The Best Nas Features Of 2025, From Clipse To Slick Rick

Getty Image / Derrick Rossignol Don’t hit “submit” on your Best Hip-Hop Albums of the Year list just yet. Nas’ 18th studio release — produced entirely by fellow legend, DJ Premier — is set to drop December 12, 2025. It’s an electrifying way to close the year, but let’s not pretend Mr. Jones hasn’t been low-key active throughout the past 11 months. This year alone, Nas shined alongside The Clipse on their game-changer, Let God Sort ‘Em Out, and flexed his executive muscle as co-founder of Mass Appeal Records. Not only did he greenlight the Legend Has It… campaign—an initiative empowering r