1). I NEVER called any artist that was featured Wack or terrible. My hang up with the tracklisting was that there had NEVER been a Nas album with that many features and I assumed a Firm reunion in 2020 wasn’t feasible.
2). If Nas’s goal was to get a top ten song then someone like Cardi would’ve already been on it. The song’s already dropped and a video has already been shot (sans any Cardi verse) so what would be the point in adding her now? When Nas hopped on Lil Nas X’s Rodeo it served the dual purpose of being an epic Grammy moment and a video that dropped soon after.
3). Nas worked with Bieber on Bieber’s song for BIEBER’S album. Nobody, CERTAINLY not myself, have ever suggested that Nas shouldn’t work with any artist he damn well pleases. I never said Nas SHOULDN’T work with Cardi. I said she’ll never be on a NAS song and I don’t expect that will change with Spicy. Nas hasn’t really been a “remix” type of guy the last few albums he’s released with the notable exception of the “Where Are They Now” remixes. I know he wanted to put Em and Hov on a Daughters remix but that didn’t end up working out. Besides that Nas doesn’t chase billboard charts. He has NEVER worked with an artist simply for the sake of a hit. All of Nas’s true hit records (If I Ruled The World, Street Dreams, Hate Me Now, One Mic, Made You Look, I Can, etc) were all hits based upon Nas’s innate talent to bring billboard to HIM. His only real “commercial for the sake of commercial” hit was You Owe Me.
That was Lil Nas X’s song not Nas’s