Real talk, we finally gonna get new Nas this year? It's been six years since Life is Good and he's been talking like his new album has been done and ready for at least three and he said we were getting another Lost Tapes four years ago. Was there some fuckery with him founding a Mass Appeal imprint while still with Def Jam or something? Is he just sitting on all this music? Does he keep going back to the kitchen with his music?
2018 better see the return of the King.
IIRC he thought he was done ~1-2 years ago, but then went back into the lab and started re-recording. This happens often when artists sit on music for so long, it stops feeling relevant or timely so they start anew.
I think we'll get a permutation of the project he's been working on this year. Don't know how much longer he can sit on it, but he only really started recording recently (~2-3 years ago).
EDIT:
Listened through Dedication 6 again, and man, Wayne is definitely hungry again on a lot of these beats and DEFINITELY in his bag but I don't think I care for what mixtapes used to be anymore: full projects spitting entire new songs over others' beats. This is even better on 2nd listen and he's spazzing on a lot of these beats in a way that, TBH, I didn't think Wayne was even capable of doing anymore. The DNA, Everyday We Lit, Rockstar, XO Tour Llif3, No Limit, Swag On A Usual, My Dawg, and Roll in Peaces freestyles are all fire, and that's over half the tape.
But.. unless you completely outdo and invalidate the original version, which is unlikely and rarely ever happens especially if the beat/song is memorable/worthwhile enough in the first place to warrant such a freestyle over, I don't think I'm at a point where I want to keep this stuff in rotation anymore, at least for a full song. I'll take unofficial remixes with extra verses for sure, but forcing hooks and all that never really end up being memorable or get me to come back to this, because I'll just listen to the original. I think a lot of this is just because there's so much original music out there now so I don't expect to return to this stuff very often even though I value it and do enjoy it. Ultimately, I want THIS Wayne to carry this energy onto on original music.
Also funniest part about listening to modern Cash Money projects is being reminded that people Gudda Gudda and Euro are still around. I assume doing nothing else until they get a project placement every 3 years.
