Hip-Hop/Rap
United States of America
Nas
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OVERVIEW![Track artwork for track titled N.Y. State of Mind by Nas]()
Nas peaked at No. 9 on the Shazam Global Chart with "N.Y. State of Mind", spending 3 days in the Top 10.
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#93May 4, 2022
"N.Y. State of Mind" by Nas achieved a peak position of No. 9 on the Shazam Global Chart and remained in the Top 10 for 3 day(s).
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IllmaticReleased
1994Total Shazams
1M
Days in Top 10
3The total number of days a song spent in the Top 10 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 10 Debut
May 4, 2022"N.Y. State of Mind" by Nas achieved a peak position of No. 9 on the Shazam Global Chart and remained in the Top 10 for 3 day(s).
Album
IllmaticReleased
1994Total Shazams
1M
Days in Top 10
3The total number of days a song spent in the Top 10 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 10 Debut
May 4, 2022Nas's Popular Music Videos
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About Nas
Hometown
Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
Born
September 14, 1973
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap
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 realized 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. Energized 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.”
Musical InfluencesNas's musical influences include A Tribe Called Quest, LL COOL J, Gang Starr and more.
Influenced by NasNas has influenced the music of Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Eminem and more.
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