Nas is set to bring an epic performance to Las Vegas.
The Grammy Award-winning rap icon will headline the next installment of “Amazon Music Presents: In the Paint” in Las Vegas. Nas will be the featured performer during the Emirates NBA Cup 2025 Semifinals. The special outdoor performance will take place on Saturday, Dec. 13, at T-Mobile Arena’s Toshiba Plaza between semifinal games. Also, the performance will be featured throughout Prime Video’s live coverage of the semifinal matchups.
Viewers at home will be able to watch two songs from Nas’s “In the Paint” concert during NBA on Prime’s Emirates NBA Cup broadcast. Following the live performance, the show will be available on all Amazon platforms.
Nas is ending 2025 with bang. His label Mass Appeal has released albums from Slick Rick, Wu-Tang’s Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, Mobb Deep, Big L, and De La Soul.
Nas recently announced Light-Years, a new collaborative album with DJ Premier, set to be released December 12 through Mass Appeal. The joint project builds on their influential work together, dating back to Illmatic. They collaborated on classics such as “New York State of Mind,” “Represent,” “Memory Lane.” Also on “I Gave You Power,” and “Nas Is Like.” The highly anticipated project will drop just one day before Nas’s performance in Las Vegas.
Along with Nas’ performance, Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton is joining “NBA on Prime” as a player contributor. He made his debut Tuesday night during “NBA Nightcap.”
“I’m going to be talking about the games, talking about the season, talking about the NBA as a whole, which I’m excited about. “I think, for me, and just NBA players in general, sometimes with the media — I think we all criticize,” Haliburton told The Athletic. “But the people who are giving us criticism, and the way that our game is talked about. And the way that our game is digested is something that’s always bothered a lot of players.”