I loved Illmatic and was sour on a lot of his work because it wasn’t “Illmatic 2.0”

I think folk just have a hard time understanding how hard it is to put together a classic album.

Illmatic was also 8 songs I think.. and when albums started having 20 tracks it opened up more spots for wack beats.

IMO if Nas would just let Rick Ross pick his beats his catalog would’ve been untouchable.