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 ...

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 ...

Like Dempsey-Tunney or Ali-Frazier, any great heavyweight bout demands a rematch. So after Jay-Z buried his Big Apple rival Nas in 2001, sucker-punching him into submission by rush-releasing a live ...

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 ...

Now that our battle against the Taliban is winding down, maybe we can spend a little more time worrying about Nas's feud with Jay-Z. It's rap's finest sideshow, and the best part is that the stakes ...

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 ...