Before Illmatic is one of the 21 eras on the community Nas tracker, which runs from Before Illmatic to Unknown. The tracker places it before Illmatic. unreleased.world has 4 tracks from it: all 4 full songs — 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
- 2Lunchroom BattleAbysmal · Throwaway6:34
- 3✨ Just Another Day In The ProjectsLow Quality · Throwaway3:12
- 4Number One With A BulletLow Quality · Throwaway4:15
Play Before Illmatic in the player— every track, free, in order.
The Before Illmatic era
What has surfaced of the 10 entries the tracker files under Before Illmatic: 4 in full and 6 unavailable.
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
All 21 Nas eras
In the order the community tracker lists them.
- Before Illmaticthis page
- Illmatic6 tracks
- It Was Written14 tracks
- The Album13 tracks
- I Am...25 tracks
- Nastradamus2 tracks
- Stillmatic18 tracks
- God's Son9 tracks
- Street's Disciple9 tracks
- NASDAQ: Dow Jones10 tracks
- Hip-Hop Is Dead18 tracks
- Nas17 tracks
- Distant Relatives1 track
- Life Is Good17 tracks
- Hiatus Era16 tracks
- NASIR32 tracks
- King's Disease8 tracks
- King's Disease II3 tracks
- King's Disease III / Magic 2 / Magic 33 tracks
- Light-Years11 tracks
- Unknown1 track
Fans of Nas also play
Eras from the trackers Nas' listeners play most on unreleased.world.
