Reuters - May 11, 2011
Bob Marley's battle with cancer ended in a Miami hospital 30 years ago on Wednesday, bringing to a premature close the life of reggae music's most important standard-bearer. His son, David...
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There s officially no more milkshake in Nas and Kelis marriage. Court filings show a judge on Friday dissolved the union between singer Kelis Rogers and rapper Nas, whose full name is Nasir Jones. No...
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Rapper Nas has teamed up with Jamaican reggae artist Damian Marley to release a new studio album and kick off a worldwide tour on Friday that bows to their African ancestry and the roots of reggae and...
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Nas & Damian Marley, Distant Relatives, (Universal Republic) Nas and Damian Marley meet in the middle to create an empowering collaborative album, titled Distant Relatives. The New York street poet and...
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Nas and Damian Marley had one goal in mind when they announced their collaborative album two years ago — finishing it. So they stopped work on their own solo projects, and built a chart to assess...
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Nas & Damian Marley, Distant Relatives, (Universal Republic) Nas and Damian Marley meet in the middle to create an empowering collaborative album, entitled Distant Relatives. The New York street poet...
More »AP - Dec 9, 2009
A judge ordered Nas to increase his payments to his soon-to-be ex-wife, Kelis, and their infant son to $51,101 a month Wednesday. The ruling came after two days of testimony about the musicians, during...
More »AP - Jul 23, 2009
A judge has ordered Nas to pay Kelis nearly $40,000 in monthly support for the near future, a day after the Milkshake singer gave birth to the divorcing couple s baby boy. Los Angeles Superior Court...
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Nas and Kelis are to split after four years of marriage. Kelis filed for divorce on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple are currently expecting their...
More »AP - Apr 24, 2009
Although rapper Nas received backlash over his racial epithet-titled album before switching it to Untitled, he says earning a Grammy nomination for his controversial disc encouraged him to keep speaking...
More »AP - Aug 24, 2008
Never mind those stinging celebrity ads, or the rebuttal by Paris Hilton. Musicians, artists and Hollywood types are descending on Denver and so what if Barack Obama doesn t need their star power...
More »E! Online - Jul 23, 2008
The ABBA-channeling Meryl Streep apparently doesn't have the same street cred as Nas and Lil Wayne. Despite a near twofold increase in sales and tons of hype surrounding the film's release, the...
More »Reuters - Jul 18, 2008
Veteran rapper Nas is on course to notch his fifth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 when data are issued Wednesday, but sales will likely be considerably lower than those for his previous release....
More »Reuters - Jul 11, 2008
During the first week of July, Nas' controversial untitled album leaked onto the Internet ahead of its July 15 release date via Def Jam. But Nas' business partner Anthony Saleh shrugs it...
More »E! Online - Jun 11, 2008
Hate him now, hear him later. Controversial rapper Nas has announced that he is moving the release date of his highly anticipated ninth studio album back two weeks, from July 1 to July 15. The set,...
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50 Cent has weighed into the debate over the controversial new Nas album, insisting N--ger is a stupid name. The rap superstar becomes the latest music industry figure to speak out about the follow-...
More »AP - Oct 19, 2007
To some, it s a hurtful racial epithet. For Nas, it s an album title. The rapper told MTV News that he would indeed be naming his new album after the N-word. And he denied earlier reports that the album...
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Nas has hit back at Fox News pundit Bill O Reilly, who claimed that his inclusion at a concert dedicated to the Virginia Tech massacre is insulting to the memories of the victims. O Reilly claimed that...
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Nas and Kelis are to star in their own reality TV series, it has been confirmed. The superstar couple will be the focus of the MTV program, as both prepare to embark on upcoming live dates. The announcement...
More »AP - Feb 28, 2007
Maybe it was the umpteenth coke-dealing anthem or soft-porn music video. Perhaps it was the preening antics that some call reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit. The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after...
More »AP - Dec 18, 2006
Nas, Hip-Hop Is Dead (Def Jam) On the title track to his ninth album, Nas even outlines a course of action if hip-hop dies on the vine: Roll to every station/wreck the DJ. That vigilante spirit may...
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