Latest Release
- 19 APR 2024
- 1 Song
- I Am... · 1999
- THE FORCE · 2024
- Define My Name - Single · 2024
- METRO BOOMIN PRESENTS SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (SOUNDTRACK FROM AND INSPIRED BY THE MOTION PICTURE) · 2023
- On My Soul - Single · 2023
- Candle of the Devil - Single · 2023
- SURF OR DROWN · 2023
- King's Disease III · 2022
- King's Disease III · 2022
- King's Disease III · 2022
- 2012
Artist Playlists
- Hear the story of the chosen one from Queensbridge.
- Hip-hop's revered narrative stylist influences the genre's best storytellers.
- The rap gods and jazz cats behind his mic skills.
- From hits to deep cuts, breaking down the samples that have inspired one of music’s most vital artists.
- The saga continues! Hear the songs these New York legends are playing on the road.
- Nas tells Zane Lowe why King’s Disease is an album for the times.
Singles & EPs
Compilations
- John Legend & Florian Picasso
- Mary J. Blige
More To Hear
- They called him the Second Coming for a reason.
- We connect the dots in Queens, from Nas to Nicki Minaj.
- Nas’ old music aged like fine wine, but his new music is just as fresh.
- The artists talk about 'Judas and the Black Messiah.'
- Plus, tracks by Popcaan, Drake, and more.
- On love, loss, and the Bad Boy Reunion.
About Nas
A genre’s quintessential recording is forged from the eternal quest for artistic perfection: Nas established hip-hop’s apogee with his first album, Illmatic. Born Nasir Jones in New York City in 1973, the son of jazz musician Olu Dara redefined hip-hop in 1994 with his debut, flipping tales of structural poverty into intricate hood scripture and fomenting the boom bap style. His follow-up, 1996’s baroque and brooding It Was Written, reinvigorated mafioso rap and built Nas’ standing as music’s foremost chronicler of crime, a distinction he vividly defended with Stillmatic in 2001. On that album, Nas realised new modes of narrative (in “Rewind”) and spectacle (with the eruptive “One Mic”), distilling his ability to document street life like few others in rap. Evolving from Queensbridge project laureate to sage social documentarian, Nas certified a parabolic legacy throughout the 2000s, charging his allegorical, compound rhymes with public commentary. Energised by his stirring blue-sky alliance with reggae scion Damien Marley, 2010’s Distant Relatives, Nas returned with the cultured Life Is Good in 2012, leading the golden age into the present with midlife verity, a winning composite he continued with the 2020 album King’s Disease. Reflecting on three decades of influence so far, Nas told Apple Music, “I’ve been blessed enough to see a gift in myself, polish it, present it to the world, and light comes to it.”
- HOMETOWN
- Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
- BORN
- 14 September 1973
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap