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Nas

Nas is a person from the US, active since 1973.

Person US since 1973 hip hop east coast hip hop boom bap
TOTAL PLAYS
5,260
SONGS PLAYED
321
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-03-03 14:29 · 6 Music — "If I Ruled The World"
LAST PLAYED
20 hours ago · 1Xtra — "I Can"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
1,000 750 500 250 0
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

1Xtra 3,704 70%
6 Music 740 14%
Radio 1 727 14%
Radio 2 89 2%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 11:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 The Don 377 2024-12-26
2 Hip Hop Is Dead 360 2025-12-24
3 Made You Look 312 2026-04-20
4 If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (feat. Lauryn Hill) 300 2026-05-18
5 I Can 296 2026-05-20
6 Cherry Wine (feat. Amy Winehouse) 260 2017-07-06
7 The World Is Yours 169 2025-12-11
8 You Owe Me (feat. Ginuwine) 167 2026-05-17
9 It Ain't Hard to Tell 167 2026-05-14
10 Daughters 157 2026-04-20
11 Nas Is Like 140 2026-04-11
12 If I Ruled The World 118 2023-11-18
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-20 12:51 I Can 1Xtra
2026-05-20 04:41 Made You Look (remix) (Feat. Jadakiss & Ludacris) 1Xtra
2026-05-18 16:01 If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (feat. Lauryn Hill) 1Xtra
2026-05-17 10:03 You Owe Me (feat. Ginuwine) 1Xtra
2026-05-17 05:35 N.Y State Of Mind 1Xtra
2026-05-16 01:39 Halftime (Instrumental) 6 Music
2026-05-15 03:37 If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (feat. Lauryn Hill) 1Xtra
2026-05-14 09:06 It Ain't Hard to Tell 6 Music
2026-05-12 05:05 N.Y State Of Mind 1Xtra
2026-05-10 05:11 Made You Look (remix) (Feat. Jadakiss & Ludacris) 1Xtra
2026-05-09 10:48 If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (feat. Lauryn Hill) 6 Music
2026-05-08 20:36 You Owe Me (feat. Ginuwine) 1Xtra
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

321 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
(RMC - Do Not Play) Car #85 (feat. Charlie Wilson) — 1 ▶
(RMC - Do Not Play) Ultra Black — 3 ▶
10 Points — 1 ▶
2nd Childhood — 1 ▶
A Queens Story — 1 ▶
Accident Murderers (feat. Rick Ross) — 2 ▶
Adam & Eve — 7 ▶
Adam and Eve — 2 ▶
Adam And Eve (feat. The Dream) — 1 ▶
Adam And Eve (feat. The‐Dream) — 6 ▶
Affirmative Action — 17 ▶
Affirmative Action (Remix) — 1 ▶
All Bad (feat. Anderson .Paak) — 8 ▶
As We Enter — 8 ▶
Bed - Black Republican — 1 ▶
BED Nas - Get Down (1Xtra James Brown Remix) — 3 ▶
Bed: It Ain't hard To Tell — 9 ▶
BED: James Brown Medley (Nas Get Down 1xtra Remix) — 1 ▶
Black Girl Lost (Feat. Joel "Jo-Jo" Hailey) — 2 ▶
Black President — 8 ▶
Blaze a 50 — 1 ▶
Bonjour — 5 ▶
Book of Rhymes — 18 ▶
Bridging the Gap — 12 ▶
Bridging The Gap — 4 ▶
Bridging the Gap (feat. Olu Dara) — 38 ▶
By Baby — 1 ▶
Bye Baby — 10 ▶
Can I (DJ Will-Rock It) — 1 ▶
Can't Forget About You — 9 ▶
Can't Forget About You (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
Car #85 (feat. Charlie Wilson) — 1 ▶
Cherry Wine — 1 ▶
Cherry Wine (feat. Amy Winehouse) — 260 ▶
Cherry Wine (feat. Amy Winehouse) (feat. Amy Winehouse) — 13 ▶
Cherry Wine Ft Amy Winehouse — 1 ▶
Classic — 1 ▶
Classic <Clean> — 1 ▶
Come Get Me — 1 ▶
Composure — 1 ▶
Cop Shot the Kid (feat. Kanye West) — 14 ▶
Cops Shot The Kid — 9 ▶
Cops Shot the Kid (feat. Kanye West) — 42 ▶
Dance — 5 ▶
Daughters — 157 ▶
Daughters (Live At Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
Daughters (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
Doo Rags — 3 ▶
Dr. Knockboot — 2 ▶
Ether — 82 ▶
Everybody Wants To Rule The World — 1 ▶
Everything — 8 ▶
Freestyle — 1 ▶
Fried Chicken (Feat. Busta Rhymes) — 3 ▶
Get Down — 105 ▶
Get Down (1Xtra Remix) — 6 ▶
Get Down (Remix) (feat. Klashnekoff) — 1 ▶
Getting Married — 5 ▶
God's son — 1 ▶
Got Ur Self a Gun — 19 ▶
Got Ur Self A... — 18 ▶
Got Ur Self A... (Radio Edit) — 10 ▶
Got Ur Self A...(instrumental) — 1 ▶
Got Yourself — 3 ▶
Got Yourself A — 5 ▶
Got Yourself a Gun — 3 ▶
Half Time — 34 ▶
Half Time <Over To You> — 1 ▶
Halftime — 25 ▶
Halftime (Clean Version) — 1 ▶
Halftime (Instrumental) — 9 ▶
Halftime (Radio Edit) — 1 ▶
Hard To Tell (Seani B D&B Refix) (feat. Shy FX) — 1 ▶
Hate Me Now — 1 ▶
Hate Me Now (Feat. Diddy) — 74 ▶
Hate Me Now (feat. P. Diddy) — 26 ▶
Hate Me Now (Feat. P.Diddy) — 28 ▶
Hate Me Now (Live At Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 2 ▶
Heaven — 5 ▶
Hero — 14 ▶
Hero (feat. Keri Hilson) — 3 ▶
Hero (feat. Keri Hilson) (feat. Keri Hilson) — 1 ▶
Hero <Radio Edit> — 1 ▶
Hero <With Seani B Vox At Front> — 1 ▶
Highly Favored — 2 ▶
Hip Hop Is Dead — 360 ▶
Hip Hop Is Dead (Reading, 27 August 2016) — 1 ▶
Hip Hop Is Dead <Clean New Radio Edit> — 4 ▶
hip hop is dead <whiley clean> — 2 ▶
I Can — 296 ▶
I Can (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
I Can (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
I Gave You Power — 3 ▶
I Know I Can (DJ 809 Remix/4B Intro Edit) — 1 ▶
I'm A Villain — 1 ▶
If I Ruled The World — 118 ▶
If I Ruled The World (feat. Lauryn Hill) — 51 ▶
If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) — 84 ▶
If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (feat. Lauryn Hill) — 300 ▶
If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (main mix) — 2 ▶
If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
If I Ruled The World (Live At Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 2 ▶
If I Ruled The World (Reading, 27 August 2016) — 3 ▶
iLLmatic (1Xtra Mix) — 4 ▶
In Conversation With Nas — 1 ▶
Is Like — 2 ▶
It Ain't Hard To Hell — 1 ▶
It Ain't Hard to Tell — 167 ▶
It Ain't Hard To Tell (1Xtra Edit) — 18 ▶
It Ain't Hard To Tell (1Xtra Edit) (Cleaner Version) — 7 ▶
It Ain't Hard To Tell (Laid Back Remix) — 1 ▶
It Ain't Hard To Tell (Large Professor Remix) — 1 ▶
It Ain't Hard To Tell (Live) — 4 ▶
It Ain't Hard To Tell (Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
It Ain't Hard to Tell (Remix) — 4 ▶
It Ain't Hard To Tell (Stink Mix) — 2 ▶
It Ain't Hard To Tell (Stink Remix) — 1 ▶
It Aint Hard to Tell — 3 ▶
It Aint Hard To Tell edit — 1 ▶
It Ain’t Hard To Tell (Large Professor Remix) — 1 ▶
Just A Moment — 31 ▶
Just a Moment (feat. Quan) — 6 ▶
Just A Moment (Instrumental) (feat. Quan) — 8 ▶
King's Disease — 13 ▶
Last Words — 2 ▶
Less Than An Hour — 3 ▶
Let Nas Down (Remix) — 4 ▶
Let There Be Light (Feat. Tre Williams) — 1 ▶
Life's A ***** — 1 ▶
Life's A B — 11 ▶
Life's A B (Aresenal mix) — 4 ▶
Life's A B (feat. Az) — 1 ▶
Life's A B**** (Arsenal Mix) (feat. AZ) — 5 ▶
Life's A B**** (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
Life's a Bitch — 2 ▶
Life's A Bitch (clean) — 1 ▶
lifes a bitch — 1 ▶
Like Is Like — 1 ▶
Locomotive — 1 ▶
Made You Look — 312 ▶
Made You Look (Aazar Edit) — 3 ▶
Made You Look (Aazar remix) — 13 ▶
Made You Look (Big Makk Flip) — 3 ▶
Made You Look (Drexo Remix) — 2 ▶
Made You Look (Live at Hackney Weekend) — 2 ▶
Made You Look (Live At Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 5 ▶
Made You Look (remix) (Feat. Jadakiss & Ludacris) — 9 ▶
Made You Look (Sero Waist Down Mix) — 1 ▶
Mastermind — 16 ▶
Me & You — 1 ▶
Memory Lane — 14 ▶
Memory Lane (Instrumental) — 6 ▶
Memory lane (sittin in da park) — 2 ▶
Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park) — 6 ▶
My LIfe Is Real (feat. DJ Premier) — 1 ▶
N.Y State Of Mind — 86 ▶
N.Y. State of Mind — 47 ▶
N.Y. State Of Mind - KG CLEAN — 1 ▶
N.Y. State of Mind Pt. 2 — 1 ▶
Nas - Daughters (Live From Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 2 ▶
Nas - Made You Look (Live From Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 3 ▶
Nas Is Invincible (DJ Cable Blend) — 2 ▶
Nas Is Like — 140 ▶
Nas is Like (Instrumental) — 9 ▶
Nas' Angels...The Flyest — 4 ▶
Nastradamus — 37 ▶
Nasty — 4 ▶
Never Die (feat. Lil Wayne) — 1 ▶
New World — 2 ▶
New York State of Mind — 5 ▶
No Bad Energy — 3 ▶
No One Else In The Room — 1 ▶
Nobody (feat. Lauryn Hill) — 77 ▶
Not Going Back — 1 ▶
Nothing Lasts Forever — 1 ▶
NY Se Mumbai (feat. DIVINE, Naezy & Ranveer Singh) — 1 ▶
NY State Of Mind — 6 ▶
Once a Man, Twice a Child — 1 ▶
One Love — 42 ▶
One Love (feat. Q‐Tip) — 24 ▶
One Love (LG Remix) — 1 ▶
One Love (MF Doom Remix) — 6 ▶
One Love (One L Main Mix) — 4 ▶
One Love (One L Main Mix) (feat. Sadat X) — 6 ▶
One Mic — 48 ▶
One Mic (feat. 21 Savage) — 18 ▶
One Mic (Original) — 58 ▶
One Mic (remix) — 16 ▶
One of U — 3 ▶
One Time 4 Ya Mind — 1 ▶
One Time 4 Your Mind — 3 ▶
Oochie Wally — 1 ▶
Oochie Wally (feat. The Firm) — 1 ▶
Oochie Wally (Fresco Moombahtwerk Remix) (feat. Bravehearts) — 3 ▶
Oochie Wally (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
Owe Me (Feat. Ginuwine) — 8 ▶
Owe Me (Midas Hutch Remix) — 2 ▶
Patience (feat. Damian Marley) — 4 ▶
Patience (feat. Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley) — 3 ▶
Poppa Was a Playa — 26 ▶
Purple — 8 ▶
QB Tru G's — 1 ▶
Queens (Green Lantern Mix) — 3 ▶
Queens Get The Money — 8 ▶
Queens Wolf — 1 ▶
R1HW A Queens Story — 2 ▶
R1HW Can't Forget About You — 2 ▶
R1HW Daughters — 2 ▶
R1HW Hate Me Now — 4 ▶
R1HW Hip Hop Is Dead — 2 ▶
R1HW I Can — 2 ▶
R1HW If I Ruled The World — 4 ▶
R1HW Is Like — 4 ▶
R1HW Made You Look — 4 ▶
R1HW N.Y State Of Mind — 2 ▶
R1HW Nas Hate Me Now — 1 ▶
R1HW Nas If I Ruled The World — 1 ▶
R1HW Nas Made You Look — 1 ▶
R1HW Nas Nas Is Like — 1 ▶
R1HW Represent — 2 ▶
R1HW The World Is Yours — 2 ▶
Rare — 61 ▶
Rare (instrumental) — 5 ▶
Reach Out (feat. Mary J Blige) — 50 ▶
Reach Out (feat. Mary J. Blige) — 5 ▶
Reach Out (Green Lantern Remix) (feat. New Edition) — 3 ▶
Replace Me (feat. Big Sean & Don Toliver) — 7 ▶
Represent — 20 ▶
Represent (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
Rewind — 1 ▶
Roses — 1 ▶
Rule — 1 ▶
Rule The World (I Came From the City) (The Get Down OST) — 1 ▶
Salute Me — 1 ▶
Simple Things — 2 ▶
Slow It Down — 1 ▶
Speechless — 2 ▶
Spicy (Feat. Fivio Foreign & A$AP Ferg) — 4 ▶
Star Wars — 1 ▶
Stay — 1 ▶
Still Dreaming — 1 ▶
Still Dreaming (feat. Chrisette Michele & Kanye West) — 1 ▶
Still Dreaming (feat. Kanye West & Chrisette Michele) — 1 ▶
Stillmatic — 21 ▶
Stillmatic (Green Mix) — 1 ▶
Store Run — 2 ▶
Street Dreams — 37 ▶
Streets Of New York — 1 ▶
Summer on Smash (feat. Miguel & Swizz Beatz) — 2 ▶
Surviving the Times — 3 ▶
Sweet Dreams — 6 ▶
Tanasia — 4 ▶
The Cops Shot The Kid (feat. Kanye West) — 4 ▶
The Cross — 3 ▶
The Definition (feat. Brucie B) — 1 ▶
The Don — 377 ▶
The Don (Benji B Dub) — 4 ▶
The Don (Benji B New York version) — 1 ▶
The Don (Benji London dubplate version) — 1 ▶
The Don (D&B Remix) — 4 ▶
The Don (Darren Clean) — 6 ▶
The Don (DJ eSentrik Remix) — 1 ▶
The Don (Don Da Da Remix) — 2 ▶
The Don (Hot City Hype Mix) — 4 ▶
The Don (Hot City Remix - Sheepdog Re-Edit) — 1 ▶
The Don (Hype Remix) — 2 ▶
The Don (LADY BEE BOOTLEG) — 2 ▶
The Don (Live At Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
The Don (Massive Attack remix) — 5 ▶
The Don (Produced by Da Internz) — 1 ▶
The Don (S.P.Y Remix) — 2 ▶
The Don (Secret Bootleg) — 1 ▶
The Don (Shepdog Re-edit) — 1 ▶
The Don (TOM WRECKS REMIX) — 2 ▶
The Don (Visionary Remix) — 3 ▶
The Genesis — 6 ▶
The Genesis (feat. Jungle & AZ) — 1 ▶
The Message — 5 ▶
The Message (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
The N — 11 ▶
The Pressure — 1 ▶
The Season — 13 ▶
The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show on WKCR October 28, 1993 — 3 ▶
The World Is Yours — 169 ▶
The World Is Yours (Jaden Thompson Edit) — 1 ▶
The World Is Yours (Lakim Remix) — 1 ▶
The World Is Yours (Q-Tip Mix) — 3 ▶
The World Is Yours (Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
The World Is Yours (Tip Mix) — 4 ▶
These Are Our Heroes (Coons Picnic) — 1 ▶
They Shootin (Big Makk Flip) — 3 ▶
Thief's Theme — 27 ▶
Thiefs Theme — 3 ▶
This Bitter Land (feat. Erykah Badu) — 1 ▶
Thun — 1 ▶
U Owe Me (Sango Remix) — 1 ▶
Ugly — 2 ▶
Ultra Black — 9 ▶
Ultra Black (feat. Hit‐Boy) — 77 ▶
Vernon Family — 4 ▶
Virgo — 8 ▶
War (feat. Raye) — 2 ▶
War Is Necessary — 3 ▶
Wave Gods — 1 ▶
Wave Gods (feat. A$AP Rocky & DJ Premier) — 1 ▶
We Will Survive — 7 ▶
What Goes Around — 2 ▶
What Goes Around (Feat. Keon Bryce) — 13 ▶
Where Are They Now — 2 ▶
Where Y'all At — 1 ▶
Where Ya'll At — 9 ▶
Where You're All At <clean> — 5 ▶
Wu for the Children — 3 ▶
You Owe Me — 86 ▶
You Owe Me (feat. Ginuwine) — 167 ▶
You Owe Me (Paris Mix) — 1 ▶
You Owe Me (Sango Edit) (feat. Ginuwine) — 4 ▶
You Owe Me (Sango Remix) (feat. Ginuwine) — 1 ▶
You Owe Me - DJ Valid Remix (feat. Genuwine) — 1 ▶
You Won't See Me Tonight (feat. Aaliyah) — 2 ▶
You're Da Man — 2 ▶