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* [[New Sound Album]]: ''It Was Written'' shifts toward Mafioso Rap for the most part.

* [[No Title]]: His untitled 2008 album (after the original title, ''Nigger'', was withdrawn). Most online retailers simply title it "[[Self-Titled Album|Nas]]".

* [[Rated G for Gangsta]]: Played straight and inverted several times. From ''Illmatic'', to "Oochie Wally", to battling Jay-Z and declaring hip-hop "dead", to signing with Def Jam and Fila shoe endorsements; all the while collaborating with the entire gamut of hip-hop, from DJ Premier and Pete Rock to Trackmasters and Puff Daddy to even non hip-hop artists such as [[Korn (Music)|Korn]], Damian Marley, and Carlos Santana.

* [[Rated "G" for Gangsta]]: Played straight and inverted several times. From ''Illmatic'', to "Oochie Wally", to battling Jay-Z and declaring hip-hop "dead", to signing with Def Jam and Fila shoe endorsements; all the while collaborating with the entire gamut of hip-hop, from DJ Premier and Pete Rock to Trackmasters and Puff Daddy to even non hip-hop artists such as [[Korn (Music)|Korn]], Damian Marley, and Carlos Santana.

** He also wrote "Getting Jiggy Wit It" for [[Will Smith]].

* [[Supergroup]]: The Firm.

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* [[Rousing Speech]]/ [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: "One Mic".

* [[Signature Song]]: "N.Y. State of Mind".

* [[Shout Out]]: The album art for "Stillmatic" bares a pretty blatant resemblance to that of "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick".

* [[Shout-Out]]: The album art for "Stillmatic" bares a pretty blatant resemblance to that of "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick".

* [[What Could Have Been]]: He and frequent collaborator AZ have repeatedly discussed a collabo album that has never come to fruition.

** Much of ''I Am...'' was completely rerecorded in one month after [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things|several of the planned tracks were leaked to the internet]]. For those curious, most of the leaked material(notably, "Drunk by Myself" and "Poppa was a Playa") eventually was released on ''The Lost Tapes'', which makes one wonder what ''I Am...'' would have originally sounded like.