The Architects of Illmatic - L.E.S. 

It was cool how L.E.S. was unknown as a producer and Nas used his track to help introduce a then unknown AZ ...that song sparked both of their careers...L.E.S. contributed music to AZ's debut album Do or Die...one beautiful classic album gave birth to another beautiful classic album!

So this is the great L.E.S.? I've heard a lot of his beats but never seen the dudes face before lol

Great producer!! He produced classics for AZ and Nas.

L.E.S. did his thing with the Gap Band sample, of course AZ brought the fire, & Nas was smoove as smoove can be but Olu Dara really took the track home to another dimension

L.E.S. made quite a few of my favorites Nas tracks , still listen to it today, dope shit timeless shit

LES also did glamour life on Puns album which was crazy. Black republican also with jay and nas. I remember Juju from the Beatnuts telling me how dope he was

Respect to L.E.S. & Nas! On a side note: we out here starving for a new Rhythm Roulette!!!!!!!

"L.E.S on another murder quest!!!" LES is underappreciated! "U Gotta Love It", super classic. One of the illest LES beats ever? Shyheim - Shoalin Style REMIX!!!

i actually remember a time when L.E.S. was my favorite producer

Around the same time this video came out dj L.E.S. executive produced one of my songs when I recorded in his studio.. he came in and just started helping me and my bro wit the song. I was starstruck cus I'm a big fan 🔥 appreciative

The one who disliked are the greatest fools ever on earth😂

The forgotten architect...

The legendary L.E.S.!

one of the most underrated producers of 90s hip hop. this man produced countless classics, not only for nas. check out big pun's "glamour life"

LES The Infamous HipHop producer who tracks have been heard by the world 🌎🔥💣🔥💣🧨💎⛏🎧👀 You only knew his name you didn’t know his face! He was really behind the scenes cooking up fire 🔥

Big respect to Les .. he put it down tuff ✅

Legend

"Biggie's Ready to Die album came out several months after Illmatic, and Biggie was crowned king of New York in the popular culture of Hip Hop heads, Ready to Die unfairly over-shadowed Illmatic, which is truly a classic album. Though they were quite distinct artists, they innovated in analogous ways. Biggie merged language that was high and low, vernacular and vocabulary words, in a way that sounded natural. He did this with a sophisticated understanding of the patterns of black language. When a different or unusual word or phrase could be introduced while still maintaining the aesthetics of black language, he inserted it. NaS, in contrast, merged concepts that were high and low, vernacular and metaphysical, in a manner that was whole rather than pieced together, thus presenting a complex that is unusual in any music outside of jazz. What Biggie started to do with language in 1994, NaS had already begun to do with ideas on Illmatic. He carries us through the "Righteous steps" of the cosmic, oceanic, and literal dimensions of his person. He transcends." - Imany Perry (Born To Use Mics)

Met him in VA when he made a track for my manz Grandson(Got It For Sell). Real cool brotha

He was fire on that It Was Written

One love from Germany

I Don't Care What No One Says He Really Made His Name Known On That Will Smith Big Willie Style Album With "Chasing Forever" "Yes Yes Y'all" & Just Cruisin (Remix) Also All Three Written By Nas.... Great Producer Props To L.E.S.....

Well... Your beat sparked two of the dopest single verses on arguably the greatest hip hop album of all time. LES...I'd say it was a success lol

Thank You L.E.S.

LEGENDARY

Nas is the greatest

I just realised that most of my favourite Nas songs were produced by LES. Songs like, Want To Talk To You and Nothing Lasts Forever

Underrated producer.

Dope af!

Where is this intro version of one love 👀👀👀😂🔥🔥🔥

MY NIGGA L , one of the realest dudes I’ve met !!

What's the password for the Mass Appeal Shop? I'm trying to buy the Vinyl

L.e.s on a quest/Playboy

Anyone know song playing at 0:25

Yo L! We got Hip Hop on the West Coast. We not all listening to E 40. That fool is wack😂