During an appearance at the annual Vibe Impact Awards, New York City producer Swizz Beatz recalled working in the studio with fellow artist and Vibe Impact Awards honoree Nas. According to Swizz, there were countless times when he and the Queensbridge emcee would appear in the studio together for a session and never release what was recorded.

“This is my Virgo brother. We’ve done many sessions together,” Swizz said. “A lot of songs never came out, but we did many sessions together. Because like when we get in the studio it’s just a weird vibe because we forget how much we vibe together. Because he go do his thing. I go do my thing. And when we’re finally in the studio it’s like ‘Man, why we ain’t do this six months ago. You know, I gotta turn my album in next week.’ So, we trying to cram in 50 songs in like a week. And then we say ‘Let’s just save it for the next album.’ We did that about four albums back to back. So, hopefully this album, Stoute won’t let that happen.”