I’m sick of illmatic at this point. I understand that it’s the 25th anniversary but got damn, he’s been performing and celebrating the 20th anniversary for what seems like an eternity now, basically since promo for LIG stopped. I wanna hear NEW music..
After 25 years Im tired of illmatic tributes I bought the album a dozen times seen multiple documentaries.. yes the album is classic but NaS contribution is so much more than just iLLmatic. I too have been loving his new music wish he would just focus on that.
It’s not just about new music for me but I really do think he needs to show more appreciation towards his other bodies of work. I would love to see IWW get this type of love. shyt. Even Stillmatic or Lost Tapes at this point.
Came here to kinda echo what y'all saying
A lot of the recent illmatic tributes and celebrations for both the 20th and 25th anniversary have also come from Mass Appeal and Sacha at the helm too. He was at Ego Trip back in the day and of course they are part of that era of championing Illmatic for the underground while being crushed by other stuff. Obviously Nas didnt do a lot when it was the 10th and 15th Anniversary so his team wanna really give it the cultural tributes it deserves
But as they've given Illmatic the legacy treatment it naturally warrant, I do feel its come at the expense of his other albums being remembered. And know I wonder if young people feel like he's milking it.
Young people just getting into Hip Hop this decade have obviously been checking out these tributes and celebrations and they seetheir favourite music bloggers and purists who've probably put them on credible music to get into like Kanye and Kendrick and they hail Illmatic.. And you sense they are responding to it , Illmatic earned another platinum certification this past January and a couple of singles went Gold finally and it got like 200 mil streams last year
But they also believe them when they say the rest of his catalogue is inconsistent and not as celebratory worthy (Which is bullshyt but we all knew music bloggers who' did that in the 90s and 00s)
What Ive noticed especially on twitter more people especially the young really into Hip Hop fans (the rate my music types) dismiss Nas discgraphy and prop up Illmatic.They'll still put him in GOAT talk and will even say Illmatic is the GOAT album but they feel real comfortable saying so and so passed Nas up cause they got better albums (Kendrick) Mostly for Sonic sound purposes.
This is why I kinda find celebrations of the album bittersweet.
Do you celebrate the album or the launch of the man's career?
Give the other albums the flowers they deserve too
does it get better than memory lane. never gets old!!
just beautiful!!
it's like blueprint don't have hola hovito, all eyes on me don't have whatz your phone number. there's a lot of joint I don't listen/like on classic albums
