Nas

Kelis Wins $51,000/Month Support From "Cash-Strapped" Nas

AP | ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Posted 12.10.2009 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — A judge ordered Nas to increase his payments to his soon-to-be ex-wife, Kelis, and their infant son to $51,101 a month Wednesday. ...

Ratification of the Magna Carter: Is Jay-Z the Greatest Rapper Alive?

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 11.05.2009 | Entertainment


Barry Michael Cooper

Shawn Corey Carter, aka Jay-Z, is at a crossroads in the continuous ascent of his vertically integrated career. He's been both passenger and conductor on the Jigganational Express.

Bill O'Reilly as Rapper -- The Times Discovers Talk Radio-Hip Hop Nexus

Ari Melber | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media


Ari Melber

After years of skirmishing under the radar, the nexus between conservative talk radio and hip hop has come to the fore.

Nas Ordered To Pay $44K A Month Support For Newborn With Kelis

AP | ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Posted 08.23.2009 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — A judge has ordered Nas to pay Kelis nearly $40,000 in monthly support for the near future, a day after the "Milkshake" singer gav...

Genre Bending: How Hip Hop Became Kind of hip Pop

Daniel Werman | Posted 04.06.2009 | Entertainment


Daniel Werman

While sampling's presence may have made hip hop into the form that many of us miss dearly, its absence could actually start to foster a broad sound that we may soon grow to know and love.

City of God's Son: A Hip-Hop Soundscape

Ben Arnon | Posted 02.13.2009 | Media


Ben Arnon

An homage to hip-hop's most culturally potent era, COGS is part Sin City, part Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio programming, and part Nas' Illmatic.

Fox News Has Nothing Against The Good Kind Of Black People

236.com | Posted 08.03.2008 | Media


This week, the rapper Nas, along with MoveOn.org, delivered more than 600,000 signatures requesting that Fox News stop doing semi-racist reporting on ...

Rapper Nas Delivers Fox News Petition, Says Network Is "Scared" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media


** Update below: Nas delivers Fox petition to Stephen Colbert ** Rolling Stone reports on the Color Of Change/MoveOn/Brave New Films petition that ra...

Dear Jesse, Thanks for the Ride. Here's Where You Get Off.

Alice Singleton | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics


Alice Singleton

Now you've gone and relegated yourself to the civil rights kiddy table, along with the others in search of that mythical cultural Viagra to make them as relevant with "our" people as they used to be.

Rapper To Title Next Album The N-Word

AP | NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


To some, it's a hurtful racial epithet. For Nas, it's an album title. The rapper told MTV News that he would indeed be naming his new album after the...