{"id":6958,"date":"2025-11-25T16:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/nas-dj-premier-new-album\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:52:18","slug":"nas-dj-premier-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/nas-dj-premier-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Nas, DJ Premier Roll Back The \u2018Years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1497974375.jpg\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Nas in Glasgow in June 2023 (photo: Roberto Ricciuti \/ Redferns).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/04\/nas-wu-tang-members-releasing-new-albums-with-mass-appeal\/\">As tipped here<\/a> in April, Nas and DJ Premier have re-teamed for the collaborative album <em>Light-Years<\/em>, which will be released Dec. 12 on the former\u2019s Mass Appeal label. The project is part of the <em>Legend Has It\u2026<\/em> series, which has brought forth new albums this year from fellow rap legends Slick Rick, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Mobb Deep, Big L and De La Soul.<\/p>\n<p>For now, there\u2019s no further information about the 15-track <em>Light-Years<\/em>, which comes more than three decades after Nas and Premier\u2019s 1994 classic <em>Illmatic<\/em>. Last year,  the pair teased <em>Light-Years<\/em> with the release of a new song, \u201cDefine My Name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/gerald-claytons-jazz-experiment-when-two-becomes-one\/\">Gerald Clayton\u2019s Jazz Experiment: When Two Becomes One<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/dizzy-reeds-tour-entertainment-essentials\/\">Dizzy Reed\u2019s Tour Entertainment Essentials<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/jimmy-cliff-obit\/\">Reggae Pioneer Jimmy Cliff Dies At 81<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The album can be pre-ordered from <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.massappeal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mass Appeal\u2019s web store<\/a> in various formats, including cassette and autographed metallic label vinyl. \u201c\u201cI can\u2019t wait for people to finally hear it,\u201d Nas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/nas-legend-has-it-comic-books-dj-premier-album-1235441737\/\" target=\"_blank\">told <em>Rolling Ston<\/em><\/a><em>e<\/em> last month. \u201cI don\u2019t know about anybody else, but for me and him, it was personally a long time coming for us to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Light-Years<\/em> is the follow-up to Nas\u2019 twin 2023 releases <em>Magic 2<\/em> and <em>Magic 3<\/em>, his 16th and 17th studio albums, respectively. He guested on all the other Mass Appeal-released hip-hop albums from this year, and also lent a hand on the title track from Clipse\u2019s Grammy-nominated comeback album, <em>LET GOD SORT \u2018EM OUT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Per Mass Appeal, <em>Legend Has It\u2026<\/em> is meant to celebrate and spotlight \u201csome of the most important and influential hip-hop artists of all time \u2014 trailblazers who\u2019ve been instrumental in building and shaping the music and culture, and have taken it from the streets of New York to the wider world, leaving an indelible mark on music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nas in Glasgow in June 2023 (photo: Roberto Ricciuti \/ Redferns). As tipped here in April, Nas and DJ Premier have re-teamed for the collaborative album Light-Years, which will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3015,1883,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dj-premier","category-nas","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}