Saturday, April 16, 2011

Illmatic (Audio CD)

Illmatic
Illmatic (Audio CD)
By Nas

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Review & Description

Vinyl Classics reissue of his debut album comes as a vinyl look-a-like CD that's packaged in a die-cut see-through Slipcase. Columbia. 2005Nasir 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 Read more


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