Nas Live At The Kennedy
Nas Live At The Kennedy Center
A Mass Appeal production, Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop is directed by Jason Goldwatch and executive produced by Nas, Anthony Saleh, Peter Bittenbender and the John F.
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• • • • • When was just 19 years old living in the projects of Queens, he composed what would become one of hip-hop’s defining masterpieces,. To mark the album’s 20th anniversary, the MC re-envisioned it for one of the most venerable stages in the country, performing it alongside the National Symphony Orchestra at Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center. 
The once-in-a-lifetime concert went down four years back, but PBS debuted footage of the show just this past weekend. Now, the entirety of Great Performances — Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop has come online for fans everywhere to enjoy. With conductor Steven Reineke taking the orchestra through arrangements of beats by DJ Premier and Large Professor, Nas delivered impassioned renditions of tracks like “N.Y. State of Mind”, “The World Is Yours”, and “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in Da Park)”.