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  • Want to rule the world with his music and also stand up and to be an activist in your

  • community.

  • Don't go anywhere as we have you covered with our top five fun facts about Nas.

  • Kicking things off who was fact number one, Nasir Jones known around the world to fans

  • as Nas was born in Queens, New York, on September 14, 1973.

  • Moving on to fact number two when looking at the career of Nas he is an excellent writer,

  • but when it came to education Nas did not take to school very well.

  • That is where in the 8th grade he dropped out of school and the streets would be the

  • inspiration behind many of his lyrics.

  • With fact, number three Nas would come out of the gate legendary status.

  • His first album Illmatic was released to the world in April of 1994 with production from

  • Top East Coast Producers like DJ Premier, Large Professor, Q-Tip, and Pete Rock.

  • Even today that album is still a staple in many hip-hop fans collection of top albums.

  • Moving on to fact number four when it comes to being a music artist selling lots of music

  • is always good and Nas did just that in 1996.

  • Nas dropped another hip-hop classic called, "It Was Written," featuring Dr. Dre, Lauryn

  • Hill, and Foxy Brown where the album went Double-Platinum selling over 2 million copies.

  • With our final fact in the world of hip-hop, beef is something you hear about where a hip-hop

  • artist battles another artist through song.

  • Nas would be involved in one of the biggest rap beefs of all time facing Jay-Z.

  • This back and forth beef in music would produce the greatest diss tracks of all time is Jay-Z

  • releasing the, "Takeover," and Nas releasing, "Ether."

  • Later both the Jay-Z and Nas would settle the beef but it is still remembered as a classic

  • today.

  • Alright, my friend that is a wrap with my top five fun facts about Nas.

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