This Day In Music History: April 19th, 1994 – Nas puts hip-hop on notice with debut album, ‘Illmatic’
Widely considered one of the best debut albums in history, and especially rap + hip-hop, Nas’s Illmatic is rap’s tour-de-force. One of the most hyped albums in hip-hop history at the time (and again, overall), it’s an album so monumental in music history that pretty much any hip-hop album that came after is compared to…
