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Track Listings
| 1. Genesis |
| 2. NY State Of Mind |
| 3. Life's A Bitch |
| 4. World Is Yours |
| 5. Halftime |
| 6. Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park) |
| 7. One Love (KER69JCS) |
| 8. One Time 4 Your Mind |
| 9. Represent |
| 10. 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
Description
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 favour of jazzy beats, rap noir realism and new answers to urban despair.
ILLMATIC is his story, a cautionary contemporary tale of the innercity 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. Andbecause Nas has the courage to transcend popular trends, toseparate himself from the ranks of wannabes and me-toos, hemay 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' unique rhythmic cadences, his idiomatic sense of on-the-street wordplay, his disrespect forthe 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' 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?).
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
Description
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 favour of jazzy beats, rap noir realism and new answers to urban despair.
ILLMATIC is his story, a cautionary contemporary tale of the innercity 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. Andbecause Nas has the courage to transcend popular trends, toseparate himself from the ranks of wannabes and me-toos, hemay 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' unique rhythmic cadences, his idiomatic sense of on-the-street wordplay, his disrespect forthe 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' 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?).