Nas -Illmatic ( reissue vinyl LP )

Release date:29-04-2002 (Originally released in 1994)

2002 EU reissue standard vinyl LP - Nasir Jones made this debut album Illmatic 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. Its enlivened by Nass kicky deep-threaded multiple rhymes-you can tell he grew up listening to Mr Magics 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

Tracks:
01 The Genesis
02 NY State of Mind
03 Lifes a Bitch with AZ
04 The World Is Yours
05 Halftime
06 Memory Lane Sittin in da Park
07 One Love
08 One Time 4 Your Mind
09 Represent
10 It Aint Hard to Tell