Nas is universally appreciated as one of the all time great MCs, and represents an era of Hip Hop when all was good, so it was fairly disappointing to see none of the equally legendary producers make the credits either and I’m sure many fans had dreams of Nas reunited with Pete Rock, Q-Tip and others who contributed to Illmatic. One name particularly conspicuous by his absence is of course DJ Premier who provided the production on ‘New York State Of Mind’, but Nas explains that Premo’s style wouldn’t flow with the album – and that they’re “cooking up something soon”.

In an interview Nas said:

“I mean, I told Premier not this album. I started with Premier and that’s a big deal to me