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Nasir Jones, or to give his his full birth name, Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones, is more commonly referred to as 'Nas'. He was born on September 14, 1973 in Long Island City, and raised by his father, jazz musician Olu Dara, and his late mother Ann Jones. Nas came of age in the notoriously rough Queensbridge Projects, also hone to legends such as Marley Marl and The Juice Crew. With lyrics and beats virually built into the QB's concrete walls, Nas had soaked up his talents from such influences before he was old enough to put pen to paper. So it was only a matter of time before this young boy would ettempt to wow the crowds on his own!
Nas dropped out of school in the eighth grade, trading classrooms for the streets. Despite dropping out of school, Nas developed a high degree of literacy that would later characterize his rhymes. At the same time, though, he delved into street culture and flirted with danger, such experiences similarly characterizing his rhymes.
His synthesis of well-crafted rhetoric and street-glamorous imagery blossomed in 1991 when he connected with Main Source and laid down a fiery verse on "Live at the Barbeque" that earned him instant respect among the East Coast rap scene. Not long afterward, MC Serch of 3rd Bass approached Nas about contributing a track to the Zebrahead soundtrack. Serch was the soundtrack's executive producer and, like much of New York, had been impressed by "Live at the Barbeque." Nas submitted "Halftime," and the song so stunned Serch that he made it the soundtrack's leadoff track.
The music industry started to pay attention to what the underground scene already knew, and Nas was quickly signed up to Columbia Records on a major-label contract, and many of New York's finest producers offered their support. DJ Premier, Large Professor, Q-Tip, and Pete Rock (NY's top producers in the early '90s) entered the studio with the young rapper and began work on his first solo effort, 'Illmatic'. When Columbia finally released Nas' Illmatic album in April 1994, it faced high expectations; Illmatic regardless proved just as astounding as it had been billed. It sold very well, spawned multiple hits, and earned unanimous acclaim. Nas was been anointed as rap's savior. With cuts form the album including "N.Y. State Of Mind", and "It Aint Hard To Tell", providing the gritty but thoughtful soundtrack to the life on NY's mean streets. 'Illmatic' became on instant classic.
Nas handled nearly every rhyme and never seemed short on lyrics. Years later, Illmatic is still seen as featuring some of the best lyrics hip-hop ever produced. To call Nas a street poet wasn't an overstatement, but rather a matter of fact. Even if the album didn't storm up the Billboard charts, it garnered the respect of every hip-hop devotee in New York and that was quite an accomplishment, particularly for someone just having reached his twenties. Following up Illmatic wouldn't be an easy task and rather than try and top that album, Nas expanded his approach for his next release.
Nas was also gaining attention from Hip Hop's biggest artists at that time, most notalby, Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, but for all the wrong reasons. Tupac believed Nas was rapping about his life and not his own, from what he'd read or seen about 2Pac in the media, and that Nas was profiting of Tupac's life, which labelled Nas a fake. Tupac also lyrically attacked / denounched Nas on various tracks. But, Nas carried on and the two years leading up to Nas' follow-up album, "It Was Written" (released in 1996), brought another wave of enormous anticipation. The ambitious rapper, who had begun working closely with industry heavyweight Steve Stoute, and also Dre Dre, responded with a significantly different approach than he had taken with "Illmatic": where that album had been a straightforward hip-hop album with few pop concessions, the largely Trackmaster-produced "It Was Written" made numerous concessions to the pop crossover market, most notably on the two hit singles, "Street Dreams" and "If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)." These singles -- both of which drew from well-known songs, Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and Kurtis Blow's "If I Ruled the World," respectively -- broadened Nas' appeal greatly and awarded him the MTV-sanctioned crossover success he sought.
Around this point in the late '90s, Nas nonetheless reigned atop the rap scene alongside few contemporaries in the wake of the murder of Tupac Shakur, and the murder of Notorious B.I.G., currently the undisputed kings of Hip Hop. Nas the took anopther huge step, this time into acting, popularly co-starring in the Hype Williams-directed film "Belly" (1998) alongside fellow rapper DMX and contributed to the soundtrack.

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