you know why we want premo or alchemist so bad, it's because it been fukking 10 YEARS since we didn't have any collabs between them (i don't count classic, regenaration or get it forever), it's not like we had a least one or two primo per album, it's been too long man. And Primo especially, I watched him givin ill beats to garbage or average rappers and be like, damn, it's like feeding pigs with caviar man, it's too much frustration.
And the other thing is Nas kept trolling us by saying other the years, I want to work with the beatles, with rza again, with jay elec, with primo, with alc, with az, and when time is come to deliver, you see cats comin from nowhere you can expect from nas' circle/vibe like alex da kid or pollow the don or swizz (he didn't called him while the cat was in his prime and now 2012, the guy is pretty much washed up and boom I'ma hook up with this guy)
If he had said, well I don't want primo beats, I'm not in that mood no more, fans would have understand and moved on by now, but no, he maintained the hope and continuesly disapointed us album after album with no primo presence, like he's happy to play us
Remember, he's the guy who didn't performed on lauryn hill's album because he didn't realize he could have made history on beeing the only rapper on that legendary album, he's the one who passed on waiting for the world to end beat and we gonna make it beat. He's the one who let beautiful tracks made the lost tapes instead of puting them in the album. Don't get me wrong he delivered great stuff, but he's THE definition of frustation when you think about how much material he could have deliver