"Feb 19, 1993|| My First Interview with NAS"

see below, originally postedby colbycolb.
link to the audio: http://www.colbycolb.com/cms/?p=2497

never knew he was first signed with ruff house

Nas has always been one of my favorite MC’s not because of his music but because he calls it like he sees it. He was never afraid to be bold with his rhymes and his opinions. Nas makes the music he wants to make regardless of what else is going on. I think the masses will one day realize the brilliance of Nas the rapper. In my many years in the business I have always had great interviews with Nas. This particular winter night in 1993 was the first time I interviewed him.

I was a fan from his cameo on “Live At The Barbeque” and “Half Time”. Nas spent a lot of time in Philly trying to get his career started on the legendary label Ruff House, he was very young to the business and had this dream of an album he was working on called “Illmatic”, in this inteview he talks about his struggles as a new artist trying to get his album recorded. This was 14 months before “Illmatic” his classic debut was released and he went by the name Nasty Nas at that time. Funny side note, when we did drops he called me “Cobby Cobb” we both cracked up at that.

Common Feat. Nas “Ghetto Dreams” (Full Version)

Common - Ghetto Dreams feat NAS by Nasir Jones

nas in the studio with diplo

dont really know who that is but heres his site: http://www.maddecent.com/artists/diplo

@Nas
Nasir Jones
Great start brotha! Let's make banger's for the summer! RT @diplo: just hangin @maddecent studios with the legend - Nas facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
2 hours ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry

and this is from the other day:

ShiahCoore Shiah Coore
In studio with nas @biggongzilla and No id maad vibes... Life is good
28 Jun

nasforum hacked

HACKED BY FANTA & LUIT
GRIFTER.ORG

dont know why they hacked it

Last post (unless something else happens to the new nasform): a lil story about Nas' intellectual side

Told by Cedric Muhammad

I will never forget the experience of being invited in the Fall of 1995, by Nas to visit him while he was recording tracks (in November at Sony Music Studios) for his highly anticipated album, It Was Written.

We had been building for over a year since I had interviewed him for The Final Call newspaper, with me visiting him several times at his place in Long Island, first, and then Queens. When we got together it was always to discuss two subjects – his music career (the many avenues he could take in marketing himself after his first album) and the knowledge of self (we watched tapes of Minister Farrakhan and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and discussed the Lessons). I was honored to have been a guest – meeting his then companion, Carmen (who always was so kind to me), and even his beautiful baby daughter Destiny when she was only 4 days old.

So while I would not claim to be a close friend of Nas, I can say for a nearly 18-month period we had a very Brotherly and always sober interaction (even if he did light it up a lot – smile).

That rapport and respectful interaction, and the way in which I met him, allowed me to have very serious discussions with him and which earned enough of his trust to the point that when I presented a couple of ideas regarding producers or artists I thought he should work with, or entrepreneurs he could do business deals with, he allowed me to make outreach to those camps on his behalf. It was a very informal but forward-looking relationship which I continue to look back on fondly. He was a star then and despite many ups, downs, twists and turns he is now a legend, one of to best to ever do it, an artist I continue to admire and support to this day.

On that cold November day I was excited to have the chance to sit in a toasty studio room and watch Nas, and the late Producer Stretch (who was murdered right around this time) go to work. The track they were working on was ‘Silent Murder,’ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQmPCJY3mA8) which would end up included on limited editions of It Was Written.



Several minutes after I arrived, Nas came out of the booth and sat with me. I had two gifts for him – a couple of books, which I gave him and which he immediately went through. One was called What They Never Told You In History Class by Indus Khamit Kush. After he went through them for a minute, Nas told me, ‘I got something in here for you, check this out.’

Nas then went back in the booth and continued to lay down lyrics, as I listened closely.

I noted Nas’ line, in the second verse: ‘They say the arms of Nicky Barnes would be enough to blast/ A lot of rich n—-s failed and started pumping gas/ Was it the mind of CIA that bumped off Malik Shabazz?/ F—k what they teach in class I’m a teach the mass.’

Nas gave me a knowing nod and smile. What he had done remained understood and unspoken. Although I had nothing to do with writing his lyrics, they were responsive to what I just showed him and on the level of the material we had been building about for the last couple of years - reflected in the two books I gave him as gifts.

for the rest of the article: http://www.cedricmuhammad.com/why-ghostwriting-is-good-for-rap/


see u on http://www.thenasforum.com/

WWW.THENASFORUM.COM

the new official NAS FORUM has been acquired

should be up and running in a few days

props to vamp

EDIT: its up people. http://www.thenasforum.com/

thanks to everyone who stopped by this blog over the past few weeks

some nas remixes

az ft nas essence remix

man people must b fienin for sum new nas--how else can u explain the popularity of this track around the internet over the past week. i mean, dont know why, theres a new nas remix put on the internet every single day and a lot of them are ill but never get recognition. but w/e, its a dope version

http://www.limelinx.com/files/bdf1db38422d7857a39386490e81bdc1




nas "blood of a slave 2010" (stillmatic intro remix)

im feelin this one too. just came out

http://usershare.net/dy6ju7axrrb4