Title: Hey, wait a minute, put that finger down...
Product review: Nas - Illmatic (10th Anniversary Platinum Edition) (Sony Music Urban, 2004)I know what you're thinking: "Illmatic, less than five stars?!!" No, it ain't like that. Illmatic is of course a hip-hop classic, five stars, maybe even six. But one star has been taken off for Disc 2. It contains the hard-to-find "It Ain't Hard to Tell" remix and "The World is Yours" remix. Those are tight, but the remixes to "One Love" and especially "Life's a B****" are weak. The former is a clean version while the beat that Rockwilder provided for the latter is one that's better suited for the new Nas, not Illmatic Nas. Fortunately, the disc also contains two new tracks, the Large Professor-produced "Star Wars" and the Marley Marl-laced "On the Real", which both show that Nas still got it. So with that, let's stop talking about Illmatic all the time and focus on Nas as of present because he still has skills. -EJR
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