Nas

Not many will argue with the fact that Nas‘ Illmatic is a classic album. Evidently, Reebok won’t either. As part of their new series Reebok Classics Presents, the footwear label have managed to grab some of the biggest and best artists to talk to us about the processes behind their influential releases. Having caught up with [...]

Reebok have been impressing me of late. Their brand revitalisation has piqued my interest with all the work Swizz Beatz has done for them, but this series is straight putting them back up there and making those abhorrent Reebok Classics and their chav association a distant memory. As part of a new series of videos, [...]

The legendary Rock The Bells concert series kicked off in San Bernardino, California a couple of days ago for its eighth year in circulation. With headline acts the likes of Erykah Badu and Common, the show was undoubtedly one to remember. Made all the more so by Lauryn Hill and Nas, who repeated their 2010 [...]

Freshly unveiled by the Young Money/Cash Money rapper Drake on his blog is this short video that takes us behind the scenes at the Canadian’s second installment of the OVOFest festival that was held in Toronto, Canada earlier this month and featured the likes of The Weeknd (who just released Thursday [Download Here] his follow [...]

Yessir… The legend that is Nasir Jones has been hard at work recording material for his forthcoming LP Life Is Good (the title might change). A few weeks ago, to the pleasure of all off his fans (including myself) and Hip Hop heads a like, he let loose the first single off his tenth album, [...]

The legend that is Nasir Jones along with his Distant Relatives partner Damien Marley recently put on a special performance in New York’s famed Central Park. Whilst Jr. Gong took a breather Nas brought many of his childhood Queensbridge friends to the stage, including his brother younger Jungle (in the red check shirt) and the [...]

We’ve been waiting for this for a minute now, fresh on the interwebs is the official video for Common‘s Nas featuring single “Ghetto Dreams” produced by No I.D. What are you waiting for? Press play already. Seriously dope visuals to accompany an incredible song, Common and Nas need to go and do a full project [...]

Yesterday not only did he release “Headlines” the first single from his sophomore album Take Care, Drake and his OVO family shut down Toronto, Canada with the 2nd annual OVO Fest. Opening the show with the enigmatic The Weeknd, followed by the BAWSE Rick Ross and then Drake took to the stage and was joined [...]

After Nasir’s recent Salaam Remi produced banger “Nasty” (listen here), the world has been waiting for some more material from the Queensbridge native. Well fresh on the interwebs is this new/possibly previously unreleased/leaked Nas track featuring Keyshia Cole. The track itself sounds older and unfinished to me and I can’t see it ending up on [...]

Eminem’s longtime manager and business partner Paul Rosenberg, celebrating his 40th birthday, received the best present any Hip Hop head could wish for as legends Nas and Rakim were invited as surprised guests to perform at his born day celebrations on Friday. However, before Rakim and Nas took to the stage fellow legends EPMD, Craig G [...]