If Illmatic was released today...
- Thread starter MaNu Minu
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only way it can be released is if it was kept on a shelf or in a capsule..then got released. Sort of like some lost great piece of art/film..Then judge it from its time and order..no sense if it was made today and released recently, think about it you grapehead!
TrapHouse Rock
All Star
would still be incredibly well received and considered a top 90s album even though it would be unreleasednow if you're asking if nas recorded that album now and put it out and the reaction of that, then that's just a silly hypothetical not worth entertaining
it would STILL be the GOAT...while completely embarrassing this era of rap music...when it dropped you had a lot of dope music floating around by rappers that were really dope at their craft making music they wanted to make...speaking to the ppl they wanted to speak to..instead of following trends and formulas created by the next man...now we got shyt like young thug and dj mustard....
stealthbomber
cruising at 30,000
what if that pete rock/nas album gets released and its better than illmatic.. 
The Unknown Hype
The One
oh boy people saying it would still be number 1...i cant lol
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
it woulda been a mixtape
and then 3 months later we'd be like "Nas needs to drop something new before he loses all his buzz"
and then 3 months later we'd be like "Nas needs to drop something new before he loses all his buzz"
People would say "come on, he's GOTTA BE Old Droog"
Translation: I dont want to admit how people wouldn't be receptive to one of my favorite rappers albums
Lotta yall would hate it and call it "stuck in the 90s"....admit it
shyt would flop just like it did back then 
took that nikka 7 years to go platinum 
tunechi sold in 1 week what nasir did in a 7 year period
took that nikka 7 years to go platinum tunechi sold in 1 week what nasir did in a 7 year period
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
Illmatic was a representation of the era, nothing like that is capable of dropping today. Illmatic if anything would be a mixtape today also. His debut would be It Was Written.
It would still be critically acclaimed but it would be criticized for boom bap instrumentals in 2014, because like I said it was a representation of it's time.
It would still be critically acclaimed but it would be criticized for boom bap instrumentals in 2014
, because like I said it was a representation of it's time.Be an idiot brehsshyt would flop just like it did back then
tunechi sold in 1 week what nasir did in a 7 year period
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Majestic Pape
The-Coli = W SOHH = L
Considering how far music has advanced sonically this is a ridiculous "what if?" scenario.
^^ what he said. The culture of NY (& even Queensbridge) is nothing like it was when Illmatic was put together. Alot of the topics wouldnt even fit today into a young urban black persons experience. There are more hipster than stickup kids, no break dancers on cardboard or corner cyphers, less vinyl/record shops than ever, and the crack/drug king pin era is a distant memory.
Afterall Illmatic was about a young kid and his perspective of the late 80s/early 90s NY.
impossible hypothetical cause you cant capture any of that right now (as a debut album).