Nas – You Owe Me ft. Ginuwine
The discography of Nas, an American rapper, consists of seventeen studio albums, one collaborative album, one group album, five compilations, four mixtapes, one extended play, and seventy-nine singles (including twelve collaboration singles and thirty-three as a featured artist). Nas has sold over 20 million records in the United States alone, and 35 million albums worldwide.[1]
| Nas discography | |
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Nas performing on July 2014
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| Studio albums | 17 |
| Compilation albums | 5 |
| Music videos | 51 |
| EPs | 1 |
| Singles | 79 |
| Collaborative albums | 1 |
| Mixtapes | 4 |
| Group albums | 1 |
The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas dropped out of school during ninth grade and began his music career in 1991 with a guest performance on the song “Live at the Barbeque” by Main Source. In 1992, Nas featured on the MC Serch posse cut, “Back to the Grill”, alongside Chubb Rock and Red Hot Lover Tone, and later contributed the track, “Halftime” to the soundtrack to the film Zebrahead. Soon after, Nas signed to Columbia Records, where he released his debut album Illmaticin 1994.[2] Including Nas’s solo debut track “Halftime”, Illmaticwas certified double platinum in the US,[3] spawned several singles including “It Ain’t Hard to Tell” and “The World Is Yours“, earning considerable critical acclaim.
With a more mainstream-oriented sound, Nas’s second album It Was Written was released in 1996 and included the Lauryn Hill collaboration “If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)” and “Street Dreams“, the latter of which reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 1 on the Hot Rap Singleschart.[4] It Was Written was later certified triple platinum.[3] In 1999, Nas released two albums: I Am… and Nastradamus. I Amreached double platinum status like its preceding album It Was Written and spawned two singles that reached the top ten spots of the Hot Rap Singles chart, “Hate Me Now” and “Nas Is Like“. While Nastradamus signaled a decrease in critical reception and sold only half as many units, it still featured two charting singles (“You Owe Me” and the title track), and was eventually certified platinum by the RIAA.
