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Nas | Illmatic (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Nas and the mixtape that changed my life

D. Watkins
Nas performs at the Hennessy V.S presents "Nas: Time Is Illmatic" Los Angeles tour at the Orpheum Theatre on October 18, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Noel Vasquez/Getty Images for Hennessy)

Nas spoke loudest in 50 years of hip-hop

D. Watkins
NAS (Keith Griner/Getty Images)

I'm from the Nas generation of scholars

Darryl Robertson
Jay-Z, Cardi B, and NAS (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images/Josh Brasted/FilmMagic)

Top 10 rap albums of the decade

D. Watkins
Lauryn Hill; Kendrick Lamar; Notorious B.I.G. (Getty/AP/Salon)

A hip-hop Pulitzer? That came late

D. Watkins
Nas, on stage at the Kennedy Center (13th Witness)

Nas Live From the Kennedy Center

Melanie McFarland
Ta-Nehisi Coates; Cornel West (Getty/Anna Webber/AP/Richard Shotwell/Photo montage by Salon)

West failed to "ether" Ta-Nehisi Coates

D. Watkins
Kendrick Lamar (Getty/Kevin Winter)

The 25 best hip-hop protest songs ever

Rachel Leah
(Peter Cooper)

Salon Stage: 1990s hit "Closing Time

Rachel Leah
Nas (AP/Katie Darby)

Anna Silman
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Prachi Gupta
Run–D.M.C. and Kanye West (inset) (AP)

Hip-hop finally grows up

Travis M. Andrews
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