“Rapper” Nas has had more weed carriers in his long, patchy carer than just about anyone (with the possible exception of Tupac). It’s even been said that if Nas didn’t fire all of his former weed carriers like a QB version of Donald Trump, he’d have a pretty great squad of rappers under his wing. Considering the fact that he’s had everyone from AZ to Cormega working with him, he really could have locked shit down if he wasn’t such a fickle ego-maniac.
While it’s true that he rolled with MC Serch and the Large Professor early in his career, Nas didn’t really carry weed for either of these guys, since Extra P already had K-Kut and Sir Scratch holding for him and Serch was rumoured to stash his weed in the frames of his Buddy Holly-style glasses. After he revived the Bridge’s diminishing reputation with Illmatic, weed carriers were literally lining-up to help keep God’s Son lifted. AZ The Visualizer served on -again, of-again stints as his weed carrier at various times, before he got his own deal and moved on. He’s yet to have any weed carriers of his own, but at least he’s not holding for anyone else. Cormega was down with the whole Firm project, but he refused to carry Nas’ weed, since he’d just served a bid for carrying a bunch of other shit. Actually, I think Mega would’ve refused just on principle. This led to him getting kicked out of the group – which was a blessing anyway since that album was trash – and be replaced by Nature.
Somewhere along the line, Nature lost Nas’ weed or something and got he shit kicked out of him. He tried to recruit his own carriers, but he never really had enough weed for all of the Wild Gremlinz to carry, so that didn’t really work out. 50 Cent was another one-time weed carrier for Esco, but after a while he was like “Fuck it, I’mma smoke dude’s shit” and he got cut-off. He learned a valuable lesson however, and followed the blueprint to gather his own crew of weed carriers, better known as G-Unit, with enormous success.
After firing all of those guys, Nas finally decided that The Bravehearts would be his “official” weed carriers (while I’m aware of the Mel Gibson reference, every time I hear that name I think of the Care Bears for some reason). I’m pretty sure he chose these guys because there ‘s little risk that they’ll ever have weed carriers of their own, thus ensuring their loyalty.
When Jay-Z was getting his solo career off the ground, he expressed interest in carring for Nas a one point, but Nas realised this was just a ploy to get Biggie Small’s number so he could carry for him, which spawned the seeds of their whole conflict years later. There are also hundreds of unknown weed carriers who have held Nas’ stash over the years, but since they never made it to the booth their story will go untold.
More recently, the Street’s Disciple has pissed-off Lakey The Kid, although I don’t think this situation has anything to do with weed. Nevertheless, Lake’s “Why (Nas Diss)” is pretty good.
Foxy Brown has also carried for Nas, although that may have been a different type of bag entirely….