{"id":1893,"date":"2025-03-25T09:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2025-05-31T02:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T06:17:03","slug":"nas-dj-premier-and-ghostface-killah-the-trio-no-one-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/nas-dj-premier-et-ghostface-killah-le-trio-que-personne-nattendait\/","title":{"rendered":"Nas, DJ Premier and Ghostface Killah: the trio that no one expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/tag\/nas\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"714\">Nas<\/a><\/strong> continues to shine in the hip-hop industry, with a slew of exciting projects on the horizon for 2025. Here&#039;s the latest on his upcoming collaborations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Album with DJ Premier<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-awaited project between <strong>Nas<\/strong> and<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/tag\/dj-premier\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"715\">DJ Premier<\/a> <\/strong>finally seems to be coming to fruition. <strong>Nas <\/strong>shared a screenshot of his calendar, revealing several weeks of recording sessions with <strong>DJ Premier<\/strong>, especially at the end of April in the Bahamas<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/nas-dj-premier-album-jfk-assassination-1235930408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>This collaboration, first announced in 2006, gained new momentum with the release of the single &quot;\u00a0<em>Define My Name<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb in April 2024<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Untitled_Nas\/DJ_Premier_album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>. While the release date remains to be confirmed, these intensive sessions suggest a potential 2025 release.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/news\/nas-gives-updates-on-joint-album-with-dj-premier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/nas-dj-premier-album-jfk-assassination-1235930408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rumors suggest a possible participation of<strong> Ghostface Killah<\/strong> on the album with <strong>DJ Premier<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/news\/nas-gives-updates-on-joint-album-with-dj-premier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Participation in the Mobb Deep album<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nas<\/strong> should also contribute to the next album of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/tag\/mobb-deep\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"719\">Mobb Deep<\/a><\/strong>, the first since the death of <strong>Prodigy<\/strong>. <strong>Alchemist<\/strong> and <strong>Havoc<\/strong> are in charge of production with significant involvement of <strong>Nas<\/strong>. <strong>Havoc<\/strong> expressed his excitement at hearing the voice of again <strong>Nas<\/strong> on this project<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/nas-dj-premier-album-jfk-assassination-1235930408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Nas-\u00a8Publication-Instagram.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Nas-\u00a8Publication-Instagram.png 428w, https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Nas-\u00a8Publication-Instagram-168x300.png 168w, https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Nas-\u00a8Publication-Instagram-7x12.png 7w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other collaborations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A session with <strong>Slick Rick<\/strong> is planned, giving hope for new collaborations between these two hip-hop legends<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/nas-dj-premier-album-jfk-assassination-1235930408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, <strong>Nas<\/strong> also set aside time for personal research into the assassination of <strong>JFK<\/strong>, demonstrating his varied interests outside of the musical field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This intense activity of <strong>Nas <\/strong>in 2025 is a continuation of his artistic renaissance of recent years, marked by a series of acclaimed albums, notably the series &quot;\u00a0<em>King&#039;s Disease<\/em>\u00a0&quot; And &quot;\u00a0<em>Magic<\/em>\u00a0&quot; with <strong>Hit-Boy<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/news\/nas-gives-updates-on-joint-album-with-dj-premier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>At 51, Nas proves he remains a major creative force in hip-hop, continuing to collaborate with renowned artists and explore new musical horizons.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nas continues to shine in the hip-hop industry, with a slew of exciting projects on the horizon for 2025. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[715,55,59,612,717,713,719,714,718,716],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-dj-premier","tag-entertainment","tag-featured","tag-ghostface-killah","tag-havoc","tag-kings-disease-et-magic","tag-mobb-deep","tag-nas","tag-prodigy","tag-slick-rick"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}