As Nas continues to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of his debut album, Illmatic, the emcee has announced a tour that is slated to pair his performance of the album with a screening of the film Time Is Illmatic.
Nas is set to embark on this North American Fall Tour October 2 in Rochester, New York. The tour is set to come to an end October 19 in Oakland, California.
The film Time Is Illmatic is set to screen at most locations on the tour before Nas performs Illmatic in its entirety.
The film is set to be available through Tribeca Film October 1 in New York with more cities to follow, according to a press release.
The film is also set to be available on iTunes October 3.
The tour dates are as follows:
*Will not be screening Nas: Time is Illmatic
Oct. 2nd Rochester, NY Main Street Armony*
Oct. 3rd Albany, NY Palace Theatre
Oct. 4th Washington D.C. Lincoln Theatre (Matinee)
Oct. 5th Glenside, PA Keswick Theatre
Oct. 8th Toronto, ON Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Oct. 9th Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit
Oct. 10th Hammond, IN Horseshoe
Oct. 11th Lincoln, NE Bourbon Theatre*
Oct. 12th Denver, CO Paramount Theatre
Oct. 15th Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
Oct. 16th Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
Oct. 17th Las Vegas, NV The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas*
Oct. 18th Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
Oct. 19th Oakland, CA Fox Theater
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Bet. I’ll be there. But it’s The Armory, not the Armony.
Nas is my motherfucker but last time I saw Nas at The Armory was right when the Jay-Z beef started. He came out 2 hours late, drunk as shit to a very hostile crowd. He came out saying “Aaliyah, I wish you didn’t die in that plane crash, it should have been Jay-Z and Dame Dash”. Beanie Siegel was perforing in the same building the next night and they were tearin’ down the flyers and shit. He was stumbling through every song, forgetting words, or not even rapping to some of ’em, just dancing on stage drunk. Some girl threw a drink on him, and he spit in her face from the stage. The dudes she was with threw a trash can on the stage, one of Nas’s boys threw a glass vodka bottle into the crowd, and a riot ensued. One of Nas’s boys flashed a pistol on stage. I saw AZ, who performed earlier gettin’ the fuck outta there. We bounced. A couple dudes got stabbed, gun shots, etc. Basically a typical rap concert in Rochester. I think he’s matured since then, so hopefully this show will be better. Leave the ‘goons’ in Q.B. this time fam, and go easy on the fuckin’ Henessey so you can remember your lyrics.
Dont expect it to be much better this time around, just saw him at summer jam in nj in june he was drunk as fuck stumbling thru illmatic in 20 mins and reading it off a teleprompter and still forgetting words, no az, no lauryn hill, his special guests were french montana and meek millz, they dont even do songs with nas, totally stole the show, shit was lame as fuck
FAILED
Every time I seen him in Detroit except for one (2002-stillmatic tour) he has put on a decent show, Rock the bells 07 w/ u-tang, rock the bells 09 w/ marley and life is good tour last year. The one time in 02, the sound was fucked in the first place.
He killed it at rock the bells 2011 and 2012 but that summer jam this year was a joke and from the videos ive seen at coachella it wasnt much better
No love for the south at all come on nas niggas in the south bump nas heavy
NO SHOW IN THE FUCKING CITY R U KIDDING ME???
nas iz da best!
Will you have AZ on it!!