Nas - Illmatic
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Artist: NasBrand: Nas
Edition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1994-04-19
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Genesis
- N.Y. State of Mind
- Life's a Bitch - AZ, Nas
- World Is Yours
- Halftime
- Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park)
- One Love
- One Time 4 Your Mind
- Represent
- It Ain't Hard to Tell
Music reviews of Illmatic
Music Review: Nas The Great!!!
Rating: 5 Stars
Illmatic is one of the best albums of all time!!! Nas is a true poet,and his lyrics are sick. This album is hip-hop in it's truest form. My favorite songs on this album is "represent" and "The world is yours." I miss music like this people, music that means something and you sit through a whole album without skipping to a next song. You can sit through an album and just vibe nodding your head. Nas to me is one of the greatest rappers of all time. If you dont believe me people, listen to the lost tapes album by Nas. I reccomend this album to everyone, Illmatic is an example of the essence of hip hop.
Description of Illmatic
Often cited as one of the best hip-hop albums of the '90s, Illmatic is the undisputed classic upon which Nas' reputation rests. It helped spearhead the artistic renaissance of New York hip-hop in the post-Chronic era, leading a return to street aesthetics. Yet even if Illmatic marks the beginning of a shift away from Native Tongues-inspired alternative rap, it's strongly rooted in that sensibility. For one, Nas employs some of the most sophisticated jazz-rap producers around: Q-Tip, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, and Large Professor, who underpin their intricate loops with appropriately tough beats. But more importantly, Nas takes his place as one of hip-hop's greatest street poets -- his rhymes are highly literate, his raps superbly fluid regardless of the size of his vocabulary. He's able to evoke the bleak reality of ghetto life without losing hope or forgetting the good times, which become all the more precious when any day could be your last. As a narrator, he doesn't get too caught up in the darker side of life -- he's simply describing what he sees in the world around him, and trying to live it up while he can. He's thoughtful but ambitious, announcing on "N.Y. State of Mind" that "I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death," and that he's "out for dead presidents to represent me" on "The World Is Yours." Elsewhere, he flexes his storytelling muscles on the classic cuts "Life's a Bitch" and "One Love," the latter a detailed report to a close friend in prison about how allegiances within their group have shifted. Hip-hop fans accustomed to 73-minute opuses sometimes complain about Illmatic's brevity, but even if it leaves you wanting more, it's also one of the few '90s rap albums with absolutely no wasted space. Illmatic is a great lyricist, in top form, meeting great production, and it remains a perennial favorite among serious hip-hop fans. Simply Vinyl. 2005.Nasir Jones made this debut album at the age of 20, already armed with the calm perceptiveness and been-there-done-that attitude of a much older ghetto vet, though sometimes his inner callow youth shows itself. Illmatic is a look back at a life spent in the culture of the projects, acknowledging joy as much as pain and taking note of violence as a fact of his environment rather than a focus of his life. It's enlivened by Nas's kicky, deep-threaded multiple rhymes--you can tell he grew up listening to Mr. Magic's rap show and internalizing the secrets of everybody's flow--and by tracks from a bunch of all-stars, including the Large Professor, DJ Premier, and, most memorably, Q-Tip ("One Love"). --Douglas Wolk
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