Illmatic Quotes

• When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

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  Nas

  Real   Perfect   Hip Hop  

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• It used to be when a good record was about to drop you heard it out of every car and every kid with a boom box was playing it 3-4 weeks before it came out. Now it's not like that you just see ipods left and right and there's no anticipation factor. I have yet to see something drop with the anticipation that Illmatic had or that Ready 2 Die and Cuban Linx had. Those records had real anticipation factors.

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  Mic Geronimo

  Real   Kids   Ipods  

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry.

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  Erik Parker

  Struggle   Reality   Done  

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out. Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.

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  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Rap   Hip Hop   Doubt  

  Song: The Documentary, Album: The Documentary

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• Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating.

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  Erik Parker

  Art   Mind   Culture  

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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