Nas and Jay-Z’s verses sound like they come from two different songs although Jay’s verse is light and bouncy, Nas seems almost bored by his own money talk as he brags about getting in on cryptocurrency early (tech bro rap has a very limited audience, as it’s a lot like trying to have a conversation with a tech bro). Not even Khaled’s motivational speaker energy could liven up the proceedings. Again, I’m not trying to be controversial here you could almost sense the disappointment of long-time fans in their Twitter reactions the night of the album’s release. Unfortunately, they’ve also never truly lived up to their hype, as the actual products have nearly always fallen well short of their outsized expectations.
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Between their cult-favorite status, continued longevity, popularity, and commercial viability over the last 30 years, and the animosity that once simmered between them, their team-ups are infrequent events that would make most Marvel execs salivate. After all, some truly nasty things were said during their early 2000s war of words that took nearly a decade more to address and get over - if they were ever truly able to actually get over them. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the two veteran rappers have seemed reluctant to join forces over the years. These are a rare animal indeed, the rap equivalent of Halley’s Comet.
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One of those attempts is the latest in a series of ultra-rare occurrences in hip-hop that I’m almost shocked he didn’t try to have minted as an NFT first: A collaboration between erstwhile foes Jay-Z and Nas on the song “Sorry Not Sorry.” But on Khaled’s glitzy new album, Khaled Khaled, he tries hard to give us reasons to appreciate his presence. That’s not a controversial statement it’s as close to being outright fact as anything in our post-truth, “fake news” saturated modern world.