"Cause verbally, I'm illa than an AIDS patient.."

Forget whose on the cover (*ah-hem..Cam'ron), go cop.

Nas, 15 years later post Illmatic....a really read.  DJ Premier, LES, Pete Rock, Serch, Tip, Wiz & Jungle...and Nas of course (excuse me if I'm forgetting some) talk about the making of Illmatic.  Really interesting.  Here are some scanned images of the article (via okayplayer)  

(Excuse the layout of this post, I will be fixing soon......click the images for closer look....& btw, this isn't the full article, but the essence of it...the first 2 pages weren't copied on here...buy the issue!)

Nas MTV Interview (Grammy's 09)

SOURCE: Media Take Out

MTV Shows

Nas at Grammy's '09

(btw, how weird is it that Joey, from N'sync is interviewing Nas?...lmao)

SOURCE: hulu.com

Nas Confirms Kelis Pregnancy & New LP with Damian Marley?

In an interview with MTV, Nas confirmed rumors of Kelis pregnancy saying "Yeah, man, I find out what it's gonna be next week, so I'm happy," said the rapper, who has a 15-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. "I got another one coming in '09, yeah! That's what's up!"

He also talked about working a new album with Damian Marley, "Right now, I'll tell you first, I'm working on an album with Damian Marley, and we tryin' to build some schools in Africa with this one, and trying to build empowerment," he said. "We're tryin' to show love and stuff with this album. So, the record's ... all about really the 'hood and Africa also as well. That's coming out real soon."

No words on a release date yet...but the album is looking towards spring.

"Too early to tell the title or anything like that," Nas said. "Shout out to my man Jr. Gong, we getting it in right now."

SOURCE: a friend & MTV.com

Illmatic Interviews

A friend of mine had fwd these videos to me....and I thought they were funny/interesting/whatever else...(and I never seen them before). So I decided to post....enjoy.

SOURCE:  A friend & Youtube