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Illmatic: Parental Advisory | 
| Artist: Nas
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 5498
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099747595929
ASIN: B000024VT8
Release Date: February 10, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Genesis | | • | NY State Of Mind | | • | Life's A Bitch | | • | World Is Yours | | • | Halftime | | • | Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park) | | • | One Love (KER69JCS) | | • | One Time 4 Your Mind | | • | Represent | | • | It Ain't Hard To Tell |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 internalising 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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A Hip-Hop Classic November 29, 2008
If there is one album in hip-hop history that should be heard by every music fan then it is Nasir Jones' Illmatic, released in 1994. Although this album is over a decade old, it still stands head and shoulders above anything that is being released today. Why? It has the two key components of a great rap album, fantastic production and incredible lyricism.
Some people may be put off by the short track listing, only 10 tracks (1 of which is an intro) but don't be. Although the album is only about 40 minutes long, it is 40 unforgettable minutes that you will want to hear over and over again.
From a lyrical perspective, this album has probably never been equaled. Whether it is multi's, wordplay, internal rhyming, story-telling, whatever you are after, it is on here, hence why after the albums release, Nas was immediately hailed as the 'new Rakim'. High praise indeed and totally justified on this evidence.
There's very little praise that I can give this album that has not been given already. To put it simply, the production is fantastic, Nas is jaw-dropping on every single track and the guest verse from AZ is arguably the greatest guest verse of all time as he matches Nas lyric for lyric.
The result is arguably the best rap album ever recorded.
No Hip-Hop album collection is complete without this gem.
top ten November 21, 2008
this has gotta be in the top ten of greatest hip-hop albums ever made, its also the only nas album i like ive heard most of his other albums and i didnt really like any of them but this album is class, great lyrics and great production, as far as rappers go though i think 2pac was a better rapper
Five mics August 4, 2008
Greatest hip-hop album of all time, and possibly the greatest poetic work of the 20th century
QUEENS BRIDGE June 15, 2008
Im keeping this short cause any real hip hop fan knows that this is one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time,the whole album is dope and lyricly its maybe the best,just one word needed to sum it up CLASSIC
Greatest Rap Album Ever Recorded June 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There, i've started off my review with that statement. So why do I think Illmatic is worth that accolade. Well, I'd say it's the greatest for a number of reasons, one of them being the impact this album had on the rap world. Nas practically invented a new style of delivery, which influeneced every rapper going, and most rappers still use this style to this day.
My other reason is the lyrics. Nas is a true poet, and possibly the best lyricist in the game ever, maybe not in terms of wordplay like Rakim, but just the ability to tell a story in an articulate way is just astounding. Tracks like N.Y. State Of Mind and The World Is Yours depict what life is like growing up in New York as a working class individual, and considering Nas was only 20 at the time, it's like Bob Dylan writing Blowin' In The Wind, for the 90's.
The album is short for a rap album, containing only nine tracks and one skit. The phrase quality over quantity springs to mind immediately, because for me, seven of the tracks I'd rate as 5-star classics. Rap just doesn't get any better than this. Show any hater who thinks they know about rap, and slags it off, this masterpiece, and they'll be converted.
For me, this is the greatest rap album ever made, and is in my all time top 10 of all genres. This is as essential as Sgt. Pepper's, London Calling, or The Queen Is Dead.
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