Escobar Cigars Ships Nasty Esco

After giving its new Nasty Esco line a soft launch earlier this summer, Escobar Cigars has begun shipping the cigars to retailers across the country.

The cigar is a 5 x 52 robusto with a blend that uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper, a Sumatra binder, and fillers from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. It is made at PDR Cigars in the Dominican Republic.

Pricing is set at $9 per cigar and $180 for a box of 20 cigars. Nasty Esco joins the company’s portfolio as a regular production line.

Nasty Esco is the first cigar in what the company is calling the Light-Years Collection, which is being developed to mirror the album path of Nasir “Nas” Jones, the Grammy Award-winning rapper, entrepreneur and producer. Nas began his career under the name Nasty Nas and adopted the Escobar persona during the mid-1990s.

Jones joined the Escobar Cigars’ parent company, Puros Privados, as a co-owner and equity partner in August 2021. In December 2025, Nas and DJ Premier released “Light-Years,” a studio album that had been in the works since 2006. There is a track on the album called “Nasty Esco Nasir,” in which he references cigars, saying “even make our own cigars top tier.”

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