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NAS分解了Hip-Hop Classic'它并不难以告诉'哈佛大学教授


NAS分解了Hip-Hop Classic'它并不难以告诉'哈佛大学教授

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1994年4月,皇后艺术家NAS发布了所有时间最具标志性的嘻哈专辑之一。

‘Illmatic’ contained 10 tracks, including ‘One Love,’ ‘Halftime,’ ‘Memory Lane,’ and ‘NY State of Mind.’ With legendary producers like Large Professor, Pete Rock, Q-Tip (from A Tribe Called Quest), and of course DJ Premier, the album instantly captured what had emerged as a then-modern east coast hip-hop sound.

NAS的创建真实渐晕的人才很容易可视化,通过钩子和易于记忆的钩词,给出了专辑即时经典状态。

Working with producers like Large Professor, who had helped establish the east coast scene and sound, there was a tension between Illmatic’s aesthetic and the booming west coast p-funk infused, ‘gangster rap’ which was perfected in Dre’s ‘The Chronic’ released in 1992.

The video above explored ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell,’ a track full of ranging similes and metaphors delivered with a pace that required 50+ plays before you could begin to appreciate it all, and even then only ‘getting it’ insofar as you realized you’d never entirely grasp the place the rhymes were written from.

有一个(499美元)哈佛大学课程美国诗歌,这听起来与我在10年前在肯塔基州的农村肯塔基州教学的课程,但常春藤联盟学术界这些天不要便宜

“我的诗歌很深,我永远不会失败......”

NAS分解了Hip-Hop Classic'它并不难以告诉'哈佛大学教授