Nasir was met with generally mixed reviews from critics. Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores Ī listening party for the album took place on Jin Queensbridge, New York City and was streamed via Mass Appeal's YouTube channel. On June 12, West revealed a full tentative tracklist for the album, while the album title and cover art was revealed on June 14, a day before release. West later released an incomplete track listing of the five albums he was working on, revealing the Nas track 'Everything'. In April 2018, Kanye West announced that he was producing Nas' new album with a release date of June 15, 2018. In May 2017, Nas' brother, Jungle, made a post on Instagram in a recording studio with the hashtag #NasAlbumAlmostDone. The same year, Kanye West expressed his wish to produce an album by Nas, seemingly promising Barack Obama that he would achieve this.

Īmerican musician DJ Khaled's 2016 album Major Key featured a track titled 'Nas Album Done' with Nas which announced the completion of his album. It follows the release of Pusha T's Daytona, West's Ye, and West's collaboration with Kid Cudi entitled Kids See Ghosts, and precedes the release of Teyana Taylor's K.T.S.E.

The album is executive produced by West, and is the fourth of five seven-track albums West produced in what has become known as the ' Wyoming Sessions', with each album being released weekly. The album features an appearance from Kanye West, whom also produced the entirety of the album, as well as guest appearances from Puff Daddy, 070 Shake, Tony Williams, and The-Dream. It succeeds Nas album Life Is Good, released six years prior in 2012. It was released on Jthrough Mass Appeal Records and Def Jam Recordings. Nasir (stylized in all caps) is the twelfth studio album by American rapper Nas.

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