Following the Kanye West-produced NASIR, Nas has given his fans another reason to revisit the seven-song album in the form of NASIR – The Film.
Written and directed by Rohan Blair-Mangat, NASIR -The Film is a 15-minute short in the same tradition as the visual albums of JAY-Z (4:44) and Beyoncé (Lemonade, Beyoncé).
The film brings the seven songs to life in vivid and dramatic fashion as its plot centers around a young black boy from Queens, raised by his grandmother, who becomes another victim of police violence.
In the visual, Nas takes fans from the rough projects of Queensbridge to the sands of Egypt by highlighting and connecting the social issues talked about on NASIR throughout history with modern shots of Queens and archival footage of historical black figures.
The film also includes a memorable cameo from Slick Rick via the “Cops Shot The Kid” segment.
Check out the visuals above.
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Huge fan but this album was a complete disaster. Instead of wasting time salvaging this garbage he should get to work on a new album.
Good call
I’m a huge Nas fan. Much more so than a Jay fan. In fact life is good is one of my favorite albums period. To go from that to whatever garbage Nasir is is just plain sad. FYI,You threw a bunch of cliches at me with the illmatic or the you’re a jay fan. Form a coherent argument and then let’s discuss.
Yo, Nasir was fire. Only disappointment was the length after so many years. Nasir (like all of Nas albums)sounded different then any other album in his catalogue. Which is probably why you like Life is Good more then Nasir. And probably why you like Illmatic more then It was written and so on and so on.
DOPE,,,,,
Trash ass film for a trash ass album. Broke ass Nas copying King HOV and Queen BEY with the visual albums now. Go back to beating more women, you pathetic drunk loser.
Nas is a far superior mc to Jay. From their first album to now there can be no comparison. Nas is like Picasso with the pictures he paints lyrically. Jay z is like jerry Seinfeld, not the most talented necessarily, but great at selling whatever he makes.
May be you should bring your mom for him to beat up asshole ,you gay ass bitch ,you need to stay off drugs ,its not good for your brain , I am glad he is more richer than your generation put together ,useless bitch and I feel you are an ass slayer and you need to stop fuckin your mom because you are brainless bye bitch and I believe an abortion from your stupid mother would have prevented you from the garbage you say from your month good bye dirty ass lol but I love you though and have a good and stay away from tobacco lol . I nailed this shit bye gay bitch
Nas can ether Jay and beyonce any time any day d homie is just cool. First hov and beyonce dropped an unannounced album d same day Nas did. Second Jay named his venture capital marcey ventures following Nas queens bridge ventures capital. What does hov really want from Nas.
Goat. I love it
This is good and nice work hommie