Before Illmatic is an unreleased EP by Nas from the Before Illmatic era. unreleased.world has 4 tracks from it, 19 min of music in all.
“Lunchroom Battle” is the longest at 6:34.
Every track streams free in the player; open the EP to hear it start to finish.
The community tracker documents all of these 4 tracks, with producer credits for 1; it is in the tracklist below.
Tracklist
- 1⭐ Nas Will Prevail [V1]Low Quality · OG · prod. Large Professor4:57
- 1Lunchroom BattleAbysmal · Throwaway6:34
- 2✨ Just Another Day In The ProjectsLow Quality · Throwaway3:12
- 3Number One With A BulletLow Quality · Throwaway4:15
Play Before Illmatic in the player — every track, free, in order.
The Before Illmatic era
Before Illmatic is the Nas era Before Illmatic belongs to. It is the only project from this era on unreleased.world so far.
As a teenager, Nas wanted to pursue a career as a rapper and enlisted his best friend and neighbor, Willy "Ill Will" Graham, as his DJ. Nas initially went by the nickname "Kid Wave" before adopting the alias "Nasty Nas". At the age of fifteen, he met producer Large Professor from Flushing, Queens, who introduced him to his group Main Source.
- 09/14/1973Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones is born in New York City
- 05/??/1991Nas records his "Live At The Barbeque" verse
