If we wanted to use Rap Album as an Aid to to study in any Rap College one of those rap album must be Diatant Relatives By Nas and Damian Marley.

Distant Relatives is a collaborative studio album by American rapper Nas and Jamaican reggae vocalist Damian Marley . It was released on May, 2010, under Universal Republic and Def Jam Recordings . The album is Nas' 10th and Marley 4th Studio Album.

Distant Relatives project might have been caption from the fact that Two Artists from different Genre came to blend in a particular Album.
The record is not just intellectually and emotionally consistent: the production superbly complements the lyrical preoccupations, intuitively blending those distant musical relatives, reggae and rap, with a unique fusion of sounds from the African diaspora.

This 13 track Album with a one 1 track bonus got Africa as spotlight in some of their track, Nas told MTV reporters "Right now, I'll tell you first, I'm working on an album with Damian Marley. We tryin' to build some schools in Africa with this one, and trying to build empowerment. We're tryin' to show love and stuff with this album. to donate the record's profits to a project to build a school in Africa.

Nas and Marley began recording in 2008. The recording of this Album was from 2008 to 2009, Marley produced the majority of the track in the album and his brother Stephen prod 3 tracks on that live instrumentation in the recording process.
Two single "As We Enter " and "Strong Will Continue" was released from Diatant Relatives before the official album dropped, later "My Generation" was released August 31.

Nothing forgetting the upcoming record 'One Love all Star remix" that is coming from Bob Marley Family and PR Team.