Overview
- Light-Years is out now on streaming services and for purchase, including a limited Day Ones Edition on vinyl, CD, and cassette via Mass Appeal.
- Mass Appeal is hosting a Legends Only pop-up in New York offering the album and a limited Denim Tears collaboration T‑shirt.
- Early notices praise a back-to-basics boom-bap sound and Nas’s focused lyricism, with Hip Hop Golden Age awarding an 8/10.
- The album includes “N. Y. State of Mind Pt. 3,” which incorporates Billy Joel’s piano motif and approaches the classic as a present-day dispatch.
- The release fulfills a collaboration decades in the making, long hinted since a 2006 Scratch cover and rekindled by 2024’s “Define My Name.”