Descending from a long line of storytellers, Nasir Jones looks out on the world and sees a chilling urban landscape. Smart and perceptive enough to subvert his language, the sleepy-eyed, straight-up rapper became a street legend as a teenager from Queens. With his modern morality tales and portraits of communities decimated by poverty, his street narratives and world plays up the ante on sucka MCs who glorify thug life and its opportunity. An urban griot, his rhymes hold up a mirror to society and what is chooses to celebrate.

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PANASONIC
Edgar Winter Group "Frankenstein"

SONY HD RADIO
Mat Kearney "Undeniable"

GUITAR HERO 3
Velvet Revolver "Slither"

FILM

DAN IN REAL LIFE
Earth, Wind & Fire "September" (Phats & Small Remix)

THE DARJEELING LIMITED
Fritz Reiner & The Chicago Symphony Orchestra "Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92"
Joe Dassin "Les Champs Elysees"

MUSIC WITHIN
The Youngbloods "Get Together"
Donovan "Sunshine Superman"
Jefferson Airplane "Somebody To Love"
The Isley Brothers "It's Your Thing"

BELLA
Rosemary Clooney/Perez Prado "Sway"
Rachael Yamagata "Meet Me By The Water"