At the right time and under the right circumstances, a Nas album produced by Kanye West could have been a classic. Instead, Nasir was a seven-song mini-album, tossed out in a blitz of other brief, ...

Released by Columbia Records, Nas’ third album, I Am, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album sold 470,000 copies in its first week and was certified double platinum in the United States.

When asked if there was an album of his that he'd recreate, Nas confirmed that it would be a a couple of tracks from his two 1999 albums: I Am... and Nastradamus: "No, but if I decided to challenge ...

Nas (Credit: Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) In 1985, members of Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band united as a supergroup called The Firm, but its two subsequent ...