Illmatic came
out a couple of days before my sixteenth birthday. The album took my life by
storm. The streets were buzzing a few years prior to who this dude was kicking
these rhymes, let alone saying the things he was saying, it just seemed so far
ahead of its time. 20 years later the album to me is still untouched by any
other hip hop album that has been released and until years of recent, has yet
to have received the level of respect it so rightfully deserves.
Here is the
trailer, if you haven’t caught the flick on tv or in the movies, you’re sleepin’.
And as the album says, “Never Sleep, ‘cause Sleep is The Cousin of Death.”
With age comes
wisdom, and with wisdom come great memories of things long gone. This album
should take us all back to the days of quality boom bap Hip Hop and rhythmic
patterns unheard before.