“Cops Shot The Kid” (originally titled “Cops”) is the second track from Nas' eleventh studio album, NASIR. There was some initial confusion with this song’s placement on the tracklist, due to it being listed as track #6 in a Twitter post five days before its release: The song features a prominent sample of Slick Rick’s iconic cautionary tale, “Children Story” (1988). Nas and Kanye trade verses about the constant cycle of police brutality against African American youth. On June 11, 2018, Kanye published a tweet showing Urban Dictonary’s definition of the “Seven Deadly Sins.” It … read more
“Cops Shot The Kid” (originally titled “Cops”) is the second track from Nas' eleventh studio album, NASIR. There was some initial confusion with… read more
“Cops Shot The Kid” (originally titled “Cops”) is the second track from Nas' eleventh studio album, NASIR. There was some initial confusion with this song’s placement on the trackli… read more
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, more commonly known as Nas (formerly Nasty Nas and Escobar), born September 14, 1973 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, is a prominent American MC. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was raised in the infamous Queensbridge housing projects in Queensbridge, New York. According to the Nasty Songfacts, as a teenager rapper, Nasir first went by the nickname Kid Wave before adopting his more commonly known alias of Nasty Nas. By the time he released his landmark solo debut album Illmatic in 1994, Jones was known as Nas. Illmatic was a critically acclaime… read more
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, more commonly known as Nas (formerly Nasty Nas and Escobar), born September 14, 1973 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, is a prominent American MC. The son of j… read more
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, more commonly known as Nas (formerly Nasty Nas and Escobar), born September 14, 1973 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, is a prominent American MC. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was raised in the in… read more
