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- #1
- Posted: 09/28/2019 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3208): Illmatic by Nas
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Today's album of the day
Illmatic by Nas (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1994.
Country: 
Overall rank: 83
Average rating: 86/100 (from 1224 votes).
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Tracks:
1. The Genesis
2. N.Y. State Of Mind
3. Life's A Bitch
4. The World Is Yours
5. Halftime
6. Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)
7. One Love
8. One Time 4 Your Mind
9. Represent
10. It Ain't Hard To Tell
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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DommeDamian
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- #4
- Posted: 09/28/2019 22:41
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Ahhhh, Illmatic, have been listening to it this all week and right of the bat I'm thinking this might be the greatest week in AotD history, well, the best i've ever witnessed anyway. Back in the late 80's New York's rap scene was getting bigger thanks to groups like De La Soul and Public Enemy, but the real breaktrought came in the early 90's. East Coast Rap was at the top of it's game, we had projects like the raw and hard hitting Wu-Tang Clan's 36 Chambers, A Tribe Called Quest's smooth and experimental Low End Theory which are personal favourites of mine, and of course, Nas's Illmatic which i regard as a combination of the former two records. Illmatic can go from being a chilling and reflexive experience to a berserk and claustrophobic journey trough N.Y.C's projects. The fact Nas was only 19-20 when he recorded this is insane. Nor only he manages to deliver some of the most brilliant and poetic lyrics in rap history, but he keeps it simple too with an elegant and minimalistic sound that can be heard trough the whole record. The beats and samples were game-changing and the featured artists were great too, like AZ on Life's A Bitch, who in my opinion, surpasses even Nas's verse on the song. This is without a doubt one of the greatest and most influential records of the 90's, for sure.
Pick Tracks:
- N.Y. State Of Mind
- Life's A Bitch
- Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)
- "I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death"
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- Posted: 09/29/2019 20:32
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Still the greatest of all time
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