Ten years after "Illmatic" established him as one of New York's premier wordsmiths (his only rival now being Jay-Z), Nasir Jones, aka Nas, seems to have outgrown the cliched personas of Nasty Nas, Nas ...

There are few rappers who undeniably deserve a place in the hip-hop pantheon. Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, Eminem, Jay-Z, and, of course, Nas are among the undisputed greats who have the skills and ...

The rapper known as Nas isn’t self-conscious about labeling his ambitious new album “weird. It’s not terribly commercial, he admits, “it’s personal. It’s also long. A double album, “Street Disciple” ...

Nas fans want Nas. At worst, they want an artist whose lineage can be traced back to the man who waved automatic guns at nuns, an artist for whom compromise was never an issue—or in some cases, an ...

Nasir Jones, better known in the rap world as simply “Nas,” has always struggled to balance his yin and yang. The sacred and the profane have always tugged equally hard at his soul, though not always ...