Your playlist killed everybody’s playlist.īLIGE: I know. After the show, we would change and your dressing room would be the second part of the show. NAS: In your dressing room, you had the speakers, the wine, and the people. One thing that happened a lot on the tour was Club Mary. The tour was great, but we started in the middle of summer. Immediately, we’ve got everybody rockin’. And that song was a perfect song to start our Royalty Tour. We never get the chance to work in the studio together, but we will soon. Then they pieced us together in the video. I was excited when you sent me back what you did. It was amazing as usual, even though we weren’t together. What was it like for us to work together?īLIGE: We did “Thriving,” but we worked separately. I remember meeting you at a club and being like, “Whoa, that’s Mary. At that point, the whole world belonged to Mary. I followed you until What’s the 411? came out. Everyone wanted to hear that song on repeat. NAS: Yes, it was “You Remind Me.” We only played rap music until we heard that record.
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I was riding around the city in my man’s van playing your song from that movie soundtrack, was it New Jack City or. You were, and are, one of my favorite rap artists. I was in love with Illmatic, so when I met you, I was like, “Oh man, I’m meeting the guy.” I was super excited.
I was like, “It would be an honor to meet someone so young, so conscious, and so smart.” You were healing yourself and the world through your music. What was our first impression of each other?īLIGE: Well, I already knew you through your album and I was a huge fan. Share My Word is one of my favorite albums by you, especially the title track. NAS: We’d probably seen each other out and talked a few times before then, but yeah, it must have been around “Love is All We Need.” That was great, especially being in the video. Steve Stoute was managing you, and while you were touring the Share My World album, we did the song “Love is All We Need.” It was somewhere in that whirlwind that we met. How did we meet?īLIGE: I swear I can never actually remember, but I know this much.
īLIGE: We all had our first real car on that one. NAS: Man, that album reminds me of when I got my first car. Chucky Thompson’s in it, right?īLIGE: Yeah, Chucky was a major part of the My Life album. That shit had my eyes watering.īLIGE: Aw, thank you, Nas.
Below, the pair reminisce about their days touring together, the infamous Club MJB, and their very first meeting. Last week, Nas and Blige cleared some time in their crowded calendars for a Zoom call to catch up on one another’s lives. This August, Nas released King’s Disease II, an album boasting features from the likes of Eminem, Lauryn Hill, and Hit-Boy, and Blige returned to the screen in Power Book II: Ghost and Respect. Since that fateful interaction, the two hip-hop R&B powerhouses have collaborated on a slew of chart-toppers like “Love Is All We Need,” “Reach Out,” and recently, 2019’s “Thriving.” The same year, Nas and MJB hit the road as co-headliners on their Royalty Tour, an experience which brought them still closer as collaborators and companions.
The pair have even confessed to playing each other’s music line for line, before they ever met in person. Both budding stars in the ’90s, they caught each other’s attention with explosive debut albums- Illmatic and What’s the 411?, respectively. Blige were fans before they were friends.
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