Nasir Jones is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer working across multiple strands of East Coast hip-hop.

Born in Brooklyn on September 14, 1973, Jones works as a composer and musician writing in the English language. His work spans a wide range of stylistic registers, including boom bap, hardcore hip-hop, conscious hip-hop, gangsta rap, mafioso rap, jazz rap, alternative hip-hop, and political hip-hop. That range places him across both the grittier, street-oriented currents of the genre and its more socially and politically engaged expressions.

Beyond music, Jones operates across a notably diverse range of professional domains. He works as an entrepreneur, investor, businessperson, and music executive. His commercial activities extend into fashion, where he has worked as both a fashion designer and a dressmaker, and into the hospitality industry, where he works as a restaurateur. He has also worked as an actor, adding another dimension to a professional life that moves well beyond the recording studio.

The genres Jones works in — from the dense rhythmic structures of boom bap and hardcore hip-hop to the reflective concerns of conscious and political hip-hop — underscore the range of his engagement with East Coast rap. Jazz rap and alternative hip-hop also figure among the forms he has worked within, alongside the more street-oriented textures of mafioso and gangsta rap.