Nas held a private listening event for the next installment of his Lost Tapes series at the Mass Appeal Headquarters in Soho Manhattan on Tuesday (July 16).
Like the original, The Lost Tapes 2 features unreleased tracks that didn’t make previous Nas albums (16 in total). Some heavy-hitter producers such as Kanye West, Swizz Beatz, No I.D., Pharrell, RZA, Hit-Boy and Pete Rock contribute to the project.
Mass Appeal and Def Jam came together to present a preview of all Nas’s new project has in store. Chicken sliders and macaroni and cheese were catered by his restaurant Sweet Chick, while Hennessy (to who Nas is a brand ambassador) provided cocktails for guests.
Nas later took to the stage to introduce the project saying, “Each one sounds different than the last one, this one is definitely different because I’m different. And we been doing stuff, from the Hip Hop Is Dead album that didn’t make it, the Untitled album that didn’t make it, Life Is Good album that didn’t make it and all this stuff in between.”
He continued, “And that’s what it really is and I appreciate you being here checking out the shit that got kicked to the side, the scraps. We mix it up for you and thank you to all the producers who fucked with. I got some of the greatest producers in the world to just do shit for me and it was just a blessing and an honor.”
Statik Selektah then dove into the project, playing track after track as the audience vibed out to the compilation of songs. At the end of the night, Statik displayed a golden cassette tape.
He also revealed that several of these tapes would be placed around Manhattan and the first person that finds the tapes gets exclusive access to Nas’ official Lost Tapes 2 party on Friday (July 19).
Follow Mass Appeal and Def Jam’s Instagram pages for the drop of the exact location of the cassette tapes.
Check back with DX for the official album stream.
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Legend
Nas always has the capability to be the best lyricist and arguably the goat…only black cloud for him is beat selection in his earlier catalogue. Great lyrics over a subpar beat put you to Sleep.
Illmatic it was written stillmatic godson all had great beat selections. Nas is goat of all time even if his career has been kinda meh since 2004
yoooo im fucking PUMPED for this new Nas shit. Even when he disappoints I just love the feeling of a new Nas record dropping. Hopefully it’ll be available on spotify at midnight.
Greatest of all time right there kids. The greatest of all time…
Nas is ?
Put a Bow Tie on a trash bag it is still garbage
You’s a hater
Escobar Season has never been over! 16 tracks!!! Hell yeah
More like “songs sound trash because I’m trash” Am I right? Lost Trash 2 is another collection to this broke woman beater’s pathetic discography. Nas went from not mentioned at all to laughed out of the rap game. King HOV’s verse on “Mood 4 Eva” destroys anything on Lost Trash 2. It’s the ROC in here!
Why are you so angry? Damn! You need to chill before you get a stroke. You trippin’
Damn fam!, u sound more like a fan than a hater.
The goat
5th best all time rapper after Jay Z, Biggie, PAC n Drake.
Hahahahahaha Drake a rapper! Hahahahahaha
Pac Em and Nas are my top 3. My top 3. But even Nas said he’d never rap on a track with em cause he’d lose
Loose?? At what unless it was a battle or something. You talking about em being more technical in his verse? You can bend words to make them rhyme , put as many syllables in a bar as you would like , but in my opinion content , and meaning of them are far more important . The 2 have different artistic expressions that could sound a little awkward on a track together. They may have a track together for as long as they have both been doing it .
Same applies to you worthless boy! Nas is the goat fatboy!
Okay just hold it right there! Why do you have to fat shame me? What does my weight have to do with my opinion? You know what? Fvck Nas and everybody that loves him.
The Greatest of all time right kids! The greatest of all time… Bar None… Tanasia track is fire!
I like every song a lot except Royalty which is so so
Classic… this album better than half rappers/there albums whos out rite now