AZ Speaks On His Long-Promised Collaborative Album With Nas

In an interview with The Urban Daily posted yesterday, AZ weighs in on the possibility of a Nas/AZ album.

TUD: I read that you were rying to get the collabo album with Nas together. What’s the likelihood of that?
AZ: I mean, he’s a busy man, he’s on top of the world, so that’s up in the air as far as now. But I’m sure it’ll happen sooner or later, just because what goes around comes around. So I’m sure it’ll happen sooner than later.

While we wait for that to happen, sign the petition for an AZ/Talib Kweli collaboration and download our compilation of Nas and AZ collaborations, Nasty Visuals. By all means, keep you fingers crossed. Who knows, maybe we'll hear something about the Nas/DJ Premier album soon.

One more choice excerpt, where AZ talks about his cameo in the video for "Dead Presidents":

TUD: You’ve you were in Jay-Z’s “Dead Presidents” video playing Monopoly with real money. How did you come to be at that table with Biggie and Jigga?

AZ: Well, I’m from Brooklyn for one, I’m a certified dude for two, and I knew Jay before he got in the game. At that
time, I had “Sugar Hill” out, so I was at the top of my game, and Jay told me to come through. ‘Cause I knew Jay way before. Actually, me and Jay went to high school [Eli Whitney High School] together. And then that high school closed, I
guess that’s when he went to school with Biggie [George Westinghouse Information Technology High School]. And from there, he was coming in the game, B.I.G. was already who he was so it was just a Brooklyn thing. And we sat at that table. At that particular time we [had] a Cristal drinking contest at the table, you know, and everybody get drunk. We [drank] the Cristal nonstop, I gave up first. I didn’t know B.I.G was a drinker. B.I.G. was a drinker. He went hard body. I mean, everybody had their own money, and the ladies was there, it just felt good at that time, there was no hate at that time. That word “hate” ain’t really exist, everybody was just like, ‘whatever’.

TUD: Did y’all keep playing after the camera stopped rolling?
AZ: You know what? I was so drunk around that time, I think they kept playing.
After the shoot, I was like, ‘Listen, I’m outta here.’

You can read the whole interview here.