NBA Corridor of Famer and moonlighting MC Shaquille O’Neal has formally launched the first-ever Jay-Z and Nas collaboration on the reissue of his 1996 album You Cannot Cease the Reign.

Shaq Formally Places First Jay-Z and Nas Collab on Album Re-Launch

After teasing followers with the report on Thursday (June 27), Shaq adopted by means of on Friday (June 28) by delivering an up to date model of his third studio album. The rerelease has the observe “No Love Misplaced” that includes Jay-Z, Nas and Lord Tariq. The observe marks the first-ever time Hov and Esco appeared on a track collectively.

On the Trackmasters-produced banger, which may be heard beneath, the then-burgeoning rappers are sharp with the bars as it could have been recorded across the time Jigga put out his debut album Affordable Doubt, and Nas was on the heels of his sophomore LP It Was Written.

“Fo’ sho’, every thing’s for dough now/The stream, y’all gotta pay slightly mo’ now,” Hov spits. “It is platinum, these days we put the gold down/We stepped it up, y’all do not ever wanna showdown/Get wetted up by the sleeve that go away the bezel out/Y’all do not prefer it, sue me, I am going to settled out/Ghettoed out, within the automobile bent/Lately I mellowed out.”

Shaq and Tariq slide on beat. Mid-90s Nas goes in as nicely. “I spent nights on corners, see the crack, cop my first smack/Not scared to pump with y’all pump/Now I burst again, it hurts that,” Nas raps. “Do not see cream could make my purse fats/With out the advantages of a doubt, I hit the hearse black/However curse that, attempt to see Nas was your worst match/Blowing like Tahiti, throw off NYPD, am I grasping?/Like I imply E.D. see me within the fly/Selena Gibby frames in a beanie.”

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The Historical past of “No Love Misplaced”

The track sans Nas initially appeared on the You Cannot Cease the Reign album when it debuted in November of 1996. The model with Nas appeared on the DJ Clue mixtape Fall Pt. 1 the identical 12 months the album model was launched. It was later circulated on music file-sharing companies.

Shaq revealed throughout an interview on the Drink Champs Podcast in 2022 that he could not find yourself clearing Nas’ verse. “I didn’t take it private as a result of, once more, me being within the studio with Nas, I’m completely happy,” Shaq stated. Now, it’s showing on DSPs for the primary time.

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Take a look at Jay-Z and Nas’ first collaboration on Shaq’s “No Love Misplaced” with Lord Tariq beneath.

Stream Shaq’s “No Love Misplaced” That includes Jay-Z, Nas and Lord Tariq