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Jay-Z and Nas’ First Collaboration Finally Released… on a Shaquille O’Neal Album Reissue

Jay-Z and Nas' first ever collaboration, a song called 'No Love Lost,' made for a 1996 Shaquille O'Neal album, has finally gotten an official release.

The song is called “No Love Lost,” and it features Shaq alongside Jay, Nas, and fellow New York City MC Lord Tariq. Nas had written and recorded a verse for the song, but as O’Neal explained during a 2022 appearance on Drink Champs, “You know how it is with clearances and publishing and all that… People didn’t clear it.” 1, and by the early 2000s, the track was all over Mp3 file-sharing platforms like Limewire and Napster, where it was often known as “Analyze This.” By that point, too, the song had taken on extra significance in the thick of the infamous Jay-Z/Nas feud.

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