Nas and MF DOOM as soon as had a legendary freestyle session that lasted virtually an hour — but it surely was by no means caught on digicam.
The cypher was detailed in an editorial penned by DOOM’s former assistant, Courtney Brown, and printed on The Supply in honor of the three-year anniversary of the late rapper’s loss of life.
Brown, who labored with MF DOOM for a few years after assembly him by Talib Kweli, recalled plenty of fond moments she witnessed, together with DOOM and Nas’ musical relationship.
“I moved to L.A. to help him as he labored on DangerDOOM,” she defined. “Throughout that point we spent a number of time discovering inspiration for that album and hanging out with my finest pal on the time Kelis and her husband, rapper Nas.
“Someday after a bougie L.A. dinner I satisfied them to return again to my resort room the place DOOM placed on some beats and Nas started freestyling. This lasted almost an hour. DOOM had his Particular Herbs CD on him and it was a historic second not captured on digicam or recorded.”
Regardless of by no means formally releasing a collaboration collectively, the 2 rap titans constructed a particular bond previous to DOOM’s loss of life in 2020.
Throughout a 2012 interview with HipHopDX, the masked MC spoke about his relationship with Nas and briefly mirrored on their aforementioned freestyle session.
“[Nas is] my brother,” he mentioned. “My different brother from one other mom. We bought some work finished, however we ain’t document it. He would freestyle and have enjoyable and shit. We should always have recorded a number of the freestyles this n-gga did.
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“He did one freestyle over this beat that I bought, this Particular Herbs beat that no one used but, proper? The n-gga ripped the entire shit from starting to finish.
“That’s how you already know who’s very nice,” he added. “The muthafucka’s nasty. Sure cats simply have a pure knack for it. Nas is sweet. That n-gga’s nasty, matter of truth.”
Their friendship wasn’t simply restricted to freestyling, although.
“I used to be at Nas’ pool social gathering. That shit was dope,” DOOM mentioned in one other interview with SPIN that very same yr. “It was the day after, prefer it was nonetheless happening, so an actual non-public factor.”
He added: “I used to be late — I had my woman or no matter, you know the way the Villain works — however that was the flyest pool social gathering. That shit was cool. I even introduced a gift, a portray I made, and simply snuck it in there, put it up. That could be the one pool social gathering I ever been to.”
