Hit-Boy Says He Hasn’t Spoken to Nas in Three Years and Doesn’t See a Reunion

Hit-Boy is opening up about the silence that has fallen between him and Nas, revealing that despite one of the most productive creative partnerships in recent hip-hop history, the two have not spoken in three years and he does not expect them to work together again.

The producer and Nas built an extraordinary run together, recording six albums and roughly 80 songs across a three-year stretch.

That output earned widespread critical recognition, yet the relationship has since gone cold. “I ain’t spoke to Nas in three years,” Hit-Boy said plainly. “We did 80 songs in three years. I still can’t believe you did that every single song on album.”

When pressed on why the collaboration appears to be finished, Hit-Boy was measured but direct. It’s a lot of reasons,” he said, “but it’s something I just really don’t want to dig too deep in cuz it’s like pretty deep.” He offered no further specifics, but made his position clear. “I don’t see us working again,” he added.

The revelation fits into a broader frustration Hit-Boy expressed about how success can corrode relationships in the music industry.

He noted that he no longer speaks to several major figures he has worked with, pointing out that creative and commercial achievement does not always translate into lasting bonds. “Success is a dirty word,” he said. “It’s ego, it’s insecurity, it’s a lot of things that go into this.”

He also addressed a long-running claim that Nas is among the worst beat pickers in rap, a characterization that came up during the conversation.

Hit-Boy acknowledged the critique has circulated widely but kept his own commentary focused on the work rather than the criticism.

His view was that producers as a whole remain undervalued, regardless of the artist they are working with. “I feel like I’m underrated as a producer too,” he said. “Almost all producers is pretty much underrated because the average person is only looking at the star.”

Hit-Boy described a pattern he sees repeatedly in the industry, where a producer and artist become deeply aligned during the making of an album, only for the artist to grow distant once the project is complete.

“When you working on his album you my everything,” he said, characterizing the dynamic, “soon as it’s over you act like he don’t even know you a lot of times.”

He framed it not as a personal grievance unique to any one situation, but as a structural problem in how the industry treats creative labor.

Despite the estrangement, Hit-Boy was careful to acknowledge what he and Nas accomplished together. “Respect to what we did get accomplished in three years,” he said. The body of work stands on its own, even if the relationship that produced it does not.