Nas- Illmatic

Despite the fact everyone's heard this album, that doesn't make it any worse for audio. Illmatic defines the hip hop bucket list. Bible, holy grail, whatever you want to call it, go ahead.

Choice Cuts:
The whole fuggin' thing. Stream here.

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Goodies:
The homie Ivan went all out on Illmatic b-sides, remixes and the like. Check it here.
The legendary DL of FDB threw together this crazy deconstruction of Illmatic samples and whatnot. Peep it here.
An extremely unheralded write-up from what an incredibly knowledgeable individual. Here.
And the god Guy Fawkes did this intrinsic review a while back. Shit's major here.
FWMJ's breakdown on the making of Illmatic, here.