Nas & Large Professor – Live At The Barbeque (Live @ Mass Appeal BBQ SXSW) [Video]

The first look Nas ever got was from classic Queens/Toronto group Main Source, who put the teenager from Queensbridge on a song called “Live at the Barbeque” way back in ’91. Cliché as it is to say, the rest is history: Nasty Nas (as he was known at the time) bodied his feature, caught the ear of curious hip hop heads, and propelled himself into GOAT status a few years later with the release of Illmatic. Our Live at the BBQ event series is meant to honor these humble beginnings, and Nas paid tribute in kind at our most recent SXSW show. After Large Professor—original member of Main Source—spun a classic DJ set earlier in the night, Nas brought him back out for an impromptu performance. The respect the two Queens emcees have for each other was palpable, and the track still bangs as hard as it did 25 years ago (feel old yet?).