Nas Net Worth: Nas is a son of Olu Dara who is a musician, well-known singer, and guitarist, became famous early 1990s with his first album Illmatic. Nas net worth is estimated $60 million since 2018.
Rapper Nas Personal Information:
Born Name: Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
Nick Name: Nasty Nas, Nas Escobar, Nastradamus
Age: Nas is currently 45 according to his birthdate September 14, 1973
Sun Sign: Virgo
Race / Ethnicity: Black
Born Place: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality: America
Occupation: Rapper, songwriter, record producer, actor, entrepreneur
Genre: Hip hop
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Instruments: Vocals
Labels: Columbia, Ill Will, Def Jam Recordings, Mass Appeal Records
Rapper Nas Body Statistics:
Height: 5 ft 8 in or 173 cm
Weight: 81 kg or 179 pounds
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Rapper Nas Girlfriend / Spouse: Foxy Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross, Karrine Steffans, K. D. Aubert, Amy Winehouse, Carmen Bryan, Mary J. Blige, Kelis, Nicki Minaj
Nas Family: Olu Dara (father), Fannie Ann Jones (mother), Jabari Fret (Siblings )
Biography: Music is in the blood of Nas that comes from his father Olu Dara who is a musician and well-known vocalist and guitarist. Nas made a strong impact in the early 1990s with his first album Illmatic, broadly considered one of the greatest albums of all time.
Though he has possibly never hit such height yet again he has sold 25 million records and established universal critical acclaim. He has also been occupied in a notorious beef with Jay Z.
Nas Early Life:
He is widely prominent as Nas where his birth name is Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones, was born 14 September 1973 in New York as well as brought up in Queensbridge. In early age, he started writing stories about whatever he had seen.
In spite of having such unique talent, he was dropped from school in 8th grade. It was the certain change that made him stay in the streets and from there, rap lyrics came out. In 1991, as Nasty Nas, he established a dazzling debut with “Live at the Barbecue”.
His verse was a flawless combination of his writing abilities and his street information. It was produced by Large Professor who worked loads of his projects as producer and sustained to work with him all through his career. After the success of Illmatic, he signed to Columbia records by MC Serch and Faith Newman.
Nas Journey to Success:
Illmatic was ranked at 12 on Billboard pop while landed at 2 on R&B chart and after two years he released It Was Written that was fixed at 1 on both of these forums later on he joined a super group having Foxy Brown, Dr. Dre, AZ and Nature to release The Firm in 1997.
In 1999, Nas’s production sustained to unite commercial singles with the more untried and street fare. He also formed the character of Nas Escobar for his gangster as well as crime rhyme prejudiced verses. “I Am…,” was listed no 1 on R&B chart.
Nas Achievements:
In the list of “The Greatest MCs of All Time” MTV placed him at 5 furthermore he is frequently named as one of the greatest hip-hop artists. In 2012 he was listed at 2 by The Source among Top 50 Lyricists of All Time, later on, he has also been taken place in Billboard list of The 10 Best Rappers of All Time.
Nas Personal life:
Nas had been committed with Carmen Bryan who became the mother of a baby girl. In 2005 he married with Kelis which remained till 2009. Kelis was the mother of Nas’s first son. Nas became the only rapper in 2012 to have an individual verified account on Rap “Genius” where he clarifies all his lyrics.