Hip-hop collectively peed its pants when Def Jam A&R Lenny S. uploaded a photo of Jay-Z, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and Nas kicking it at Swizz Beatzs Jungle City studios earlier this month. Nas, who is pictured clutching a glass of Henny, helped add some color to the already-classic candid.
Its Rat Pack-ing, Nas told VIBE yesterday afternoon (June 27), alluding to Frank Sinatras crew of kingpins. We were definitely recording. Magna Carta was going down. Some Justin Timberlake new album stuff was in the next room. Timbaland. D'USSE. Hennessey. Good times.
Will the work and play captured in Lenny S.s lens yield any monster collaborations for Jay-Zs Magna Carta Holy Grail or Justin Timberlakes The 20/20 Experience Part 2?
I think youre going to see me on a project, maybe two projects, says Nas, before adding a cryptic but who knows?
Still hot off 2012s worshipped Life Is Good and his torch-passing response to J. Cole's "Let Nas Down," the Queensbridge rapper is more certain about the status of his next LP, of which hed announced via his Twitter account (@Nas) that hed reveal the title in May. Two months later, the world continues to wait.
Ive been swamped with so much I didnt even have the time, he says, still tight-lipped about the albums title. Nas says hes begun the recording process, yet hes still in the early stages.
There are so many things that aint been said; so many things that Ive seen that I aint never told, says Nas. Im so excited to tell this story because its real shyt and its needed. I hate to sound like that, because we all sound like we think were big shyt. But fukk itits needed.