"Nas' 'The Lost Tapes II' Is a Grab Bag Set That Shows Every Side of the Iconic Rapper". "Nas review, The Lost Tapes II: Queensbridge rapper's latest work feels a lot like redemption".
^ "Nas Reveals 'The Lost Tapes II' Tracklist, Release date". "Nas Reveals 'The Lost Tapes 2' Promo On Instagram". ^ "Hear Nas' Previously Unreleased "Royalty" Which Credits Frank Ocean". "Nas Fans Create Online Petition for Def Jam to Release "Lost Tapes 2" ". "Rapper Nas Is to Join Label Led by Former Rival Jay-Z". ^ a b "Nas Gathers Unreleased Tracks for Long-Awaited 'Lost Tapes 2' ". "Beautiful Life" contains samples from "Happy Song", written by Reginald Brown, Richard Davis, and Stafford Floyd, and performed by The Dynamic Superiors. "You Mean the World to Me" contains samples from "Don't It Make You Feel Good?", written and performed by Leroy Hutson. "It Never Ends" contains samples from "One Way Rag", written by Colin Gibson and Kenny Craddock, and performed by Alan White. "Highly Favoured" contains samples from " (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right", written by Homer Banks, Carl Hampton and Raymond Jackson, and performed by Alton Ellis. "The Art of It" contains samples from " Uptown Anthem", written by Vincent Brown, Anthony Criss, and Keir Gist, and performed by Naughty by Nature and samples from " Straighten It Out", written by Peter Phillips and CL Smooth, and performed by Pete Rock & CL Smooth, which itself samples "Our Generation", written and performed by Ernie Hines. "Adult Film" contains uncredited interpolations of "Raw", written by Antonio Hardy, and performed by Big Daddy Kane. "Tanasia" contains samples from " Mother Russia", written by Michael Dunford and Betty Newsinger, and performed by Renaissance. "Lost Freestyle" contains a sample from "Accept Me (I'm Not a Girl Anymore)", written and performed by Angela Bofill. "Jarreau of Rap (Skatt Attack)" contains an interpolation from " (Round, Round, Round) Blue Rondo à la Turk", written and performed by Al Jarreau. "You Mean the World to Me" features uncredited vocals by Tony Williams. Ocean still received songwriting credit for the track. 
The track was reworked as "Royalty" featuring RaVaughn. In 2012, American singer Frank Ocean and producer Hit-Boy created a track entitled "No Such Thing As White Jesus" that went unreleased. After losing time to the project's delay, Nas began recording for a new studio album and put plans for The Lost Tapes 2 on hold. Reports of the project's delay incited fans to create an online petition in December asking for Def Jam to release the album. However, its release was further delayed by Def Jam, whom Nas accused of mishandling the project and its budget in a personal e-mail sent to label executives. That's all it takes." In September, he announced plans to release The Lost Tapes 2 on December 14. So I've just got to set it up, put them together – 12 songs for one album, 12 songs for another album, and figure it out. So I've got enough actually, for a Lost Tapes 2 and 3 by now. In a June 2010 interview for Hot 97.5 KVEG, he said of following-up The Lost Tapes, "I do got a lot of songs that really didn't make no album, that's just sittin' around got lost. However, its release was delayed, and in 2006, Nas signed to Def Jam Recordings. A follow-up compilation, The Lost Tapes 2, was originally intended to be released on December 16, 2003, and include unreleased recordings, remixes, and freestyle tracks. In 2002, Nas released The Lost Tapes, compiling previously unreleased tracks that were discarded from recording sessions for Nas' studio albums, I Am.
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