Greatest Hits [PA]

Performer: Nas
Engineer: Jaye Wynn; Rob Marks; Ben Kane; Diego Garrido; Michael Sroka; Jason Vogel; Anton "Sample This" Pushansky; Paul Gregory; Stevo; Salaam Remi; Kevin Crouse; T. Latham; Pablo Arraya; Stan Wallace; Rich Travali
Producer: Pretty Boy; Megahertz Music Group; Rashad Smith; Nas; D. Moet; Salaam Remi; Q-Tip; DJ Premier; Chris Webber; L.E.S.; Poke & Tone; Chucky Thompson
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: Angela Hunte (vocals, background vocals); AZ , Lauryn Hill (vocals); Vincent Henry (guitar, strings, harmonica, baritone saxophone); Salaam Remi (guitar, bass guitar, drums); Mercedes Abal (flute); Delight 2000 Watts Music (keyboards); Kathryn Bostic, Chanelle Gstettenbauer (background vocals). Additional personnel: Olu Dara (guitar, harmonica, trumpet); Puff Daddy, R. Kelly, Cee-Lo. Nasir Jones has gone from Nasty Nas to Nas to Escobar and back from his watershed debut ILLMATIC through to the polemic that is 2006's HIP-HOP IS DEAD. GREATEST HITS surveys Nas's hottest album tracks during this journey. Two previously unheard tracks (the autobiographical "Surviving the Times," which describes the young MC's struggle to enter the rap game, and "Less Than an Hour," the theme from RUSH HOUR 3 featuring Cee-Lo) kick the collection off. Overall, GREATEST HITS is an evenhanded blend that brings some of Nas's most successful tracks together with his strongest lyrical performances. AZ, R. Kelly, Lauryn Hill, Puff Daddy, and Q-Tip are featured.

With charged poetic lyrics spit in an almost impossibly smooth flow, Nas turned the rap world on its ear in 1994 when the Queens MC unleashed the instantly immortal ILLMATIC. The immaculate record contained few frills, no skits, no celebrity cameos, just the rapper's deceptively complex rhymes, words that lounged in the listener's psyche for days after, layered over beats by some of the best producers of the day. While the following years would find Nas hard-pressed to live up to his supernova debut, he quietly released solid records. In 2001, his spirit revived by a beef with Jay-Z (they would reunite on stage years later), he released the acerbic STILLMATIC, which was followed by a string of critically praised records, but no shortage of controversy.

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