Nas has given fans an update on his eagerly anticipated joint album with DJ Premier — which he says has been “a long time coming” for him and the legendary producer.

The Queensbridge native briefly discussed the project in an interview with Rolling Stone, revealing that it will include a handful of older songs that he and Premo recorded when they first made plans to make an album together.

“I’m going to say at least two of those ideas happened on this album,” he said. “We didn’t get a chance to do ’em when we were talking about ’em, but we finally got a chance to put those recordings together this year.”

Though he didn’t share a concrete release date, Nas did express his excitement and enthusiasm for the album, saying: “I can’t wait for people to finally hear it. I don’t know about anybody else, but for me and him, it was personally a long time coming for us to do it.

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