DJ Premier & Nas Announce the Release Date for Their New Collab Album

Nas and DJ Premier will drop off their new collaborative album next month.

Premier announced the project during a show on Wednesday (Nov. 19) in Bristol, England alongside The Alchemist. While he didn’t reveal the official title for the new LP, he confirmed the collection of collabs will drop Dec. 12.

“How many people are ready for that Nas-Premier album?” Premier calls out to a roaring crowd. “December 12th, get ready motherf—kers.” Premier then dove into their “Represent” song from Illmatic.

Nas and Preemo’s latest collab will be the final piece of Mass Appeal’s Legend Has It… rollout, which included releases from Slick Rick, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Mobb Deep, Big L, and most recently De La Soul’s Cabin In The Sky that drops Friday (Nov. 21).

The announcement comes after Nas and Premier dropped off “Define My Name” last April, which they confirmed at the time was part of an album rollout.

“I can’t wait for people to finally hear it,” Nas told Rolling Stone in October. I don’t know about anybody else, but for me and him, it was personally a long time coming for us to do it.”

He added by talking about the creative “ideas” he and Premier had been hashing out throughout 2024. “I’m going to say at least two of those ideas happened on this album,” Nas added. “We didn’t get a chance to do ’em when we were talking about ’em, but we finally got a chance to put those recordings together this year.”