Illmatic

**Professor Chaos** · 12-13-2009, 07:29 PM

is the shit.

Havent listened to it in ages and recently fell back in love with it.
It was one of the first rap/hip hop albums my virgin ears were invaded with when I started listening to the genre(s).
That being said, I put it in the backseat and later Nas wasnt really to my liking(maybe I didnt give it that much of a chance).
Id say it was what carried Nas through everything.

Fuckin solid.

I threw it on last week and have been on a binge since.

Some of my favs:

Star Wars

On the Real

**dookeyXXX** · 12-13-2009, 11:47 PM

that album had to grow on me like fine wine...

http://music.ign.com/articles/512/512953p1.html

**daver** · 12-15-2009, 11:52 AM

easily one of my 5 favorite albums, period.

neither of the songs you posted were on illmatic though.

my fav-

**Professor Chaos** · 12-16-2009, 08:58 PM

Daver, your right. The two I listed are only on the "10th Anniversary Platinum Edition".

If I had stayed true to the original I would/should have put up One Time 4 Your Mind and Represent.

**mmmm...pow!** · 12-19-2009, 12:13 AM

Yeah , neither of those songs were on the blank tape that I recorded the CD onto when it first came out. I had that tape, complete with hiss, until maybe two years ago. I seriously wore that tape out until it wouldn't play anymore! Now that I now longer have a cassette deck, it might be time to step up to modern times and get a digi copy. Too bad Nas kinda peaked at the beginning - his debut with Main Source was fire. Not like he fell off, but that album was a lot to live up to.

**t-the-east** · 02-02-2018, 09:01 PM

This may be mentioned elsewhere, but just watched this. Pretty freaking cool, especially for a pbs show

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/nas-li...-episode/8109/

Edit- I know I bumped an almost ten year old thread about this 25 year old cassette. It was that good. Memories...

**grskier** · 03-06-2018, 11:22 AM

This was completely amazing ^^

So, re: peaking early... the hard part for me is I listened to the first two albums, ad nauseum... knew them very well, then I didn't have time for that.. so, I know I don't know the rest of the library as well... I know he had some dope verses after that though.