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"Hip Hop Is Dead" is the first and title single taken from Nas' 2006 album of the same name. It is produced by and features will.i.am.It peaked at number 48 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, [1] as well as number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Nas is hip-hop's "grumpiest man", according to Jody Rosen for Entertainment Weekly, and the album "is a lot like Nas himself: impossible not to admire, but hard to love". [28] Among those music writers and critics that reviewed Hip Hop Is Dead favorably was Jason Rubin of The A.V. Club , which gave the album an A− rating.
Life Is Good is the tenth studio album by American rapper Nas, released on July 13, 2012, by Def Jam Recordings. [nb 1] The album was recorded at various studios in New York and California, with guest appearances from rappers Large Professor and Rick Ross, and singers Mary J. Blige, Miguel, and, posthumously, Amy Winehouse, among others.
Nas has a partnership with Hennessy and has been working with their "Wild Rabbit" campaign. [165] In May 2014, Nas partnered with job placement startup Koru to fund a scholarship for 10 college graduates to go through Koru's training program. Nas will also be joining the startup as a guest coach. [166]
"Surviving the Times" is a 2007 hip hop song by Nas from his Greatest Hits album. The song's lyrics focus on Nas career before and just after Illmatic.The song makes reference to Nas' signing with Columbia Records, being turned down by Russell Simmons for Def Jam and him meeting Large Professor and Kool G Rap for the first time.
It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released on July 2, 1996, by Columbia Records.After the modest commercial success of his debut album Illmatic (1994), Nas pursued a more polished, mainstream sound for It Was Written.
"Die for It" is a song by Palestinian-Canadian rapper Belly and Canadian singer the Weeknd, featuring vocals from American rapper Nas. It was released on August 27, 2021, through XO Records and Republic Records as the fourth single from Belly's third studio album, See You Next Wednesday, along with the album. [1]
"If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)" is a song by American rapper Nas featuring American singer and rapper Lauryn Hill. It was released as the lead single from Nas' second studio album It Was Written on June 4, 1996, by Columbia Records. [1]