Nas

Just shy of his 40th birthday, the million-selling rapper from Queens, New York remains a formidable talent. Nas gets warmed up for the weekend's Summer Sonic with this solo date in the Japanese hip hop heartlands of Yokohama. Expect plenty of tunes from his tenth album, Life Is Good – a fine return to form, encompassing both funk-fried fury and soulful introspection – and, we hope, a liberal dose of his seminal 1994 album Illmatic and its follow-up, It Was Written.