Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. However you sequence them, they play like one long conversation between two masters who never stopped pushing each other. It ...

In a YO! MTV Raps interview in 1994, a month after his debut album Illmatic was released, 20-year-old rapper Nasir “Nas” Jones told Fab Five Freddy that everything changed for him when he was just 7 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a scene in Time Is Illmatic, a 2014 documentary about the creation of Nas’s 1994 masterwork Illmatic, where the rapper ...

Nas‘ Illmatic just turned 30 on Friday (4/19), and a new mural in Queens celebrates the occasion and pays tribute to the rapper. It was painted by Eli Lazare Salome-Diaz and Benny “FCEE” Guerra, and ...

Nas has officially broken the silence on his long-discussed collaboration with DJ Premier, revealing that their long-anticipated joint album is finally complete and includes tracks fans have been ...

Everyone’s reasons for loving Illmatic are different, but what remains consistent in the critiques is how Nas brings you into his world. Life in the projects is difficult, and Nas was poetic in his ...

Today marks the 52nd birthday of one of Hip Hop’s most treasured lyricists, Nas. For decades, Nasir Jones has been regarded as one of the greatest emcees to ever touch a microphone, landing at the top ...

His birth name is Nasir Bin Olu-Dara Jones, and he grew up a huge Mets fan in the rough-and-tumble Queensbridge Houses. Now, after selling more than 25 million albums and being nominated for 10 Grammy ...