How ILLMATIC Got its Cover Art. Posted: March 26, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. Illmatic is the debut studio album by American rapper Nas. It was released on April 19, 1994, by Columbia ...

Nas’ classic debut album Illmatic turn 20 this year on April 19 and Nas is set to release Illmatic XX which will feature a host of remixes of the original’s legendary cuts. Now he's allowing ...

The cover was done by an artist, Jesse Nunez, who has recreated well-known hip-hop album covers by using NBA stars such as Curry, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and more.. Given that Illmatic is ...

I was late to “Illmatic.” When the album was released in April 1994, I was a freshman in high school and my New York hip-hop listening was pretty limited to Pete Rock & CL Smooth and De La Soul.

The 100 Best Album Covers of All Time: Beatles, ... Rappers have made iconic album artwork using baby photos before — think Ready to Die, Illmatic — but Wayne took it a step further, ...

Below, a brief history of the evolution of this trope, from birth to now. Nas: Illmatic (1994) While musicians have, of course, long been putting children on album covers, the tradition in hip-hop ...

The Queens MC's groundbreaking debut turns 30 today. By Angel Diaz Today marks the 30th anniversary of the consensus best album in rap history. Illmatic, meaning “the science of everything ill ...

“When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album,” Nas says in the new trailer for Time Is Illmatic, the documentary tracing the history of Nas‘ 1994 debut album, Illmatic ...

Frustrating as such encounters may be, they're also kind of the point of Time Is Illmatic, which tells a valuable story about hip-hop history to an audience that might not be familiar with it."We ...

A musical work deemed as a "classic" must, at some point, pass a crucial test of timelessness. Hip-hop prodigy Nas's 1994 album Illmatic is one of those rare works that managed to seize an era and ...