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 ...

Fans and city officials were quick to bring up the infamous beef between Nas and JAY-Z amid their dueling casino bids ...

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 ...

Nas' bid to expand a casino in Queens was approved shortly after Jay-Z's proposal for one in Times Square was rejected.

In 1994. a young Queensbridge native called Nasty Nas created a 10-song masterpiece, “Illmatic.” Nasty Nas painted vivid street narratives as if he witnessed them first hand. The album represented ...

This past Friday, Nas shared his 13th album King’s Disease and so far it’s been received well by fans. Supported by features from some of today’s favorites like Don Toliver, Big Sean, and Fivio ...

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 ...

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 ...

The release of ‘Stillmatic’ sees one of the giants of New York hip-hop in a tight spot. His first album, 1994’s ‘Illmatic’, is one of rap’s key texts; a tough, eloquent and political record which set ...