Nas' seventh studio album, Street’s Disciple, was released as a double album and titled after his first two words on wax from Main Source’s 1991 track “Live at the Barbeque.” The album cover is an adaptation of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting The Last Supper. Nas initially planned to release a double album in 1999 with I Am…the Autobiography but changed I Am… to a single disc after the album was bootlegged on the Internet.
The bulk of the album’s production was handled by Salaam Remi, Chucky Thompson, and L.E.S., with contributions from Q-Tip and Nas himself, among others. The album was met with favorable reviews and achieved platinum status after peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200 with support from the singles “Thief’s Theme,” “Just a Moment” with Quan, and “Bridging the Gap” with his father Olu Dara.