You can point to any corner of the map and find 50 albums that could be the best album ever made. As a matter of fact, you’ve probably already had this conversation multiple times at parties or ...

Appearing on Nas’ monumental Illmatic album as well as the the radar silver screen flick Zebrahead, Halftime was the smash single that put Nasty Nas in the position to be considered the ...

Nas' dope interaction with the youth happened during his Illmatic 30th Anniversary Tour in the U.K. and ... the Mass Appeal ...

Bodega Bamz and more talk about why Nas' classic 'Illmatic' album is important to them. Nas, “Hey Young World” (Originally Published November 2011) Nas, “Hey Young World” (Originally ...

In celebration of Nas' Illmatic debut album turning 30 this year, Escobar is slated to head to Sin City for four unique performances starting on Thursday, Aug. 29, through Sunday Sept. 1.

Illmatic's influence was more in its long tail, in the fact it did well enough to launch Nas' career than in its actual impact in the year it was released. But that's too reductive of an album ...

Emmanuel C.M. Large Professor dropped a new single off his upcoming album Re:Living ... the boards of many hip-hop heavyweights like Nas, A Tribe Called Called Quest, Busta Rhymes, Mobb Deep ...

The French continue to be some of the most imaginative samplers of Jones’ work. Fred Falke, a contemporary of Daft Punk whose ...

Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti with Zubin Mehta Nas has been nominated by the Recording Academy 17 times, but he's ...

It’s always awkward telling people what I do for a living. I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the ...

of his debut album, Illmatic. He’s regarded as one of the best rappers of all time, and Illmatic is similarly acclaimed, not ...