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Illmatic (Paperback)

By: Matthew Gasteier (Author)

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Baseball slugger Reggie Jackson once quipped, "it ain't braggin' if you can back it up." When brash Queens MC Nas appeared, he was like nothing the streets had seen. A child borne from music, Nasir Jones mixed a violent urban landscape with poetry and his own unique philosophy, self-aware, unrepentant, dark, thoroughly New York. He spit acrobatic lyrics in a deadpan style, with an ease only a lover and master of language could deliver. ILLMATIC, released by Columbia in 1994, was Nas's long-awaited coming out party, and word slowly, steadily built around the young wordsmith's debut classic. For the 64th volume of music fans' dream series 33 1/3, Matthew Gasteier, Boston Phoenix hip-hop editor and creator of popular snarky cute-animal-taunting website F U Penguin, delves deep into the yin-yang childhood that created the beautiful mind behind ILLMATIC.

Nas's Illmatic finds its place in the greatest transition in hip hop up to that point, the spot where the streets and the charts collided.

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