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Nas was playing a role on Illmatic, even if it was himself. By constructing this persona, Nas not only laid out his own career for the next decade plus, but the careers of dozens of other rappers who were able to use their considerable skills to develop similar personas. His brazen ambition has become a road map for every rapper who hopes to reach an artistic peak. It seems right that Nas would make Illmatic at the age when maturity begins to turn boys into men. This was, in many regards, the first album of the rest of hip hop's life.
A decade and a half ago, Illmatic launched one of the most storied careers in hip hop, and cemented New York's place as the genre's epicenter. With this in-depth look at the record, Matthew Gasteier explores the competing themes that run through Nas's masterpiece and finds a compelling journey into adulthood. Combining a history of Nas's early years with interviews from many of the most important people associated with the
- Sales Rank: #482426 in Books
- Published on: 2009-04-30
- Released on: 2009-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.54" h x .39" w x 4.82" l, .20 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
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"The album in question, Illmatic, is an inarguable choice...from the cover art (the portrait of the artist as a very youngman), to the future-forward evolution of the music form it led, to thetimeless high quality multi-syllabic rhyming, weaving complicatedrhythms around those still-borrowed-from beats — author MatthewGasteier hit it square."
-KEXP, Seattle
"The on-the-ground reportage is way more compelling than the awkward. abstract discussion of Nas' lyrics." The Wire (Derek Walmsley)
"The on-the-ground reportage is way more compelling than the awkward. abstract discussion of Nas' lyrics." The Wire (Sanford Lakoff)
About the Author
Matthew Gasteier has written for various publications, including the Boston Phoenix and Prefix Magazine. He lives in Boston.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
A Great Look at Illmatic's Origins
By A. Covert
Though this book looks at each track of Illmatic on a musical level, this book shines when it comes to retelling the circumstances under which the album was created. Back stories--how Nas got on the infamous "Live at the BBQ", or deconstructions of how numerous contradictions, such as life and death, affected Nas growing up and how they manifest themselves in Illmatic--are at the heart of this book, providing a fresh angle to this oft-discussed album.
Gasteier is pretty well versed in Nas' body of work, as well the hip-hop of that era, able to identify not just Nas' influences, but also how this album would go on to affect the rest of his output.
While academic in tone, the book avoids getting too heavy handed with sociological jargon, but avoids overly sensationalizing/romanticizing Nas' mythology in the Queensbridge projects. Overall, it's a really interesting read, and a good hip hop contribution to the 33 1/3 series that should spark interest all music fans and not just hip hop heads.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Author Gasteier gets 5 mics for poetic analysis, -1 for hip-hop knowledge, but don't let that stop you from reading this book!
By Jason Seagraves
Matthew Gasteier's Illmatic is a great book that gets off to a very shaky start. After a tiresomely self-referential introduction, in which Gasteier drones on and on about how the book "isn't about him," apologizes for his whiteness (the first sentence: "I am white"), and openly declares "I am not hip-hop," Gasteier proceeds to get a few basic but crucial facts wrong, severely compromising his credibility.
Published in 2009, Gasteier admits to have only been seriously listening to hip-hop for a decade. Perhaps a few years intervened between the book's writing and its publishing, but at best, it would seem that Gasteier was not around to appreciate Illmatic within the context of the time it was released, and that seriously calls into question whether or not he should be the one writing this book. Gasteier further exposes himself as a johnny-come-lately to hip-hop in Chapter 1 by making the absurd statement that "the traditional style of gritty drums and hard hitting samples" was already "on its way out" in 1984 when Run DMC burst on the scene. Really? It hadn't even arrived yet! Run DMC was the first new-school group. Prior to them, old-school artists rapped over disco tracks--the sampler hadn't even been invented! In fact, Run DMC rapped over drum machines and live instrumentation on their debut and second album; "gritty drums and hard-hitting samples" wouldn't debut until the introduction of the SP-12 sampling drum machine (it came out in 1985 but its sound didn't begin to dominate hip-hop for another couple of years, by which time its successor the SP-1200 and competitor the Akai MPC-60 had established the sound Gasteier mistakenly believes was "on its way out").
This is on Page 11, and already Gasteier has blown his cover. On the same page, he clearly mistakes The Infamous as Mobb Deep's debut, too. On Page 23, Gasteier refers to Marly Marl's production on "The Bridge" as "helplessly old school," further cementing the fact that he doesn't know what "old school" means. In Chapter 4, Gasteier repeatedly refers to iconic hip-hop journalist Selwyn Seyfu Hinds as "her" and a "she," when Mr. Hinds is in fact a man, baby. He was editor in chief at The Source, back when The Source was THE source, and her, uh, I mean his picture frequently graced the pages the magazine. This once again draws attention to the fact that Gasteier was listening to rock 'n roll and playing video games when Illmatic actually dropped.
Okay, okay. So I've beaten Gasteier to death here. Well, he more than redeems himself throughout the rest of the book. Once it is no longer about Gasteier's whiteness or Illmatic's context within hip-hop history (the latter of which is a subject certainly worthy of consideration by someone better qualified to examine it), the book is excellent. Chapters 1-7 examine a dualistic nature of the great album: Endings/Beginnings, Youth/Experience, Death/Survival, Individual/Community, Fantasy/Reality, Faith/Despair, and Tradition/Revolution. Gasteier might not understand Illmatic's context within hip-hop history, which makes the Endings/Beginnings chapter largely frustrating, but he does know Illmatic's lyrics like the back of his white, white hand, and he has gleaned insights and double (and triple) meanings to the bars that have eluded me for sixteen years. As a critic of Illmatic's poetry, Gasteier is more than qualified. I've always felt the raw beauty of Nas's lyrics on his debut, but I could never put the why into words. Gasteier truly exceeds even the greatest of expectations at this task.
The final proper chapter, Breaks/Flows, is a departure from the dualistic analysis up to that point, and instead, looks at the making of each of Illmatic's tracks individually. DJ Premier, Pete Rock, executive producer MC Serch, L.E.S., and AZ all seem to have been interviewed specifically for this projects--Large Professor refused. This chapter alone, although not as "high-minded" as the several preceding it, is more than worth the book's cover price, even if it is annoying that Gasteier seems to refer to the music of Illmatic as the "breaks." By this point, Gasteier has more than earned a pass. What he lacks in hip-hopness he more than makes up for in poetic analysis.
I really belabored the book's shortcomings at the beginning of this review because if you're a hip-hop snob like me, you're likely to want to throw the book in the trash before Gasteier really gets his shine on. If you do, it will be at your loss. Listening to Illmatic has brought me immeasurable enjoyment over the past sixteen years, but after reading this book, I have no doubt that the album--which I just purchased my fifth copy of, by the way--will bring me a whole new level of listening pleasure. Thank you, Matthew Gasteier.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
The History of a Classic
By M. Krolak
It's no secret that Illmatic is one of the most revered hip-hop records of all time, but what makes this book so fascinating is the way it explains its genesis to put the record into context -- both of its own time, and today. Gasteier details how this album affected hip-hop, and how hip-hop's evolving landscape (especially as it pertains to race in America) affected the album.
The backstories surrounding the creation of the tracks, as well as Nas' career are a great peek at stuff most listeners never get to see...such as songs forming like Voltron from demos, tracks being re-laid and remixed at the last minute. A must read for fans of the record and/or hip-hop.
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