Pioneering rapper Nas - responsible for the 1994 hip-hop classic Illmatic - will join Kanye West on a tour of Australia's east coast this December.

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The tour - which leaked last week courtesy of motor-mouth turntable maetstro DJ Craze - will be east coast only, with the hip-hop titans joined by New Zealand sensation Scribe.
The announcement co-incides with the release of Kanye's new single Love Lockdown and the release of his fourth studio album in December. Nas is touring on the back of his recently released self-titled album, which stirred controversy in the US because of the original album title Nigger, which was subsequently dropped.
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