Before Illmatic (1991) is an unreleased single by Nas from the Before Illmatic era. unreleased.world has 1 track from it, 5 min of music in all.
The track runs 4:57.
It sits in the Before Illmatic era alongside “Before Illmatic (Undated)”. Every track streams free in the player; open the single to hear it start to finish.
The community tracker documents all of this track, with producer credits for every track; it is in the tracklist below.
Tracklist
- 1⭐ Nas Will Prevail [V1]Low Quality · OG · prod. Large Professor4:57
Play Before Illmatic (1991) in the player — every track, free, in order.
The Before Illmatic era
Before Illmatic is the Nas era Before Illmatic (1991) belongs to. unreleased.world has 2 projects from it; the others are below.
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
