If someone likes illmatic,i dont have a problem. I listen to a few songs off there regularly myself. But all that "best album" talk is nonsense. It's not nas best album,not the best album of 94' and not a great album at all. For a nikka that really remembers illmatic's impact or lack there of,it's disgusting to watch the brainwash revisionist history of it. Why,because it's nikkas out here that really put it down and nikkas out here lying as if shyt happened differently. I remember 94' like yesterday. I was 14,everybody had walk mans and would ask each other what they were bumpin. Illmatic was not in the conversation ever.Readt to die, Da brat funkadafied,southernplayalistic,the diary,creepin on ah come up,thuglife,regulate g-funk era,8ball & mjg on the outside lookin in etc etc were al hotter than illmatic out in the neighborhoods and school