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The song was interpolated in Nas' song "If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)" from his 1996 album It Was Written. [6] Dr. Dre sampled the track for "A Nigga Witta Gun" from the 1992 album The Chronic. The song was sampled on the Nickelodeon sitcom Taina on the song "Thought that we were friends", sung by Christina Vidal who played the title ...
Nas called the album a "magic moment" in his rap career. [80] In 2011, Nas announced that he would release collaboration albums with Mobb Deep, Common, and a third with DJ Premier. [81] [82] [83] Common said of the project in a 2011 interview, "At some point, we will do that. We'd talked about it and we had a good idea to call it Nas.Com. That ...
"As We Enter" is the first single from Nas and Damian Marley's collaboration album, Distant Relatives. The track is produced by Damian Marley. There are no full verses in the song, but rather Nas and Damian Marley rap in call-and-response fashion. The track contains samples of Mulatu Astatke's song "Yegelle Tezeta".
It was released as the lead single from Nas' second studio album It Was Written on June 4, 1996, by Columbia Records. [1] Produced by Trackmasters, with some uncredited input by Rashad Smith, it is based on the 1985 hit of the same name by American rapper Kurtis Blow and samples the beat of "Friends" by Whodini.
Distant Relatives is a collaborative studio album by American rapper Nas and Jamaican reggae vocalist Damian Marley.It was released on May 18, 2010, by Universal Republic, Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records.
Illmatic (stylized in lowercase) is the debut studio album by the American rapper Nas.It was released on April 19, 1994, by Columbia Records.After signing with the label with the help of MC Serch, Nas recorded the album in 1992 and 1993 at Chung King Studios, D&D Recording, Battery Studios, and Unique Recording Studios in New York City.
"One Love" is composed as a series of letters written by Nas to his incarcerated friends, describing events that have occurred prior to and after the receivers' imprisonment. "One Love" contains samples of the Heath Brothers ' "Smilin' Billy Suite Part II" (1975) and Parliament 's "Come In Out of the Rain" (1972), along with an interpolation of ...
It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released on July 2, 1996, by Columbia Records.After the modest commercial success of his debut album Illmatic (1994), Nas pursued a more polished, mainstream sound for It Was Written.