32 years ago today, Nasir Jones, better known as Nas, dropped his groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, forever changing the ...

Time Is Illmatic, a documentary released for the 20th anniversary of Nas’ debut album, Illmatic, is opening in select theaters. The Root sat down with the fillmmakers, Erik Parker and One9, to hear ...

Documentary exploring the making of Nas' 1994 groundbreaking debut album Illmatic that follows the artist as he returns to his childhood home to share stories of his upbringing and influences and ...

Last night Nas premiered the documentary, “Time Is Illmatic,” at the opening night of the 2014 Tribeca Films Festival. The documentary celebrates the 20th anniversary of Nas debut album, “Illmatic.” ...

There’s a scene in Time Is Illmatic, a 2014 documentary about the creation of Nas’s 1994 masterwork Illmatic, where the rapper walks around the Queensbridge projects where he grew up, camera crew in ...

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Twentieth anniversaries mark the point where pop culture becomes cultural history, be it a forgettable television show or a landmark hip-hop album. Nas: Time Is Illmatic feels like the re-examination ...