Skip To Main Content
Insanul Ahmed on Muck Rack

Insanul Ahmed

Jersey City
As seen in: Complex, Medium, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, Aol, Best Rapper Alive, Billboard, Substack, Genius, GQ, Complex UK and
THINK OF THINGS I SAID THAT YOU HATED THEN bestrapperalive.substack.com/
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Insanul

Contact Insanul, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

The 100 Best Hip-Hop Beats of All Time, Ranked

|
By Robbie Ettelson, Insanul Ahmed, Dimas Sanfiorenzo
| Complex Verified
Key Takeaways These are the 100 greatest hip-hop beats of all time. Production is the cornerstone of rap and for this list we weigh impact, innovation, popularity, and how well a beat frames the MC. The list spans eras and regions—from early electro and boom-bap to G-funk, Southern crunk, trap, drill, and club—highlighting producers like Dr. Dre, DJ Premier, RZA, Timbaland, The Neptunes, Kanye West, Metro Boomin, and more.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Mac Miller's 25 Favorite Albums

|
By Insanul Ahmed
| Complex Verified
Key Takeaways In 2013, Mac Miller spoke to Complex about his 25 favorite albums of all time, revealing the eclectic influences behind his own sound. His list ranges from classics like Bob Dylan's The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to hip-hop staples like Wu-Tang Clan's Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders, and 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

The Making of Nas' 'It Was Written'

|
By Insanul Ahmed, Rob Kenner
| Complex Verified
How do you follow up an instant classic? How do you balance commercial appeal with artistic ambition? Is there a way to find a massively wide audience while keeping one foot in the place you came from? Those were questions that weighed heavily on the minds of Nas, his managerSteve Stoute, and producers Trackmasters as work began on the rapper’s sophomore album, It Was Written. It goes without saying that Nas' 1994 debut, Illmatic, is one of the greatest albums ever recorded.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 471 articles