![]() (Unauthorized Biography of Rakim)” in 2004 and their joint collabo on DJ Premier’s 2007 “Classic,” which also features KRS One and Kanye West. State of Mind,” which took its melodic inspiration from Donald Byrd’s “Flight Time” and Joe Chambers’ “Mind Rain.” The song is hosted on Nas’ debut studio effort Illmatic.Īfter that moment, the “One Mic” artist released “U.B.R. She took her cues from DJ Premier’s production of Nas’ “N.Y. Keys’ version was titled “Streets of New York (City Life)” and lived on her Unplugged album. ![]() Just the fact that we were the first people to get Nas and Rakim ever on a record together was amazing and we did it from a mixtape idea.” Reached out and Rakim did it, so we had features on remixed records but it didn’t make the album because we felt like, ‘Ok, we don’t want people to pick it up for Nas and Rakim.’ It didn’t really make any album, but it’s out there floating somewhere. Then I was like Rakim is a scratch in the sample, it would be dope to have Rakim on this. ![]() “We thought it would be dope to get Nas on this because it’s a Nas record. Alicia Keys is returning to the music scene, just a year after the release of her seventh studio album, Alicia. “ came up with the song and we put it out on a mixtape in between the album,” Brothers said.
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