30

## Single by Tobe Nwigwe and Nas featuring Jacob Banks

"**30**" is the fifth track from American rapper Nas' sixteenth studio album, *King's Disease III* (2022). The official video premiered to his YouTube channel on March 1, 2023, directed by Sarah McColgan. *Uproxx* summarized of the visual, "Shot in black-and-white, Nas enters an empty warehouse alone. It's dark, except for light shining through the slightly cracked door. Nas lets his longevity do the talking."

## Personnel

### Song

* Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis Jr. – writer, producer, programmer
* David Kim – recording engineer, mixing engineer
* Ernest Gold – composer
* Jun Kim – co-mixing engineer
* Mark "Exit" Goodchild – A&R administrator
* Mike Bozzi – mastering engineer
* Nasir "Nas" Jones – vocals, writer

### Video

* Sarah McColgan – director, editor
* Isaac Rice, Missy Galanida – executive producer
* Andrea Saavedra – producer, executive producer
* Kelo Thompson – producer
* James Face – assistant editor
* Tyler Roth – colorist
* Max Colt – VFX
* Nataly Arroyo – production manager
* Niko Philipides – 1st AD
* Khyber Law – 2nd AD
* Mika Alaskan – cinematographer
* Billy Briggs – 1st AC
* Rob Alpine – 2nd AC
* Darrian Ferguson – photo assistant
* Renard Cheran – steadicam operator
* Kyle Reed – DIT
* Daniel Kagle – gaffer
* Isaac Marziali, Steven Albovias – BBE
* Mike Williamson, Cooper Lichacz, Matthew Hall – electric
* Luke Poole – key grip
* Eric Fowler, Nick Herman – grip
* Jevon Dismuke – production designer
* Joshua Strickland – leadman
* April Roomet – wardrobe stylist
* Lizzy Arroyo – hair, makeup
* Mckay LeDuke – truck PA
* James Dixon, Keira Torpie, Malachi Barnes, Ryan Davis, Thomas Parker – set PA
* Kaidontrap – playback
* Yule Owens – craft service
* Kyle Reynolds – set medic
* Hawk on Hand Falconry – owl handler
* Mariah Mckenzie – female leader
* Drum Curby – drummer

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

(*Hit-Boy*)

[Verse]

A divine creature, ran through dimes, divas

I turned blocks to beaches

By the time you see us, we just turned tides even

Cuban chain, got the largest pieces

But, I— (*Thirty*)

Wild for keepin' it so timeless

Almost half a century with a crispy lineup

My peeps Salaam said I remind him of Martin Lawrence

Breakin' hearts on some real thin line shit

I'm done with star chicks, I survived divorces

I ain't have to climb back, I just climbed in Porsches (*Thirty, uh, uh*)

Uh, I ain't have to climb back, I just climbed in Porsches

I was the ill seed, the illest one

The villainized, but I feel free and the field be

Crazy way before the drill beef

Doesn't matter this is sheer relief, I feel the breeze this is

Superhero material, rap star status

Premier album still might happen

I wonder why Pete Rock would act like that

That type of behavior make me give rap right back (*Thirty*)

And now I can't tell if all the good that I did's bein' hid with they agenda again, n\*\*\*a

I know that y'all prayin' I go back to nothin'

We in the future, let's get past the frontin'

Let's get money

[Pre-Chorus]

This is practice, this is magic

History, havoc, instant classic (*Thirty*)

This is madness in all fairness

[Chorus]

We been movin' how you fuck n\*\*\*as wanna

My thirty for thirty highlights doin' numbers

Goin' on thirty summers (*Thirty*)

Goin' on thirty summers

Goin' on thirty summers (*Thirty*)

I'm goin' on thirty summers

Goin' on thirty summers (*Thirty*)

Goin' on thirty summers

We been movin' how you fuck n\*\*\*as wanna

My thirty for thirty highlights doin' numbers (*Uh, thirty*)

[Outro]

King, ooh, uh

Uh, king

Uh, king

Uh, king

Uh

Uh, king

Uh

King

## References

1. ↑ Powell, Jon (March 1, 2023). "Nas Celebrates His Iconic Career in "30" Visual". *Revolt*.
2. ↑ Armstrong, Megan (March 1, 2023). "Nas Lets His Longevity Do the Talking in His Simplistic '30' Video". *Uproxx*.

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