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It is one of only seven out of the 105 titles currently published or planned in Continuum's 33 1/3 book series about a hip hopĪlbum, and was the first in the series about a hip hop album made by a black artist.
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The LP has also been the subject of innumerable pieces of written commentary and critique, the ball set rolling by an infamously controversial five-out-of-five review in The Source (given at a time when the magazine had a stated policy of never awarding the full five mics to anything). He evidently has been completing them out of sequence, for the first play to be staged was Homage 3. Also in 2011, the Harlem playwright Shaun Neblett unveiled the first of a planned seven new stage productions that aim to capture the spirit of different hip hop albums.
The following year, former Slum Village member Elzhi went a step further with a full-length cover version which he called Elmatic. In 2010, the Californian rapper Fashawn released a tribute mix tape, Ode To Illmatic. The perform-the-whole-album tour (2012), the 10th anniversary "platinum" edition with extra tracks (2004), and this month's 20th anniversary double-disc release, finally uniting the original LP with the remixed singles, are just the tip of an iceberg of the kind of deep and broad acclaim that fills a good swathe of the distance between "sublime" and It has gone way beyond the impact its relatively modest sales might seem to imply: it wasn't certified platinum in the United States until a shade under eight years after its release, yet Illmatic has always been seen as something rather more than a classic rap LP. Boasting a concise 39-minute track listing bursting with ideas, the album arrived just as every other rapper seemed convinced the 74-minute upper limit on a CD's duration was a "fill to here" mark that had to be reached, rather than a capacity they didn't need to get near if they had insufficient material ready to include. Two decades since it hit the Earth like a comet (invasion), what more can possibly be left to say about Illmatic? Nas's debut was widely and correctly acclaimed at the time as one of the finest albums ever made, in any genre and its lustre has only been burnished since.
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