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His currently untitled 10th studio album is scheduled for 2011. Nas has tentatively targeted December as the release date for Lost Tapes 2. People ask me вЂwhen are you going to work with so and so?вЂ™ ItвЂ™s not when I want to work with this person, itвЂ™s when they want to work with me. Unless they come down to my studio and specifically request me, itвЂ™s alwaysВ a waiting game. I was actually in Atlanta when I played beats for him earlier this year,вЂќ 9th explained.В вЂњHe picked some, itвЂ™s a waiting game, brah. Now,В the ball isВ in NasвЂ™ court as to whether the selected tracks will end up on his new album. For a mainstream standpoint itвЂ™s Nas and Jay-Z, thereвЂ™s not too many others like them left.вЂќДuring a meeting earlier this year, NasВ chose several of 9thвЂ™s beats.

Nas is one of the few artists from our generation thatвЂ™s keeping our generation alive from a mainstream perspective. I think he thinks weвЂ™re talking about his subject matter. вЂњHe wants to get so far away from Illmatic, and everybody wants him to go back. IвЂ™ve been trying to figure that out.В Nas is an anomaly, man,вЂќ 9th Wonder told Beats, Boxing and Mayhem.

вЂњI just had that conversation in the car. According to 9th Wonder, who turned 35 in January, Nas is one of a handful of artistsВ that still represent that late 20s to mid 30s demographic, a generation whose view ofВ Hip-Hop was shaped byВ emcees likeВ Tupac, Outkast,В Redman, Snoop Dogg,В Jay-Z, and the Notorious B.I.G. ItвЂ™s a high standard of excellence that fans donвЂ™t demand from many emcees. Never backwards stupid hereвЂ™s another classicвЂќ вЂњI crawled up out of that grave, wiping the dirt, cleaning my shirt Nas derisivelyВ references that critical slant onВ the intro of Stillmatic, another celebrated album whichВ was named dualy to acknowledge and creatively move past his debut. While cited by many asВ arguably the greatestВ Hip-Hop ofВ album of all time, the lyrical classic has also been used as the measuring stick by which all of NasвЂ™ music is judged. When pondering NasвЂ™ beat selections, 9thВ sees Nas as been making a concerted effort to completely separate himself from his 1994 masterpiece, Illmatic. At the time, many cited 9thвЂ™s soul-sample based production as a better fit for NasвЂ™ vocals than the producers he originally used (Salaam Remi, Ron Brownz, Eminem, Alchemist). One name producer who fans have clamored Nas to work with is 9th Wonder, whoвЂ™s quietly contributed beats to the legendary Queensbridge lyricist.ДЇan demand for a 9th Wonder-Nas collaboration goes back eight years, when the North Carolina producer remixed NasвЂ™ 2002 platinum album GodвЂ™s Son into GodвЂ™s Stepson. Everyone from Kanye West and RZA to Q-Tip and Bangladesh have been associated with NasвЂ™ upcomingВ tenth studio album.

9th wonder making a beat