Nas - Lost Tapes II

Orizio

Is on the way, according to his twitter. :eek:

HATCHET IRL

how does he keep losing his tapes:)
didnt really dig distant relatives so looking forward to this

Orizio

Release Date: December 14th.

Makaveli

oh shi

Definitely looking forward to this. Any idea if the tracks are from the same period as Lost Tapes or is this gonna be stuff that didn't make it on to the albums post I Am?

Boom_Bap

no confirmation yet of the period it's from

Danow247

holy sh*t id never heard of the 1st lost tapes! just listening to it now .....unreal

Boom_Bap

there's a bit of hulabaloo around this now. Nas wants to release this as an official album counting as part of his 5 album deal. Def Jam will not release is as an album as part of his deal. An email from Nas to the record execs has leaked.

From: Nas
To: LA Reid, Steve Bartels, Steve Gawley, Michael Seltzer, Joseph Borrino, Chris Hicks
Subject: PUT MY **** OUT!
Peace to all,
With all do respect to you all, Nas is NOBODY’s slave. This is not the 1800′s, respect me and I will respect you.
I won’t even tap dance around in an email, I will get right into it. People connect to the Artist @ the end of the day, they don’t connect with the executives. Honestly, nobody even cares what label puts out a great record, they care about who recorded it. Yet time and time again its the executives who always stand in the way of a creative artist’s dream and aspirations. You don’t help draw the truth from my deepest and most inner soul, you don’t even do a great job @ selling it. The #1 problem with DEF JAM is pretty simple and obvious, the executives think they are the stars. You aren’t…. not even close. As a matter of fact, you wish you were, but it didn’t work out so you took a desk job. To the consumer, I COME FIRST. Stop trying to deprive them! I have a fan base that dies for my music and a RAP label that doesn’t understand RAP. Pretty ****ed up situation
This isn’t the 90′s though. Beefing with record labels is so 15 years ago. @ this point I just need you all to be very clear where I stand and how I feel about “my label.” I could go on twitter or hot 97 tomorrow and get 100,000 protesters @ your building but I choose to walk my own path my own way because since day one I have been my own man. I did business with Tommy Mottola and Donnie Einer, two of the most psycho dudes this business ever created. I worked well with them for one major reason……. they believed in me. The didn’t give a **** about what any radio station or magazine said….those dudes had me.
Lost Tapes is a movement and a very important set up piece for my career as it stands. I started this over 5 years ago @ Columbia and nobody knew what it was or what it did but the label put it out as an LP and the fans went crazy for it and I single handlely built a new brand of rap albums. It’s smart and after 5 years it’s still a head of the game. This feels great and you not feeling what I’m feeling is disturbing. Don’t get in the way of my creativity. We are aligned with the stars here, this is a movement. There is a thing called KARMA that comes to haunt you when you tamper with the aligning stars. WE ARE GIVING THE PEOPLE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT. Stop throwing dog **** on a MAGICAL moment.
You don’t get another Nas recording that doesn’t count against my deal….PERIOD! Keep your bull**** $200,000.00 fund. Open the REAL budget. This is a New York pioneers ALBUM, there ain’t many of us. I am ready to drop in the 4th quarter. You don’t even have **** coming out! Stop being your own worst enemy. Let’s get money!
-N.Jones

mufcboy1999

i liked his work on the distant relatives lp, so i guess this is nas's chance to actually put together a well structured solo album instead of the usual 2 or 3 good tracks followed by a lot of ordinary to rubbish tracks.

nas hasnt dropped a good album for years in my opinion actually the last one i enjoyed was stillmatic wasnt too far behind illmatic i think, im not counting the lp with damien marley because its not solo, so i hope he comes good with this.

if its anywhere near as good as the the first lost tapes we are in for a treat even though it wasnt an album, love this track one of my favourites from nas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uWwLX4j970

chriscoo

If it's as good at the first Lost Tapes, then this should be good.