There’s really no album out right now in Hip Hop that requires and deserves your attention other than NaS’s Life Is Good. BBC Radio 1‘s Benji B asked Nasir to break down some of the track off the album, his relationship with Amy Winehouse and around the 23-min mark, Nas dives into the subject of a Jay Electronica collaboration to which responds as follows:
I wanted to get him to do the entire Untitled album, the N-word album. He had ideas. He was pulling records from J Dilla… He was pulling records and he was there with me while I was working on it. And he did the first record on there and it would’ve been so ahead of its time because he wasn’t signed and he wasn’t out there like that. So it would’ve been great right now to go back and say yo this dude produced my whole album years ago. That would’ve been cool and he’s ahead of his time like that.
