Seems like Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan has been M.I.A. for quite some time, but the rapper is back and he's back in a major way thanks to this new track featuring none other than Nas. I've always really liked K'naan as a rapper, there's something about the way he raps and his flow that makes him unique so I was feeling "Nothing To Lose" within a matter of seconds. Listen and download...
Mary J. Blige has really racked up quite a few features for her newst album "My Life II...The Journey Continues (Act 1)." First it was Rick Ross and Drake, then Beyonce, and now we've got a Mary collab with none other than Queens' own Nas. On top of stacking features for the new album it sounds like Mary's really trying to create an album that sounds like it was released in the 90's. Listen and download...
It's moments like this that make me believe in God. Just moments after I was desperately trying to wipe the horrible taste of that Lil Wayne verse from my ears, the good lord Allmighty took pity on my rap soul and delivered some salvation in the form of Mobb Deep and Nas' new joint, "Get It Forever". Listen and download...
Years ago in 2008, Amy Winehouse collaborated with Mr. Jones himself for "Like Smoke" a duet that will appear on the singer's posthumous album "Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures." And if "Like Smoke" is any marker of how the album will sound I'm sure it'll be full of exactly that, lots of hidden treasures. Listen and download...
Now when most people think of rap songs on the soundtracks to non-Hip-Hop related movies this usually comes to mind. Yes, that Master P song was featured on the "Scream 2" soundtrack. So needless to say these type of songs typically aren't all that impressive. But surprisingly Nas and Rick Ross' "It's A Tower Heist" from the upcoming Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller flick "Tower Heist" is pretty dope. Listen and download...
Get it, it's a metaphor. Nas has been living the luxury life, but now he's going back to the streets the raised him, shedding all the materialistic trappings that he's accumulated and returning to a more stripped down raw sound. It's actually enough to get me stoked to hear his new album. Watch....
I don't think I like any artist enough to spend weeks if not months, if not years, of my life compiling every non-album track they've ever done, but thankfully for the Nas lovers out there Ryan of RealHipHopHead is just that dedicated to Nasir. (Either that or he's got one hell of a meth addiction.) I'll let the man himself take it from here. Listen and download....
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