Nas is exhibiting no indicators of slowing down the magic, revealing that he’s already “midway by way of” recording his subsequent album with Hit-Boy.
On Friday (July 21), Escobar and Hit-Boy dropped their fifth joint challenge,Magic 2, and on the second verse of monitor “Abracadabra,” Nas explains that he’s already onerous at work placing the ending touches to his subsequent challenge.
“I’m a magician, you must hear, it’s by no means the identical methods/ 2020 after we did the primary one, five-album run, not a cursed one, it’s a blessed one/ By the point y’all hear this, we be midway by way of the subsequent one/ Bless up, all of the rappers we misplaced, I’m hopin’ they relaxation up,” Nas raps on the monitor.
It’s unclear if God’s Son is plotting a 3rd installment within the Magic sequence, a fourth installment of the Grammy-winning King’s Illness, or getting into a totally new path totally. However no matter he decides to do, he’s within the midst of a formidable run.
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Earlier in Nas’ second verse on “Abracadabra,” he takes intention at these making finish of yr rap lists and the Queensbridge icon is demanding his respect.
“Y’all must be ashamed of your checklist (A plus), I put some ache into this/ I put my veins, blood, bones, soul, I put my mind into this/ Y’all movin’ brainless, something to be well-known,” he testifies.
This might probably be a shot at Rap Radar‘s Brian “B. Dot” Miller who left Nas completely off his Best Rappers of 2022 list however did have King’s Disease 3 at No. 7 on the Best Rap Albums of 2022 list.
Nas uncorked Magic 2 alongside Hit-Boy on Friday (July 21) after a sequence of secretive teasers; it contains options from 50 Cent and 21 Savage.
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The final time followers noticed each 50 and Nas on the identical document was on 50 Cent’s 2002 mixtape Guess Who’s Again? on the tracks “Too Sizzling” and “Who U Rep With.”
50 spoke extremely of Nas in a current interview with XXL the place he mirrored on witnessing the Illmatic rapper’s mind once they toured collectively again within the day. “He was forward of us,” Fif stated. “What he had, and I used to be it going, ‘You gotta watch out’ as a result of he was smarter than the music he was releasing.
“He was smarter than issues he was saying on the information as a result of what he stated on the information matched how issues felt within the atmosphere not who he was truly [in his head]. We’d be on the tour bus, and he’d be studying books and stuff.”
