Thats kind of my concern with this album. I feel like he always needs a build up and buzz almost a year out and that hasnt happened yet with this album. Also given how busy he has been with business stuff and touring, I dont know what type of focused Nas we'll get. His last wow verses post 2013 were on Hustle and the Let Nas Down remix. I hope he does well but I'm a bit concerned he may have mailed in his final album on Def Jam too
This has crossed my mind too, but I would hope it's not the case since he's been working on this album since 2012. Then he said he stepped back from it and started again after being inspired by the
Illmatic documentary. In the same interview, he was talking about going back over ideas and fixing them (or something to that effect). Last year, he told MTV that he felt like an artist with a shaky hand because he was excited and not nervous. He also talked about how there's still stories that he wanted to tell that he hasn't told yet.
I don't think this album will have the build up that a Nas album normally has. He's been more secretive about this album than has with his previous ones. He even hinted at releasing an album title two weeks before we got the album.
. Hopefully we can hear the song with Frank Ocean soon
