Stillmatic

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Stillmatic
Studio album by Nas

Publication
(s)

December 18, 2001

Label (s) Ill Will / Columbia

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Eastcoast hip-hop

Title (number)

14th

production

chronology
Nastradamus
(1999) 		Stillmatic The Best of Nas
(2002)

Stillmatic is the fifth official album by rapper Nas . It was released in December 2001. With Stillmatic as comeback Nas managed to break out of the "pop world" back to the top of the East Coast -Rapszene. Another important point is that Stillmatic in the period of rivalry with Jay-Z was thus simultaneously a Battle album is the title King of New York (dominant rapper of New York ). The song Ether , in which Jay-Z is severely attacked, is also on the album. Stillmatic has been awarded five mics by The Source . Nas is one of the few rappers who have been crowned twice for their works with five mics ( Illmatic and Stillmatic ).

The song Got Ur Self A ... , which contains the melody of the well-known US television series The Sopranos , was selected as the first single . The next important single from the album was One Mic , which Nas interprets in an unusually emotional way. Stillmatic made it to number five in the top 200 album charts in the USA .

The second single One Mic contains samples of Phil Collins piece In the Air Tonight . The One Mic video mirrors scenes from In The Air Tonight's 1981 video . For example, Na's face is shown on a wall made up of many small LED lights. At the beginning of the video, Nas is sitting on a chair in an empty room and desperately puts his hands on his head - just like Phil Collins did back then. On My Country and What Goes Around Nas expresses his anti-American stance: " The indians saved the pilgrim and in return the pilgrim killed em, They call it it thanksgiving, I call your holiday hellday [...] "

Track list

  1. Stillmatic (Intro) (produced by Hangmen 3)
  2. Ether (produced by Ron Browz)
  3. Got Ur Self A ... (produced by Megahertz Music Group)
  4. Smokin (produced by Nas)
  5. You're da Man (produced by Large Professor)
  6. Rewind (produced by Large Professor)
  7. One Mic (produced by Nas & Chucky Thompson)
  8. 2nd Childhood (produced by DJ Premier)
  9. Destroy and Rebuild (produced by Baby Paul & Mike Risko)
  10. The Flyest featuring AZ (produced by LES)
  11. Rule featuring Amerie (produced by Trackmasters Entertainment)
  12. My Country (produced by Lofey)
  13. What Goes Around (produced by Salaam Remi)
  14. Every Ghetto featuring Blitz (bonus title) (produced by LES)

Samples

11 of the 14 tracks on the album use samples :