Furthermore, Nas' increased commercial success was accompanied by stylistic changes that fostered accusations of "selling out". In the years following the release of Illmatic, Nas pursued a more commercial direction, which resulted in wider success but decreased artistic credibility among critics and hip-hop purists.
Nas was also a part of hip hop supergroup The Firm, which released one album. He married R&B singer Kelis in 2005, they have one son together, and she filed for divorce on the 29th of April 2009. Illmatic was a critically acclaimed bestseller and is widely considered one of the greatest rap albums of all time. By the time he released his landmark solo debut album Illmatic in 1994, Jones was known as Nas. According to the Nasty Songfacts, as a teenager rapper, Nasir first went by the nickname Kid Wave before adopting his more commonly known alias of Nasty Nas. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was raised in the infamous Queensbridge housing projects in Queensbridge, New York.
Read Full Bio Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, more commonly known as Nas (formerly Nasty Nas and Escobar), born Septemin Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, is a prominent American MC.
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Is he still in the bridge, does he really know how ill he is? You know we got dough, where does he live Where he rest at, where he shop at, and dress at With the top cut off rich kids goin cop the sourceĪnd everybody wanna know where the kid go Stick shift look stick up in that box that Porsche Sip Chris get chicks risks wrists I floss This is NASDAQ dough in my Nas car with this Nas flow I don't die slow put them rags up like Petey Pablo You Judas thought I was gone so when Ima light up my death Throw up never, 'member I do this through righteous steps Poppy choose to' up to wake up in a hospital Puffin that tropical, cups of that vodka too Son of a blues player so who are you playa You know the kid got his chipped tooth fixedīrave hearted for life is return of the golden child Me and Tupac were soldiers of the same struggleīut the QB don't stand for no quarterbackĬome at Nas if you wanna war get it bloody They take it back to Africa, I did it with Biggie The boss of rap he saw me in Belly with thoughts like that Tattoos real with Gods son across the belly The outcome, Im crowned the best lyricist My first album had no famous guest appearances You ain't real hope ya (got yourself a gun) You try to front hope ya (got yourself a gun) And when I see you Im a take what I want so,