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- #1
- Posted: 09/23/2013 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1040): 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: 113
Average rating: 82/100 (from 322 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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Age: 27
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- #2
- Posted: 09/23/2013 20:02
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It's very, very good. Nothing more needs to be said, really.
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- #3
- Posted: 09/23/2013 20:11
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You have to be a huge hip-hop fan to like it, obviously.
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drakonium
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- #4
- Posted: 09/23/2013 20:23
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Simply amazing. I'm curious to know who doesn't like it here, actually.
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Puncture Repair
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- #5
- Posted: 09/23/2013 20:30
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One of the very few perfect albums on this planet.
It's a very obvious choice for a favourite hip-hop album, but a very deserved one. I haven't heard anyone come close to Nas on this record since its release, even Nas.
I've said it before, but it's criminal that this isn't in the top 100, because it should be in the top 10.
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- #6
- Posted: 09/23/2013 20:48
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By far my favorite hip-hop album. My experience with hip-hop is pretty limited, though.
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- Posted: 09/23/2013 21:01
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Just what everybody else has said, absolutely perfect. His lyrics could pass for poetry even in the absence of music, hell even without his immaculate delivery and complex rhyme, the pictures he paints of inner-city life with his words create an immersive atmosphere all on their own. Nas' poetry is an intimate journey with Nas through the many corners and hardships of his life. Honestly the lyrics would be enough on their own. But paired with Nas' obvious proficiency as a rapper and the album's equally immersive production (a la Q-tip, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and Large Professor mostly I think), Nas' lyrics begins to take form not just as individual masterpieces of poetry that evoke vignettes of ghetto life in such a way as to rival even the jazz poetry of Langston Hughes, but as one of the greatest music albums, one of the most spectacular pieces of art, of all time.
Flawless album
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- #8
- Posted: 09/23/2013 21:09
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I once tried to rap along to NY State of Mind, and I got most bars right. Then I tried to rap along to U Can't Touch This, and I got most bars wrong. The logical conclusion must be that MC Hammer's flow is more technical and complex than Nas'
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HoldenM
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- #9
- Posted: 09/23/2013 21:18
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A hip-hop masterpiece. What else is there to say?
Track picks
2. N.Y. State Of Mind
3. Life's A Bitch
5. Halftime
10. It Ain't Hard To Tell
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henrygreen0203
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- #10
- Posted: 09/23/2013 21:19
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Even if you are not a fan of Nas or hip hop, it's hard to listen to this and deny its accumulated legacy as the greatest hip hop album of all time.
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