And the media is helping to push the narrative because there's actually articles that are painting Nas's Vegas appearance in a negative light. It's like conclusions were made before any critical thought was applied.
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And the media is helping to push the narrative because there's actually articles that are painting Nas's Vegas appearance in a negative light. It's like conclusions were made before any critical thought was applied.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
I thought it was a performance/hosting gig where the artist does a few songs. I was wrong.
Why people act like this such a shock? Lol
Nas got on IG live last year on his birthday with Nicki and got worse than this video.
Like 15 years ago he got arrested for throwing a bottle at someone in a club
I never got how people act like these Nas drunk stories don't exist.
Nas got on IG live last year on his birthday with Nicki and got worse than this video.
Like 15 years ago he got arrested for throwing a bottle at someone in a club
I never got how people act like these Nas drunk stories don't exist.
"Negative light"?
What is wrong with this website where everything a woman says is bad and its always "Lets side with the dude". It don't matter how much of a bytch yall think Kelis is...she herself admitted she is a bytch
That doesn't change the fact Nas is a drunk. All the media is doing is showing the obvious.
Nas got arrested for being drunk years ago and 15 years ago he got arrested for throwing a bottle in a club at someone he got into a fight with.
On his last birthday he was so drunk, Nicki had to grab the mic from him after he was spazzing on camera about shooting up people and saying everyone in rap is p*ssy.
What planet are yall on? Stop talking about Kelis every sec. You keep coddling Nas way too damn much for a grown man and letting him not get help for his alcoholism issue. This is probably why it has gone on for years because people wanna focus on Kelis more than his actual problem.Ill wait for one of you to say that his arrest years ago was for weed and not alcohol...watch one of yall will say it
Believe an alcoholic can't swing on his girl unprovoked because you hate women, b-r-e-h-s
@ me with dumb shyt for daps. No response though
Man these guys are idiots breh. Half of them dont' even know of the instances i mentioned above or chose to ignore it.
Him acting this way is even showing more guilt. He admitted in that Daughters song to even not being around for his daughter for a while at some point and admitting to being irresponsible but these coli idiots that just hate women think its a stretch he was a deadbeat to his own son
Him acting this way in Vegas wasn't just having fun in Vegas, he feeling guilt because he feels bad about deserting his son and having his brother and friends lie about him and painting Kelis as the bad guy.
Coli brehs can keep being delusional and keep talking about how this is just a Vegas thing and not a big deal.
Keep saying Nas decades long alcohol problem is not an issue...don't be shocked if one day we wake up to hear Nas died of alcohol poison or in a car crash. Him and his girl Amy Winehouse were quiet drunks and those are the most destructive ones
See what happen when you come at God's SonBelieve an alcoholic can't swing on his girl unprovoked because you hate women, b-r-e-h-s
@ me with dumb shyt for daps. No response though
"Negative light"?
What is wrong with this website where everything a woman says is bad and its always "Lets side with the dude". It don't matter how much of a bytch yall think Kelis is...she herself admitted she is a bytch
That doesn't change the fact Nas is a drunk. All the media is doing is showing the obvious.
Nas got arrested for being drunk years ago and 15 years ago he got arrested for throwing a bottle in a club at someone he got into a fight with.
On his last birthday he was so drunk, Nicki had to grab the mic from him after he was spazzing on camera about shooting up people and saying everyone in rap is p*ssy.
Ill wait for one of you to say that his arrest years ago was for weed and not alcohol...watch one of yall will say it
It is a negative light. Before Kelis made the statements about Nas being an alcoholic, his drinking or being drunk was a non-issue. They weren't reporting on it. So yeah, if they are reporting on Nas being drunk now and that being the focal point of the article, it is negative.
It's fake to say we should all of a sudden focus on Nas's drinking now especially since he made a song in which he said "they say if I would sober up, I'd be a powerful man" (before he and Kelis ever started dating) and him saying "sleep on my drunkenness, I'll blow your brains out". Then there's "Drunk By Myself". So yeah, this whole "well, Kelis said Nas beat her during alcoholic black outs, let's be outraged" is phony and fake. Nas has been drunk at events before. You know full well, you ain't pay attention then, but want to now, just because Kelis came out and said he was an alcoholic.
DeuceZ
Li pitit gason
At this pace we really might get a Nas album
Its basically a sure thing now, new Nas album in two weeks.At this pace we really might get a Nas album
Prolific_1011
All Star
lol at Nas chillin' with Scott Disick last night. You can catch them in the background while Chris Rock is speaking (Pusha's Instagram story).
Anyways, Kanye's album release felt anti climactic (even compared to Pusha's). I wonder how Nas' roll out will be as the release date approaches.
Anyways, Kanye's album release felt anti climactic (even compared to Pusha's). I wonder how Nas' roll out will be as the release date approaches.
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Unreleased Frank Ocean & Nas: Hit-Boy Opens Up About 2x Lost Record “No Such Thing As White Jesus”
“He named it 'No Such Thing As White Jesus,' and from there he told me the next day he had a studio session with Nas and told me he would play it for him.”
Donna-Claire Chesman
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“He named it 'No Such Thing As White Jesus,' and from there he told me the next day he had a studio session with Nas and told me he would play it for him.”
Donna-Claire Chesman
3 hours ago
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Introducing: Unreleased, a new interview series where producers share the full story behind the biggest records we’ve never heard.
With the hundreds of thousands of unreleased tracks sitting on producers’ hard drives, chances are, you’ve never heard your favorite song. It’s likely floating in the ether, or sitting in a file folder under embargo, or sitting on a USB drive lost in transit. But while we may never get the chance to hear the music, what we can get is the story…
To kick off our brand new series, we reached out to GRAMMY-winning producer Hit-Boy, who is best known for his work with Kanye West ("nikkas in Paris," "Mercy"), Lil Wayne("Drop the World"), Kendrick Lamar ("Backseat Freestyle") and Beyoncé ("XO"), among countless other A-list names. Long before Hit-Boy was scoring awards and plaques, though, he was chopping it up with Frank Ocean, who, in 2006, he identified in his address book as “Chris The Writer.”
Photo Credit: Baariks
Nas during a recording session for the veteran emcee's eleventh studio album, Life Is Good, but as we now know, when the album dropped, there was no Frank Ocean collaboration to speak of across the LP's 20 tracks (including deluxe, iTunes bonus and Japan bonus tracks).
With Channel Orange releasing July 10, 2012, and Nas’ Life Is Good dropping just seven days later, it’s easy to imagine how huge this record would have been for both Nas and Ocean at the time, and “for music, period,” Hit-Boy adds.
DJBooth’s full interview with Hit-Boy, who last month released his brand new solo album, Tony Fontana, has been lightly edited for content and clarity and follows below.
Hit me with the basics.
Basically, I used to chop it with Frank Ocean damn near every day. This was before he even put out Nostalgia [Ultra]. It might have been one of his first placements ever on one of the beats I did with Chase N. Cashe. We had this group called Surf Club and it was just us making beats together. We did a song in the studio, like one of our first professional sessions. In the same day I met Frank Ocean, I met Miguel and a bunch of people that ended up blowing up. This is like ‘06, so this is our first time doing some professional shyt. Me and Frank built from there—I ain’t even call him Frank. His name, Chris, is still locked into my phone from ‘06 as “Chris The Writer.” He was just a songwriter at the time.
N****s In Paris” came out and said he had a studio session that he wanted me to bring some beats, so it was like one of the first beats I pulled up, he ended up doing the hook. He named it “No Such Thing As White Jesus,” and from there he told me the next day he had a studio session with Nas and told me he would play it for him. He’s playing it for him, and Nas hopped on it. It was originated by me and Frank. I did the beat and he did the hook.
Was the record for any specific project?
This was around 2012, so it had to be whatever Nas album he was working on at the time. And [laughs] it didn’t even end up making the cut! What happened was, I had lost the hard drive that had the Frank vocals on it. After the album came out, I ended up recovering that drive, and I had it for a while, and then I ended up losing it again. All I have is the original hook from the original session that we did, so I don’t think it’s gonna see the light of day, but the hook is amazing! It’s just classic Frank over some hip-hop shyt I produced.
Man, twice!
Man, I be doing so much moving. I go from studio to studio. I have different people working for me and with me, so there’s a lot of movement and shyt just gets lost sometimes. I’ve lost all types of shyt over the years.
In 2012, you first spoke about the track being lost, and then in 2014, a snippet surfaced. Were there plans for a recreation in that time?
Nah, we just pretty much let it go. I know at one point, Nas, he was trying to reach out to get the files and that’s when I couldn’t find the drive.
If you connected with 2018 Nas and 2018 Frank Ocean to recreate the track, how different would it sound?
It had a feeling! I pride myself on having beats that have a feeling to them, and obviously, Frank Ocean is still out here, so I think it would still have that feeling.
How would you describe that feeling?
It was nostalgic, it had a nice groove to it. It felt… It felt good.
Could you give me a sense of the volume of unreleased material you have on your harddrive?
Honestly, it’s not hundreds, it’s thousands of songs. I’ve recorded hella demos with people and done multiple records with huge artists that I don’t know if they’re ever gonna see the light of day, but I have a lot of unreleased music. But it’s all about timing and shyt like that.
Does this ever affect how you create, knowing that some of your best work might be sitting on your computer hard drive?
Man [laughs], that’s the challenge of being up there as a creative. You dedicate so much time to an artist and one moment they might be loving what you doing, and then meet another producer and then they not even answering your calls no more. That’s the reality we gotta be in as creatives, you know? This shyt is kinda flip-floppy sometimes.
What do you do to minimize holding songs?
There’s really no way to kind of gauge it. Certain artists are so huge and it’s a no-brainer, and then the album comes out and you not on there… It’s a fukked up feeling. At the same time, you gotta bite that bullet. When the music is meant to get used, it’ll get used. I feel like that would have been a great moment to have. Obviously for me, but just for music, period.
It’s such a big moment to lose.
Exactly. Amongst other records that I’m not even gon’ speak up, but I got a lot of records where I can’t believe this shyt never came out. At this point, where I’m literally at right now, creating every day, it’s like, what I did yesterday don’t matter anymore. What am I doing today? That’s my whole approach. We gotta keep this shyt rolling.