Official Nas Thread

[Ziggiy]

yeah, people can just use wikipedia's history of revision edits to find reminders of when stuff happened

Untitled Nas album: Revision history - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

also, there was supposed to be a nas album called nasdaq dow jones that was supposed to release early 2007 but was scrapped

....i didn't write this reddit post btw, but i remember editing the wiki back in the days



early track listing of untitled:

1. I Have No Name (Intro) (Produced by Salaam Remi
2. Moses (Produced by Sean C & LV)
3. Gangstas Don’t Die f/ Rick Ross & Jadakiss (Produced by Cool & Dre)
4. Janine f/ Chris Brown (Produced by Salaam Remi & Nas)
5. Miles Away (Produced by Jay Electronica)
6. Shout Outs f/ Ice Cube, DJ Premier, Naomi Campbell, Gil Scott Heron, Chuck D, Spike Lee & KRS-One
7. "America's Top Brothel"

Ice Cube : "I'm totally open to working with him. I just got back in town, I'm looking for him to reach out. I think me and Nas are, in a lot of ways, mirror images of each other. We try to make street knowledge and connect the streets with the politics of today. That's always a challenge. If we don't get together [on his album], we gotta tour together."

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early track listing of distant relatives

1. Intro (Something New) [2:01] (prod. Damian Marley)
2. Revolutionary [4:54] (prod. Damian Marley)
3. Belief Is Key [4:03] (prod. Damian Marley)
4. Black Horizon feat. K'naan [3:45] (prod. Damian Marley)
5. Our Generation feat. Joss Stone & Stevie Wonder [4:58] (prod. Damian Marley)
6. Empowerment [2:38] (prod. Stephen Marley)
7. AID [4:03] (prod. K'naan & Damian Marley)
8. Lets End It (Poverty) feat. K'naan [3:58] (prod. 9th Wonder & Damian Marley)
9. The Earth feat. Bob Marley [6:20] (prod. Salaam Remi, Damian Marley & Stephen Marley)

[UK Bonus Track] 14. Black Man's Paper feat. Erykah Badu [3:40] (prod. Afry)...wow, a sequel to "White Man's Paper," both unreleased?
[iTunes Bonus Track] 15. Weed On feat. Snoop Dogg [2:28] (prod. Damian Marley)

Snoop Dogg : "I'm down with you, Nas. Call me if you need a verse."

damian marley and nas was touring for almost a year before distant relatives finally came out, there were plenty of tracks that they toured with that didn't make the album. Nas announced that his son's name was Knight while on tour for distant relatives...not sure if anyone still has the audio or footage but I can't find the scrapped distant relatives songs on youtube from the early tour footage

There was extended footage of this and nas was in the background when they recorded this, but this ended on stephen marley's album, they were working on like 3-5 albums at the same time during this time...imagine if Nas got on this one



the music video edit was from this organic distant relative studio session footage

The Nasdaq Dow Jones track-listing is fake. STU Top Dude created that Tracklist back in the Nas BBS days. Talk Of New York is actually a song that was originally for Streets Disciple that leaked after the album dropped.

Nas scrapped the Nasdaq Dow Jones concept when he left Columbia for Def Jam.

I also think the Distant Relatives track-list is fake too. I remember it floating around Sohh after As We Enter dropped. White Man’s Paper is a song that was supposed to be on Hip Hop Is Dead but never was released and never leaked.

Elliot Wilson, of all people, actually heard the song and described it as similar to Cam’ron’s Bubble Music. The chorus was something like “I get my news/I get my views from this White Man’s Paper”

 

[Mike the Executioner]

There were different versions of the album. There was a version he talked about with URB magazine that had production from will.i.am and Alchemist. It also four interludes produced by Jay Elect. There's another iteration of the album that had production from Salaam, No I.D. and Jermaine Dupri, Toomp, and The Hitmen. Likely, Game's "Ghetto" featuring Nas was initally meant for the album as Nas and will.i.am described the song in a 2007 Scratch Magazine issue. It was done for Hip Hop Is Dead, but Nas said he was saving four will.i.am tracks for the next album (which would be Untitled). There was a version of "Project Roach" produced by No I.D. Originally, "I'm On" (produced by Cool & Dre) was shopped to Nas as a single by Khaled, but because Nas didn't use it as a single, Khaled kept it for his album. Polow Da Don had a track called "My Legacy" for the album, but it likely became "Hero".

Whatever the album was in late 2007, it definitely wasn't what we ended up getting, so it makes sense that there were so many different versions. Seems like Nas was working like a dog at that time because he was taking two-year breaks between albums, but if he already had plans for Untitled, then there's a lot of music from that era we'll never hear.

Do you think that's why The N***** Tape was created? Because it had songs that were removed from the album? Or was it just DJ Green Lantern blending old Nas verses with new beats?

 

[Ziggiy]

Whatever the album was in late 2007, it definitely wasn't what we ended up getting, so it makes sense that there were so many different versions. Seems like Nas was working like a dog at that time because he was taking two-year breaks between albums, but if he already had plans for Untitled, then there's a lot of music from that era we'll never hear.

Do you think that's why The N***** Tape was created? Because it had songs that were removed from the album? Or was it just DJ Green Lantern blending old Nas verses with new beats?

Nas was pretty close to finishing the, lets say “initial version” of Untitled in mid 07 because he wanted it to drop in December and when Jermaine Dupri was campaigning to be on the album Nas said “Jermaine better hurry up because me and Salaam might go ahead and finish the whole thing”

the ****** Tape was announced AFTER it was known that the album would be Untitled so my guess is that those were the more “aggressive” songs that didn’t end up making the track-listing for whatever reason.

There’s also a song called “Colors” that DJ Khalil did that never fully leaked that never made the album.

 

[jensyao]

The Nasdaq Dow Jones track-listing is fake. STU Top Dude created that Tracklist back in the Nas BBS days. Talk Of New York is actually a song that was originally for Streets Disciple that leaked after the album dropped.

Nas scrapped the Nasdaq Dow Jones concept when he left Columbia for Def Jam.

I also think the Distant Relatives track-list is fake too. I remember it floating around Sohh after As We Enter dropped. White Man’s Paper is a song that was supposed to be on Hip Hop Is Dead but never was released and never leaked.

Elliot Wilson, of all people, actually heard the song and described it as similar to Cam’ron’s Bubble Music. The chorus was something like “I get my news/I get my views from this White Man’s Paper”

yeah i remember the nasdaq dow jones album was supposed to be after street's disciple in 2005 but got scrapped after he left columbia/sony...it became an unofficial mixtape name with a bunch of known loosies in 2007

similarly, the 2000 death of escobar album was supposed to come after Nastradamus and the album cover was supposed to follow the face on the album routine but was scrapped for stillmatic, etc

yeah, i forgot people used to troll and make up fake track listings all the time, but some of these supposed songs do come from studio sessions where the engineer or people involved heard the chorus and tried to make sense of an unnamed track by what words they thought would be it

fletch has an article about white man's paper....wasn't the 'new york stomp' track supposed to feature LL cool J or something? people were saying Nas didn't have stadium beats for MSG, smh

Rebel To America: Roundup PT VI

escobartheory.blogspot.com

I'm a white man's paper/brown by nature/green with envy/down to the red veins within me/built on blood stains/my frame/is wood grain/wit traces of cocaine/from rollin' with coke fiends/the game changed my name to Cream/like Alcinder/dreams paint the pictures/of places where I'll send ya. "the politics of warfare" w/ some new "African Dude" - Rolling Stone

i talked to fletch some more and it seems like he forgotten most of the stuff he written in terms of sources and was just gathering stuff on the internet like the rest of us back then

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

yeah i remember the nasdaq dow jones album was supposed to be after street's disciple in 2005 but got scrapped after he left columbia/sony...it became an unofficial mixtape name with a bunch of known loosies in 2007

similarly, the 2000 death of escobar album was supposed to come after Nastradamus and the album cover was supposed to follow the face on the album routine but was scrapped for stillmatic, etc

yeah, i forgot people used to troll and make up fake track listings all the time, but some of these supposed songs do come from studio sessions where the engineer or people involved heard the chorus and tried to make sense of an unnamed track by what words they thought would be it

fletch has an article about white man's paper....wasn't the 'new york stomp' track supposed to feature LL cool J or something? people were saying Nas didn't have stadium beats for MSG, smh

Rebel To America: Roundup PT VI

escobartheory.blogspot.com

I'm a white man's paper/brown by nature/green with envy/down to the red veins within me/built on blood stains/my frame/is wood grain/wit traces of cocaine/from rollin' with coke fiends/the game changed my name to Cream/like Alcinder/dreams paint the pictures/of places where I'll send ya. "the politics of warfare" w/ some new "African Dude" - Rolling Stone

i talked to fletch some more and it seems like he forgotten most of the stuff he written in terms of sources and was just gathering stuff on the internet like the rest of us back then

speaking of unreleased. I spoke to the guy brian on twitter, he got a impressive list of nas' unreleased. the list he got got a lot of title I never saw. I don't know if this is made up titles because a lot of nas tracks on the internet got different titles but he claims there's a found tapes pt 3 from dj rhude. Can you confirm ?

 

[kej718]

I went to this one and the last one.

 

[HNIC973]

I went to this one and the last one.

The "fukk Jay-z" chants that day if Jay wanted to see vulgar he should've been here

 

[jensyao]

speaking of unreleased. I spoke to the guy brian on twitter, he got a impressive list of nas' unreleased. the list he got got a lot of title I never saw. I don't know if this is made up titles because a lot of nas tracks on the internet got different titles but he claims there's a found tapes pt 3 from dj rhude. Can you confirm ?

uhh? which brian? that guy who put his entire government online? https://www.youtube.com/@BrianChristopherSalkowski/videos

yeah this guy is posting bad transcriptions with fake titles from fake mixtapes from spotify https://twitter.com/hashtag/NasUnreleased

got any links to his list? yeah, rhude and DJ mike nice was supposed to drop nas mixtapes last year but idk what happened

found tapes vol 3 by rhude is with a tribe called quest...dude is just making stuff up from bootlegs...this is some incoherent twitter babble, ignore





also, mixtapes in general always have these drops or they take a muffled, echo-y recording of a recording with broken needles and tilted record players trying to screw over the listeners with lesser quality versions of the real thing

the real collectors don't let you know who they are

also, this list is incomplete, i just haven't updated it recently

https://www.reddit.com/r/nas/wiki/index

www.reddit.com/r/nas/comments/mmwaiu/ongoing_list_of_unreleased_nas_tracks_and_snippets/

that guy i think is trying to promote his music blog or whatever by trying to attract any fandoms to interact and click on his blogs baiting with whatever rare shyt he supposedly has....what is this, 2005?

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nas hosting mixtapes

 

[JustCKing]

Nas is the ONLY rapper I can think of where other rappers will use nearly 10 year old throwaway for their own albums and the song not sound like it's old:



^^^ this was recorded for Hip Hop Is Dead. There is a break in that song that is similar to the break in Pharrell's "Can I Have It Like That". Nas raps on the same break on that "Extinct Them Easy" freestyle from 2006:



^^^ 1:43.

The GOAT.

 

[jensyao]

Nas is the ONLY rapper I can think of where other rappers will use nearly 10 year old throwaway for their own albums and the song not sound like it's old:

what happened to game and nas collabos? they haven't done stuff since like 2009, like you said, that 2015 track was done back in 2006

 

[HNIC973]

What's been the soundtrack for you? Key albums that you've gone to over the years as a hip-hop fan that you listen to and enjoy that bring you back to whatever made you love it?

Key albums, for me, to go back and get me focused is Illmatic by Nas. I feel like it's the greatest hip-hop album of all time.

FJ still knows

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And who was our favorite rappers, it was Nas at the time
We would memorize every single bar of his rhymes

 

[HNIC973]

 

[Pop123]

 

[HNIC973]

still love this documentary Jungle had us dying at the premier

 

[kes929]