Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), better known by his stage name Nas ( ), is an American hip hop recording artist, rapper, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. Son Olu Dara, Nas has released eight platinum and multi-platinum albums and has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. He is also an entrepreneur through his own record label; she serves as an associate publisher of Mass Appeal magazine and owner of Fila's shoe store. He is the founder of Mass Appeal Records.
His musical career began in 1991, as a flagship artist on "Main at the Barbeque" Sumber Utama. His debut album Illmatic (1994) received universal praise from both the critics and the hip-hop community and is often classed as the greatest hip-hop album of all time. Nas's follow-up It Written debuted at # 1 on Billboards 200, remained on top for four consecutive weeks, went Double Platinum in two months, and made Nas known international. From 2001 to 2005, Nas was involved in a highly publicized dispute with Jay-Z, popularized by a different path "Ether". Nas signed a contract with Def Jam in 2006. In 2010, he released Relative Far , a collaboration album with Damian Marley, donating all royalties to an active charity in Africa. Her 11th studio album, Life Is Good (2012) was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.
Nas is often referred to as one of the greatest hip-hop artists. MTV ranked it at # 5 on the "Greatest MCs of All Time" list. In 2012, The Source ranked him # 2 on the "Top 50 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. In 2013, Nas was ranked 4th on MTV's "Hottest MCs in the Game" list. About.com ranked first on the list of "50 Greatest MCs of All Time" in 2014, and a year later, Nas is featured in the "The 10 Best Rappers of All Time" list by Billboards.
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Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones was born on September 14, 1973, in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Olu Dara (born Charles Jones III), is a jazz and blues musician, from Mississippi. His mother, Fannie Ann (Little) Jones, is a Postal Service worker from North Carolina. He has one sibling, a brother named Jabari Fret best known as "Jungle", a member of the hip hop group Bravehearts. His father took his name "Olu Dara" from the Yoruba people. His African DNA shows he has roots in countries with high Yoruba inhabitants Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana - as well as Mali, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, South Africa and Senegal. Her matrilineal DNA haplogroup is from Africa, found among the Yoruba and Fulbe populations of West Africa.
As a young boy, Nas and his family moved to the Queensbridge House in the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens. His neighbor Willy "Ill Will" Graham, influenced his interest in hip hop by playing the tape. His parents divorced in 1985, and he dropped out after eighth grade. He educated himself about African culture through the Five Nations and Nuwaubian Nations. In his early years, he played the trumpet and began to write his own rhyme.
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Careers
The late 1980s-1994: Early underground and debut album
As a teenager, Nas enlisted his best friend and neighbor Willy "Ill Will" Graham as his DJ. Nas originally left with the nickname "Kid Wave" before adopting a more familiar alias of "Nasty Nas". In the late 1980s, he met with producer Large Professor and went to the studio where Rakim and Kool G Rap recorded their album. When they are not in the recording studio, Nas will go into the booth and record his own material. However, nothing was ever released. In 1991, Nas appeared on the "Live at the Barbeque" Main Source. In mid-1992, Nas was approached by MC Serch of 3rd Bass, who became his manager and secured Nas a record deal with Columbia Records in the same year. Nas made his solo debut under the name "Nasty Nas" on the single "Halftime" from the MC Serch soundtrack for the Zebrahead movie. Called a new Rakim, his rhyming skills attract a tremendous amount of attention in the hip-hop community.
In 1994, Nas's debut album, Illmatic , was finally released. It was awarded the best album of 1994 by The Source . It also features productions from Professors, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, LES and Premier DJs, as well as guest appearances from friends of AZ AZ and his father Olu Dara. The album spawned several singles, including "The World is Yours", "It Is not Hard Tell", and "One Love". Shaheem Reid of MTV News called "Illmatic " the first classic LP "of 1994. In 1994, Nas also recorded the song" One on One "for the movie Street Fighter soundtrack. In his book For Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on Hip Hop Aesthetic , William Jelani Cobb writes about the impact of Nas at the time:
Nas, the poetic sage of the Queensbridge projects, was hailed as the arrival of both Rakim - as if the first had reached an expiration date. [...] Nas has never been 'Rakim next,' nor does it really have to be. Illmatic stand alone. The sublime lyrics of the CD, combined with the fact that it was delivered into a boiling West-West conflict container, quickly established its reputation as the lead author of his time.
Steve Huey of AllMusic described Nas's lyrics on Illmatic as "very learned" and his rap was "very fluid regardless of the size of his vocabulary", adding that Nas "was able to evoke a bleak reality of ghetto life without losing hope or forgetting the -good time ". Reviewing Nas's second album. It is Written , Leo Stanley of allmusic believes that rhyme is not as complicated in Illmatic but still "not only flows, but succeeds in telling coherent stories as well". About.com rated Illmatic as the greatest hip-hop album of all time, and Prefix praised it as "the best hip-hop record ever made".
1995-1997: Mainstream Direction and Firm
Columbia Records began pressuring Nas to work towards more commercial topics, such as The Notorious B.I.G., which has become a success with the release of street singles that still retain radio-friendly appeal. In 1995, Nas performed guest appearances on the album Doe or Die by AZ, The Infamous by The Infamous Mobb Deep, Just Built 4 Cuban Linx by Raekwon and 4,5,6 by Kool G Rap. Nas also parted company with MC Serch manager, asked Steve Stoute, and began preparing a second LP,
Signed a contract with Aftermath Entertainment label. Dre, The Firm started working on their debut album. Halfway through album production, Cormega was fired from the group by Steve Stoute, who was unsuccessful trying to force Cormega to sign a deal with his management company. Cormega went on to become one of Nas's most vocal adversaries and released a number of underground hip hop singles "dissing" Nas, Stoute, and Nature, who replaced Cormega as the fourth member of The Firm. Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Attend The Firm: The Album finally released in 1997 for a variety of reviews. The album failed to meet the expected sales, even though platinum was certified, and the group members were dissolved to split up.
During this period, Nas was one of four rappers (the other being B-Real, KRS-One and RBX) in the supergroup hip-hop Group Therapy, which appeared in the song "East Coast/West Coast Killas" from Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath .
1998-2000: Inconsistent output
In late 1998, Nas began working on a double album, titled I Am... The Autobiography ; he meant that as the middle path between Illmatic and It Written , with each song detailing parts of his life. In 1998, Nas co-wrote and starred in feature film Hype Williams 1998 Belly . I Am... The Autobiography was completed in early 1999, and a music video was taken for the lead single, "Nas Is Like". It was produced by Premier DJ and contained vowel samples from "It's Not Difficult To Tell". Music critic M.F. DiBella noticed that Nas also covered "politics, hip-hop, Y2K, race, and religion with his own unique perspective" on the album in addition to the autobiographical lyrics. Most of the LP's were leaked to MP3 format to the Internet, and Nas and Stoute quickly recorded enough substitute material to form a single disc release.
The second single on I Am... is "Hate Me Now", featuring Sean "Puffy" Combs, used as an example by Nas's critics, accusing him of moving towards a more commercial theme. The video featured Nas and the Crucified Comb in a manner similar to Jesus Christ; after the video finishes, Combs asks for the scene of the crucifixion edited out of the video. However, unedited "Hate Me Now" video copies run into MTV. Within minutes of the broadcast, Combs and his bodyguard allegedly entered Steve Stoute's office and attacked him, at one point apparently hitting Stoute's head with a bottle of champagne. Stoute pressed costs, but he and Combs decided out of court in June. Columbia had planned to release the infringing material from I Am... with the title Nastradamus in the second half of 1999, but, at the last minute, Nas decided to record a new album for the 1999 release of Nastradamus . Nastradamus therefore rushed to meet the November release date. Although critics were not good on the album, it produced a small hit, "You Owe Me".
In 2000, Nas & amp; Ill Will Records QB's Best Presents, known as QB's Finest , was released on Nas's Ill Will Records. QB's Finest is a compilation album that featured Nas and a number of other rappers from Queensbridge projects, including Mobb Deep, Nature, Capone, Bravehearts, Tragedy Khadafi, Millennium Thug and Cormega, who had briefly reconciled with Nas. The album also featured guest appearances from Queensbridge hip-hop legends Roxanne Shantà ©, MC Shan, and Marley Marl. Shan and Marley Marl both appear in the main single "Da Bridge 2001", which is based on Shan & amp; Marl 1986 recorded "The Bridge". Fans and critics fear that Nas career declined, artistic and commercial, for both I Am... and Nastradamus has been criticized as inconsistent. 2001-2003: The dispute with Jay-Z and artistic comeback
After trade of veiled criticism on various songs, freestyles and mixtape appearances, the discord published between Nas and Jay-Z became widely publicly known in 2001. Jay-Z, in his song "Takeover", criticized Nas by calling him "fake" and his career " paralyzed ". Nas responded with "Ether", where he compared Jay-Z with characters like J.J. Evans from the sitcom Good Times and the cigarette company mascot Joe Camel. The song is included in Nas's fifth studio album, Stillmatic, released in December 2001. Her daughter Destiny is listed as an executive producer at Stillmatic so she can always receive a royalty check from the album. Stillmatic reached # 5 on the US Billboard 200 chart and featured the singles "Got Ur Self A..." and "One Mic".
In response to "Ether", Jay-Z released the song "Supa Ugly", which hosted Hot 97 radio Angie Martinez premiered on December 11, 2001. In the song, Jay-Z explicitly boast about having an affair with Nas's girlfriend, Carmen Bryan. New York City's hip-hop radio station Hot 97 issued a poll asking listeners to make better rapper songs; Nas won by 58% while Jay-Z got 42% of the vote. In 2002, in the midst of a dispute between two New York rapper, Eminem cites both Nas and Jay-Z as the two best MCs in the industry, in his song 'Till I Collapse. Both the dispute and the Stillmatic hinted at an artistic comeback for Nas after a series of inconsistent albums. The Lost Tapes , a compilation of previously unreleased or pre-recorded songs from 1997-2001, was released by Columbia in September 2002. The collection achieved a respectable sale and received a warm welcome from critics.
In December 2002, Nas released the album God Son including the main single, "Made You Look" using a low-pitched sample of the Incredible Band "Apache". The album peaked at No. 12 on Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the album charts R & amp; B/Hip-Hop Top despite the widespread release of the internet. Time magazine named her album the best hip-hop album of the year. Vibe gave him four stars and The Source gave him four mic. The second single, "I Can", which reprocessed elements from Beethoven's "FÃÆ'¼r Elise", became Nas's biggest hit to date in 2003, collecting major radio broadcasts at urban radio stations, rhythmics and top 40, as well as on MTV and VH1 music video network. The Child of God also includes some songs dedicated to mother Nas, who died of cancer in April 2002, including "Dance". In 2003, Nas was featured on the song Korn "Play Me", from Korn's Take a Look in the Mirror LP. Also in 2003, live performances in New York City, featuring Ludacris, Jadakiss, and Darryl McDaniels (from Run-D.M.C. Fame), were released on DVD as Made You Look: The Sons of Life .
the Son of God was very important in the power struggle between Nas and Jay-Z in the hip-hop industry at the time. In an article at the time, Joseph Jones of PopMatters stated, "Whether you like it or not," Ether "does this.With the Son of God, Nas has the opportunity to strengthen his status as King of NY, 3-4 years, or he can prove that he's not a savior that hip-hop fans should pin their hopes on. "After the album's release, he started helping Bravehearts, consisting of his sister Jungle and friend Wiz (Wizard), collecting their debut album , Bravehearted . The album features guest appearances from Nas, Nashawn (Millennium Thug), Lil Jon, and Jully Black.
2004-2006: Double and Def Jam Album
Nas released his seventh album Street Street Disciple, a broad double album, on November 30, 2004. It covered political and personal lessons, including his upcoming marriage with Kelis recording artist. The double-sided single "Thief's Theme"/"You Know My Style" was released a few months before the album's release, followed by the single "Bridging the Gap" after the album was released. Though Street Students get platinum, it serves as a waiver of Nas's previous commercial success.
In 2005, a New York-based rapper, 50 Cent, dissected Nas in his song "Piggy Bank", which brought his reputation into question in hip-hop circles. In October, Nas made a surprise appearance at Jay-Z's "I Declare War" concert, where they reconciled their beef. At the event, Jay-Z announced to the crowd, "It's bigger than the 'I Declare War.' Come on, Esco!" and Nas then joined him onstage, and both did "Death President" Jay-Z (1996) together, a song that featured a prominent sample of the 1994 song Nas: "The World Is Yours" (1994). Reconciliation created an opportunity for Nas to sign an agreement with Def Jam Records, where Jay-Z became president at the time. He signed Nas in January 2006. The signing included an agreement that Nas should be paid about $ 3,000,000, including the recording budget, for each of his first two albums with Def Jam.
2006-2008: Political efforts and controversy
While Hip Hop is Dead... The N , Hip Hop Is Dead is a commentary on the state of hip-hop and displays "Black Republican", a hyped collaboration with Jay-Z. The album debuted in Def Jam and Nas a new trail on the label, The Jones Experience, at No. 1. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 355,000 copies - Nas's number-one third album, along with Written and I... . It also inspired reactions about the state of hip-hop, especially controversy with Southern hip hop artists who felt the title of the album was a criticism aimed at them. Nas's 2004 song "Thief's Theme" is featured in the 2006 film The Departed . Former label Nas, Columbia Records, released the largest Hits Compilation in November.
On October 12, 2007, Nas announced that the next album would be called Nigger . Both progressive commentators, such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and the Fox News conservative news channel are angry; Jackson asked the entertainer to stop using the nickname after comedian Michael Richards used it on stage at the end of 2006. Controversy escalated as the upcoming album release date drew near, prompting rumors that Def Jam was planning to drop Nas unless he changed the title. In addition, Fort Greene, Brooklyn lawmaker Hakeem Jeffries asked Superintendent Thomas DiNapoli to withdraw $ 84 million from state pension funds that have been invested to Universal and its parent company, Vivendi, if the album's title has not changed. On the opposite side of the spectrum, many of the most renowned names in the entertainment industry expressed confidence in Nas to use his racial epithet as his LP title. Nas management is concerned that the album will not be sold by chain stores like Wal-Mart, thus limiting its distribution.
On May 19, 2008, Nas decided to cancel the album title. In response to Jesse Jackson's assertion and the use of the word "negro", Nas called him "the greatest hatter of the game", declared "The time is up.Your time all the old niggas is gone.We hear your voice, we see you march, we hear your sermon. do not want to hear that shit again.This is a new day.This is a new sound I'm here now We do not need Jesse I'm here I get this We vote now No longer Jesse Sorry Sorry. You're not helping anyone in the 'hood and that's the point.' He also said about the album title:
It's important to me that this album gets to the fans. It's been a long time coming. I want my fans to know that creatively and lyrically they can expect the same content and the same message. People will always know what the real title of this album is and what it's called.
The album was finally released on July 15, 2008, without title. It featured productions from Polow da Don, stic.man from Dead Prez, Sons of Light and J. Myers, "Hero", the album's main single released on June 23, 2008, reached No. 1. 97 on Billboard Hot 100 and No. 87 on Hot R & amp; B/Hip-Hop Singles & amp; Tracks. In July, Nas reached a shoe deal with Fila. In an interview with MTV News in July, Nas speculated that he might release two albums: one was produced by DJ Premier and another by Dr. Dre - simultaneously on the same day. Nas works in studio album Dr. Dre Detox . Nas was also awarded 'Emcee of the Year' at HipHopDX Awards 2008 for his latest solo effort, the quality of his performance on another album and described as having "become an artist who evolved from reinvention and went against the system." Bill O'Reilly and Virginia Tech controversy Bill O'Reilly and Virginia Tech controversy
On September 6, 2007, Nas performed at a free concert for the Virginia Tech student body and faculty, after the school shootings there. He joined John Mayer, Alan Jackson, Phil Vassar, and Dave Matthews Band. When announcing that Nas would appear, political commentators Bill O'Reilly and Fox News slammed the concert and called for the abolition of Nas, citing the lyrics of "violence" on songs like "Shoot 'Em Up", "Got Urself a Gun", and "Making You visible ". During his Talking Points Memo segment on August 15, 2007, an argument erupted in which O'Reilly claimed that it was not just Nas's lyric content that made it inappropriate for the event, citing the gun's conviction on Nas's criminal record. Amid his debate with author Bakari Kitwana ( The Hip Hop Generation), who defended Nas, claimed that Fox News had "chosen cherry" picked fragments of the song to make their case, O'Reilly shouted, "Even in his private life, man, he has confidence for a weapon, okay? He has a gun conviction, sir! In his sheet! This is a school that has mass murderers with guns firing on people - this guy has faith for weapons, and you say he Come on! "O'Reilly repeated the claim five times before cutting the short segment.
On September 6, 2007, during his arrangement at "A Concert for Virginia Tech", Nas was twice called Bill O'Reilly as "a fool", which encouraged loud cheers by members of the crowd. About two weeks later, Nas was interviewed by Shaheem Reid of MTV News, where he criticized O'Reilly, calling him uncivil and willing to go to extremes for publicity. Responding to O'Reilly, Nas, in an interview with MTV News, said:
He does not understand the younger generation. He deals with the past. The people he represents are the Republic, the older, the generation that has nothing to do with the reality of what is happening now with my generation.... He's not really on my radar. People like him should be taught and people like me should let niggas like he knows. I do not take it seriously. The stools are all about twisted facts or whatever. I would not appreciate anything Bill O'Reilly said. It just shows what bloodsuckers like he does: They abuse something like the Tech Virginia tragedy for event ratings. You can not talk to such a person.
On July 23, 2008, Nas appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss his views on O'Reilly and Fox News, which he accused of bias against the African-American community and challenged O'Reilly to the debate. During the show, Nas sits in a box of over 625,000 signatures collected by the online advocacy organization Color of Change to support a petition that accuses Fox race-feeding and fear-mongering.
2009-present: Collaboration, Life is Good and upcoming albums
At the Grammy Awards 2009, Nas confirmed he collaborated on an album with reggae singer Damian Marley which is expected to be released in late 2009. Nas said about the collaboration in an interview "I am a huge fan of his father and of course all children, all descendants, and Damian, I kind of look at Damian as a rap guy.Its stuff does not really sing, or if he does, it comes harder, like on some dirt roads.I always love how reggae and hip-hop are always intertwined and always mutual encourage each other, I always love connections I've worked with people before from the world of reggae but when I work with Damian, the whole practice is perfect ". A portion of the profit is planned to go to build schools in Africa. He went on to say that it was "too early to say a title or something like that". The Los Angeles Times report that the album will be titled Relative Far . Nas also revealed that he will start working on his tenth studio album after the release of Relative Far . During late 2009, Nas used his live band Mulatto with music director Dustin Moore for concerts in Europe and Australia.
After announcing a possible release in 2010, the follow-up compilation to The Lost Tapes (2002) was delayed indefinitely due to a problem between him and Def Jam. Her eleventh studio album Life Is Good (2012) was produced primarily by Salaam Remi and No I.D, and was released on July 13, 2012. Nas called the album a "magical moment" in her rap career.
In 2011, Nas announced that he would release a collaboration album with Mobb Deep, Common, and the third with DJ Premier. It is said commonly from the project in the 2011 interview, "At some point, we will do that.We have talked about it and we have a good idea to call it Nas.Com. It really happened to be mixtape at one point But we decided we had to make it into an album. " Life is Good will be nominated for Best Rap Album at the Grammy Awards 2013.
In January 2013, Nas announced he started working on his twelve studio album, which will be his last album for Def Jam. The album was supposed to be released in 2015. In October 2013, DJ Premier said that the collaboration album with Nas, will be released after the twelfth studio album. In October 2013, Nas confirmed that the song that was rumored "Sinatra in the Sands" featuring Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, and Timbaland will be featured on this album.
On April 16, 2014, on the twentieth anniversary of Illmatic , the documentary Nas: Time Is Illmatic aired that recounted the circumstances leading up to Nas's debut album. It was reported on September 10th that Nas had finished his last album with Def Jam. On October 30, Nas released a song that may be the first single on his new album, titled "The Season", produced by J Dilla. Nas has also collaborated with Australian hip-hop group, Bliss n Eso, in 2014. They released the song "I Am Somebody" in May 2014. Nas is featured on the song "We Are" from Justin Bieber's fourth studio album, Purpose , released in November 2015.
Nas was announced as one of the executive producers of the original Netflix series, The Get Down , before it was released in August 2016. He narrated the series and tapped as Ehezkiel's adult in 1996. He also appeared on DJ Khaled's Album > Major Key , in a song titled "Nas Album Done", suggesting that the upcoming album is not only finished, but also close.
On October 16, 2016, he received the Jimmy Iovine Icon Award at the 2016 REVOLT Music Conference for having a lasting influence and unique influence on music, many years in the rap business, his partnership with Hennessy, and Mass Appeal by Puff Daddy.
In November 2016, Nas collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dave East and Aloe Blacc on the song entitled "Wrote My Way Out", which appeared on The Hamilton Mixtape .
On April 12, 2017, Nas released the song Angel Dust as the soundtrack for the TV series The Getdown . It contains examples of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's Angel Dust songs.
In June 2017, Nas appeared in the award-winning documentary, The American Epic Sessions, directed by Bernard MacMahon, where he recorded directly to the disc on the first recovered electric sound recording system from the 1920s, an. He performed "On the Road Again", a 1928 tune by the Memphis Jug Band, which received universal praise with The Hollywood Reporter that portrayed his performance as "fantastic" and Financial Times praised "his incredible cover of the Memphis Jug Band's" On the Road Again ", exposing the hip-hop blueprint in the 1928 stomper." "On the Road Again", and the performance of "One Mic", was released on Music from The American Epic Sessions: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on June 9, 2017. Kanye West announced on Twitter that Nas' the eleventh will be released on June 15 Kanye will also produce the album
Arts
Nas has been praised for his ability to create "a devastating match between lyrics and production" by journalist Peter Shapiro, as well as creating a "strong resurgence of life on the road", and he has even compared it to Rakim for his lobe techniques.. In his book "Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop" (2009), author Adam Bradley states, "Nas may be the most contemporary rap innovator in storytelling, the catalog includes songs pre-recorded ('Fetus ') and after death (' Amongst Kings '), biographies (' UBR [Biographies of Unauthorized Rakim] ') and autobiographies (' Doo Rags '), allegorical stories (' Money Is My Prostitute ') and episty stories (' One Love '), He knocks in the voice of a woman (' Sekou Story ') and even a gun (' I Gave You Power '). "Robert Christgau writes that" Nas has changed [rap gangsta] since Illmatic ". Kool Moe Dee notes that Nas has an "off-beat conversation stream" in his book There's a God on the Mic - he says: "before Nas, every MC focuses on rhyming with a rhythm that eventually puts words rhythmic on the beat with a snare drum. "Nas creates a rap style that is more conversational than ever".
OC from D.I.T.C. comments on the book How to Rap-Up : "Nas did the song back ['Rewind']... it was a brilliant idea". Also in the How Rap , 2Mex of The Visionaries describes Nas's flow as "effervescent", Rah Digga says Nas's lyrics have "clutter", Bootie Brown of The Pharcyde explains that Nas does not always have to make the words rhyme because it is "charismatic", and Nas is also described as having a "solid" stream, with a compound rhyme "flowing from one tap to the next or even to another."
In 2006, Nas was ranked fifth on MTV's "10 Best Rider All Time" list. In 2012, The Source rated it No. 2 in their list of Top 50 Lyricists of All Time . In 2013, Nas was ranked fourth on MTV's "Hottest MCs in the Game" list. His debut Illmatic is widely considered among the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.
Business enterprise
On April 10, 2013, Nas invested an undisclosed six figures into Mass Appeal Magazine, where he will serve as publishing association publisher, joining creative company Decon and White Owl Capital Partners. In June 2013, he opened his own shop.
In September 2013, he invested in a tech startup company, a job seeker called Proven. In 2014, Nas was invested as part of a $ 2.8 million round in the ViralGains viral launch aside from Queens-bridge's portfolio of venture partners.
Nas has a partnership with Hennessy and has worked with their "Wild Rabbit" campaign.
In May 2014, Nas partnered with startup Koru work placement to fund scholarships for 10 college graduates to attend the Koru training program. Nas will also join startup as guest coach. Nas is one of the owners of Cloud-based services, LANDR, an automated, drag-and-drop digital audio post-production tool that automates "master", the final stage in audio production. In June 2015, Nas joined the New York City Sweet Chick soul restaurant. He plans to expand the brand of restaurants nationwide. The location of Los Angeles opened in April 2017. It has its own clothing line called HSTRY.
He continues to invest in tech startups including Dropbox, Lyft, and Robinhood.
Personal life
Nas is a spokesperson and mentor for P'Tones Records, a non-profit music program after school with a mission "to create constructive opportunities for urban youth through music programs at no cost."
She is a cousin of American actress Yara Shahidi.
On June 15, 1994, former inmate Nas Carmen Bryan gave birth to their daughter, Destiny. He later confessed to Nas that he had a relationship with the rapper and his existing nemesis, Jay-Z, also accused Jay-Z of putting subliminal messages in his lyrics about their mutual relationship, causing a larger rift between the two hitting the rap music giant.
Nas also had a date with Mary J. Blige. In 2005, Nas married R & amp; B Kelis in Atlanta after a two-year relationship. On April 30, 2009, a spokesman confirmed that Kelis filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Kelis gave birth to Nas's first son on July 21, 2009, though the event was marred by a dispute that ended in Nas announcing the birth of his son, Knight, at a show in Queens, NY, against Kelis's wishes. The birth was also announced by Nas via online video. The couple's divorce was completed on 21 May 2010. In 2018, Kelis accused Nas of physical and mental abuse during their marriage.
In January 2012 Nas was involved in a dispute with concert promoters in Angola, having received $ 300,000 for a concert in Luanda, Angola's capital for New Year's Eve and then did not show up. American promoter Patrick Allocco and his son, who arranged the Nas concert, were held at gunpoint and taken to Angola prison by a local promoter overlooking $ 300,000 for the concert. Only after the US Embassy intervened was the promoter and his son was allowed to leave the prison - but was placed under house arrest at their hotel. At the end of the month, Nas returns all $ 300,000 and after 49 days of travel ban, Allocco and his son are released.
On March 15, 2012, Nas became the first rapper to have a personal verified account at Rap Genius in which he explained all his own lyrics and commented on other rapper lyrics he admired.
In September 2009, the US Internal Revenue Service filed a federal tax break against Nas for more than $ 2.5 million, seeking unpaid taxes since 2006. By early 2011 this figure has ballooned to over $ 6.4 million. Beginning in 2012 a report emerged that the IRS had filed letters in Georgia to decorate a portion of Nas's income from material published under BMI and ASCAP, until the tax bills of his arrears were settled.
In May 2013, it was announced that Nas would open a shoe store in Las Vegas called 12 'am RUN (pronounced Midnight Run) as part of LINQ's retail development.
In July 2013, he was awarded by Harvard University, as the institute established the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship, which will serve to fund scholars and artists demonstrating the potential and creativity in the art of hip-hop.
In an October 2014 episode of PBS Finding Your Roots , Nas learned about five generations of his ancestors. His great-grandmother, Pocahontas Little, is a slave that sells for $ 830. When host Henry Louis Gates shows him the Nas he trades and tells more about the man who bought him, Nas says he is considering buying the land where he lives. Nas also showed marriage certificates from his great-grandmother, Pocahontas and his great-great-grandparents, Calvin.
Nas is a New York Mets fan.
Awards and nominations
Grammy Grammy Awards
Grammy Awards are held annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Nas has 13 nominations.
MTV Video Music Awards
BET Hip Hop Awards
Emmy Sports Awards
Discography
- Studio album
- Illmatic (1994)
- Written (1996)
- I... (1999)
- Nastradamus (1999)
- Stillmatic (2001)
- the Son of God (2002)
- Street Students (2004)
- Hip Hop Is Dead (2006)
- Untitled (2008)
- Life Is Good (2012)
- Upcoming Nas's Album (2018)
- Collaboration album
- Firm: Album (with The Firm) (1997)
- Remote Relatives (with Damian Marley) (2010)
Moviesography
References
Further reading
External links
- Nas in AllMusic
- Nas on MTV
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