In Slate’s annual Music Club, Slate critic Carl Wilson emails about the year in music with fellow critics — featuring New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz, freelance writer Briana Younger, NPR ...

Rapper-singer-songwriter visionary Lil Nas X is the MVP of Gen Z. Born between the mid 1990s and early 2010s, so-called "Zoomers" have been maligned by naysayers as navel-gazing narcissists and ...

Nas and Hit-Boy dropped the first album in the King’s Disease series back in August 2020. The LP featured Big Sean, Don Toliver, Lil Durk and Anderson .Paak, among others, and won the rapper his first ...

Nas had an incredible year that should be recognized in the pantheons of Hip-Hop history. What more can be said about Nas? Plenty. The legendary rapper released a new album just in time for Christmas ...

It’s brutal out there, and that’s why, more than ever, we needed the consoling and prodding pleasures of popular music to help everything make sense in here. [Stage direction: taps chest, knowingly.] ...

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Lil Nas X is poised to clean up at the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28. Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow and Kendrick Lamar led the awards nominations announced Tuesday with seven each. Harlow and Lil Nas X ...

Earlier this month, out rapper Lil Nas X condemned BET and the BET Awards after receiving zero nominations for his album Montero. He later hit back at BET with a track called “Late to Da Party” ...

The market for non-fungible tokens swelled to $41 billion in 2021. And, broadly speaking, there’s no better way to capture the interest of celebrities than with a lot of easy money. In the past year, ...