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<p class="MsoPlainText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Announces Exclusive Show @ Radio City Music Hall on New Year’s Eve!<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Tickets Go On Sale this Friday, September 14<sup>th</sup> at Noon<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">"<b>There is no better place for me to spend New Year’s Eve than New York City, and there aren't many better places to perform in this
world than Radio City." –Nas<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
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the release of his </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;background:white">best-selling
<b><u>#1</u></b> new album </span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Life Is Good,</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;background:white">and a standout performance on this year’s
<b><i>Rock the Bells</i> </b>tour<b>,</b></span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;background:white">hip-hop’s most influential MC has announced an exclusive show at
<b>Radio City Music Hall</b> <b>on New Year’s Eve</b>. Fans can purchase tickets beginning this
<b>Friday, September 14<sup>th</sup> </b>at <b>noon</b>- the same day Nas will be celebrating his 39<sup>th</sup> birthday.
<b>Elle Varner </b>has been confirmed as support. Doors for the concert will open at 9pm.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Nas’s new album,
<b><i>Life Is Good,</i></b></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </span>
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">debuted at <b><u>#1 </u></b>on the<b><i>
<u>Billboard</u></i></b><u> Top 200</u> Album charts (selling 149,000 copies in its first week), marking the sixth
<b><u>#1</u></b> album that the artist has produced during his career. The collection has received rave reviews from critics and fans alike including from
<b><i>The New York Times </i></b>who raved, <i>“A simulacrum of the sound that made him legendary, capturing Nas in his vintage prime without coming off as anachronistic.
<b>Life Is Good</b> would probably have been among the best hip-hop albums of 1993 and, as it happens, is likely to be one of the best hip-hop albums of 2012</i>,” from
<b><i>Rolling Stone </i></b>who noted, <i>“The Queens rap godfather spits vicious rhymes over a rugged, island flavored beat,”
</i>and from <b><i>The Los Angeles Times </i></b>who said, “<i>On <b>Life Is Good</b>, the rapper known for his sharp wit and biting social commentary taps into one of his most honest and compelling subject matters yet: himself.”</i>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">A hip-hop icon since the early 1990s, </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Nas</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> emerged from the Queensbridge
neighborhood of Long Island City, a hotbed of rap artist since the ’80s. The son of jazz trumpeter
<b>Olu Dara</b>, Nas has since gone on to sell over 20 million albums worldwide over the span of his legendary career, and has acted as an ambassador for hip-hop culture throughout the globe. The first full-length album by the poet and rhyme-master Nas arrived
in 1994, the RIAA platinum <b><i>Illmatic</i></b>. Since then he has released 9 solo albums and 3 compilation albums that have garnered 11 GRAMMY nominations and certified either double-platinum, platinum and gold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">For more information on Nas, please go to
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