The new Nas album hits stores Tuesday and easily qualifies as one of the key rap releases of 2001--and already one of the most controversial in the insular and harsh circles of New York rappers. The ...

On this day, Dec. 18, in hip-hop history... Stillmatic was met with wide-spread critical acclaim, with most critics across the board voicing their excitement that the Nas of old was back. The LP ...

What has set 28-year-old Nas (Nasir Jones) apart from many rappers of his generation on discs such as “Illmatic,” “It Was Written,” “Nastradamus” and “I Am” is his ability to look outside the ...

On this day in 2001, the self-crowned “King of New York” released his fifth studio LP, Stillmatic. During Nas’s musical absence, the power in New York had shifted, and Jay-Z had stepped up and ...

Following a classic debut and a string of commercially successful but critically maligned follow-ups, Nas scored an artistic comeback with Stillmatic, an album that made good on its title's promise of ...

Nas has confirmed details of a US tour. The rapper, whose album ‘Stillmatic’ is currently in the US Top Ten, will start his tour later this month (February 23) in Ohio, concluding in Las Vegas at the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Nasir Jones, a.k.a. Nas, may never produce another album quite like Illmatic. Yet his latest ...

On this day in 2001, the self-crowned “King of New York” released his fifth studio LP, Stillmatic. During Nas’s musical absence the power in New York had shifted and Jay-Z had stepped up and eclipsed ...

Following the murders of feuding megastars Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, hip-hop was inundated with idealistic rhetoric about stopping the violence and/or increasing the peace. But everyone loves ...