Even when scouting the World with seemingly endless tour dates alongside Damien Marley, Nas is an elusive figure. Two days later the controversial issue of his 2008 album Untitled, Nas promised his fans on Twitter that 2010 would cross the loss of The Lost Tapes Vol.
2. The mixtape, however, was inexplicably pushed back further and further until the Queens native decided to put the loss on permanent hold.
Fast-forward six months into the following year, and Nas is acting the regular gamut of summer music festivals alongside the aforementioned Marley. But last Monday, June 13, the workaholic rapper dropped his 1st solo track in over 3 days with "Nasty."
The lead-single off the veteran MC's next release Life Is Good, which is scheduled to be released after this year, transports listeners back the verbal maestro's critically heralded debut Illmatic, back in 1994. The title, "Nasty," isexplicitly appropriate, sporting muddy basslines, dark beats, and low-hum horns with Nas'patented violently magnetic lyricism.
But for fans of Nas' early work, "Nasty" isn't only a clever lampoon to younger days: it's a hard-lined spout of pristine talent that but a skilled veteran of his degree can do, even in his late 30s. Life is Good, Nas' tenth studio album, also features the assistance of various of today's more popular acts, including Kanye Westand Frank Ocean. The exact release date for the upcoming album has not yet been confirmed.
In an audience with HipHopDX, Nas revealed that,"Im definitely looking at my [next] solo project as one of the most important records of my life. Its release to be magicit doesnt even matter what producers [produce it]".
Nas will proceed to go alongside Damien Marley in back of the duo's 2010 release Distant Relativesfor the end of the summer, with scheduled stops at Chicago's Lollapalooza music festival, and ending August 11 at New York City's SummerStage festival.
Listen to Nas's "Nasty" here:
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