Nas & Ice T’s Friend Taheim Shot Dead in Queens, Hours After Hanging Out With Nas

Nas’ Childhood Friend Taheim Shot & Killed in Queens

One of rapper Nas’ closest childhood friends was gunned down yesterday, just hours after he was seen hanging out with Nas.

Joseph “Taheim” Bryan. 50, was gunned down in Long Island City, Queens – near the Queenbridge neighborhood where two grew up.

Taheim was a good friend of rap star Nas and a movie writer who worked with Ice-T. “MFs Killed my friend last night,” Ice-T said on Twitter, speaking of the death of Taheim.

MFs Killed my friend last night.I’m not in a good place behind this.Taheim was a GOOD dude making Positive moves.He wrote & we made the film EqualStandard together.He leaves a Wife&Daughter.Dirty MFs followed him home and Murdered him.Pic @iamtaheim1st @mobbdeephavoc @tobiastruv pic.twitter.com/eo6vcMc1zn

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) August 20, 2021

People ask what makes you Cold… Murder makes you cold, losing friends and family to the streets makes you Cold.. You can’t tell me shit about PTSD. How many of your friends have been Murdered? It changes you.

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) August 21, 2021

“I’m not in a good place behind this.Taheim was a GOOD dude making Positive moves,” Ice-T wrote.

“People ask what makes you Cold… Murder makes you cold, losing friends and family to the streets makes you Cold..,” Ice-T tweeted in a follow up.

Nas was seen handing out with Taheim just a few hours earlier.

Here’s a picture of the two hanging out in Queensbridge hours before Taheim was shot.