Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, more commonly known as
Nas (formerly
Nasty
Nas and Escobar), born September 14, 1973 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, is a prominent American MC. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was raised in the infamous Queensbridge housing projects in Queensbridge, New York. 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. By the time he released his landmark solo debut album Illmatic in 1994, Jones was known as
Nas. Illmatic was a critically acclaimed bestseller and is widely considered one of the greatest rap albums of all time. He married R&...
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