After reminiscing about his beef with Jay-Z, working with Damien Marley and his visit to England, Nas described his work ethic and his upcoming solo project.

“I am definitely looking at my solo project as one of the most important records of my life, you know what I mean?” Nas told Tim Westwood. “I’m happy to be here, I love the state of the game.”

According to Nas, the new album will feature production from Kanye West, who contacted the Queens-rapper about working on the new record.

“Its going to be magic. I feel a magic thing happening and brewing. I keep calling it a magic moment, that’s what it’s going to be. I feel it, the stuff I’m writing down,” Nas continued.

In fact Nas revealed that he was really inspired when Toronto rapper Drake, the RZA and Kanye reached out to him for his upcoming project.

“Kanye West hit me up and said ‘I want to do the album,’ and the RZA,” Nas revealed. “I heard Kanye’s album and its crazy. The new album is crazy. So I was just listening to Drake’s stuff and I was inspired by Drake shouting me out on the album. I have been inspired by his mind state for the album and he says my whole name. “Nasir Jones thank you.’ Kanye’s like man… Those dudes really inspire me to go in there and really do what I am supposed to do at this day and age in the game and to deliver.”
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With rap veteran Nas beginning work on his next solo album, SOHH recently reached out to producer Bangladesh who will be hitting the studio with the Queensbridge rapper.
Bang said he is planning to lace Nas with more aggressive-based sounds.

"I just do what I would like to hear from him," Bang said referring to putting together beats for Nas. "I'm a super Nas fan. I've been a Nas fan since he came out. Since the first song. With me being a producer and me having my sound, I would like to hear him on harder beats, more 808-driven, just more aggression. With a Nas record, typically to me, the songs will make the track good. It's not the track that makes the song good and that's what I want to bring. I want to bring the track and the song so that you're not only jamming to the beat with the words on it, but you can jam to the beat and the words and you can jam to the acapella with no beat to it. I think he's a great songwriter but sometimes his beats aren't as good as his songs. I want to bring that element where it's more aggressive, more heavy, something that's going to pay more attention to Nas in an area where he doesn't get looked at a lot."