Hip-hop music emerged as a testament to resilience and creative ingenuity, yet many of its foundational rappers departed ...

The 60-year-old storytelling rap veteran just released a new album; here he reflects on a trendsetting career.

BET Awards aired to millions across the globe in June of 2025, a stunning and controversial moment pierced the heart of both ...

Hip-hop legend Slick Rick is proving his creative spark is far from fading. The English-born rapper — known for his signature ...

Jay-Z and Nas' earliest collaboration has finally gotten an official release on the reissue of - seriously - Shaquille O'Neal ...

Rap icon Nas is joining a creative team to bring a stage musical adaptation of the 1984 hip-hop film classic Beat Street to Broadway.. Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known as Nas, made the ...

Hip Hop Is Truly Dead.” Le sigh and IKYFL at the same time. I know this ain’t the same Questlove that played drums on Jay-Z’s “Takeover” from his “MTV Unplugged” live album released ...

LGBTQ hip-hop is here and proudly queer — and it’s been here all along. Gender-bending provocateur Lil Nas X struck gold with his Top 10 pop hit “Star Walkin’” this spring when the song ...

Is hip-hop dead? When the iconic southern emcees Andre 3000 and Big Boi proclaimed that hip-hop was dead, followed by the Queensbridge legend Nas, I immediately agreed. Others do not.

Nas proved surprisingly resilient, though, returning fire at Jay-Z on “Ether,” ending their beef with a collaboration on 2006’s chart-topping Hip Hop Is Dead, and earning rave reviews with ...

Each year, hip-hop icon Nas tries to figure out who killed President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas.