Classic Albums

Every week I will be posting an album that I think is a straight classic and I will write a review about it.... this week it's Illmatic-Nas

1.) The Genesis
2.) N.Y. State Of Mind
3.) Life's A Bitch
4.) The World Is Yours
5.) Halftime
6.) Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)
7.) One Love
8.) One Time 4 Your Mind
9.) Represent
10.) It Ain't Hard To Tell

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Review- If I had to choose 1 album out of every hip hop album ever produced, Illmatic would be my top choice for sure. Nas raps a picture of NYC back in the 90's. He takes us on a lyrical joyride. Ever track seems to paint a new picture. There is not a lyrical mistake in this album. So add Nas's mastermind lyrical abilities to the beats of the greatest producers ever, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Q-Tip, and you have yourself an album that goes down in history. Illmatic is what real hip hop is all about. This is an album that rappers should look at and say "Damn, I wish I could have an album like that". Might I also add this is Nas's first retail album. If you call yourself a hip hop junkie then you OWN this classic (atleast I hope so) and if you don't know anything about hip hop or you love hip hop this album is a must have!
Rating- 10/10

"I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
Hennessy holders and old school niggas, then I be dissin a
Unofficial that smoke woolie thai
I dropped out of Cooley High, gassed up by a cokehead cutie pie
Jungle survivor, fuck who's the liver
My man put the battery in my back, a difference from Energizer
Sentence begins indented, with formality
My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology
Poetry, that's a part of me, retardedly bop
I drop the ancient manifested hip-hop, straight off the block
I reminisce on park jams, my man was shot for his sheep coat
Childhood lesson made me see him drop in my weed smoke"- Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)