In April, Nas honored the 30th anniversary of his highly revered debut album, Illmatic. Come Labor Day weekend, the “Got Ur Self A Gun” rapper will hit Las Vegas to celebrate the iconic project live ...

Nas has teamed up with a creative team to bring a musical version of the 1984 cult classic "Beat Street" to Broadway. Nas has teamed up with a creative team to bring a musical version of the 1984 cult ...

On this day in Hip-Hop history, one of the most important films ever made for the culture, Beat Street, hit theaters worldwide. Directed by Stan Lathan, Beat Street played a pivotal role in propelling ...

Nas will be a producer and expand and create new material from the film’s soundtrack for the musical. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Rapper Nas is working on a musical stage adaptation of the ...

Nas revealed plans for a Broadway adaptation of the 1984 Hip-Hop classic “Beat Street” at the Tribeca Film Festival’s 40th-anniversary screening. Nas has announced the classic 1984 Hip-Hop film Beat ...

Tonight, at a 40th anniversary screening of Beat Street at the Tribeca Film Festival, GRAMMY Award-winning rap icon Nas announced that he has joined the creative team adapting the groundbreaking 1984 ...

It’s about time Fort Lauderdale embraced some of the beat-driven culture for which Miami is heralded. Thanks to the residents of Karma Lounge, dance music’s been revived in an area usually blessed ...

Malcolm-Jamal Warner once auditioned for Robert Taylor’s role in Beat Street, a near miss that could have changed Hip-Hop cinema history. Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Robert Taylor could’ve swapped ...

The earliest fighting games were gentlemanly affairs based on boxing and karate. Then some idiot gave the protagonist a baseball bat in Double Dragon and all hell broke loose. Beat Street reasons such ...

Guy Davis, who played Double K, is the son of late legendary acting couple Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. Davis was in his early 30s at the time when he played the lead role. He is now an active blues ...