While many consider Illmatic to be Nas's strongest record, It Was Written is as hard-hitting as it gets. Collaborations with Lauryn Hill of the Fugees, Foxy Brown, Mobb Deep...
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Unlike rappers who regurgitate real and imagined street experiences and spout gutteral ghetto-speak for its shock value, Nas takes a (somewhat) higher road--spinning...
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For his second album, It Was Written, Nas hired a bunch of hip-hop's biggest producers -- including Dr. Dre, DJ Premier, Stretch, and Trackmasters -- to help him create the...
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Powerhouse debut from one the '90s' leading East Coast rappers, Illmatic put Nas on the map with its infectious hooks, reggae influences, superb beats and direct-hit lyrics....
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Often cited as one of the best hip-hop albums of the '90s, Illmatic is the undisputed classic upon which Nas' reputation rests. It helped spearhead the artistic renaissance...
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Often cited as one of the best hip-hop albums of the '90s, Illmatic is the undisputed classic upon which Nas' reputation rests. It helped spearhead the artistic renaissance...
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Ras Kass, another one of hip-hop's most prolific rappers, once said that his album Soul On Ice should have been praised merely for his song "Nature Of The Treat,"...
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I Am... is the third album and fourth stage in the evolution of Queensbridge's living legend Nasir Jones, from Nasty Nas to Nas to Nas Escobar to Nastradamus, the...
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Nas' debut album Illmatic was an instant classic, heralding the arrival of an individual talent. It was clear that where his peers postured, Nas delivered the goods, turning...
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It's hard not to judge Nas by the standard he set with his classic debut Illmatic, but with his fourth album, Nastradamus, he has moved even farther away from the gritty,...
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For his second album, It Was Written, Nas hired a bunch of hip-hop's biggest producers -- including Dr. Dre, DJ Premier, Stretch, and Trackmasters -- to help him create the...
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Few albums this year come with the high stakes of Stillmatic, Nas's comeback from the embarrassing double misfire of 1999's commercialized I Am and Nastradamus. The...
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Released in summer 2002, just in time to capitalize on Nas' Stillmatic resurgence, From Illmatic to Stillmatic compiles a few previously released remixes from the mid-'90s...
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Leading up to the release of God's Son, the second new Nas album in less than a year, Ill Will dropped a collection of "lost recordings" -- basically, tracks recorded for I...
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When it comes to hip hop's highest-profile beef, what a difference a year makes. In 2001, Jay-Z had Nas against the wall, creating his own brilliant Blueprint, then...
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God's Son is an emotional album, imbued with recent experiences in Nas' personal life, particularly his recent bout with Jay-Z and the unfortunate death of his mother, Ann...
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God's Son is an emotional album, imbued with recent experiences in Nas' personal life, particularly his recent bout with Jay-Z and the unfortunate death of his mother, Ann...
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God's Son is an emotional album, imbued with recent experiences in Nas' personal life, particularly his recent bout with Jay-Z and the unfortunate death of his mother, Ann...
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Often cited as one of the best hip-hop albums of the '90s, Illmatic is the undisputed classic upon which Nas' reputation rests. It helped spearhead the artistic renaissance...
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The first best-of collection of Nas' colorful career, The Best of Nas perfectly compiles most of his biggest pre-Stillmatic hits along with several Illmatic-era remixes. The...
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Leading up to the release of God's Son, the second new Nas album in less than a year, Ill Will dropped a collection of "lost recordings" -- basically, tracks recorded for I...
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Back on the hardcore block and with plenty to prove after two years without a record under his own name, Nas designed Stillmatic as a response: to the rap cognoscenti who...
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Often cited as one of the best hip-hop albums of the '90s, Illmatic is the undisputed classic upon which Nas' reputation rests. It helped spearhead the artistic renaissance...
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Ten years deep in the rap game, Nas unveiled Street's Disciple, an indulgent album that sprawls across two discs, freewheeling through a dizzying array of ace productions...
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Ten years deep in the rap game, Nas unveiled Street's Disciple, an indulgent album that sprawls across two discs, freewheeling through a dizzying array of ace productions...
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