Nas has turned things into a family affair during one of his recent performances.
According to Complex, while performing alongside De La Soul and Wu-Tang Clan at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa, Florida this past Sunday, the 50-year old rap icon noticed his cousin in the crowd.
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“Huh? You my cousin,” Nas said shockingly. “I ain’t seen you in like… 20 or 30 years. That’s fucking crazy. I’m… I’m happy you here. Yeah. Fucking amazing, man. See what y’all did for me? Bring family together. That’s fucking beautiful.”
The legendary Queens MC is currently having a run for the ages.
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Escobar unleashed the dapper music video on Monday (September 25) which is filled with champagne toasts to the extravagant life he’s built and the drinks were definitely flowing throughout the memorable night.
Plenty of Nas’ Hip Hop contemporaries were present, including Diddy, Slick Rick, Mary J. Blige, Fat Joe, Q-Tip, Raekwon, Styles P, N.O.R.E., actor Robert DeNiro, comedian Chris Rock, and his go-to collaborator Hit-Boy.
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Draped in a sleek white suit, Nas toasts glasses and receives his flowers throughout his epic 50th birthday party.
“Fever” is one of the songs on Magic 3, which is his last collaborative project with Hit-Boy.Magic 3 was released on September 14.
Prior to its release, Nas and Hit-Boy both thanked fans for rocking with each release throughout the years.
“I want to thank everyone for taking this ride with @hitboy & I,” Nas wrote on social media. “It’s been nothing short of Magical!”
Soon after that, Hit-Boy said, writing: “Nas is dropping his last Hit-Boy produced album on his 50th bday this thursday. Magic 3 [crying emoji, three magic wand emojis]. Those are tears of joy btw. thank you to any and everyone who has listened and supported the movement.”
The cross-coast superduo released six albums in four years, adding up to two trilogies and a Grammy win for Best Rap Album in 2020 for King’s Disease.
“He’s like my Quincy [Jones], you know what I mean?” Nas said about Hit-Boy during a 2021 interview with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden. “So I feel like the next thing I do, if I was to work with Hit-Boy on the next thing I do, I think that we might do something that is going to be magical.
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In the same spirit, Hit-Boy has also flaunted his lethal connection in the studio with Nas.
“It’s just me and Nas in the studio,” he said during an after-party for King’s Disease 2. “There be n-ggas in the studio. It’s just me and bro, bro. Do y’all hear this shit? It’s just me and this n-gga in the studio. He’s barred up, I’m making beats. No hooplah.
“We not on fuckin’ Twitter botherin’ y’all. We not on IG Live putting a weird-ass stream up, n-gga. We doin’ this shit for real though, n-gga! Stop playin’!”
