Bridging the Gap
Nas - Bridging the Gap
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The Blues: The Sound of Rural Poverty
How do the Country Blues reflect the challenges of sharecropping, racial injustice, and rural poverty in early 20th-century African-American life?
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Nas
(b. 1973) Rapper Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones emerged as one of New York Hip Hop's preeminent voices in the early 1990s, embodying a swaggering verbal mastery and an outspoken, often politically charged persona on a series of highly regarded albums, beginning with his 1994 debut, Illmatic. Since then, Nas has scored eight consecutive platinum and albums, had six No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 and sold over 25 million records. A native of Brooklyn, NY, and the son of revered jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas dropped out of high school in eighth grade, but soon developed a literate lyrical...