Today, hip hop salutes one of its earliest architects as Queensbridge legend and Juice Crew original MC Shan turns 60 years old. Born Shawn Moltke in 1965, MC Shan was one of the first voices to put ...

The epicenter of New York’s hip hop renaissance in the mid- and late-1990s was also the nation’s largest public housing project. But Queensbridge was its own sound, distinct in grit and storytelling ...

Today marks the 51st birthday of one of hip-hop’s most treasured lyricists, Nas. By many, Nasir Jones is number one on their top, 10, 5, and 3 lists of the greatest emcees to ever touch the mic in Hip ...

Prodigy of Mobb Deep was a major figure in establishing and defining the sound and image of hardcore New York City rap. Mobb Deep, with classic albums like The Infamous, Hell on Earth, and Murda Muzik ...

Nas‘ Illmatic just turned 30 on Friday (4/19), and a new mural in Queens celebrates the occasion and pays tribute to the rapper. It was painted by Eli Lazare Salome-Diaz and Benny “FCEE” Guerra, and ...

In a YO! MTV Raps interview in 1994, a month after his debut album Illmatic was released, 20-year-old rapper Nasir “Nas” Jones told Fab Five Freddy that everything changed for him when he was just 7 ...