DJ Premiere Speaks On Collaborative Album With Nas

There has been talks for a while now about a collabo album with DJ Premiere lacing all the beats, and Nas doing his thing. I think i first heard about it in 2006, after Nas's Hip Hop Is Dead Album dropped. The news has been on and off since then. But you can't really count on someone like Nas to be ontime. I wont say he is lazy, but if he is not in the zone, he is not doing it. But once he gets in the right spirit, it would be done in a flash...like the collab he did with Damian Marley (Distant Relatives)...i think that album was a masterpiece.


Below is what DJ Premiere had to say about the project-



"[With] Nas, it's always fun to work with him because we have a formula and vibe that already works. It's not difficult. It's like seeing a long lost cousin like, 'D*mn, I ain't seen you in years. Let's get back to what we used to do.' I submitted some tracks, so hopefully those will work, but if not, he and I are still going to do the Nas/Premier album," he said. "But he has other albums that come before, but we're still going to do it, we've spoken about it." (Hard Knock TV)



Premiere and Nas have always been good together...They have a long history together...from the first Nas album (1994), Illmatic, to 2nd Childhood on Stillmatic (2001)...i think that was the last track they did together. But between Illmatic and Stillmatic, Premiere produced tracks on all 5 albums...more than one track in some cases. I think one of my personal nas/premiere favorites has to be Nas Is Like from the I Am album...Magical!



Let's hope this happens. Nas is currently working on his 10th album, and he is scheduled to work on the collabo album with Common after that. I think the album is to be titled Nas.Com. By then, 2012 would probably be coming to an end...lol!