The inspiration for Illmatic album cover

[JustCKing]

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

I was mind blown when I saw them years ago. Honestly, I thought it was creative how Nas incorporated those ideas into his concept of growth in the QB projects. It was crazy how he carried the concept across those four albums and then unveiled it in a Source ad for Nastradamus. When I saw the ad and then the caption of "from boy to man to king to prophet", I was legit .

 

[Ziggiy]

Weldon Irvine?

Nastradamus

I Am

YES!!

 

[Rekkapryde]

Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[UpAndComing]

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?

Jazz being my favorite genre of all time, this is fukking awesome

Illmatic inspired by Jazz, with DJ Premier and Pete Rock being Jazz Rap producers, I'm in heaven whenever I listen to Illmatic

 

[IllmaticDelta]

jazz music: the goat album covers

 

[ISO]

Biggie and Nas shyt is very different honestly

 

[Low End Derrick]

 

[Ziggiy]

All of these are so dope and well done

 

[Goat poster]

Kush and OJ Cover was a David Ruffin Homage as well.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

It was the wave

they copied off the GOAT art and didnt pay homage

 

[LevelUp]

Props for this.

 

[spliz]

Biggie and Nas shyt is very different honestly

Thematically is where people drew the parallel especially since they dropped the same year. RTD is a mixture of a bunch of shyt that was out at the time.

 

[Mastamimd]

Love this thread...I been wondering because I saw a Twitter thread with this exact album but I forgot

 

[2stainz]

 

[swerve]

this is a dope thread