Illmatic
by Nas
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Matt KreilingFor a long time if I was listening to any beats, the rhymes from this album came in my head. Poetry with such a tight delivery and continual imagery. I could probably say something about meter and metaphor, but when I heard it went straight to something that I could spend a career analyzing.
The description of the streets, the feelings of brothers in jail, being connected in a deep way to an oppressed group of hustlers. "One Love" is a miracle, but everything is on this album. This is a certain type of black experience that I only can access this deeply through pieces of art like this. It doesn't just remind me of the differences, but evokes the emotions that I imagine I would feel if I was in the situation. The situation of a black man in Queens, America.
The production and pace of this album is relentless and hard yet most of the beats complement the smooth hypnotic way that Nas presents his lyrics.
handing them out with both hands word dripping off fingers.
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