Represent: 15 Nas Songs That Should Have Videos

Classic Esco bangers that deserve visuals.

"We Will Survive" - Nas paid homage to The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac after their tragic deaths and let the world know that hip hop would survive as he carried the torch on this cut from his 1999 album, I Am.... A storyboard of God's Son speaking with rap's eternal kings would have made a classic clip.(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
"2nd Childhood" - Queensbridge's Finest held a mirror to the face of the 'hood on this 2001 release from Stillmatic. Nas pointed the finger at those refusing to elevate themselves, and a good visual just might be the missing ingredient when trying to wake folks up out of a slave mentality.(Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)
"Black Girl Lost" - Nas took the title from a Donald Goines novel and crafted his own story about Black girls trying to survive and make a way out the 'hood on this standout track from his 1996 breakout project It Was Written. An accompanying video featuring the harmonies of Jodeci's Jo Jo alone is worth this track's weight. "Diamonds all shining, looking all fine.../Mother of the Earth, she made you and I," he sang.(Photos from left: Ron Galella/WireImage, SGranitz/WireImage)
"Count Your Blessings" - Nas and Damian Marley were all about uplifting Black people with their 2010 collaborative album Distant Relatives and shed light on being grateful for the small things in life with this song. You can almost envision ghetto youth around the world repeating Marley's infectious hook, "I've got love and assurance/I've got new heath insurance/I've got strength and endurance/So I count my blessings." (Photo: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson /Landov)"Heaven" - Nas closed out his sixth album, God's Son, in 2002 with this spiritual prose, asking would you put your life of sin away if you knew for a fact God was watching? Nas questioned a lot more about life on this track, as he was watching his mother die of cancer. It may have just been a little too real to share those visual memories with the world.(Photo: Noel Vasquez/Getty Images)

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"2nd Childhood" - Queensbridge's Finest held a mirror to the face of the 'hood on this 2001 release from Stillmatic. Nas pointed the finger at those refusing to elevate themselves, and a good visual just might be the missing ingredient when trying to wake folks up out of a slave mentality.(Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)

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