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⬜️COVER AND TRACKLIST⬜️
FEATURES:
⬜️NAS
⬜️JADAKISS
⬜️MUMU FRESH
⬜️AMAR NOIR
THE ORIGIN (INTRO)
NO NEED FOR LACTOSE
GIMME THE WORLD FEAT. JADAKISS
UNIQUENESS
SO HIGH FEAT. MUMU FRESH
HO HAPPY (SKIT)
STILL JACKIE
SURPRISE FEAT. NAS
FRESH WATER
WINNERS WIN FEAT. AMAR NOIR
I WAS ONCE THERE TO
LOVE MY LIFE
WE MADE IT (OUTRO)
🚨FRIDAY MAY 8TH🚨
Big announcement yall, so @skyboundgames hooked me up with Invincible VS a couple days early, I used this time to make some character guide videos, did a 5 tips and tricks to get started one too.
Gonna link everything down below, also i'm going live on twitch right now with the game.
32 years ago today.
Russell Simmons passed on Nas’ demo, famously claiming that Nas sounded too much like G Rap. translation: great but unsalable. he signed Warren G instead. Illmatic dropped, and is widely regarded as the greatest rap album ever made.
Illmatic was the bridge. Melle Mel and Kurtis Blow, to Run-DMC, to Rakim, the Juice Crew, and Big Daddy Kane. now Nas. everyone said he had next since Large Professor brought the chipped tooth kid sporting Gazelles into the studio.
the more you listen to Illmatic, the more haunted it feels. when you’re younger, it clubs you with its hail of words and the skeletal beauty of its beats. but the older I get, the more it strikes me as a teenaged requiem for those still living. “Old Soul” is the sort of stock phrase used by yoga teachers and amateur psychics, but it always fit Nas. he’s 20 and prematurely nostalgic, struck by memories of park jams and watching “CHiPS.”, when Shante dissed the real Roxanne, and how much he misses Mr. Magic.
Illmatic is a story of a gifted writer born into squalor, trying to claw his way out of the projects. It’s somewhere between The Basketball Diaries and Native Son, but Jim Carroll and Richard Wright couldn’t rap like Nas. not many can.
39 minutes and 51 seconds of perfection.