The Inquisition: Nas
Rapper talks Jay-Z, Bill O'Reilly, and about the controversy over his album title.
By Chris Ryan 06.20.08 12:15 PM
You gotta give Nas points for trying. After a year in which he caught flak from Bill O'Reilly for participating in a benefit, saw his nemesis turned label boss Jay-Z leave Def Jam, and shot a failed reality show with his wife Kelis, the 34-year-old Nasir Jones lost his long, contentious struggle to name his ninth album Nigger, replacing the title at the last minute.
Ghostface Killah, 'More Fish' (Def Jam)
Another chapter of hip-hop's Great American Novel.
By Chris Ryan 12.28.06 4:00 AM
Though its title suggests a bunch of extras and alternate takes, More Fish is anything but an only-for-Ghostface-nerds toss-off. Released just nine months after the splatter-paint beauty of Fishscale, Tony Starks' second album of 2006 is as lean and compact as its predecessor was expansive.
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Ludacris, 'Release Therapy' (DTP)
The mouth of the South questions his blessed life.
By Chris Ryan 10.20.06 3:00 AM
Last year millions of people took Crash's message of racial understanding through coincidence to heart, but Ludacris, one of that Oscar-winning film's many stars, was not among them. Release Therapy, his fifth album, sees the usually ebullient Atlanta MC/actor/label boss throwing 'bows not in the club but rather in his analyst's office.
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T-Pain, 'Rappa Ternt Sanga' (Konvict/Jive)
Part rapper, part crooner, all man.
By Chris Ryan 02.14.06 4:00 AM
Styles P, 'Time Is Money' (Ruff Ryders/Interscope)
An actor's rapper becomes a rapper's actor.
By Chris Ryan 01.10.06 4:00 AM
