@Nas You and me should grab a beer on Friday for Illmatic's 30th anniversary...

artists are brands bro

Veteran journalist Dream Hampton, who carries much fan trust in the rap world, echoed the allegations and said Jay Electronica was a reliable source and that she had personally heard reference tapes for six of the album's songs. "I think Jay writes what he believes," she wrote. "Nas' N----r album was largely written by Stic of dead prez and Jay Electronica."

“The day Jay called me at work to tell me he was ghostwriting for Nas was a hard day for me. On one hand, I was happy that a friend of mine that seemingly no one cared an iota for a year or two prior was quickly ascending through the ranks of hip hop as a voice to pay attention to and a career in the making to watch.

let ghoma down

Update: Stic.man commented on his work with Nas via Facebook, “As far as the rumors about myself and jay electronika ghost writing for Nas, let me say this. Nas is one of the if not the most prolific original lyricist to EVER do it. My contributions to his album was a collaboration and an honor and under his direction of what he wanted to convey and say. Haters cant discredit that man’s genuis. Nas is the Don.”

He later elaborated, saying he was “just a white belt that answered the call for a session with a master of the craft. And I assisted where it was requested with ideas, beats and some writing.”

the imaginary sample on a song 😭😭

been saying this. these people have no clue what happens in studio sessions

I was making music when I was like 14 with 2 others and we’d all help eachother with lines and how to end verses and s*** before even knowing how music worked. Its just natural in a creative space

Said he wrote even more for Nas but they only released The Pressure

Do you know who joshua strange is looking through credits on KD2 and he pops up multiple times and he not a producer.

s*** been this way before social media and before meek jumped off the porch trying to create whats now a disillusionment

Saxophonist on Moments, Nobody and Composure

Oh, makes sense I know there was also a piano player on there looks like he had a lot of instrumentalists

No one is debating that kind of collaboration. My point is that no one is writing whole songs for Nas, and then Nas is turning up and reciting someone’s rhymes, he’s not Drake ffs

Jay Elec disagrees

I don’t see jay elec saying s***

this generation of rapper often say they've proved their worth and now that they have to focus on other business ventures they have to let younger rappers help them. snoop said that iirc

Cause Snoop had writers since forever

Yeah but still it’s common for them to switch later in their career like nas or ice cube i think it was that talked about it too

It probably was more than just the sample, check the Vlad interview on this page. But honestly it doesnt matter at all

Well he didn't say he wrote for him. He said they collaborated. That might have been ideas for flows/cadences or anything really. It really doesn't matter tgough. Music is collaborative

Nas let op down

They were not writers they were Muses 😏