Nas and Puffy are having a moment. For Nas, the Queens MC is enjoying the 20th Anniversary of his seminal album Illmatic which recently received a film treatment in the form of a documentary titled Time Is Illmatic. It premiered last night at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC and film traces the making of Illmatic through interviews and archival images.
Nas has signed on as an Associate Publisher of Mass Appeal magazine, Forbes and MassAppeal.com revealed today. The independent music and art publication bounced back with issue 52 earlier this spring after a five year haitus. Name dropping ahead; you’ve been warned.
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Nas debut the video for “Cherry Wine”, his duet with Amy Winehouse from his critically acclaimed album “Life Is Good”, a few hours ago via Miss Info. Check it after the jump.
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Hip Hop was in full effect post closure of the 31st Olympiad Sunday night in London. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooklyn, New York photographer Matthew Salacuse is the photographer responsible for the haunting cover photo of Queensbridge rapper Nas‘ 10th studio album, ‘Life Is Good.’ Via email, Salacuse gave us the lowdown behind the shoot.
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Nas revealed the cover of his 10th studio album ‘Life is Good’ this afternoon and it is beautiful as well as haunting.
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Friend to our site, bicycle enthusiast and NYC based photographer Kareem Black spoke to us last week about the photo shoot everyone is talking about online: his cover of legendary Queens, NY rapper Nas for Complex magazine’s June/July 2012 issue.
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