The unique model of Shaquille O’Neal’s “No Love Misplaced” that includes Jay-Z, Nas and Lord Tariq will lastly drop on Friday (June 28). Shaq introduced the unreleased tune out of the vault for his You Can’t Stop the Reign album’s streaming launch.
“You Can’t Cease the Reign coming to DSPs Friday,” he wrote on Instagram. “Unreleased Jay-Z + Nas monitor included.”
Shaq’s “No Love Misplaced” was meant to be Jay-Z and Nas’ first collaboration, however Nas didn’t seem on the tune when You Can’t Cease the Reign dropped in 1996. Shaq defined Nas’ absence in a 2022 interview with Drink Champs.
“Folks didn’t clear it,” Shaq mentioned. “Look, I didn’t take it private ‘trigger … me being within the studio with Nas, I’m comfortable. I get to name my boy and be like, ‘Hey, come over, Nas cowl.’ I get to name my boy and say, ‘Jay in right here.’ I get to name my boys and say, ‘Yo Biggie on the home. We ‘bout to leap on the Sea-Doos.’ That’s what it’s all about.”
One other Shaq collab with a Hip-Hop legend was shelved when Ice Dice blocked the previous NBA star from releasing a tune with Dr. Dre. Shaq revealed why the monitor by no means noticed the sunshine of day on The Huge Podcast in June.
“Dice was government producing one in every of my information,” Shaq mentioned. “And he put me within the studio with Dr. Dre. I did a tune referred to as ‘That’s Gangsta.’ Dice heard it and was like, ‘Nope. We’re not releasing this.’ Dre did the beat “I believed it was good … After which I performed it for Dice … He was like, ‘Shaq, you’re a f###### Laker, bro. I don’t need you speaking about nothing gangsta. We not doing none of that s###.’ And it by no means got here out.”
Hearken to Shaq’s beforehand unreleased model of “No Love Misplaced” beneath.