Bravehearts were an American hip hop group from New York City. The group's roster originally included Jungle (born Jabari Jones, son of jazz trumpeter

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, and younger brother of hip hop star

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), Wiz (born Mike Epps), and Horse (born E. Gray). Horse left the group in 2002, and Jungle and Wiz carried on as a duo. Wiz was in turn replaced by Nashawn, Nas's cousin.

Biography

Signed to

Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American reco ...

as part of

Ill Will Records Ill Will Records is an American vanity record label founded by Nasir "Nas" Jones. The label was named after Willie "Ill Will" Graham, Nas' childhood neighbor and best friend, who was shot dead on May 23, 1992, when both were teenagers. Nas co ...

imprint, Bravehearts first emerged in 1998, collaborating with Nas,

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, and

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on "I Wanna Live," a song on the soundtrack to the

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film ''

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''. From there, the Nas protégés moved on to the ''

Nas & Ill Will Records Presents QB's Finest ''Nas & Ill Will Records Presents QB's Finest'', commonly known as simply ''QB's Finest'', is a compilation album released on November 21, 2000 and the second release from rapper Nas' new Ill Will Records imprint, distributed by Columbia Record ...

'' compilation album, and saw their track "

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" go gold. Jungle and Wiz then began working on their full-length debut for Columbia Records. In the meantime, they appeared on

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's mixtape-style compilation ''Guess Who's Back?'', supporting 50 Cent and Nas on the track "Who U Rep With." The group's debut full-length album ''

Bravehearted ''Bravehearted'' is the debut Album#Studio, studio album by the American duo the Bravehearts. A group consisting of Nas, Nas' brother Jungle and fellow friend Wiz. Commercial performance The album did not sell well due to little promotion, it ...

'' was released in December 2003 with Jungle and Wiz making up the core group. The album featured guest appearances from Nas, Nashawn,

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, Jully Black and

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, and the group scored a hit single with the Lil Jon-produced track "Quick to Back Down". There may also have been a slight diss at 50 Cent on track 5 called "Bravehearted" on their album and Jungle also takes a shot at

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. Jungle states in his verse: "Jungle will live by the morals of the street, not like snitch C.J. or bitch Jay-Z." Recently Jungle was featured on a diss track on

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and

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with rapper Q-Butta called "Gun On Me." In 2009, Nashawn appeared twice on Memphis rapper C-Rock's album "Tha Weight Is Over". He was featured on the track "Street Niggaz", which is a diss to Juelz Santana/Jim Jones, and on the track "We Dons". In 2008, they released their final studio album, '' Bravehearted 2'', with Jungle and Nashawn making up the core group.

Ventures

In 2019, Jungle started his own record label; Street Dreams Record, following in his brothers Nas' footsteps with

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. The first artist signed to the label was Kiing Shooter.

Discography

;Studio albums *2003: ''

'' *2008: '' Bravehearted 2'' ;Collaboration albums *2000: ''

'' ;Soundtrack Appearances *1998: ''

'' ("I Wanna Live") *2000: ''

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'' ("What You Gonna Do")

References

External links

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