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

All-time greats Nas (working with producer extraordinaire DJ Premier) and De La Soul dropped lively, sonically eclectic albums that stood out in 2025.

It is a fact that the number of prominent rappers who’ve remained continuously active since the ’90s can be counted on one hand. One of them, Nasir Jones — or Nas — has recently experienced a dramatic ...

Thankfully, I gave The Game a few magazine covers back in the day, so he was kind enough to hop on Zoom from his California ...

On this day in 2001, the self-crowned “King of New York” released his fifth studio LP, Stillmatic. During Nas’s musical absence, the power in New York had shifted, and Jay-Z had stepped up and ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

A truly glorious year for music. These are the 2025 albums I loved the best, played the most, and felt the deepest — 20 of them, because there were too many greats to cut it down to a mere top ten.

Ayyoun is a staff writer who loves all things gaming and tech. His journey into the realm of gaming began with a PlayStation 1 but he chose PC as his platform of choice. With over 6 years of ...

The first time an album cover won a Grammy, the trophy went to Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely. Now, a whole new crop of artists are vying for an honor that the Grammy Awards ditched in the ...

The Beelink ME Pro is a network-attached storage (NAS) system with support for up to two 3.5 inch hard drives and three M.2 2280 SSDs. While the most interesting thing about the system may be its ...

It’s easy to pinpoint when trends in music begin: People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more ...