Nas revisited his “One Mic” single with a scrappy unplugged trio, including Jack White on piano, for the recently aired PBS documentary The American Epic Sessions.
I gather the point of The American Epic Sessions is to tackle songs like this with recording technology from the 1920s – a single microphone (maybe why they picked “One Mic”?) along with a “recording device timed by a weight-driven system of clockwork gears” that presses the results of the session to vinyl as soon as it comes to a close. “One Mic” appeared on Nas’ 2001 Stillmatic album. This is honestly pretty dope – check out the video below and look for the 2 disc set out now wherever you buy, download, and steal music
