In 1994, Nas’s debut album, Illmatic, was finally released. It was awarded Five Mics from The Source. It also featured production from Large Professor, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, L.E.S. and DJ Premier, as well as guest appearances from Nas’ friend AZ and his father Olu Dara. The album spawned several singles, including “The World Is Yours”, “It Ain’t Hard to Tell”, and “One Love”. Shaheem Reid of MTV News coined Illmatic as “the first classic LP” of 1994. Nas performed the song “One on One” for the movie Street Fighter. In 1995, Nas did guest performances on the albums Doe or Die by AZ, The Infamous by Mobb Deep, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx by Raekwon and 4,5,6 by Kool G Rap.
Steve Huey of Allmusic described the lyrics in Illmatic as “highly literate” and “his raps superbly fluid regardless of the size of his vocabulary”. Lyrically, Nas is perceived as “able to evoke the bleak reality of ghetto “a detailed report to a close friend in prison about how allegiances within their group have shifted” life without losing hope or forgetting the good times”. Huey describes the Illmatic track “One Love” as. Reviewing Nas’s second album It Was Written, Leo Stanley of allmusic believed the rhymes to be not as complex as those in Illmatic but still “not only flow, but manage to tell coherent stories as well”. About.com ranked Illmatic as the greatest hip hop album of all time, and Prefix magazine praised it as “the best hip-hop record ever made”.
Nas Tickets are available on Sold Out Ticket Market at nominal rates
No comments:
Post a Comment