Name: why I ended my career | Episode 1
Uploaded: 2026-01-18T16:58:58.000Z
Duration: 26 min 47 s
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Okay, Something terrible is happening on YouTube and I'm gonna talk about it.

In this video, I'm going to do the unthinkable.

I'm going to discuss every controversy I've had on YouTube, from Israel to crypto to Philippines to all that stuff.

Yeah, I'm gonna call them when I call them for the first time ever and have a conversation for the first time in years.

I'm not the one standing here pretending that I stand for all these things.

I hope this video teaches you something very important and you'll know about it in the end.

Grab some tea, coffee, matcha, whatever it is you drink, and then let's talk.

Look, we think that everybody that succeeds is evil.

if Somebody succeeds on YouTube or in the world, if they become a billionaire or if they become very successful or become a politician, then automatically they're evil.

I grew up as an underdog in a village in the Middle east, as a Palestinian, Arab, Muslim in Israel.

I grew up there, and everybody felt bad for me.

Everybody was like, wow, you don't have opportunities.

I ended up deciding that I'm going to make something out of nothing and I'm going to turn my life from being the underdog to becoming a hero.

I got a scholarship because I didn't have the money, and I became a Harvard student.

Then as a Harvard student, I got a job here in New York.

I made a lot of money, and then I saved the money and.

Nas Daily was built literally from scratch.

Made a thousand videos in a thousand days.

Worked like a donkey for 2.7 years until it succeeded.

I went from underdog to hero with more than 15 million followers in YouTube, 22 on Facebook, 5 on Instagram.

And now we have a company of 100 people and making millions of Dollars.

So I've truly have enjoyed the last eight years.

The minute you have some sort of success, automatically the assumption is that you become the villain.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.

And this is now the video to talk about the villain chapter.

In my villain chapter, I have had so many controversies.

And I want to show you that these controversies, even though they position you as an evil person, as a villain, they're actually not.

I've had a controversy with Al Jazeera where they said I am an Israeli spy.

I've had another controversy in the Philippines where people said we are exploiting the culture of the Philippines.

I've had another controversy with crypto, where people said that we are promoting a crypto founder who went to jail.

Another controversy with Israel and Palestine, of course, because I'm from there.

And then the last controversy where I was heckled on the street in Switzerland at Davos.

One day I woke up and I saw a news article about us.

And the news article said something crazy.

Nas Daily is working with the Israeli government to promote Israel.

And when I saw that, I was like, oh, my God, we made it.

It was this Al Jazeera article that it basically implied that we work with the Israeli government, which is factually not true.

To prove to you that it's factually not true, I'm literally going to call to two people that have worked with me for the last five years.

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