Earlier this year, Nas celebrated the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking debut LP Illmatic with a double-disc reissue and a documentary titled Nas: Time Is Illmatic that premiered at the Tribeca ...

When Nas dropped his debut album, ‘Illmatic’ in 1994, hip-hop was inching its way out of its adolescent years, gaining a sense of identity in New York that was unique in its subject matter and ...

No modern American music genre reflects its environment better than hip hop; unsurprisingly, documentaries about its history have proliferated over the years. In some cases, a well-honed treatment of ...

Nas: Time Is Illmatic, the new documentary about the rapper’s seminal 1994 debut album Illmatic, is moreso a story about New York City’s infamous Queensbridge public-housing development, its ...

Nas is going back on tour in support of the 20th anniversary run for his classic 1994 debut Illmatic. But the big difference between the upcoming shows and those from the past is that it will include ...

There is a stunning shot in “Nas: Time Is Illmatic” that captures a bird’s-eye view of the Queensbridge Houses in Queens. The public housing complex’s drab buildings zigzag across six city blocks, ...