Queensbridge Houses
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Queensbridge Houses, also known simply as Queensbridge or QB, is a public housing development in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Owned by the New York City Housing Authorit
Queensbridge Houses
Queensbridge (right), Queensbridge Park (left), and Ravenswood Generating Station (background)
Queensbridge Park
Unisphere in summer
Nas
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Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, known mononymously as Nas, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and record producer. Rooted in East Coast hip-hop, he is regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Queensbridge Houses
…While the Boogie Down Productions-MC Shan dispute had already put "The Bridge" on the rap map in the 1980s, the new crop of Queensbridge rappers like Nas and Mobb Deep made frequent references to the Queensbridge Houses that cemented its reputation as a dystopian vision of poverty, drugs, and violence…
Nas at Jiffy Lube Live in 2022
Nas in 1998
Nas performing in 2003
Nas performing in Ottawa, 2007