Power 105.1 personality DJ Envy says an attempt to give Nas a mixtape at the start of his career was taken as the ultimate threat by the Queens rapper.
“This was when mixtapes was big. And I was—and this was when nobody would take my mixtapes,” Envy said during VladTV’s “True Hip-Hop Stories” segment. “I mean, I was trying to sell mixtapes to everybody. 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 [expletive], that’s Nas.’ So, now I got my mixtapes and I’m running up the block. 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?’ I go in my bag and when I come up [from] my bag, Nas has a gun on me,” DJ Envy said. “‘What the [expletive] you got 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.’ And Nas gave me the look…He did one of these ‘Yo, you know [expletive] 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.”
