Hip-Hop mega-producer Jermaine Dupri, talks about how exicted he is to be producing the majority of Nas’ new album, tentatively titled, “Nigger” which is due out this coming December. A while back, Nas told JD he wanted to get on the radio a little bit more, but as he has gotten deeper into the new project, Nas has abandoned that idea. “You can sell records without having a big pop single,” he added. “Like ‘Money Ain’t a Thing.’ It was a tremendous record, a classic, but it never went #1. Kanye West’s ‘Can’t Tell Me Nothing’ wasn’t a major Billboard success, but it felt like #1 in my heart.”
Dupri revealed he might use some sampling for Nas because he loves “Surviving the Times” so much. JD used to sample heavily until all those clearances started tapping at his pockets. “That new record is hip-hop! The samples in it…I wanna do records like that,” he said. “I got a million ideas to go with that type of shit. The Nas thing would be really creative for me, to come up with records that got that feel and vibe and a slight possibility of being on the radio. Like the record I did with Jay on American Gangster, it had a little bit of radio, but it’s a story/club record.”
“When you look at niggas like JD, I worked him on one of his biggest albums, Life in 1472,” responded Nas, who has done a bulk of the record already with Salaam Remi. “I was on the first song on there, me and him. I love JD. He’s one of the niggas that made me want to move to Atlanta six years ago. I definitely wanna get it in with him. But nigga better hurry because me and Salam might finish the album. Jermaine better hurry up and get in the studio and start dancing around to these beats and make this happen,” he laughed.
“Let’s get it poppin’. I got two weeks to be done.” Nas wants to drop his first single for Nigger two or three days after November 6, which is the day his greatest-hits LP and Jay-Z’s American Gangster drop. Nas appears on Hov’s set via the track “Success.” “The record with Jay, that’s a crazy joint,” he said. “Homeboy is laser-sharp with his shit. And he’s got a crazy album. I’m really proud of him. It made me proud. Yeah, I’m on the joint. I’m on there.”
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thats wack
your whack, since when has jd beats been whack? and nas dosent have whack albums.
wooooooooow lmao
look out for another u owe me type track lol
wack
Dj Premier should be producing the majority of nas album, or Pete Rock, or Large Prof...real talk if he trying to get on radio he could always fuck with K-west or the Neptunes.
name on classic beat jd did that wasnt bubblegum?
HA Dupri became the youngest charting producer in the history of music at age 18 with his first chart selling artists being Kriss Kross. When he got more familiar with business Jermaine went on to produce a number of hits for PLATINUM artists such as music for TLC, Jay-Z, Ludacris, Bow Wow, Da Brat, and also helped get Mariah Carey back on top with the BEST SELLING ALBUM of 2005, The Emancipation of Mimi.
NUFF SAID and hes going to do it with the BEST SELLING ALBUM of 2008 Nas' Nigger
Well so much for that album... Hip Hop IS dead for Nas
u got nas fucked up young scrapper watch all of yall hatin ass niggas talk bout how hot the album is when it drop!
3rd sorry its my highest i aint even read
wow sorry u have no life
SHIT'LL PROBABLY BE HOT. THE JOINT HE DID FOR FAB IS HOT AS SHIT. NIGGAS STOP HATIN
smh nas
im glad i stopped listening when hip hop is dead dropped
nas nas nas
what r u talkin about hip-hop is dead was d*mn near a classic regardless of what it sold. he had one single... thats it. i dont even think he had a video. if he didnt i didnt see it. this new album although i might not like the title especially if its gonna be "n*gger"... is gonna be hot. and although jd isnt that good as a rapper. hes 1 hell of a producer. yall need to stop hatin b4 yall even hear anything. and ppl not listening to nas is the reason y there are so many killings and ppl in jail in our communtiys. cuz yall rather live a studio rappers dream. sellin drugs shootin gangs. grow up. nas been rapped about that. grew up and is tryna teach too bad nobodys listening.
ppl not listening to nas is the reason y there are so many killings and ppl in jail in our communtiys. cuz yall rather live a studio rappers dream. sellin drugs shootin gangs
You sure about that statement??? Fuck calling him Nas...he should be Jesus Jr. if what you say is true.
well unless JD has drastically changed his production and perception of the game, Nas has really made a bad move with working so much of the album with that height challenged corny dude. I mean this dude put on one of the worst groups of the last five years "Dem franchise Boys" and they have since fell off as expected but none the less they in a way opened the ugly door to let in some more shitty ass snap music with simplistic crap rap and is one of the reasons we have to hear that tired ass soulja boy bullshit every damn day, JD also put Bow wow on, and lil' bow wow sucks.....dick.
Nas your last album was called "Hip Hop is dead" u should call this one "I found the culprit, and he's producing most of this album" not Nigger. lol
Please Tell Me What You Fools Are Talkin About..You Can't Make Nas Wack From Beats Thats Impossible For A Great Lyricist...And Before You Talk Count How Many Hits JD Has Under His Belt Compared To Your Fave Producer....Exactly
There all r&b hits or when he was working with little kids like bow wow or kris kross. he never had a big hit with a mainstreem rapper. and if nas album sound anything like that fab single it's defitnly a wrap.
Listen To Me Pimp...If Nas Can Make Chris Webber Sound Like A Mainstream Producer JD Will Produce A CRAZY Album Think About It Nas Know What His Style Is And He Not Gon Let Him Mes Up
production is absolutley right, nas is a great lyricist he will make up for the lack of... and if c webb was cookin heat imagine what jd will do.
ok listen 2 this what has been the main issue with nas...BEATS so u sayin jermain dupri gone make it WORSE????? cmon man jd produced 4 jay,fab countless others luda fuk outta here nas gone shut shyt down along wit cassidy little brother an jay
THIS IS DEFINETLY THE WORST IDEA FOR A NAS CAREER ALBUM...I DONT THINK ANY BEAT WITH J.D WOULD BE COOL..THEY JUZ WONT MIX RIGHT...IS NOT NAS STYLE..SO IT'S PRETTY WACC..PEACE..JUZ WHAT I THINK..
Commercial is da way to go nowadays,and JD is da front runner... It is sad to hear Nas makin this move, I wouldve rather seen Premier produced his album, but aye you move on right?
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Niggas be quick 2 put a nigga in a box. Wait til you hear the music. JD legendary for a reason. He produce songs for the type of artist the song is for. I believe he can handle this..... and for the record Cash Money ruined hip hop!!! Think about it
It's clear now we defitnly need eminem back, I got a felling american gansta gone be whack, and if jd produce this album its gone be whack. we need detox and a new em joint bad cause hip-hop has been dieing of cancer ever since em and dre stop dropping, the niggas below me gone say something but it's true after encore droped thats when record sales went into a decline. now tell me im wrong.
your WRONG because that same year luda dropped Red Light District which went 3x platinum, and nas dropped streets disciple which went certified platinum. encore might have sold a shitload of albums (5x platinum) but it was one of his worst albums ever kid.
I said it hasnt been anything hot since he dropped and no it wasent his best but it had some nice joints on it i would say i liked about hallf the album. andmost rappers or anybody put together a full album thats great. but yeah red light district was tight but streets disciples i can do without. but my point is 04 was like the last hot year in hip-hop and em was the last to drop in 04 which is why i used him as an example. dont forget kanye's first album droped that year two plus banks and buck first albums. but 05,06 and 07 been really shitty if you ask me.
So it's M&M fault hip hop is fucked up? M&M dropped a compilation album in the last year what happened to that? lol
its the best selling hip-hop album since he dropped encore. next time you wanna say somthing and than say lol know what your talking about. cause the re-up sold more than kingdom come, king,t.i. vs.t.i.p, late registration and a lot more know your facts.
I asked you two simple questions. Neither one of those questions had anything to do with numbers.
You sure you want to go out on a limb and say the Re-Up sold more than those albums you mentioned? Last I checked re-up is 1.6 US and 2 worldwide. By the way I'm not saying anything else about sales because it doesn't mean shit.
Yes, I have that album and the shit wasn't all that. Decent but nothing more. All the albums you named are better albums that The Re-Up. That's my opinion.
Well i dont know that last time you looked at the sales but the re-upis 3.5 worldwide. for the record record sales mean alot if your an artist no record sales no job. we all saw what happened to joe budden. but to answer your tw questions from before. no eminem is not the reason hip-hop is dead. he's was the reason it was living he was the heart of hip-hop at the time he was doing his thing cause thiers no one other rapper like him, from lyrics to creativity to diversity, to contriversy even when he on that wierd shit its better than some of that bullshit he that comes out now. every other rapper besides em is the same there's a million jay-z's, 50cent, nas, kanye west, you never hear anybody compareing em to nobody. and about the re-up I actually that it was a good album not great but good, I think its better than kingdom come and t.i. vs t.i.p not late registration and king. I thought king could have been better though.
I can respect that response even though I don't agree with 99% of your statement especially the M&M vs hip-hop comparison. All those cats you named have played there part in this game and I don't think any of them is less or more important than the other. It's all a matter of opinion.
Sales doesn't equate the quality of an album.
ACTUALLY... the re up debuted On the U.S. Billboard 200 at number two, selling about 309,000 copies in its first week.[5] The album has recently been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It is currently #18 on the top compilations albums. The album has since sold over 2.5 million albums worldwide.
AND YOUR WRONG Late Registration is the second major label album release from Roc-A-Fella hip hop artist and producer Kanye West. The album was released on August 30, 2005, and debuted at #1, selling over 860,000 copies in its first week. It has gone on to sell well over 3 million copies in the U.S. and received overall positive reviews from critics.
O.K. I was wrong about kanye but he did out sale the rest of those jokers.but in saying that you just proved my point even more em releases a mixtape album which sold a little over 300,000 it's first week and end up saling 2.5 kanye's album sales over 800,000 copies its first week and only sale 3 million thats only 500,000 more, if em, had sold 800,000 his first week he would be diamond. it only proves that what 50 say is right def jam bought kanyes album the first week to make it look good but than you see the naturle out come. go look upanybody else that sold 800, copies thier first week i bet they sold at least over 5 million.
he dont need JD, how u go from Salaam Remi and L.E.S. to JD it sounds weird to me but if he do that shit betta be heat rock
yeah i can see where u make them statements radamez but what i should have said is the reason y people dont listen to artists LIKE nas. u kno common, jay, nas, lupe types is the reason y that shits goin on. like these rappers only tell one side of the story when they rap about the dope game and shootin and killin niggas. most of them never did it. i was a poart of it at one time. but dont nobody kno the pain it feels to actually have been shot. or locked up. so the fans take it into accoun that its all good. when indeed its not.
I agree with that shit.
damn a lot of u niggas can hate! wow! JD is one of best producers out right now, the album should be an intersting listen.
Nas must be going for that new sound....bullshit. JD, save yo beats for Usher and Bow Wow's puppy love music.
I dont care who produces it,imma cop Nas's album
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Its Nas ya'll...end of story...lol. Even if he does it with JD(Rather Premier), Nas is one of the best to do it. Even on a bad beat, he'll rip it.
Its hard to say...JD is a lameass in my opinion, but everyone can change. I got faith in Nasir as usual, so Im coppin this anyways.
jd ant that bad. nas can kill one of his beats but if jd does the whole album idk if nas can kill that shit. Knowing nas da song will be hot.
IM TOO PISSED
WHY WONT GET HIS SHIT TOGETHER AND GET AT PREMIRE
HE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE NY STATE OF MIND AND NAS IS LIKE SHIT. FUCK THAT SHORTY SAY WHATS YOUR PRICE.
that would be like mirror mimmicking jay-z.. because hov said hes goin back to that reasonable doubt/blueprint type album with that american gangster... i got mad faith in nas and im sure he'll deliver a classic!
JD IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PRODUCER OF OUR TIME SO I'M NOT GONNA TAKE AWAY FROM THAT, SO I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT HE DOES WITH THIS PROJECT, HE GOTTA COME WITH SOME HARD GRIMEY BEATS THO.
LET ME SAY TIMBO DEFINITELY IS UP THERE WITH HIM, BUT I GUESS NIGGAS WOULD BE MAD IF TIMBO PRODUCED HIS ALBUM AS WELL
Hey I heard da track he did 4 Jay and it sounds pretty decent. Maybe he has been hangin wit Preemo or somethin. Lets hope Nas doesn't fuck up his career wit dis album. (lets say 80 times worse than Kingdome Come)by Nas and JAy standards.
Dupri dog wtf you might as well get Jugged age to produce the album hip hop he is not
for everybody that say's the production dont matter need to ask themselves some questions. if nas said thathe was rapping to country beats would you take him seriously or buy the album. production is a huge part of the album cause if you been listen to nas sense day one and you used to his production and than you buy his cd but it got jd's poppie soundin beats on it that you dont like you not gone be able to get with it.thebeat helps paint the picture better for some people imagine watching a movie with out no back ground music.
nas + jd = NASTRADAMUS!!! LOL......THROW THAT CD IN THE TRASH!!!
Hold On If You Not A Nas Fan Y Do YouEven Take The Time To Read The Post....EXACTLY You Love Da id Style Stop Hatin...Make Ya Assumption When The Album Drop
Im Done 1
jd a good producer (sucks as an artist lol) but i hope he dont give nas some of dem beats he be giving to lil bow wow, i mean bow wow lol
IT DONT MATTER WAT BEAT NAS SPITTIN ON HE BETTER THAN ALL U LAMES FAVORITE RAPPER (lil wayne t.i. jeezy gucci mane whoever the fuk!) he can b spittin on a beat i made wit 2 spoons an a fukin rattle an he murders it point blank an everybody knows u cant argue that
man jermaine good and all but i think he should have kanye produce alot of the album that would be fire
yeah that would be hot, but kanye said the only artist he would serious mess with now is common, because he sees everyone else as competition
as long as JD doesnt say anything like how he does on other songs it should be good
jd can get hot sometimes remember "hate in your blood" with freeway and jadakiss? fire!! anyway nas wont go for that loli pop sound anybody remember that supposed 2 million dolar beats he got from pharrel
album's gunna b crack on plastic
JD and Nas shit I dont know fuck I just dont know dosent sound good
i love nas but fuck man. JD? nah. dats why da new music aint poppin! and jay z career over. come on nas!
Think you pretty off b so just stop right here
NAS SUCKS SO THE ALBUMS GONNA SUCK WORSE!..I RATHER HEAR THE INSTRUMENTALS SINCE JD GOT MOST THE BEATS AND HIS SHIT IS HOT...TOO BAD NAS ISNT
didn't I tell ya go buy soulja boy, mims, huey, and dem other bubblegum albums in another article a month ago.
AND SHUT UR MOUTH, L.A. ain't even doin much deeez dayz anyways u dumbshit
Ya..Fuk Nas..he got a few hot shit but he fukin sux..Jd one of da best producers..he did sum grate shit for chingy in..Dem Jeans..Also Fab's..Baby Dont Go..Nd Other Trax..
J.D and NAS dont mix like 2 diccs LoL
Even if you guys think JD is a good producer, he shouldnt have him produce most of the album. You get an idea for a good track, you find a producer who can engineer a sound for that idea and go from there... I'm just tellin you Nas fans now that this is going to be a major let down.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! That shit is fuckd up! I cant wait to here wut it sounds like. JD is ok. But leave him to shit like janet and bow wow. Money aint a thang type shit. Dont put him in some shit where u gotta use ur brain. Smarten up nas. Dont do it.
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wha, NO NAS WHAT DA FUCK U DOING, DONT WORK WITH DIS DUDE, HE CANT MAKE A GOOD BEAT NO MO,EVEN IF HIS FUCKIN LIFE DEPENDED ON TT
I hate JD, he fucked my boy Bossman ova, fuck So So Def, B-More city/N.E.K muhfucka
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This album is gonna be a fun album for Nas. It's gonna be hott. I cant wait. I also love the fact that him and Jay are finally respecting eachother and hopping on tracks together. They need to do an album...PERIOD!
It'd be fuckin' Pandemonium!
~Be Eazy!
As long as JD dosen't feature in the album (duet), then it won't be a problem...
haha you aint lyin'
i don't know about this....i gotta give it up to JD but I don't know if his style and Nas' will mesh too well...
Going to be a good combo Nas a JD. look at JD and Fabolous song, fire right now eating up the charts. That's what Nas want and JD is not no whack producer anyway. GOOD LOOK!
Ya'll dudes is dumb JD makes hits, He's all over the radio... I never liked JD, before he had the beef wit Timbo & Dr. Dre, then I went backed and peeped that he gets heavy spins!!! Truelly Nas does need a step up in his production, if JD does like 4 tracks it will be a great look for them both!!!
Now we really bout to find out how many black fans actually buy Nas' albums. I don't think there will be more than a couple thousand white fans that buy this jaunt nationwide, if that, based on the name alone. I hope those true Nas fans step up, I plan on coppin it, even though Im not a big Nas head like most.
Nas is really gonna bring some heat with this album...fuck all them haters
fo sho aint nobody fuckin with esco
Big mistake in my opinion.
COME ON NAS
YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN JD
DIS NIGGA SHOULD
GET ALCHEMIST
OR DJ PREMIER OR SOMEBODY LIKE DAT