{"id":8808,"date":"2026-10-08T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/10\/08\/victoria-monet-explains-how-nas-kick-started-her-career\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:27:28","slug":"victoria-monet-explains-how-nas-kick-started-her-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/10\/08\/victoria-monet-explains-how-nas-kick-started-her-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Mon\u00e9t Explains How Nas Kick-Started Her Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Victoria-Monet-1200x675.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Before the Grammy wins, a studio session with Nas gave Victoria Mon\u00e9t a chance to show her voice belonged in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/victoria-monet\/\" title=\"\u200c\">Victoria Mon\u00e9t<\/a> credits <a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/nas\/\" title=\"\u200c\">Nas<\/a> with giving her the confidence to transition from songwriter to artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During an appearance on <a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ESgW1IkIlns\">\u201cThe Jennifer Hudson Show,\u201d<\/a> the singer said the legendary rapper helped drive her career breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mon\u00e9t explained her strategy for getting noticed in the music industry. She studied how Bruno Mars collaborated with B.o.B on \u201cBeautiful Girls\u201d and then launched his own successful career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She decided to focus on writing and singing hooks so well that artists would want to keep her on their records as a launching pad for her own career.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-white-color has-body-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3 has-dark-background has-xxl-margin-top has-xxl-margin-bottom\" data-content-name=\"middle-content-engagement-single\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-black-background-color has-background has-dark-background has-sm-padding-top has-sm-padding-bottom has-sm-padding-left has-sm-padding-right has--lg-margin-top has--lg-margin-bottom\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-join-us\">Join Us <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-allhiphop-s-daily-news-service\">AllHipHop\u2019s Daily News Service<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-sm-max-width wp-block-paragraph\">Delivering news to inboxes since 1999. We break it. They take it. Get it first, straight from AllHipHop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nas Performs on Arsenio Hall 09\/11\/2013\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5A-mvrrEP68?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAround the industry, I became like the girl people would call for hooks,\u201d Mon\u00e9t said. \u201cAnd so, one of those people was Nas. I went in that studio, I tried to sing it as good as I can, and he kept me on his <em>Life Is Good<\/em> album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That feature marked her first major breakthrough moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nas didn\u2019t just include her on the album; he brought her on his \u201cArsenio Hall Show\u201d appearance to perform the song live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The support meant everything to her at that critical moment in her career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was like so thankful,\u201d Mon\u00e9t recalled. \u201cSo, along the way there were plenty of artists who saw me and was like, you got this, very encouraging, and that was really helpful to build confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Validation from someone of Nas\u2019s stature showed her she had what it took to make it in the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond her music career, Mon\u00e9t has been expanding her talents. She recently graduated from culinary school, and She\u2019s also taken up ballroom dancing, working with a coach named Leah to master the posture and technique.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Victoria Mon\u00e9t Reveals How Nas Gave Her the Confidence to Become an Artist\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ESgW1IkIlns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/victoria-monet-explains-how-nas-kick-started-her-career\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Grammy wins, a studio session with Nas gave Victoria Mon\u00e9t a chance to show her voice belonged in the spotlight. Victoria Mon\u00e9t credits Nas with giving her the confidence to transition from songwriter to artist. During an appearance on \u201cThe Jennifer Hudson Show,\u201d the singer said the legendary rapper helped drive her career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}