NBA Hall of Famer and moonlighting MC Shaquille O’Neal has actually formally launched the first-ever Jay-Z and Nas cooperation on the reissue of his 1996 cd You Can’t Stop the Reign.
Shaq Formally Places Very First Jay-Z and Nas Collab on Cd Re-Release
After teasing fans with the record on Thursday (June 27), Shaq followed up on Friday (June 28) by providing an upgraded variation of his 3rd workshop cd. The rerelease has the track “No Love Lost” including Jay-Z, Nas and Lord Tariq. The track notes the first-ever time Hov and Esco showed up on a track with each other.
On the Trackmasters-produced banger, which can be listened to listed below, the then-burgeoning rap artists are sharp with benches as it would certainly have been taped around the moment Jigga produced his launching cd Reasonable Doubt, and Nas got on the heels of his student LP It Was Written.
” Fo’ sho’, every little thing’s for dough now/The circulation, y’ all obtained ta pay a little mo’ currently,” Hov spews. “It’s platinum, nowadays we placed the gold down/We tipped it up, y’ all do not ever before wan na showdown/Get moistened up by the sleeve that leave the bezel out/Y’ all do not like it, sue me, I’ll cleared up out/Ghettoed out, in the lorry bent/These days I sweetened out.”
Shaq and Tariq slide on beat. Mid-90s Nas enters too. ” I invested evenings on edges, see the fracture, police officer my very first smack/No much longer terrified to pump with y’ all pump/Now I rupture back, it injures that,” Nas raps. “Do not see lotion can make my handbag fat/Without the advantages of a question, I struck the hearse black/But curse that, attempt to see Nas was your worst match/Blowing like Tahiti, shake off NYPD, am I hoggish?/ Like I suggest E.D. see me in the fly/Selena Gibby frameworks in a beanie.”
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The Background of “No Love Lost”
The tune sans Nas initially showed up on the You Can Not Quit the Reign cd when it debuted in November of 1996. The variation with Nas showed up on the DJ Clue mixtape Fall Pt. 1 the very same year the cd variation was launched. It was later on flowed on songs file-sharing solutions.
Shaq exposed throughout an interview on the Drink Champs Podcast in 2022 that he could not wind up cleaning Nas’ knowledgeable. “I really did not take it individual due to the fact that, once again, me remaining in the workshop with Nas, I more than happy,” Shaq claimed. Currently, it is showing up on DSPs for the very first time.
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Check out Jay-Z and Nas’ very first cooperation on Shaq’s “No Love Shed” with Lord Tariq listed below.
Stream Shaq’s “No Love Lost” Featuring Jay-Z, Nas and Lord Tariq
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