Will hip-hop fans ever get to hear Nas and Kendrick Lamar on the same song? The former is not ruling it out.
Sitting down with Complex ahead of his appearance at New York Comic Con to promote Mass Appeal and Marvel’s new Legend Has It comic book collaboration, the Queensbridge rap legend was asked about the prospect of jumping on a track with King Kenny.
“Oh, man. It’s just all about the artist,” he answered. “When you get the chance to record and work together, for me it should feel really natural. That would be great, I’d love to work with him.
“But I feel like it would have to be smooth the way it connects. Anything I do with anybody, especially someone like [Kendrick], I just want to take my time with it. So we’ll see. Hopefully.”
Nas then modestly joked: “All you MCs out there, give me a call, man! I got some verses here and there. They’re hit or miss.”
Though Nas and Kendrick Lamar have yet to work together on music, the mutual respect between the MCs runs deep.
After Kendrick was announced as the headliner of the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show last year, Esco saluted him by writing on his Instagram Stories: “Congratulations to my brotha. Can’t wait to watch the party die!!!!!”
K. Dot, of course, referenced this post on his GNX opener “Wacced Out Murals,” ferociosly rapping: “Won the Super Bowl and Nas the only one congratulate me / All these n*ggas agitated, I’m just glad they showin’ they faces / Quite frankly, plenty artists, but they outdated / Old-ass flows, tryna convince me that you they favorite.”
The Compton native also appeared to pay homage to Nas on that album, with his “Man at the Garden” beat sounding eerily reminiscent of Nas’ equally introspective Stillmatic classic “One Mic.”
More recently, Nas heaped high praise onto Kendrick in an interview with Rolling Stone, crowning him hip-hop’s “North Star” for his ability to speak up when hip-hop needs it, as evidenced on last year’s “Watch the Party Die.’
“Kendrick is one of the brightest stars we’ve ever seen, and I don’t only mean superstar, I mean like the North Star — I think he’s one of those,” he said. “Out of all of the artists in this business, there’s some that’s not here for the art. When we see those people that are not here for the art damaging it, you’re hurting the future of the art. So I think artists like Kendrick are going to speak out.”
Nas continued: “There’s a couple of ’em out there, younger, older that say what they say. I think there was an OutKast video, one of those guys wore a “Hip Hop Is Dead” shirt even before I said it, I didn’t see that until later. It’s just been in the conversation naturally, like any sport you want to thrive. You don’t want the NBA to start slowing down. You want it to thrive. The ball players want it to thrive. We’re going to call out anytime we see it. Sometimes the rest of us won’t see it. Sometimes it’ll take Kendrick to remind us where we are lacking.
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Nas sold out. When he signed to Def Jam under Jay Z that was it. Nas just taking L’s it’s sad to see. Jay Z now pairing Kendrick with Nas, Jay runs it. He needs to get exposed. Free Diddy! Demand Trump get him out and lock these other people up.
Shut the fuck up
Nas sold out and Kendrick is a fraud they can both work with Playboi Carti
BBUH – His hoe of a mother definitely smoked drugs while pregnant with him and you could tell.
Pxps – typed all that while wearing his mom’s dress.
Nas weak with his bougie 90s fake thug rap. Guraranteed some filipino dude rigged up AI to write every rhyme on those new records and they are still boring. Rap sucks. All frauds. Face facts. Punks jump up…
you sound like you like other genres, go there bro Judge
Judge Greg or Just Craig lol That Grammy win, amazing album run and business deals Nas did hurting you huh. Peasant!
GAY GREG 😂
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Sellouts. No one calls out Kendrick for signing to Dre and covering for Dre and Eminem the skeletons in those closets or Eminem attacking black people like Michael Jackson or more recently Ye. Kendrick is under zionist labels, Kendrick doesn’t live in California he live in NYC, Kendrick ran from Joey, Kendrick took endorsement deals from Nike for the colonizer Cortez sneakers then the Converse Chuck Taylor not black created sneaker, then threw shade at Lil Wayne for being upset the NFL did him dirty over Kendrick being tied to Jay Z and Jay being a owner of TDE also Apple a non black company assisted in the halftime show and the NFL is anti black. Then Kendrick working and still performing with Playboi Carti who is similar to Dre abandoned kids and allegations. Nas just sad to see how he’s fallen, Jay Z being a puppet of Warren Buffet elevated him to close doors for Nas and make Nas his puppet. Tell Trump to give Diddy a plea deal to rat all these people out.
Also don’t forget Vitaly caught Kendrick’s friend in a pred catch that RocNation had scrubbed now Vitaly is locked up in Philippines.
Stfu and put the fries in the bag F@990t 😂 Pussies mad their favorite rapper lost. Nobody is gonna read all that dumbass 🤣
2 hypocrites. Nas opening a casino in projects of Queens how does that help the people? Same with hypocrites Kendrick who helps the Mexicans of California and supports the gentrification of California post fire or taking partnerships with the rich whites he claims to hate Nike, Apple, NFL, UMG, and others or working with Carti and having RocNation cover for him and his friend Vitaly exposed on Kick.
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