Nas

Backstage at Drake‘s second annual OVO Fest Roc Nation’s J.Cole, who had just shared the stage with the Young Money emcee and the legendary Nasir Jones, spoke to Billboard‘s The Juice and dropped a few dimes on the importance of staying true to one’s core audience before and during one’s rise to international stardom. Cole, [...]

This week Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books announced Nasty Nas has a memoir coming out in autumn of 2012, titled It Ain’t Too Hard To Tell and co-written with respected music journalist and FUSE TV personality Toure. Should be an interesting read right? Jay Z beef, his marriage to Kelis, working with Damian Marley… [...]

Having previously been at the helm of photo shoots for some of today’s biggest music stars, such as Snoop Dogg, John Legend, Pharrell, Neyo and Bruno Mars, photographer Steven Taylor teamed up with the good folks over at Hypebeast to give a behind the scenes insight into a photo shoot with two legendary Hip Hop figures, [...]

Hip hop fans, pay attention! After rap royalty Nas recently reunited with former collaborator AZ at this year’s annual Rock The Bells festival where they performed tracks from Nas’ seminal album Illmatic, AZ has revealed to XXLMag that fans waiting a new collaboration can look forward to hearing God’s Son on Doe or Die II, [...]

We already brought you some behind the scenes photos and some stills from an outtake scene, but now we have a behind the scenes video from the set of Nas‘ “Nasty” music video shoot. The video was directed by Jason Goldwatch in the middle of Queens and takes Nasir back to the hood that raised [...]

Here is the official video for the Salaam Remi produced single “So Fresh” from J Records​ recording artist CJ Hilton. The original version features Queensbridge rhyme legend Mr Nasir Jones aka Nas who doesn’t make an appearance in the video version, but it’s still definitely worth taking the time to watch. Check out the full [...]

After well over 18 years in the game and an incredible 14 albums to his name, the legendary Snoop Dogg was presented with the BMI Urban Icon Award by his former mentor and fellow legend Dr. Dre yesterday at the 11th Annual BMI Urban Awards at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater [See Below]. After awards presentations were complete, which [...]

Over the past few years in Hip Hop, the term “classic album” has been severely watered down. But like Nas‘ Illmatic, you’ll be lucky to find many that will argue the fact that Raekwon‘s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx is a classic and timeless body of work. In continuation of their new viral series Reebok [...]

Whilst the Hip Hop world awaits the return of Nas with the flame lit by new song “Nasty,” director Jason Goldwatch unveils a few behind-the-scenes shots from the world renowned Queensbridge lyricist’s video shoot. Produced by Salaam Remi, “Nasty” is the first cut from Nas’ upcoming album Life Is Good Nas – “Nasty”: “The below [...]

Get ready, there’s a whole heap of videos here that could well ruin any plans you had for productivity for the next few hours… Last weekend, San Bernadino in California got the first experience of the pant wetting lineup for Rock The Bells 2011. Nas, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Raekwon & Ghostface, Common, Cypress Hill, [...]