DJ Premier addresses fan reactions to his new collaborative album with Nas, highlighting its dedication to old-school hip hop purists.

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

It took decades of pestering, but golden-era hip-hop heads finally got their wish. The duo’s synergy has been obvious since the Queensbridge rapper’s 1994 debut, Illmatic, which features three ...

Hip-hop has always been driven by moments. Some moments define generations. Some reset the culture. And some return decades later with the same force they once carried. The announcement of Light-Years ...

All-time greats Nas (working with producer extraordinaire DJ Premier) and De La Soul dropped lively, sonically eclectic ...

Any objective rap fan of a certain age approaches legacy albums like Nas and DJ Premier’s Light-Years with learned skepticism. For 30-odd years, rap was exclusively a young person’s game, defined by ...