Nas 
The best album credited to Nas is Illmatic which is ranked number 73 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 15,122.
Nas is ranked number 116 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 18,451.
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 05/07/2026 23:50 | seaniedimes_ | 50 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/28/2024 10:46 |  Purplepash | 2,743 | 74/100 |
| ! | 01/03/2024 19:15 | pago82 | 1,405 | 67/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 5% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 17.7.
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MCOTho 03/25/2013 07:32 | #69859
Illmatic is probably the best Hip-Hop album ever. Crazy good lyricist.
Nas is a thug poet, his words are extremely deep and well put together. Illmatic might be the first album I have listened from front to back and till this day it is still one of my favourite album of all time. This guy has to be in your top 5 hip hop artists of all time.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/18/2015 03:22 | #135198
Sorry that you find it rubbish. Your loss - Illmatic is brilliant hip-hop that influenced so many others.
Most of the people that say that illmatic is the only good album of nas i'm pretty sure that you haven't listened to the rest of his albums, it was written is almost as good as illmatic, soul ultimate, stillmatic and i am are really good, and he dosnt even have one bad album in my opinion...
Any other rapper had ever done an album like illmatic, just with that he deserves at least a 9/10
Socipluco 08/12/2015 10:42 | #147567
Illmatic will always be a masterpiece of such importance for music itself that it can't be overrated, so many good beats and lyrics... It was written is also a pretty solid album from start to end but the rest... Man saying that it is disappointing it's putting it mildly.
