
The Heath Brothers: Smilin’ Billy Suite Pt.2020's King's Disease and its 2021 sequel King's Disease II represented a return to form for New York rap legend Nas, teaming with Hit-Boy for a steady drip of excellently.
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Large Professor: It Ain’t Hard to Tell (Remix) Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.Show Tracklisting (all songs from Illmatic unless indicated otherwise): I really cant encourage you all enough to listen to this mix if you havent already. Illmatic by Nas turns 25 (The Independent) If I were to make a hip hop 'essentials' type mix, I would want it to sound like this.Nas’s Illmatic 25 anniversary mixtape by Chris Read” (WaxPoetics).Thes interviewed on the House List ( Part 1 and Part 2).Thes interviewed by Oliver in 2011 ( Part 1 and Part 2).To help us break all this down, we invited one of Los Angeles’s finest: Thes One, half of People Under the Stairs (and composer of our theme song!) While Thes generally doesn’t like talking about other producers’ work, as a 16 year old hip-hop head hyped for Illmatic when it dropped in ’94, Thes brought his insights as both a producer and fan, and we touched on everything from the use of nostalgia in sample choices, how Nas’s flow worked with different beats, and why DJ Premier’s “bubba chip” drum programming was a game changer. Their production decisions, including the samples that powered their now iconic tracks, marked one peak in hip-hop’s golden era of sample-based production. Befitting that anticipation, Illmatic drew, really for the first time, a Dream Team-esque assemblage of some of New York’s finest producers including Q-Tip, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Large Professor and L.E.S. Following much talked about appearances on Main Source s Live at the Barbecue, MC Serch s Back to the Grill, and. April 19th 1994 saw the release of one of what would go on to be recognised as one of the greatest Hip Hop albums of all time, Nas s seminal debut, Illmatic. So much has been said about this LP over the years, we shouldn’t need to make a case for it but here’s the short version: it’s not simply considered one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time but it’s universally lauded as one of the greatest debut albums in any genre, least of all given the intense hype around Nas leading up to it. Nas Illmatic 25th Anniversary Mixtape mixed by Chris Read. For #2, we wanted to turn our attention to an album whose use of samples helped influences sampling culture and for that, we went with a giant celebrating its 25th anniversary this year: Nas’s debut album, Illmatic. In our first episode from our four-part Art of Sampling series, we focused on one of the classic sources of samples from the mid-80s: the James Brown anthology, In the Jungle Groove.
