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Illmatic: 10th Anniversary Platinum Edition (Edited) (CD)

By: Nas (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Illmatic: 10th Anniversary Platinum Edition (Edited) (CD) Album By Nas (Artist)
1   Genesis, The
2   N.Y. State Of Mind
3   Life's A B***
4   World Is Yours, The
5   Halftime
6   Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)
7   One Love
8   One Time 4 Your Mind
9   Represent
10   It Ain't Hard To Tell
 
DISC 2 for Illmatic: 10th Anniversary Platinum Edition (Edited) (CD) Album By Nas (Artist)
1   Life's A B**** - (remix)
2   World Is Yours, The - (remix)
3   One Love - (remix)
4   It Ain't Hard To Tell - (remix)
5   On The Real
6   Star Wars
 

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Mojo (Publisher) (p.103) - 5 stars out of 5 - "Concise, focused and lyrically dazzling, ILLMATIC remains one of hip hop's must-buys..."

Title Note

Includes a bonus disc with select remixes.

Personnel includes: Nas, AZ.

Producers include: The Large Professor, Pete Rock, L.E.S., DJ Premier, Q-Tip.

Out of a seemingly endless array of hip hop albums, every now and again something fresh and powerful rises to the top of the pile. Hailing from the Queensbridge Housing Projects in Long Island City (home to Marley Marl among others), 20-year old Nasir "Nas" Jones is less concerned with being an impersonator than with being an originator, bypassing adolescent fantasies and B-boy braggadocio in favor of jazzy beats, rap noir realism and new answers to urban despair.

ILLMATIC is his story, a cautionary tale of the inner-city streets, and as Nas makes plain on his opener, "The Genesis," this is what he does, with or without a record contract, and it's going to be served up straight, no chaser. And because Nas has the courage to transcend popular trends, to separate himself from the ranks of wannabes and me-toos, he may be on the verge of inaugurating some stylistic changes of his own.

Production-wise, Nas has gathered together some of the superstars of the hip hop underground, producers the likes of Q-Tip, Pete Rock, L.E.S., DJ Premier and The Large Professor, but it is Nas's unique rhythmic cadences, his idiomatic sense of on-the-street wordplay, his disrespect for the high time and the empty rhyme that distinguishes ILLMATIC. When Nas rocks the mic, it's not a hedonist's wet dream, but a depiction of urban hope and despair, and thanks to Nas's poetic insights, he soon transports you there (in a manner seldom seen in black pop since the days of Stevie's INNERVISIONS and Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOIN' ON?).

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5 out of 5 stars nas-tily good, May 29, 2008
By jena
This guy is a legend in my eyes. What a great style and intense lyrics. Great idea to have the 10th anniv. edition collection.

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