Hey nairalanders Y Does Everyone on D Planet think Nas Is Nigerian I noe His Name Is Nigerian But Dat Doesnt Make Him Nigerian

U must be crazy

and the world comes crashing down

Nas is ugly,anyways.

He looks like one of those area boys

^no u know who looks like an area boy, konga aka money making machine, i just realised after watching one yoruba movie where one of the actors who was playing a tout looked like him

@post so is he Nigerian or not??

Nas is my cousin. He lives just 20 mins away from me

He's from Queensbridge, NY

duh

but hes not dats d problem

He has Nigerian ancestry, the family stuck to the name Olu dara so they can still keep their trace alive just like Neyo (Chimere).

Nas was born Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. His father, Olu Dara, is a jazz and blues musician from Mississippi. His mother, Fannie Ann Jones, was a Postal Service worker. He has one sibling, a brother named Jabari Fret who assumes the alias Jungle. While his family lived in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Nas would play the trumpet on his home stoop at age four. His family moved to the Queensbridge Houses in the late 1970s. Nas began writing rhymes at the age of nine.His neighbor, Willy "Ill Will" Graham, influenced Nas's interest in hip hop by playing him records. Nas' parents divorced in 1985,[3] and he dropped out of school in the eighth grade. He educated himself, reading about African culture and civilization, the 360° Lessons of the Nubian Islamic Hebrews scrolls, the Bible and the Qur'an.

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I think u gave a credible background on Nasir Jones. Big ups 2 uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

That his dad has a Nigerian name does not mean he is Nigerian. Some AA adopted African names just to relate themselves with Africa.

U better get something to do, NAS Is a Nigeria, believe it or not

I know him - he is from my village. Okitipupa

bgees:
That his dad has a Nigerian name does not mean he is Nigerian. Some AA adopted African names just to relate themselves with Africa.

right, just like you people using names like Victor and Esther, Betty and Kenneth doesn't make you Oyibo, lol.

Nas is an American African with no direct link to Nigeria, but I say 8 out of 10 chance that at least one of his ancestors came from here

newmusic:
He has Nigerian ancestry, the family stuck to the name Olu dara so they can still keep their trace alive just like Neyo (Chimere).

Nas was born Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. His father, Olu Dara, is a jazz and blues musician from Mississippi. His mother, Fannie Ann Jones, was a Postal Service worker. He has one sibling, a brother named Jabari Fret who assumes the alias Jungle. While his family lived in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Nas would play the trumpet on his home stoop at age four. His family moved to the Queensbridge Houses in the late 1970s. Nas began writing rhymes at the age of nine.His neighbor, Willy "Ill Will" Graham, influenced Nas's interest in hip hop by playing him records. Nas' parents divorced in 1985,[3] and he dropped out of school in the eighth grade. He educated himself, reading about African culture and civilization, the 360° Lessons of the Nubian Islamic Hebrews scrolls, the Bible and the Qur'an.

Having Nigerian ancestory doesn't make him a Nigerian. Even his dad was born and bred in the USA. The Olu Dara was only a name his dad adopted coz he felt his ancestors came from Africa during the slave trade and he traced them down to Nigeria.