Nas
Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known by his stage name Nas /ˈnɑːz/, is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas has released eight consecutive Platinum and Multi-Platinum albums and sold over 25 million records worldwide since 1994. He is also an entrepreneur through his own record label; he serves as associate publisher of Mass Appeal magazine and is the owner of a Fila sneaker store. He is...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 September 1973
CountryUnited States of America
The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.
I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
You know the block was ill as a youngster Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster
I had been through, of course, the divorce and I had been hit with some taxes that really showed me to be careful who's working with you and your money, and you have to be the one that is responsible for your money - you can't trust anyone and I did and I ran into a problem.
You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.
I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.
The big stars in rap, they were too big, so when my rap generation started, it was about bringing you inside my apartment. It wasn't about being a rap star; it was about anything other than.
If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.
I think more people want to be rappers than anything else.
I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it.
I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging.
My first record - it was 1991. I was 16 years old. My first album came out when I was 20. So, I've been here that long and I still have the passion to do it.
I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
I don't kill soloists only kill squads