Nas
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Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 2 July 1994
MOST OF THE people Nas looked up to during an eventful adolescence in Queensbridge, New York City, are either dead or in jail. His DJ ...
Hip Hop: The Empire State Strikes Back
Report by Angus Batey, Vox, August 1995
Snoop and Dr Dre's tales of the 'hoods of South Central may have redirected the media's fickle attention to the West Coast, but New York ...
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 29 June 1996
Having adopted the moniker of one Pablo Escobar, NAS ESCOBAR set about creating vivid lyrical depictions of life in his native New York tenement slums. ...
Written Out — Nas: It Was Written (Columbia 14tks/59mins)
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 13 July 1996
NAS is one of rap's supreme lyricists and vocal stylists. A pity, then, that his new album isn't worthy of his talents ...
Rap: Nas-ter Has Success 'Written' All Over Him
Profile and Interview by Amy Linden, New York Daily News, 25 July 1996
Speaking the Queensbridge English, recording artist is the city's No. 1 son ...
Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 18 January 1997
With gangsta rap getting just a tad too "real" of late, NAS ESCOBAR comes as something of a relief. His last album, It Was Written ...
Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 25 October 1997
It's an offer you can't refuse. The chance to meet Mafia-inspired hip-hop outfit THE FIRM – namely mobsters Nas, Foxy Brown and AZ — and ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 1999
1999: the year rap's most potent force joined the rank and file ...
Myth Master: The fabrication of Ms. Foxy Brown
Profile by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, 18 February 1999
FOXY BROWN is a chickenhead. ...
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, 28 April 1999
Two sides of Nas' coin ...
Review by Dorian Lynskey, Q, 2000
Ron Isley, Ginuwine and Mobb Deep assist Queensbridge rapper's fourth outing. ...
Nas: House of Blues, West Hollywood
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 29 March 2002
THE CYCLES OF pop music history are as hard to fathom as the mysteries of the cosmos, or at least the logic behind choosing Grammy ...
Hip-Hop Violence: Pop Goes The Weasel
Report by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 23 March 2005
FOR THE RECORD: guns don't go bang but pop, a noise a lot like a jumbo bottle of champagne being opened. As this was a ...
Why The Grammys Have Ditched Rap
Comment by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 15 December 2006
RAP MUSIC, and the commotion, fur and bling that often accompanies its biggest stars, will be noticeably absent from the Grammy awards in Los Angeles ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 18 July 2008
FOR MY money, Nas remains New York's most potent rapper, operating with an insight and intelligence few exponents can equal. ...
Clash's top ten hip-hop albums, EVER...
Guide by Mike Diver, Clash, 6 April 2009
WITH RADIO 1 presently celebrating 30 years of all things hip-hop – check out Trevor Nelson's page for more – we at Clash figured: why ...
Nas and Damian Marley: Distant Relatives (Def Jam)
Review by Mike Diver, bbc.co.uk, May 2010
WHEN NAS CONFIRMED this collaboration with Damian Marley, he mentioned how hip hop and reggae are intertwined. ...
The Golden G's: On Nas and Aging in Hip-Hop
Report and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Complex, 10 September 2013
How Nas has been able to stay relevant through 20 years in hip-hop. ...
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 11 April 2014
WHEN 20-YEAR-OLD MC Nas released his stellar debut Illmatic two decades ago this month, I must've been on the only person on Planet Hip-Hop who ...
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Light, MOJO, July 2014
IT IS THE winter that never ends in New York City, and on this mid-April evening, the rain outside is gradually turning to snow. The ...
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