NAS INVESTS IN EXO, A CRICKET-FLOUR FOOD COMPANY

Nas has put resources into Exo, a cricket-flour nourishment organization, as indicated by Bloomberg.

The Brooklyn, New York organization says that it has finished a $4 million arrangement A subsidizing round from a gathering of financial specialists that incorporates Nas, AccelFoods and Collaborative Fund.

Exo offers its cricket-flour protein bars at Whole Foods, Wegman's and on the web. It arrangements to acquaint prepared with eat shakes and protein powders to the business sector.

"We imagine cricket powder being focused with soy, and whey, and some other protein source," Exo fellow benefactor Greg Sewitz says to Bloomberg. "That begins with acquainting cricket protein with a purchaser base with no immediate involvement with it and a great deal of assumptions that were negative."

A NPR story initially distributed in 2013 says that roughly 80 percent of the world's populace eats bugs. The United States, Canada and Europe are among the conspicuous spots where bugs are not commonly expended.

Nas' interest in Exo is the most recent of the Queens, New York rapper's duties to non-music related endeavors. In 2013, he put resources into San Francisco organization Proven, which makes applications to individuals apply to online occupation postings through PDAs. A year ago, it was declared that Nas was collaborating with Sweet Chick, a New York City eatery that spends significant time in chicken and waffles and Southern cooking.

In 2012, Nas was included as a guide of the then-RapGenius, which is currently Genius.