"The Death of Escobar" (found unreleased Nas album; 2001
NASIR is the eleventh studio album by legendary rapper Nas, released on June 15, 2018. Its premiere was livestreamed underneath the Queensboro Bridge in Queens, New York, where Nas is from. Nas It Was Written - Wikipedia It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released July 2, 1996 on Columbia Records in the United States. Following the moderate sales success of his acclaimed debut album, Illmatic (1994), Nas chose to focus his efforts in a more mainstream direction. Primarily produced by Trackmasters, it is a departure for him from the raw, underground tone of his debut album towards "The Death of Escobar" (found unreleased Nas album; 2001 During the early 2000s, Nas's career was in a state of flux. Nas's I Am and Nastradamus were seen as critical failures, In 2001, Jay-Z (who at the time was Nas's rival, though now friend) partly released his diss on Nas called Takeover at the 2001 Summer Jam. . Nas needed to respond to the pressure. In 2000, Nas started working on his new album.
The Life side was similar to Nas’ first disc of I Am…, with more raw, autobiographical songs, and the Times being more of the glossy, Jiggy sound that he maintained on Vol. 2.
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