Nas has turned things up a notch with Tobe Nwigwe and Jacob Banks for their brand new track “On My Soul.”
On Thursday (May 18), “On My Soul” was released via Mass Appeal Records which was co-founded by Nas in 2014. At the beginning of the soulful track, Tobe Nwigwe opens up with his signature fast-paced delivery packed with bars that you have to rewind and dissect
Guard your grill, guard your grill/Ain’t nobody out here hard to kill/The gat I pack go “pap” and peel your cap from front to back/Have you stiff or hard as steel/Ah, tuna fish my hardest meal/Stay trill when they switch to a harder skill/I’m in the field like a Buffalo Bill with a bubble-coat filled/With a couple little posts, chill,” the Houston rapper spits.
After Jacob Banks belts out the chorus in riveting fashion, the King’s Disease rapper follows up with a sped up verse of his own while still sticking to the script of giving us lyrics that’ll make anyone scowl in disbelief.
Don’t slander all the banter/Just one answer, I’m an animal/I’m just one man, outstandin’ though/Part wolf, part king, part Hannibal/Example, proof, I’m built like I’m mechanical/On the mic, I’m a cannibal,” Nas raps.
Check out the track below:
On My Soul” is on the Transformers: Rise of the Beasts film soundtrack which will be released on June 9, 2023.
In other Nas news, N.O.R.E. recently revealed that his most surreal Drink Champs episode was when he was able to interview the legendary Queens artist.
Chatting with HipHopDX backstage at the Lovers & Friends festival in Las Vegas last week, the Drink Champs co-host said his goal was to humanize the Hip Hop idols that come on to his show, and interviewing Nas in particular was an unreal experience.
“That’s my brother and I never really wanted to interview him at all because he’s my brother, but the fact that he did sit down…it’s very weird to ask people questions that you don’t wanna ask them. I’m not the police, and they know I’m not the police, but at the end of the day, I wanna have fun and I wanna make them surreal,” he said.
He continued: “At the end of the day, all Hip Hop stars is superheroes, but the thing is what makes Drink Champs Drink Champs is I don’t make ’em superheroes; I make them Clark Kents.”
Nas sat down to speak with Drink Champs in 2019 shortly after the release of The Lost Tapes 2. During the lengthy conversation, N.O.R.E. took a moment to celebrate the monumental achievement of having the Illmatic MC on the show.
“I arrived here being with my people and I never had dreams of doing business with Warren Buffett or Steve Jobs or things like that. My thing was I wanna do business with Puff Daddy, I wanna do business with Nas, I wanna do business with Hov. Because that’s who I look up to and that’s who I can see myself becoming,” N.O.R.E. said as applause broke out.
