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eldylan said:


Huge reach but i would love this. Alchemist ans Nas never missed just like Nas and Primo.
It Never Ends is one of my favourite joints on The Lost Tapes 2.
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Alchemist has been working heavily with Hip Hop (Joshua Kyambo), who we know was A&Ring a Nas album before he switched up to do King's Disease. For those unaware, Hip Hop picked most of Hov's beats after Reasonable Doubt.

Alch knows what Nas sounds good on, so I'm not really worried about him giving Nas a bunch of loops with no drums.
 
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The Alchemist Tells All: The Stories Behind His Classic Records (Part 1)

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“I wasn’t there when he did the vocals, because Nas would take beats of his own out. At that time, one of his A&Rs would give him beats or hit me way later and say like, ‘I want you to see what Nas did to this beat.’


I also brought some records in a bag because I was thinking of the title, Stillmatic. I always liked those freestyles that Nasdid, like ‘Splittin Phillies,’ all of those joints that sounded like he was rhyming in a park.


“Nas was doing Stillmatic, he had the title already. He was in the studio in Long Island and I went out there to see him. I had all these beats on a DAT tape but I also brought some records in a bag because I was thinking of the title, Stillmatic. I always liked those freestyles that he did, like ‘Splittin Phillies,’ all of those joints that sounded like he was rhyming in a park.

“So I went to the studio and I was playing him beats. I said, ‘Yo, it’s cool but the name Stillmatic, I just heard something like if we just looped this up and I threw on a Cecil Homes version of the Barry White shyt. On some park shyt.’ And he was rubbing his chin like, ‘Alright, go loop it up.’

“Nas left, I looped it up, and we did whatever we had to do to get it swinging. I left and came back the next day and Nas wasn’t there but the engineer just pressed play and the song was done. It pretty much embodied what we were talking about. No half stepping, flat tops, he just killed it. It made me realize how beyond good he is.”

He also discusses how Book Of Rhymes was made in that article.
 
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AnonymityX1000 said:
A Nas/ALC album would be a dream come true. The best MC ever with the best producer since the 2010s.
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Alchemist has the best fukking samples I've ever heard...a bunch of foreign vinyls ...alchemist better save all his good samples for Nas like he did for Jay Electronica for all these years
 
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