Nas & DJ Premier Share Tracklist For New Album, “Mild-Years”

Nas and DJ Premier have shared the 15-song tracklist for his or her upcoming collaborative album, Mild-Years. The mission will function a single visitor look from AZ on the music, “My Story Your Story.” It additionally features a third half to Nas’ iconic music, “N.Y. State of Thoughts.” He beforehand dropped a second half on his album, I Am…, in 1999.

Nas and DJ Premier have been hinting at engaged on a collaborative mission for effectively over a decade at this level. Talking with Rolling Stone, again in October, Nas confirmed that a few the concepts that they had throughout earlier makes an attempt to get the mission to return to fruition will seem on Mild-Years. “I’m going to say at the very least two of these concepts occurred on this album. We didn’t get an opportunity to do ’em once we had been speaking about ’em, however we lastly bought an opportunity to place these recordings collectively this 12 months,” he stated.

Elsewhere in the course of the aforementioned interview with Rolling Stone, Nas mentioned the critically acclaimed album collection. “It’s 1995 yet again,” Nas stated. “Typically I really feel like 2025 has that feeling. It’s not going backwards, [it’s] going ahead although. It’s that feeling of urgency, that vibration, the celebration of life and these songs and these albums, what they meant 30 years in the past, it’s nonetheless thriving proper now. Even from youthful folks, they’re all derivatives of that early sound. And these artists right here, from Slick Rick — he’s the rationale that every one of us actually have a pen in our arms. You take a look at him and also you consider Mobb Deep, and also you consider Raekwon and Ghostface, De La Soul, [it’s] among the most completely different, courageous, daring, clever hip hop music ever made.”

He continued: “And naturally, we misplaced a few of our brothers alongside the way in which, [but] we’re nonetheless representing for them they usually’re nonetheless representing themselves by means of the collection. It’s a celebration of an incredible influence, an ordinary that they set that we might always remember as a result of it retains us aiming greater. This collection is to encourage [and] encourage hip hop and remind us all [of] the pureness of hip hop. I hope that all of us can do that collectively.”