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[methodman]

Kanye and Nas team up. This week, during a listening session at New York's Right Track Studios, Kanye West shocked an industry crowd by premiering "We Major," a song featuring Nas. The track also features Kanye's artist, Really Doe on the hook. Over a melodic track, Ye delivers a passionate verse followed by Doe's long hook and then Nas. At the session, Kanye cut the music off within a few bars of Nas' verse to stunt in his signature pose as the crowd begged him to play the song. The Louis Vutton Don then resumed by playing Nas' verse. Towards the tail end of the track, as the instrumental slowly faded, every ear in Right Track was listening close to see if Jay-Z was gonna jump on the cut. Later on, Kanye told SOHH.com that Hov recently freestyled over the beat while they were listening to the song, one of Jay's favorites according to Kanye. SOHH.com has long speculated on the collaboration.

Earlier this summer, West told reporters that his album featured unlikely collaborations, stating that he got to work with artists people didn't think he would get a chance to work with. Many thought Kanye/Nas collabo was unlikely because West produced "Takeover;" the song on which Hov dissed Nas back on 2001's The Blueprint. "We Major" doesn't mark the first time Kanye works with Nas. Ye ghost-produced Nas' "Poppa Was A Player" for former mentor Deric "D. Dot" Angelettie. The cut appeared on several mixtapes and later appeared on 2002's The Lost Tapes. Late Registration also features guest appearances by Jay-Z, Common, Paul Wall, Brandy, Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Consequence and GLC. Kanye also revealed that he performed "Hey Mamma" for his mother in an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show scheduled to air September 7th. Jiggaman, L.A. Reid, BET executive Stephen Hill and Talib Kweli were among the heads that came to show Kanye support.

sohh.com

This track is most definately going to be hot. And I never knew kanye produced takeover, and poppa was a player. fool is all over the place for real. Poppa was a player is one of my fav nas songs too

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Awwww shit. Can't wait to hear this.

 

[Shinobi]

I was just wondering the other day if a possible collab/reconcilation between Nas and Jay-Z was possible. So I not only read this, but I did a quick Google search and found this...

Nas, in an extremely rare West Coast appearance, made it to the stage after 10 p.m. His caravan pulled right up to the steps of the stage, which throngs of people were hanging out in front of and behind. Nas ran on to the sounds of his last album's title track, "Street's Disciple," moving the lyrics around a bit and repeating the phrase "this ain't 50" twice for added emphasis. The crowd went crazy for "Got Ur Self A ... ," followed by a medley of gems from Illmatic that included "It Ain't Hard to Tell," "The World Is Yours," "Represent" and "Life's a Bitch."

Nas kept fans up, taking them through his seemingly endless catalog of singles before finally getting to the meat of the show — a series of beefs. He did "Ether," his classic battle track directed at Jay-Z, but asked his DJ, LES, not to play Jay's name, saying, "Don't say his name. We love him." Most of the crowd screamed out "50 Cent!" in place of Jay-Z, showing support instead for his latest feud. At the conclusion of the song, Nas informed the crowd that he has another one coming out later this year about somebody else, then went into the first bars of his latest track, "MC Burial," rapping, "They say Jada defeated him/ Joe too street for him/ What's next, I guess, it's for Nas to ether him."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1506788/20050801/nas.jhtml?headlines=true

Incidently, the We Major track is apparantely Jay-Z's favourite on the new CD.