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NasFeatures
Hip Hop Is Dead: Art, Culture, & TraditionHomer, Dante, Milton, and Nas: It's bigger than Hip Hop Is Dead. [25 January 2007] Columns
It Ain’t Hard to Tell: The Legacy of ‘Illmatic’The "half-man, half-amazin'", Nas' persona is part myth and part "everyday kid" from the Queensbridge projects. [20 July 2009] (more Busted Headphones) The Politics Inside Black PopWill black pop artists still see themselves as outsiders now that a black person is President? Will they use their cultural platform to criticize him if need be, just as they did to help elect him? [12 December 2008] (more Negritude 2.0) The NAACP’s Mock Burial of Its RelevanceOur enemy is not the "N-word" itself; it’s whatever propels people to use it. We need healers, not language nannies. [30 July 2007] (more Negritude 2.0) Reviews
Nas: UntitledNas's ninth studio LP lost its title. Its content, however, deserves far more dialogue than the controversy generated by what he wanted to call it. [14 July 2008] 
Nas: Hip Hop Is DeadIn a fall where many stumbled and even Jay-Z slipped up, Nas is back with a record for history. [22 December 2006] 
Nas: Street’s DiscipleWith middle age rapidly approaching, ghetto poet/prophet Nasir Jones settles in for the long haul. Of all his peers, he ages gracefully, although Street's Disciple two discs reflect the less-focused Nas of the past, a Nas that's ready to hand off the baton, but unsure what to do next. [7 January 2005] 
Nas: Illmatic [Anniversary Edition]While the critical success of Illmatic has helped Nas’s career immeasurably, it has also been his greatest enemy. Subsequent albums have all been unfairly weighed against Illmatic. [25 May 2004]Blogs
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