NAS FILMOGRAPHY

Title: John Q.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Kimberly Elise, Anne Heche, James Woods, Nasir Jones

Released: February 15, 2002

U.S. Box Office: $71,026,631

Summary: John Q. Archibald is an ordinary man who works at a factory and takes care of his family. His wife Denise and young son Michael are his world. But when Michael falls seriously ill and needs an emergency heart transplant operation that John Q. can't afford and his health insurance won't cover, he vows to do whatever it will take to keep his son alive. With time and options running out, a desperate gamble becomes his only hope--he takes the emergency room hostage. As John Q. barricades himself inside the hospital along with his unwitting group of emergency room hostages, many of them in need of medical care themselves, he faces off with a veteran police hostage negotiator and a quick-tempered police chief who both want to bring a swift end to the stand-off.

Title: Stillmatic

Cast: Nas (Nasir Jones)

Released: 2002

U.S. Box Office: $unknown

Summary: The multi talented rapper Nas (who has also made a name for himself as a star of gritty urban thrillers) is surely one of the most influential hip hop artists of the turn of the 21st century. With rhymes that flow like the smoothest jazz line and beats at once frenetic and soothing, Nas has brought the harsh realities of ghetto life into the mainstream. STILLMATIC is an extended DVD Single that includes the videos for "One Mic" and "Got Ur Self A."

Title: Ticker

Cast: Romany Malco, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Nasir Jones, Steven Seagal

Released: 2001

U.S. Box Office: $unknown

Summary: Two of the action worlds biggest heavyweights--Steven Seagal and Dennis Hopper--square off in this tense, dramatic thriller. With Seagal fighting for good, and Hopper hamming it up as the maniacal villain, TICKER capitalizes on what the two actors do best. When Hopper's insane bomber hides a huge bomb somewhere in San Francisco, it is up to Seagal, a spiritual leader of the bomb squad and Tom Sizemore, as a volatile cop seeking revenge, to stop him. Rapper Nas and pop star Chilli (of TLC) also star.

Title: Belly

Cast: Earl Simmons, Nasir Jones, Hassan Iniko Johnson, Taral Hicks, Tionne Watkins

Released: November 4, 1998

U.S. Box Office: $9,606,219

Summary: An urban thriller which tells a modern coming of age story which chronicles the lives of two childhood friends, Tommy Brown and Sincere, as they climb the rungs of organized crime. To many in his neighborhood, 17-year-old Tommy is the Ghetto president--a womanizing charismatic thug consumed by wealth and power. In stark contrast to Tommy, Sincere is a refined intellectual who, between scores, occasionally likes to read and spend time with his family. Suddenly their trust and loyalty are challenged as it becomes clear that they want different things out of life. A once genuine relationship is starting to rip at the seams and is finally put to the test on the cusp of the new millennium, New Year's Eve 1999.