and bro, bro. Do y’all hear this shit? It’s just me and this n-gga in the studio. He’s barred up, I’m making beats. No hooplah.
“We not on fuckin’ Twitter botherin’ y’all. We not on IG Live putting a weird-ass stream up, n-gga. We doin’ this shit for real though, n-gga! Stop playin’!”
All good things come to an end. Curious if Nas takes a break after this, finds another producer to work solely with, or does the traditional multi producer album.
It wasn’t a good thing to begin with
FOH
From a discography standpoint, there is no denying this Man is not the arguably the GOAT. Illmatic, It was written, Stillmatic, Godson, Life is Good, KD3 and Magic are all borderline 4.5 to 5 albums. While PAC in my eyes is the GOAT and the Greatest album I’ve ever heard was Makaveli, I can say this is the only man who can make the case for being the GOAT from a discography standpoint. Over the past 3 years the only artist keeping hiphop alive is: Ransom, Griselda, Freddie Giibs, Roc Marci and Nas.
Loved Pac, but he wasn’t all that impressive as a lyricist. Emotionally, he could get you to run through a brick wall on one song then cry the next, but if you look at the lyrical content of almost all of his songs, it’s nearly the same thing being said over and over again.
R.Pgh, here’s what everybody misses about 2Pac when they bring up lyricism. HOW you say what you say is just as important as WHAT you say. And everyone knows that even though they don’t know they know it. The way Pac stacked his vocals and used melody before autotune and brought it from the stomach like a singer is one of the main reasons people love him even when they don’t realize it. Nobody SOUNDED better when they came on the track (pause). That’s just as important. If you can make somebody run through a brick wall and cry like you said with LYRICS then you’re a helluva lyricist. Period.
In my opinion, Nas should have only made one King’s Disease and Magic. Those other sequel albums could have been different albums, plus they all just not speaking on what’s happening in today’s times. But as I recall Nas once rapper: speak what I want I don’t care what y’all feel.
KD series got better with each drop. Maybe that can be said for Magic, but we haven’t heard the new one yet. We’ll see.
Fuck me. Why does nas choose to drop an album every single fucking month? He can’t rap, can’t sell well so why are people still giving him attention?
Why are you still giving him attention? Why am I given you attention?
Two questions
You are the lamest
I only comment on the nas posts. I don’t make them 24/7 like you do
The man everyone calls the GOAT can’t break top 100 in rap sales lol. Nobody who calls him that even buy his music.
He’s sold over 30 million records worldwide you idiot and has over eight PLATINUM Albums Watcha mouth. Record cells don’t make you great if that’s the argument, then the Beastie Boys and Vanilla Ice is better then rock him and groups like Mobb deep.
Haven’t even listened to Magic 2 much cause I’m stuck on KD3, and now he’s dropping another album? Wow. Historic run.
GOAT! If not him, then who? SHow the stats to backup the claim.
What stats do you think Nas has ? Certainly not sales. Magic 1 was great, Magic 2 was a dud
Sales? LMAO……smh, great albums are NOT about sales. If that’s the case MC Hammer and Master P are the greatest of all time. Numbers lie, but enjoy your day LMAO….sales LMAO
It is time for the NASDOTCOM album. And that Premier joint.
Nas has said earlier he would love to do an album with premiere, dre, rza and swizz. If thats his next run im all for it.
He been teasing working with Premo for years. I gave up on him
The Goat conversation is subjective the argument more so should be down to Top 5 and Top 10 after that it boils down to preference for me Nas is the Goat but that takes nothing away from Big, Jay, Pac who do things that Nas don’t and vice versa, all of their voices is vital Each of them and others are Goats
More power to u👍