The inspiration for Illmatic album cover

[Billy Ocean]

They bit off of Nas shyt

I don't want no nikka looking like me on NO ALBUM COVER!

 

[Cadillac]

will check it out when i get a chance

 

[spliz]

Nas being influenced by a 1974 Jazz album is far different than Biggie dropping his album the same year with the same cover thematically. lol. Biggie's Ready To Die was a mixture of a bunch of shyt he was influenced by going on directly around him at the time. From The Chronic and Doggystyle, To King T, To Pac, To Nas..To Chubb Rock.. and the list goes on.

 

[Canon]

legit blew my mind when i found out about this a couple years ago

 

[Ziggiy]

There was another Jazz musician and for the fukking LIFE of me I can’t recall his name right now but basically a lot of his album covers seem to thematically have influenced Nas. This musician had an Egyptian Pharoah themed cover, a cover highly reminiscent of God’s Son, and I believe one reminiscent of Stillmatic.


Anyone know who i’m talking about?

 

[Low End Derrick]

Nas aint the only one:

 

[Akae Beka]

There was another Jazz musician and for the fukking LIFE of me I can’t recall his name right now but basically a lot of his album covers seem to thematically have influenced Nas. This musician had an Egyptian Pharoah themed cover, a cover highly reminiscent of God’s Son, and I believe one reminiscent of Stillmatic.


Anyone know who i’m talking about?

I think I do but will have to get back at u for that

 

[Ziggiy]

im gonna check out that album off the strength of this

Listening now on Youtube. Its pretty good

 

[Living Bait]

It was the wave

 

[Goat poster]

Nas aint the only one:

It was the wave

I love shyt like thiis

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

Nas aint the only one:

Wow I had no idea about the smif n wessun/roy ayers one.

I love and hate things like this. I hate it because my preconceptions of the covers originality in say like the smif n wessun cover are taken away whereas i love it because you find another layer to the foreign exchange cover which on a surface level looks generic and boring.

I do want to say I appreciate the headnod and preservation of history in all of the contemporary covers though.

 

[Complexion]

The wider your knowledge base, the more you decode.

Just think of how many things in life fly by the minds of people who look but don't see.​

 

[OfTheCross]

The wider your knowledge base, the more you decode.

Just think of how many things in life fly by the minds of people who look but don't see.​

 

[JustCKing]

There was another Jazz musician and for the fukking LIFE of me I can’t recall his name right now but basically a lot of his album covers seem to thematically have influenced Nas. This musician had an Egyptian Pharoah themed cover, a cover highly reminiscent of God’s Son, and I believe one reminiscent of Stillmatic.


Anyone know who i’m talking about?

Weldon Irvine?

Nastradamus

I Am

 

[spliz]

Weldon Irvine?

Nastradamus

I Am

All this proves is Nas is a TRUE student of the game and got alot of musical influence from his pops.