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Nas - Illmatic Album
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Nasir Jones made this debut album 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. It's enlivened by Nas's kicky, deep-threaded multiple rhymes--you can tell he grew up listening to Mr. Magic's 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

Illmatic
by Nas

Song Lyrics
The Genesis
N.Y. State of Mind
Life's a Bitch
The World Is Yours
Halftime
Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park)
One Love
One Time 4 Your Mind
Represent
It Ain't Hard to Tell
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