At the right time and under the right circumstances, a Nas album produced by Kanye West could have been a classic. Instead, Nasir was a seven-song mini-album, tossed out in a blitz of other brief, ...

Even when he was too young to have one, Nas was fixated on the past. His breakout moment, the starmaking first verse from ...

Ask the average hardcore hip-hop fan to name their favorite albums and chances are, they’ll mention Nas’ Illmatic. That's almost too obvious. But over here at Complex, we can't help but wonder what ...

On April 19, 2024, Nasir Jones — better known as GOAT-level, legendary MC Nas — and Christopher Martin — better known as GOAT-level, legendary hip-hop producer DJ Premier — dropped the debut single ...

Nas and Hit-Boy are concluding their streak of collaborative albums with the release of Magic 3. The project, which arrived this evening to celebrate the rapper's birthday, marks the pair's sixth ...

Nas cannot be stopped. Ever since the beginning of the new 2020s decade, the iconic New York rapper has been churning out albums at least once a year, as if he has a yearly quota to meet. And, after ...

Nas has announced his second Hit-Boy-produced Magic album of the summer, and it’s coming out on his 50th birthday—Thursday, September 14. Magic 3 is the rapper’s follow up to July’s Magic 2, which ...

On July 21, Nas released his new studio album Magic 2, executively produced by esteemed hip-hop instrumentalist Hit-Boy. His fifth studio album so far in the 2020s decade, Magic 2 includes fascinating ...