Nas

thumb|Nas in 2007 thumb|Nas in 2022 Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known as Nas and formerly as Nasty Nas, is an African-American rapper from Queens, New York. He's one of the most influential rappers of the 90's. Interviews How can you lose when you're doing you? 92Y Interview With Anthony DeCurtis (1992) On Albums Illmatic (1994) I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death N.Y. State of Mind Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined N.Y. State of Mind The smooth criminal on beat breaksNever put me in ya box if ya shit eats tapes N.Y. State of Mind I switched my mottoinstead of saying 'fuck tomorrow' that buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto Life's a Bitch "Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne The World Is Yours I need a new nigga, for this black cloud to followcause while it's over me it's too dark to see tomorrow The World Is Yours I set it off with my own rhymecause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time Halftime I reminisce on park jams, my man was shot for his sheep coatchocolate blunts will make me see him drop in my weed smoke Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park) Live amongst no roses, only the drama, for real A nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park) "Fuck 'rap is real', watch the herbs stand stillnever talkin' to snakes cause the words of man kill true in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park) Then I rose, wiping the blunts ash from my clothesthen froze only to blow the herb smoke through my noseand told my little man that i'm a go cyprosethere's some jewels in the skull that he can sell if he chosewords of wisdom from nas try to rise up above One Love When I was ten I was a hip-hop a shorty wopknown for rockin' microphones and twistin' of a forty top One Time 4 Your Mind So analyze me, surprise me, but can't magmatize meScannin' while you're plannin' ways to sabotage meI leave 'em froze like her-on in your noseNas'll rock well, It ain't hard to tell It Ain't Hard to Tell It Was Written (1996) I've seen some cold nights and bloody daysThey grabbed me bullets spray, they used me wrong so I sing this song 'til this day. I Gave You Power From child births to hearses, flow like the Nile covered surfaceBit the fruit from the serpent. Nas Is Coming Mad smoke makes me able to quoteSoliciting ill editions of that murder I wrote. Nas Is Coming fake thug no love, get the slugCB4 gusto ur luck low, i didn't know til i was drunk thoyou freak niggaz played out, get fucked and ate outprostitute turned bitch got the gage out96 ways i made outmontanna way, good f-e-l-l-a, verbal AK spray The Message A thug changes, and love changesand best friends become strangers, word up The Message I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret. Take It In The Blood Nastradamus (1999) Yo, if this piano's the cake then my words are the candlesLight it up, make a wish, and them angels will grant you Project Windows I Am... (1999) "Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end." "Nas Is Like" "Street scriptures, for lost souls in the crossroads.." "Nas Is Like" "I'm like the farmer, planting words, people are seeds/ My truth is the soil, help you grow like trees/ May the children come in all colors, change like leaves/ Behold before you, one of those prophetic MC's." "Ghetto Prisoners" "U wet who I want wetted/I wet who u want wetted/any nigga can get it(a favour for a favour) Had 8 partners growin' up/ 8 turned to 7/ 7 turned to 6 n!*@%^$/ got 2 in heaven/ 6 of us, holdin it, now it's 5 rollin' thick/the 6th one's parole flipped, 5 n***az went to 4 quick/ when he went O.T, college life, converted into gangbangin/ 4 n***az still hangin/ years passin, slang changin/ 3 of us now, 4th n***a ain't around/ we all thought he was real, he did that snake shit, fake shit/ beat his ass down/ yo his mouth could've got us all wasted/ what a fuckin clown/ all I got left in the end is two of my best friends/ and we all goin' out 'till the death of these ends "N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II" (speking) "You hear about, you see about it/ it's in your papers/ it's in your daily news/ (get money!) / New York chronicles, every day/ the crime rate, the murder rate/ the money rate, the paper chase, youknowwhatImean?/ New York State of mind, baby, check it out. "N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II" Stillmatic (2001) Aiyyo, the brother's "Stillmatic"I crawled up out of that grave, wipin the dirt, cleanin my shirt. They thought I'd make another "Illmatic"But it's always forward I'm movinNever backwards stupid here's another classic Stillmatic (The Intro) It's suicidal, high smokin' so much la', I saw a dead bird flyin through a broken sky You're Da Man The Lost Tapes (2002) No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done No Idea's Original The hardest thing is to forgive, but God doesEven if you murdered or robbed, yeah it's wrong, but God loves Take one step toward him, he takes two toward youEven when all else fail, God support you." Doo Rags The reason that I want to be aloneTired of all the things that went wrongThat would have went right if I would have did it on my own Drunk By Myself God's Son (2002) I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings Thugz Mansion (N.Y.) Don't say the car is topless, say the titties are out Made You Look You a slave to a page in my rhyme book Made You Look How can I trust you when I can't trust me Book of Rhymes I get upset 'cause I just want to be treated the way you areLike a star not a worry in this world thus farBut wait a minute we both need ya mother's attentionI must be crazy jealous of my own baby infant* Book of Rhymes Whatever you decide, be careful, some men be Rapists, so act your age, don't pretend to be Older than you are, give yourself time to grow You thinking he can give you wealth I can Street's Disciple (2004) And they're aware of us thoughAnd we don't give a flyin' 747 fuck thoughStayin' on my hus-tle A Message To The Feds, Sincerely, We The People Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) When I was nine, coldest winter i rememberwe're slipping in december, two feet of snowYeah thats the east coast, that black ice - symbolize the rap life Hope Some things are forever, some things are notIt's the things we remember that gave the world shock" Can't Forget About You Now all these new cats with they hats flipped backwardsfingers intertwined in sum gang sign madnessI got an exam lets if you pass itNow who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest? Carry on Tradition Untitled (2008) Slave food turned to soul food, collards to neck bones You can't stop us now if you squash me, learn to live with me Project Roach People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave And The Master) As James Baldwin says, You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world considers a nigger You Can't Stop Us Now The hypocrisy is all I can see, White cop acquitted for murder, Black cop cop a plea, That type of shit make me stop and think America We in chronic need of a second look of the law books, And the whole race dichotomy America Who give you the latest dances, trends, and fashion, But when it comes to residuals, they look past us America Too many rappers, athletes and actorsBut not enough nigga's in NASA America Y'all don't treat women fairShe read about herself in the bibleBelieving she the reason sin is here America Distant Relatives (2010) What really did I escape from, thought I saw Gods face on the design in my vintage Claiborne In His Own Words External links Category:Rappers from the United States Category:Businesspeople from the United States Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:People from New York City