Arriving alongside the Salehe Bembury x New Balance 1500, Nike’s new Air Max Dn8, the return of another classic Nike Kobe colorway and more.

A picture is worth a 1,000 words, but how many should an album cover be worth? The several artists, designers, and photographers we spoke to behind some of 2025's best album covers can't say for ...

The 1980s were the decade when album covers became statements in their own right. Advances in graphic design, photography and print coincided with the rise of artists who understood the power of ...

Big news for Stereogum readers who enjoy having a good time: The new DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ album is finally here. The beloved London-based electronic producer revealed in July that the followup to ...

Two hip-hop icons deliver a heartwarming collaboration on Light-Years, the final installment in Mass Appeal's “Legend Has It…” series Yet the overriding feeling of Light-Years is of two elder ...

All-time rap greats Nas and DJ Premier have been working together for more than three decades. Premier produced three of the 10 tracks on Nas' almighty 1994 debut Illmatic, and the two have made a lot ...

Nas and DJ Premier revisit their creative chemistry from Illmatic with new material that nods to past classics. The project reflects a decades-long collaboration that helped shape the sound of East ...

Sometimes an image hits you, and you can’t get it out of your mind. Has that ever happened to you? You’re walking down the aisle at the thrift store, and you see an album cover on a far-off shelf. You ...

Today marks a moment Hip Hop fans have waited decades to witness. Nas and DJ Premier, two of the most important architects in rap history, have finally delivered their long-discussed collaborative ...

It took decades of pestering, but golden-era hip-hop heads finally got their wish. The duo’s synergy has been obvious since the Queensbridge rapper’s 1994 debut, Illmatic, which features three ...

It’s the second week of December, the year-end lists keep coming (our list of the 50 best punk albums of 2025 went up today), but the year is still not over yet. I highlight five new albums below. On ...

Any objective rap fan of a certain age approaches legacy albums like Nas and DJ Premier’s Light-Years with learned skepticism. For 30-odd years, rap was exclusively a young person’s game, defined by ...