Radio Personality DJ Envy Recalls the Time Nas Pulled a Gun on Him

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Rapper Nas may be a legend in Hip Hop and considered one of the greatest emcees of all time, but “The Breakfast Club” host DJ Envy recalls a very scary moment he had with the rapper before he became a living legend. And according to Envy, simply trying to give Nas one of his mixtapes almost resulted in him losing his life.

DJ Envy tells VLAD TV:

“This was when mixtapes was big. And I was—And this was when nobody would take my mixtapes. I mean, I was trying to sell mixtapes to everybody. And at the time Clue was popping and all they wanted was Clue. So, I remember coming out the Coliseum and I seen Nas and I think it was a Lexus. So, I seen him I was like, ‘Oh sh*t, that’s Nas.’ So, now I got my mixtapes and I’m running up the block. I’m like ‘This is Nas. I’m in Queens. You don’t see this. This is Nas.’ It’s me and my mans with me and I’m like ‘Yo Nas, hold up. I got something for you.’ So Nas, he stops and he looks at me and he tells the girls to get in the car. He says ‘What you got for me?’

DJ Envy then says it was then only a matter of seconds before Nas actually pulled a gun out on him:

“I go in my bag and when I come up [from] my bag, Nas has a gun on me. What the f*ck you got for me? What you mean you got something for me?’ I’m sitting there like—I dropped my bag and everything. I’m like, ‘A mixtape. It’s just a mixtape. I swear, it’s just a mixtape. Look, look, look. Mixtape, mixtape.’ And Nas gave me the look…He did one of these ‘Yo, you know sh*t is real out here, man. You don’t come up to nobody and say ‘you got something for me,’ man. Gimme that mixtape.’ He took the mixtape, put the gun back in his pants, went in his car, and drove off.’ And after that I’ve never approached another artist with, ‘I got something for you.’ Never again.”

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