Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Illmatic by Nas

This is not as great as everybody says. His rhymes are really good, and I love the metaphors he comes up with, but his beats are totally lame. Sorry, pallie, that's most of it for me.

RATING: 58%
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6 comments:

John said...

I was listening to that album in the car today, and I think you're straight whack, G. The beat for "New York State of Mind" set the standard for East coast hip hop, and the Wild Style sample on "The Genesis" is hard as fuck.

You've also neglected the critic's responsibility to provide examples of how it should be done. Whose 1990's East coast beats are better?

February 16, 2008 at 11:15 AM
DCP said...

I only have 5 sentences to make the review. And Wu Tang Clan, for starters, has better beats.

February 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM
John said...

Debatable, but let's not quibble. Nas doesn't need me to stick up for him. He'll inflict composition /of pain he's like scarface sniffin' cocaine / holdin' an M16... Well, you get the point.

February 16, 2008 at 1:53 PM
DCP said...

Hey, look, I'm the only person on planet Earth who apparently doesn't think this album is great, so I'm clearly in the minority here. I still like it. Above a 50% is good on this review blog.

February 16, 2008 at 4:49 PM
DCP said...

I like this album a lot more now than I did when I reviewed it. My bad, it's halftime.

December 3, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Internet John said...

I'm always right about everything. Like if I wanna misspell "though" as "thought," then that's what it means.

I wrote like a fucking retart back then, though. Brady Bunch motherfucker.

December 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM

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