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Nas, Illmatic

Audio CD

Disk ID: 838037

Disk length: 39m 51s (10 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1994

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. The Genesis 1:45
2. N.Y. State Of Mind 4:54
3. Life's A Bitch 3:30
4. The World Is Yours 4:50
5. Halftime 4:20
6. Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park) 4:08
7. One Love 5:25
8. One Time 4 Your Mind 3:18
9. Represent 4:12
10. It Ain't Hard To Tell 3:21

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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 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

Other Versions

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Illmatic

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 39m 51s

Illmatic

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 39m 49s (-1m 58s)

Illmatic

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 39m 53s (+0m 2s)

Illmatic

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 38m 51s (-1m)

Illmatic

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 41m 49s (+1m 58s)

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