Nas

The veteran producer Salaam Remi has been in the game for decades; he started out playing keyboards on a Kurtis Blow album in 1986. Over…

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958,…

Earlier this week, what sounded like a new D'Angelo song appeared online, plucked from the wildly popular new video game Red Dead Redemption 2. Today…

Nas and Kelis were married from 2005 to 2009, when Kelis filed for divorce while pregnant, citing "irreconcilable differences." In an interview with the website…

A couple of weeks ago, before the release of her new album Queen, Nicki Minaj took to Twitter to publicly ask Tracy Chapman to clear…

What happens when a pop-punk boy band grows up? They stop playing pop-punk, apparently.

Fridays may be a little less frenzied now. With the release of Teyana Taylor's new K.T.S.E. last week, a wild monthlong parade of albums produced…

In 2000, Rakim, then widely regarded as the greatest rapper ever, signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath label. This was a ridiculously exciting thing to even…

As of this year, Prodigy, one half of the iconic Queens rap duo Mobb Deep, has been gone for one year. A year ago today,…

How's Yeezy Season treatin' y'all? Exhausted? Exhilarated? Ready for this parade of seven-track albums to be over, or perhaps to continue indefinitely?

Another week, another album produced by Kanye West. So far, we've gotten Pusha-T's Daytona, Ye's Ye, and Kanye and Kid Cudi's collaborative LP Kids See…

Twenty-five years after its release, hindsight reveals one now-dated aspect of Guru's Jazzmatazz, Volume 1: The front cover refers to its fusion of hip-hop and…

Kelis has said in a new interview with the website Hollywood Unlocked that her marriage to Nas included "a lot of mental and physical abuse,"