10 Things You DIDN'T KNOW About ILLMATIC

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@BackToTheBoomBap 8 месяцев назад

What are some facts that you know about Illmatic? Also, for a dope boom bap drum kit get Back To The Breakbeats @ this link: koji.to/k/8TC8 Nas - Illmatic: amzn.to/3QCT5MC (affiliate link)

@seanfelder3977 6 месяцев назад

Remember when Nas was first rapping on back to the grill again spitting his verse and no ideal this cat will go down one of best mcs all time. Huge fan of Nas when he dropped gods son album. Made you look, remix with Luda and jadakiss was ridiculous in clubs back then. Illmatic was classic back in 1994

@BackToTheBoomBap 6 месяцев назад

@@seanfelder3977 yeah Nas is one of the greats. There were a lot of rappers that came out when he did that didn't last. It would be one thing if he made Illmatic and that was it. But he's still putting out great music to this day.

@keejay12 7 месяцев назад

Fun fact about Illmatic: It's the first album to feature a different host of producers. Albums back then in the 80s and early 90s were always handled by one main producer. But Illmatic started the trend where an artists worked with different producers rather than just 1 main one. Illmatic started that trend that's a main staple in most albums today

@closedfiles 6 месяцев назад

Actually Lord Finesse did it on his 1990 debut album. He had production from Preemo, Diamond D, Showbiz and DJ Mike Smooth

@KtotheG 6 месяцев назад

@@closedfilesTrue, but they were all apart of DITC.. the production back then was normally in-house with either the group or the crew. Nas wasn't apart of a crew when he first came out, like Lord Finesse was. DITC has always shared production and Finesse is a producer himself.

@williemakeit2346 4 месяца назад

⁠⁠⁠@@KtotheGactually Illmatic is far from the first rap album to use multiple producers. In 1993 alone several rappers dropped albums using multiple top producers: KRS ONE’s Return Of The Boom Bap Run DMC’s Down With The King LL Cool J’s 14 Shots To The Dome Queen Latifah’s Black Reign Apache’s Apache Ain’t Sh** MC Lyte’s Ain’t No Other (her album prior to this one used multiple producers as well) And prior to this Heavy D & The Boyz did this on numerous albums. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo did it on a couple albums as well. Big Daddy Kane also did it on his second album back in 1989. In fact I can name at least 24 hip hop albums that used multiple producers before Illmatic. Illmatic is a masterpiece. What I hate is that more emphasis is placed on rewriting history with inaccurate claims surrounding the album’s creation rather than the simple truth that the album is a flawless diamond due to Nas’s artistry and his choice of producers.

@unc1589 7 месяцев назад

I opened the elevator door in my building in the Bronx and what did I see? The face on the illmatic album cover! Nas got family in the Bronx. It must’ve been a year or two after the photo. His aunt said “this is my nephew.” I said “wus ya name shorty? “Nasir”… “What? Nassea!” “Nasir!” I mumbled “what kinda name is that?” He just looked at me up and down lol. The most dead serious face on a kid I ever seen in my life. EXACTLY like the album cover. He wasn’t mad he was just a serious kid. No laughing or joking. Years later his aunt told me “you remember my little nephew you met in the elevator?” I thought she was bout to give me bad news. She said he’s a famous rapper now. I said who? What rapper? She said they call him Nas. When I saw the album cover I was like ohhhh sht! Das my lil man. Same face lol.

@BackToTheBoomBap 7 месяцев назад

Wow! It's like you never know who the people you meet in life are gonna become in the future.

@LatifHZ-ww1tl 7 месяцев назад

That Nas impression was pretty nice 😂

@will_cashgrow2294 7 месяцев назад

It was close, you just have to sound like you just woke up in the middle of the night to answer the phone and you got Nas 😆

@KSoloLoso 7 месяцев назад

Fun fact: Nasty Nas Demo Tape is listed in Wikipedia and in this demo tape would've been the Word life album instead of illmatic🤔

@jeffreyryder273 6 месяцев назад

Yup and the title “Word Life” was given to OC for his debut album in 94’

@williemakeit2346 4 месяца назад

Fun fact: only a few of those songs are actually from his 1991 demo. The rest are actually unreleased songs from 1995 after he dropped Illmatic. Ever since a RU-vidr uploaded all the songs together some 17 years ago or so under the misleading title Nasty Nas Original 1991 Demo people been fooled. Actual 1991 demo songs: Just Another Day In The Projects I’m A Villain Nas Will Prevail Number One With A Bullet On these tracks you can still hear teenage Nas on his way to maturing into what we hear on Illmatic. Some lyrics made their way onto Illmatic’s songs. Everything else is from AFTER Illmatic. Songs like: Life Is Like A Dice Game Understanding Deja Vu On The Real On those songs you can hear how Nas ELEVATED even from where he was at on Illmatic. Newer rhymes schemes and flow patterns, increased confidence in his delivery. And the production sounds more in line with the mid 90’s whereas his actual demo songs have that dated early 90’s sound. In fact his track Everything Is Real is actually from 98/99. It mostly appears on RU-vid in sped up audio to make Nas sound younger but I just found the pitch corrected version that sounds identical to the 1999 The Word According To Nas mixtape it first appeared on. The flow, the vocal inflections and the slang is late 90’s Nas all the way: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ok-vXWk1FsQ.htmlsi=3dtXY7MPBPsw_GvU

@nycapple Месяц назад

@@williemakeit2346you are spot on except for the last part. everything is real is from late 95/early 96. it wasnt sped up to make nas sound young, sped up records were common amongst bootlegs. im from queens and the person on the song with nas is his friend.

@williemakeit2346 Месяц назад

@@nycapple nah it was from 98/99. This track surfaced on mixtapes right around the time we were waiting for I Am to drop. You can hear the maturity in Nas’s voice plus his inflections and delivery were more lively by this point verses his more stoic delivery from his It Was Written era. The devil is in the details.

@nycapple Месяц назад

@@williemakeit2346 this isnt a debate. i gave you ya props originally but now you doing the same thing nas demo 91 tape upload guy did. the song is from 1996 and produced by LES.

@theinfamous032 8 месяцев назад

You should do this for more albums

@BackToTheBoomBap 8 месяцев назад

Thanks! I will definitely be doing that.

@theinfamous032 8 месяцев назад

@@BackToTheBoomBap I saw an article about the making of the Infamous where all the artists gave Interviews for each song. Might be interesting if you do a fact video about the Infamous

@BackToTheBoomBap 8 месяцев назад

@@theinfamous032 thanks. That one is definitely on the list.

@seanfelder3977 6 месяцев назад

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@williemakeit2346 8 месяцев назад

I enjoyed this video, salute! Just for fun: 1. Knew that one. 2. Didn’t know that’s where that song was recorded. 🤯 3. Always noticed that. 4. Knew this. 5. I forgot about that. I’m glad it worked out the way it did because the version that exists is perfection. 6. Wow, didn’t know that was the hardest sample to clear. 7. Knew this. 8. Knew this. If you listen to the actual demo songs (not the 1995 era stuff people mistakenly lump with the real demo stuff you can hear where Russell was right. 9. Knew this too. 10. Knew this. One correction tho: the live Illmatc with the orchestra doesn’t count as a re-release. It’s not the original recordings from the studio, it’s a live concert performance of said material so it’s its own album. Bonus: Didn’t know this. That’s wassup.

@BackToTheBoomBap 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for this. And yeah you're right, the live one is not the studio recorded album, so the first 2 would the actual only re-releases.

@casteltheghettomonk4392 7 месяцев назад

Notorious B1 big daddy thank me later

@scinnyc 6 месяцев назад

Another fact about Illmatic is how it inspired Common to bring his A-game to his 2nd album: *Resurrection.* After Common heard Illmatic early on, it made him redo a few songs and step it up creativity for the songs that he newly wrote and recorded. This is the same album with the classic song "I Used To Love Her" on it. And I can't blame him...as an artist myself, I have 2 songs dedicated to Illmatic's influence. And until this day, Common's Resurrection album is the best thing he's ever made and is a hip hop classic.

@BackToTheBoomBap 6 месяцев назад

That's really interesting. Common is one of my favorite MCs too. That album was really when he started hitting his stride. On his first album, he was in the phase of just copying the flows and rap styles that were popular at the time.

@scinnyc 6 месяцев назад

@@BackToTheBoomBap Yeah, Common's first album was not good at all. But someone that he knew showed him Illmatic before it dropped and it made him reconsider his entire approach to hip hop. There's a few videos here on RU-vid with Common talking about this himself

@williemakeit2346 4 месяца назад

As Nas said: “Name a rapper that I ain’t influence”

@casteltheghettomonk4392 7 месяцев назад

All the beats on illmatic Nas picked himself or change somethings to make them better , personally, apart from one love beat 🪘 . He wanted more jazz 🎺🎷 type beats cause of his father jazz background, and his father plays the trumpet 🎺 on lifes a B . Nas wanted to sound more hip hop more authentic not to sound too much NY so everyone can relate. Thats way is timeless, real instruments . Hip hop originated from jazz 🎺🎷 . " Hip hop didnt invent anything, hip hop re invented everything! ' - Grandmaster Caz

@williemakeit2346 4 месяца назад

This is one of the most NY sounding albums of all time and that’s part of what makes it so great. NY has been a jazz Mecca ever since Duke Ellington. Nas made a masterpiece without any compromise.

@williemakeit2346 8 месяцев назад

Do Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) next!

@BackToTheBoomBap 8 месяцев назад

Oh that one is coming! I'm working on it right now. It's gonna be the one after the next one I'm doing.

@roderickmanley5412 6 месяцев назад

Fun Fact: The last verse in One Love was re-enacted in the movie Belly

@ZakVortex 5 месяцев назад

This video is amazing. Really fascinating. Just watched your Cuban Linx video too.

@BackToTheBoomBap 5 месяцев назад

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed them.

@wilmxre 8 месяцев назад

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@BackToTheBoomBap 8 месяцев назад

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@rhswinger 6 месяцев назад

Part of the reason the album didn’t sell that well at first is because so much of the hype about him that had been building for years was specifically NYC based. It took a while for him to gain momentum in other places. In New York though, his first album was so hotly anticipated that EVERY song on the album has been played on the radio before the album came out. A lot of us were taping those radio shows and put together the whole album for ourselves and our friends to pass around. The radio dj’s just couldn’t help themselves. They had access to all the songs and they had to play them. Sony learning how to better handle Nas releases after that.

@williemakeit2346 4 месяца назад

It also didn’t help that the album was heavily bootlegged several months before its release.

@b.i.s.phenom1447 Месяц назад

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@isolamii 7 месяцев назад

Dope!!!💪🏿

@BackToTheBoomBap 7 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed it! 👊

@A_J_P_ 8 месяцев назад

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@immaresellit 6 месяцев назад

good story telling!

@BackToTheBoomBap 6 месяцев назад

Thanks so much bro!👊

@robace.holmes 7 месяцев назад

Great video!! 💯🦾🦾🙏🏾

@BackToTheBoomBap 7 месяцев назад

thanks a lot bro! 👊

@robace.holmes 7 месяцев назад

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@underkanal6510 8 месяцев назад

Nice video!

@BackToTheBoomBap 8 месяцев назад

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@BackToTheBoomBap 8 месяцев назад

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@jackxavier3915 8 месяцев назад

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@tnpbeatz4599 6 месяцев назад

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@shortgrowinchannel101 8 месяцев назад

Goodtopic

@BackToTheBoomBap 8 месяцев назад

Thanks! I was so excited to put out this video. I'm already working on the next album I'm doing like this.

@michaelfreeman124 7 месяцев назад

Keep these type of videos coming. Ghostface next maybe. 💯

@BackToTheBoomBap 7 месяцев назад

Thank you so much. I do have plans to do some on Ghost in the future. I'm thinking of doing Ironman and Supreme Clientele.

@michaelfreeman124 7 месяцев назад

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@Thespeedrap 8 месяцев назад

I would like to know how he got the album cover from?

@BackToTheBoomBap 8 месяцев назад

All I know is the album cover comes from an old picture of himself that he had. That was one of my facts in the video.They may have combined 2 pictures because you can see some of the background through his face.

@bornkinguniversal 7 месяцев назад

The Illmatic album cover was inspired by an album called A Child Is Born 1974 The Howard Hanger Trio. The album shows a little girl with her neighborhood in the background

@BackToTheBoomBap 7 месяцев назад

@@bornkinguniversal that's a super interesting fact. I've seen that album cover before but I didn't really realize it was first because I've seen the Illmatic cover so much. And then the fact that it was 20 years before his was interesting too.

@bornkinguniversal 7 месяцев назад

@@BackToTheBoomBap great video btw!

@BackToTheBoomBap 7 месяцев назад

@@bornkinguniversal thanks bro! 👊

@dnachistatrax1029 7 месяцев назад

💪💯

@BackToTheBoomBap 7 месяцев назад

Appreciate you!

@Ric-E...Ricardo 7 месяцев назад

At the time of it aint hard to tell, SWV also had the human nature sample to their right here remix.

@BackToTheBoomBap 7 месяцев назад

Yep. Sure did. I love that song too.

@BtrDaze 6 месяцев назад

Ill will … Illmatic

@ezekwu 6 месяцев назад

Word Life would have been a great title...

@KrishnaSingh-ow1ie Месяц назад

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@omardavis1622 7 месяцев назад

Oh you missed how #ItAintHardtoTell is kinda like a remix. The original is Prevail or something like that. Also, one of Preem songs Nas wanted another beat , but Preem fought not literally but Nas let Preem do what he do. I think it either #Represent or #NYStateofMind those kinda like remixes too , if you heard the demo versions.

@omardavis1622 7 месяцев назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y6B9gWD59Cw.htmlsi=xpQj_F1UTkF_AWOh

@casteltheghettomonk4392 7 месяцев назад

Represent is a remix , preemo admitted cause of the strong competition from the other producers he had to change it make it better , the original version was more jazzy , typical for Nas background+ his father jazz 🎷 background

@omardavis1622 7 месяцев назад

@@casteltheghettomonk4392 best thing he did. That first one wasn't it. 🤦🏽

@casteltheghettomonk4392 7 месяцев назад

Actually preemo always makes the beats alone in his house, then meats with the rappers . He never liked when rappers telling him what to do . Nas found the ' joe chambers mind rain ' beat and told preemo to flip it . They were checking through records . And Nas idea to insert the piano 🎹 in the background. Idk why mf say Nas picked bad beats , all jealousy and hate . When in fact only one love beat he didn't pick he only wanted better , illmatic version is a remix

@omardavis1622 7 месяцев назад

@@casteltheghettomonk4392 Nas ideas be on point , it's just he like that soul jazz sound with little r&b , that fits his personality. When he was on his Escobar out of character they still crucified him. 🤷🏾‍♂️💯😂🤣 No matter what you give Nas. I think you gotta at least have mixture of Soul, Jazz & R&B within the Hip-Hop. A lot jazz (Drums, Bassline)

@williemakeit2346 4 месяца назад

Based on a lot of these comments I need to list a few things people get WRONG about Illmatic: 1. Illmatic was NOT the first rap album to use multiple producers. Kane, Heavy D, Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth, MC Lyte, Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo, Apache, Run DMC, LL Cool J, Queen Latifah, and KRS One all did this on their albums before Nas. 2. Illmatic was NOT the first album to get 5 mics in The Source. Ice Cube, Eric B & Rakim, BDP, Brand Nubian and Tribe all got 5 mics for the albums they dropped in 1990. Then Tribe got it again for Low End Theory in 91, as did De La Soul for De La Soul Is Dead. 3. Nas was not 16/17 when he recorded Illmatic. He did it at 18/19 and completed and released it at 20. Google and read the original Nas interviews from 1994.

@williemakeit2346 4 месяца назад

Another thing I should add is Illmatic changed hip hop not because it was the first album to do this or that. It wasn’t the first album to do anything. Illmatic changed hip hop because of one reason alone - Nas did what Nas did THAT DAMN GOOD. The bar was raised and there was no turning back. He was like Rakim, G. Rap, Slick Rick and Shan all rolled into one and fermented in some secret sauce that people could spend a lifetime trying to decode. And his choice of all star producers provided him the perfect framework to create his magic. I decided to write this because as a lifelong hip hopper who lived thru several eras of rap ever since the Run DMC era, I find that far too many people who write about Illmatic seem to not really know hip hop history outside of that album. And this has led to an unfortunate rewriting of that history, full of false narrative after false narrative. One of the many brilliant things about Illmatic is how knowledgeable and aware Nas is on everything from the streets to the history of hip hop (which informed his choice to sample Wild Style for “The Genesis” and also framed his third verse for “Represent”). Any serious fan of this album or of hip hop in general should want to do the knowledge.

@KrishnaSingh-ow1ie Месяц назад

@@williemakeit2346your 100 percent right. "My poetry is deep I never fell nas rap should be locked in a cell, it ain't hard to tell" illmatic. You forgot to tell them tragedy khadafi coin the phase illmatic.

@williemakeit2346 Месяц назад

@@KrishnaSingh-ow1ie I did forget to mention that, thank you for adding on.

@donjonesmusic860 5 месяцев назад

I can tell you 50 things about iLLMATIC 🔥

@BackToTheBoomBap 5 месяцев назад

That's great. Would love to know more about it.

@donjonesmusic860 5 месяцев назад

@@BackToTheBoomBap okay

@gandhi91 7 месяцев назад

Damn… always heard that the name Illmatic was from Tragedy Khadafi

@BackToTheBoomBap 7 месяцев назад

I heard that too, long before I was making the video. Maybe the guy got his nickname from Trag coming up with it first. It's one of those things where you could probably ask a bunch of people who could know but you would probably get different answers lol.

@gandhi91 7 месяцев назад

@@BackToTheBoomBap yeah I imagine

@donjonesmusic860 5 месяцев назад

If no one didn’t know any of this information they were born YESTERDAY ‼️ who didn’t know this?

@BackToTheBoomBap 5 месяцев назад

I was born yesterday then because I knew some but not all 10 of those things. 😂😂😂

@donjonesmusic860 5 месяцев назад

@@BackToTheBoomBap knew this a century ago.die hard nas fans should know this.