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Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones ( /nɑːˈsɪər/; born September 14, 1973), better known by his stage name Nas ( /ˈnɑːz/), is an American rapper and actor. He is also the son of jazz musician Olu Dara. Nas has released eight consecutive platinum and multi-platinum albums since 1994, four of which topped the Billboard charts upon release and has sold over thirteen-million records in the United States alone. Nas was also part of the hip hop supergroup The Firm, which released one album under Dr. Dre's record label Aftermath. Aside from rapping, Nas is also an occasional actor and has appeared in feature films such as Hype Williams' directorial debut Belly, Ticker and In Too Deep and the television show Hawaii Five-0.
His rise to fame began in 1991 with his feature on hip hop group Main Source's debut album on the track "Live at the Barbeque". In the years that followed, Nas garnered attention from music industry A & R's and record labels with more impressive features and a solo single "Halftime". His debut album Illmatic, released in 1994 by Columbia Records, received universal acclaim from both critics and the hip hop community and would go on to be widely hailed as a musical landmark and a classic in the genre and is consistently ranked as one of the greatest LP's of all time. His follow up album It Was Written debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Charts, stayed on top for four consecutive weeks and went platinum twice in only two months, propelling Nas to worldwide notoriety.
Actors: Mike Reus (actor), Nasrdin Dchar (actor), Nils Rensen (editor), Julius Ponten (producer), Marwan Kenzari (actor), Jim Taihuttu (director), Jim Taihuttu (writer), Achmed Akkabi (actor), Victor Ponten (producer), Frieder Wallis (producer), Philip Harthoorn (producer), Flinke Namen (composer), Ruud Geurts (producer),
Plot: After a night's work Nas get's picked up by two old friends carrying a jerry can. They ask him for help. Despite his suspicion he decides to tag along trying to unravel their obvious false pretenses. Eventually he gets confronted with his own prejudice.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Steve Maresca (actor), Ben Wood (actor), Matt Durrant (director), Matt Durrant (actor), Matt Durrant (producer), Matt Durrant (writer), Chase Hope (actor), Alex Opdam (producer), Dan Spade (actor), Omar Juweinat (actor), Richard Kessell (actor), Eric Hee Song (actor), Nicky Blaze (actor), Jacinda Gugliemino (actress), Tahlia Phillips (actress),
Plot: When Gee's drug suppliers get arrested doing a "run", he inherits a piece of the local action for himself. Realizing the opportunity to move up a rung, Gee takes it upon himself to position him and his partner Nas to new heights. Working for others always had it's limits, but as Gee soon finds out with responsibility comes new risks. Almost instantly they are pressured by aggressive competitors, bad customers and scarce product. As they traverse the cruel drug economy the outside world tends to become irrelevant, even futile. In a world where money, reputation and survival is important, Gee shows that self preservation can be undone from within.
Genres: Crime,Actors: Madhav Mathur (producer), Madhav Mathur (director), Madhav Mathur (actor), Madhav Mathur (writer), Varun Viswanath (editor), Varun Viswanath (producer), Siddesh Mukundan (actor), Siddesh Mukundan (composer), Vineet Kumar (actor), Navneet Jagannathan (actor), Lishi Lee (actor), Perrine Piano (actor), Mark Bartram (actor), Ipshita Bhattacharya (actor), Tanvi Chaturvedi (actor),
Plot: Ali, a possessed workaholic writer, is spiralling downwards into a permanent state of mental corrosion, in his ill-conceived insomniac efforts to complete his latest book of fiction. On one fateful night, his overactive imagination gets the better of him. Characters and episodes from his unfinished book come to life in front of his weary eyes. They get strangely intertwined with people and experiences from his own life, resulting in absurd, tragic comedy. Tormented and chased by seductive assassins, loony psychiatrists, bullies and army men, he has only one person who can actually save him, and she too seems reluctant.
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Denzel Washington (actor), Philip Williams (actor), Gerry Quigley (actor), Ethan Suplee (actor), David Thornton (actor), Larry King (actor), Nas (actor), Eddie Griffin (actor), Jay Leno (actor), Ray Liotta (actor), Robert Duvall (actor), Bill Maher (actor), Obba Babatundé (actor), Laura Harring (actress), James Woods (actor),
Plot: John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.
Keywords: abusive-boyfriend, air-conditioning, air-duct, ambulance, ambulance-driver, anti-republican, arrest, auto-repossession, baseball, baseball-hat