Nas -- aka Queensbridge's Finest -- to Give Hip-Hop Concert after Mets Game on Friday

His birth name is Nasir Bin Olu-Dara Jones, and he grew up a huge Mets fan in the rough-and-tumble Queensbridge Houses. Now, after selling more than 25 million albums and being nominated for 10 Grammy awards, the rapper Nas is coming home to give a concert at Citi Field after his beloved childhood baseball team plays the Philadelphia Phillies this Friday. Nas, whose 1994 breakout album Illmatic earned him acclaim as one of the borough’s finest lyricists, still visits the Long Island City housing project of his youth to keep in touch with his former life, but this will be his first performance at the Flushing stadium. As such, he’s ready to bring the house down with the multi-syllabic internal rhyme patterns and inner city narratives that made him famous.
Details: Mets Summer Postgame Concert Series with Nas, July 19, 7:10 pm (game time), Citi Field, 123-01 Roosevelt Ave., Flushing. Concert is free with purchase of game ticket.

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