Nas celebrated the 20th anniversary of his classic 1994 debut Illmatic on multiple fronts. There was an expanded reissue of the album, Illmatic XX, the release of which was coordinated with the Tribeca Film Festival showing of the documentary Time Is Illmatic . A month prior to those events, Nas performed the album at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. PBS broadcast the concert in February 2018, and vinyl and digital editions arrived in time for that year's Record Store Day. Supported with a backing band ...
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Nas celebrated the 20th anniversary of his classic 1994 debut Illmatic on multiple fronts. There was an expanded reissue of the album, Illmatic XX, the release of which was coordinated with the Tribeca Film Festival showing of the documentary Time Is Illmatic . A month prior to those events, Nas performed the album at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. PBS broadcast the concert in February 2018, and vinyl and digital editions arrived in time for that year's Record Store Day. Supported with a backing band (including DJ Lantern on turntables) and the National Symphony Orchestra, the Queensbridge rapper is in triumphant form from verse to verse, simultaneously awed by where hip-hop has taken him. The album's cinematic quality is magnified, not overblown, by the NSO, conducted by Steven Reineke., Rovi
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