Music

Listen to a new Nas song, "Cherry Wine" featuring Amy Winehouse

by Tyler Munro

Amy Winehouse’s best song might be “Me and Mr. Jones,” written at least in part about Nas. The two collaborated two years later for a track that eventually appeared on Winehouse’s posthumous Lioness: Hidden Treasures album, but today another joint effort from the two popped up online.

“Cherry Wine” is set to appear on Nas’ upcoming Life Is Good, and while the audio quality of this rip sounds almost like someone recorded it on an answering machine (it’s a radio rip), there’s enough there to be excited about.

Nas lets Winehouse do here thing on the track, and in all respects she dominates the song. Not just because of the story we all know by now—a huge talent lost too soon to her own vices—but because it’s so decidedly her own sound, with horns and piano slinking in the background. Her voice doesn’t just carry the hook; it is the hook. And Nas? Well he’s pretty good too.

Listen to the 6-minute, static filled radio rip of “Cherry Wine” below. Life Is Good is in stores July 17.