Stillmatic

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  • Artist: Nas (See All Albums by Nas)
  • Date Released: Dec 18, 2001

  • Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B, Style: R&B, Pop

  • Label: Columbia

Total Tracks: 14   Total Length: 56:43

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derrock

a true classic album. This album re established nas as one of the best emcees to date especially to those of us that believed he lost his hunger and focus as a true rap artist. This work may rival the "Illmatic " album as his best work to date. A must have for any true school enthusiast.

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Among the best of the milenium thus far

Arekkusu

This album was dope.

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3.5 out of 5

smarks5

This is a good not great album. I know most Nas fans consider this to be a classic, but I do not consider this to be a consistent album. There are some really good songs (tracks 1-3,7,8,13). The rest of the songs sound like not much effort was put into it; the production is average at best and at times Nas just sounds disinterested. Unless you are a diehard fan who wants every song Nas creates, I would suggest just downloading the good songs.

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Mega-Classic !!!

stephen.r.leonard

Likely Nas's second best album. Just as good as "Illmatic", but it still remains his best since then.

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Back on the hardcore block and with plenty to prove after two years without a record under his own name, Nas designed Stillmatic as a response: to the rap cognoscenti who thought he’d become a relic, and most of all to Jay-Z, the East Coast kingpin who wounded his pride and largely replaced him as the best rapper in hip-hop. The saga started back in the summer of 2001 with the mixtape “Stillmatic,” Nas’ answer track to an on-stage dis by Jay-Z. A few months after Jay-Z countered with the devastating “Takeover,” Nas dropped the comeback single “Ether” and the full album Stillmatic; tellingly, Jay-Z had already released his response to “Ether” (titled “Super Ugly”) before Stillmatic even came out. Dropping many of the mainstream hooks and featured performers in order to focus his rapping, Nas proves he’s still a world-class rhymer, but he does sound out of touch in the process of defending his honor. “Ether” relies on a deep-throat vocal repeating the phrase, “F*ck Jay-Z,” while “You’re da Man” hits the heights of arrogance with a looped vocal sample repeating the title over and over. “Destroy & Rebuild” is a solid defense of his Queensbridge home, and “Got Ur Self A…” is an outstanding track, the best here, complete with chant-along chorus. Despite the many highlights, a few of these tracks (most were produced by either Large Professor or Nas himself) just end up weighing him down: “Smokin’,” one of the worst, is an odd G-funk track that would’ve sounded dated years before its release. Stillmatic certainly isn’t as commercial as past Nas output, but it places him squarely behind the times. Facts are facts: he’s not the best rapper in the business anymore. – John Bush

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