NASIR

Nas

Released on 15/06/2018 by Mass Appeal - NAS
Main artists: Nas
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

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After an absence of six years, Nasir Jones returns with a new album produced by Kanye West, as part of the June 2018 G.O.O.D Music salvo. Like recent efforts from Pusha T, Kanye and Kid Cudi before him, Nas’s NASIR project contains seven tracks, like seven deadly sins, each given a laconic treatment by the bard of Queensbridge. Produced and polished in Wyoming, like the rest of the series, this album is full of concision, instinct, and urgency. In the introduction, this is Nas parcelled-out, anti-conformist and skeptical, with Red Army Choirs, the mogul Puff Daddy and the angelic voice of 070 Shake. Over a stunning loop by Slick Rick, he paints police violence with little impressionist brushstrokes on Cops Shot the Kid with Kanye in tow.

Later he works on his excesses, follies and delusions of grandeur on White Label and Bonjour. But it's when he brings in The Dream on Adam and Eve and above all Everything, where Nas hits a more personal note. Somewhere between social commentary, cultural intervention and lucid debate, Nas takes on his own legend, but without necessarily facing up to his faults, as his best enemy Jay-Z did on 4:44. Nasir Jones is trying to have a clear-out, to focus on what's essential, finding both his gift and his curse dulled by the simple things in life. Simple Things is the conclusion of a journey that has been at once public and secret. Throughout its meandering course, Kanye West offers the best possible environment, nestled between classicism and art brut. Nas is very much his own equal here, without compromising his style: people demand a lot of his genius but above all, he remains human. ©Aurélien Chapuis / Qobuz

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Terius Nash, ComposerLyricist - Nasir Jones, ComposerLyricist - Mike Dean, Producer, Mixer, Co-Producer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Benjamin Levin, ComposerLyricist - Kanye West, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Benny Blanco, Producer, Co-Producer - Sean Combs, ComposerLyricist - Puff Daddy, FeaturedArtist - Basil Poledouris, ComposerLyricist - Nas, MainArtist - Oladipo Omishore, ComposerLyricist - Jess Jackson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Phillip Peterson, String Arranger, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Cashmere Cat, Producer, Co-Producer - Dot Da Genius, Producer, Co-Producer - Victoria Parker, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Magnus Hoiberg, ComposerLyricist - 070 Shake, FeaturedArtist - Jenna Felsenthal, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Zack Djurich, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Yasmeen Al-Mazeedi, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Sean Solymar, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Juan "AyoJuan" Peña, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - BoogzDaBeast, Programmer - Ryan Hendrickson, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Johan Lenox, Producer, String Arranger, Additional Producer, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen "Johan Lenox" Feigenbaum, ComposerLyricist