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6 Years Ago Today, This Hip-Hop Veteran Caught a Second Wave With Star-Studded, Grammy-Winning Album

On this day in 2020, Nas found a creative partnership with Hit-Boy that would usher in a second prime for the Queens rapper.

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Not every rapper is blessed to have the long career that Nas has had. Eventually, hip-hop veterans tend to transition into legacy and touring acts. Releasing new albums would usually be few and far between. For a while, the Queens MC followed that line of thinking. With a variety of different creative avenues in his pocket, he didn’t need to rap. When he released the underwhelming NASIR with Kanye West in 2018, he could’ve ridden off into the sunset.

But with the release of King’s Disease, which came out six years ago........

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