So Illmatic Got Bootlegged And Nas Had to Re-do the Album, Wheres the Bootleg Version at?

[u mad son?]

I heard many storys about this situation and the latest one was on flex show with nore and fat joe.

I always wondered how comes nobody had the original illmatic up on youtube anywhere? Or is it floating around and I just never heard it?

 

[King Sun]

I think you're confusing that with IAM.

 

[LJLYDK!]

Represent OG is ALOT different to the one on the album. but that's the only track i know of, where you hear about this btw? agree with the dude above you might mean IAM?

 

[hustlemania]

I think you're confusing that with IAM.

pretty sure hes talking about a few tracks off this..



01 Understanding (Demo)
02 Life Is Like A Dice Game (Demo)
03 Just Another Day In Projects (Demo)
04 Deja Vu (Demo)
06 Everything Is Real (Demo)
07 I'm A Villan (Demo)
09 Nas Will Prevail (Demo)
10 On The Real (Demo)

edited: songs in red are Illmatic demo tracks

 

[ig88]

I thought the myth was the album was bootlegged prior to release meaning the actual album was bootlegged “found 40k copies in a garage in wueens” or some shyt.

Which is the excuse why it didnt sell. Nas stan reason anyway.

 

[the cac mamba]

its a fukkin crime that this beat didnt find its way onto illmatic

 

[LJLYDK!]

pretty sure hes talking about a few tracks off this..



01 Understanding (Demo)
02 Life Is Like A Dice Game (Demo)
03 Just Another Day In Projects (Demo)
04 Deja Vu (Demo)
06 Everything Is Real (Demo)
07 I'm A Villan (Demo)
09 Nas Will Prevail (Demo)
10 On The Real (Demo)

edited: songs in red are Illmatic demo tracks

Shame we never got them in cdq on an illmatic anniversary or something

The other tracks need a cdq release too

 

[hustlemania]

I heard many storys about this situation and the latest one was on flex show with nore and fat joe.

I always wondered how comes nobody had the original illmatic up on youtube anywhere? Or is it floating around and I just never heard it?

im sure theres one somewhere..

i heard a different version of Ready To Die before it dropped, and havent heard it since..

 

[Newark88]

I do remember Illmatic being one of the most heavily bootleg tapes when it came out. The retail didn't sell a whole lot back then but everyone in the streets were bumping it that spring/summer it was out. That should tell you right there what was going on.

 

[LJLYDK!]

im sure theres one somewhere..

i heard a different version of Ready To Die before it dropped, and havent heard it since..

You mean the version with the original Machine Gun Funk by Premo?

Sadat X is on a track too i forget which

 

[Wardo]

I remember when i got Stillmatic. Had beats in the ride. Good times.

 

[wizworld]

Nah. Poor quality cassette rips were floating around, but that was the same album that went to retail.

 

[Figaro]

He lost his rhyme book on the train to the studio or leaving the studio.....so he had to re-do them, which probably turned out for the better because them shyts on Illmatic are damn near flawless, b



The original Illmatic got leaked on the streets early, that's 1 of the reasons sales didn't meet expectations

 

[cheek100]

We had a copy on freaknik 94 and it was the only tape we played all weekend in a rental

 

[LJLYDK!]

We need that Lost tapes 2 with

Understanding
Life Is Like A Dice Game
Everything Is Real
On The Real
Just Another Day In Projects
I'm A Villan
Nas Will Prevail
Represent OG


Nas ain't ever gonna bless up with another Lost tapes though