Nas & DJ Premier Once Again Spark Excitement For Joint Album

Nas is giving fans hope that his long-awaited joint album with DJ Premier may finally be in the works. In an Instagram post on Wednesday (April 17), the legendary Queensbridge MC shared a throwback photo of him and Preemo together in the 90s with the caption: “Then v.s Now. What if…” AD LOADING… The comments were flooded with excitement as people speculated about the post being his roundabout way of confirming that their LP is on the way. “Don’t play with my emotions like this,” one person wrote, while another added: “Preem & esco album, maybe? Probably? Hope fully lol?” AD LOADING… Another comment read: “Here we gooooo!!!!!!!” Word of a collaborative project by Nas and DJ Premier first made the rounds after the two mentioned teaming up for a full-length album during a 2007 interview with Scratch. Years went by, but nothing materialized besides the legendary producer repeatedly promising that it would come out some day. Both veterans began working together after the scratch master heard Esco’s “Halftime” track for the first time. He loved the record so much that he wasted no time hopping on the MC’s debut album Illmatic to handle production alongside Large Professor, Q-Tip, Pete...