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 ...

On this day in 2001, the self-crowned “King of New York” released his fifth studio LP, Stillmatic. During Nas’s musical absence, the power in New York had shifted, and Jay-Z had stepped up and ...

The new Nas album hits stores Tuesday and easily qualifies as one of the key rap releases of 2001--and already one of the most controversial in the insular and harsh circles of New York rappers. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nasir Jones, a.k.a. Nas, may never produce another album quite like Illmatic. Yet his latest release, Stillmatic, should be enough to restore his place as the King of New York. While the mainstream ...