Nas’ “Illmatic” Album Turns 22

    How old were you when Nas dropped “Illmatic?”

    13 thoughts on “Nas’ “Illmatic” Album Turns 22

    1. I was twenty years old at the time and right in the midst of the golden era of hip-hop! When Raekwon’s OBFCL came out the following year life was lovely. And the greenery was so sticky and beautiful too. Boom Bap.

    2. It was a dope album but it was ridiculously overhyped not to mention Columbia records paid a large amount for production and promotion…i read a article somewhere reginald Dennis former writer from the source magazine felt at the time that illmatic at the time wasn’t 5 Mic worthy as well as the source staff but..they paid for it. Not only that illmatic ushered in the era of superproducer where you could get qtip,Pete rock and large professor on one album back in the day having one of those guys just doing one beat on your album were gold but having all of them? It was good album but not great album

      1. huh? Reginald Dennis had a policy not to give 5 mics to new acts but he felt the illmatic was worthy enough of being a classic that he broke his own rule. All the rest of what you said is just pure doo doo.

    3. This album sucks! Get some future in your life go get that dirty sprite 2 & turn up! Future is the next greatest! Nas did a remix to march madness a future song! Nas realize future is the greatest & young metro dont trust illmatic

    4. This album sucks! Get some future in your life go get that dirty sprite 2 & turn up! Future is the next greatest! Nas did a remix to march madness a future song! Nas realize future is the greatest & young metro dont trust illmatic

    5. How is this even close to being the “greatest rap album of all time” ? How many awards did this win and units did it push? HOV’s worst record did more units and awards than this shit. That’s why HOV is the king of hip hop and Nas is a broke lame.

    6. Nas is the greatest rapper alive….This isn’t the best album ever tho…(tupacs me against the world is)

      1. Some ppl say Pacs best work is all eyes, some say it’s me against the world, some say seven day theory…I say me against the world….all eyes had some duds on it such as what’s your phone number Lol…wasn’t any weak songs on MATW wasn’t any weak songs on seven day theory either

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