Large Professor on Doing 3 Songs on Illmatic, Linking Nas w/ DJ Premier, Q-Tip, Pete Rock (Part 4)
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In this VladTV exclusive, Large Professor spoke about doing three joints for Nas on ‘Illmatic,’ also detailed how he connected the Queensbridge rapper with DJ Premier of Gang Starr. Along with that, Large Pro talked about ‘Illmatic’ getting bootlegged when it dropped. Watch above.
Finally. An interview with someone who actually contributed to the culture.
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Wat u mean.many pioneers been on vlad
Tk invented the culture
I guess I’ve been watching interviews with no names.
"My 1st album had no famous guest appearances, the outcome, I'm crowned the best lyricists"-Nas
24bigcoop "many years on this professional level why would you question who's better?"
@@ACE330 classic
24bigcoop facts
B.I.G. had Meth and it went double platinum and he got best Lyricist in The Source.A.Z killed Nas on life's a bitch.
24bigcoop top 5 classic album of all time
Large Professor is SO NY man. Dude is the coolest.
You ain’t never lie ,, from the accent to the slang,, all New York!!!
My only thought this whole video series
Word is bond!
I was in line at Tower Records, Manhataan, 1994, the day Illmatic dropped. The line was outside the door down to the corner. No lie. Illmatic was a classic before it dropped. Highly anticipated.
The God Large Pro is a Queens LEGEND!!.. Very humble dude 💯 #qgtm
“I don’t know, Man. I know 15 hours later Nas is chillin’”.
Perfect answer...without getting into unnecessary detail & rumor.
Breaking Atoms is one of the best hip hop albums of all time.
*"It Ain't Hard To Tell"* might be my favorite Nas song ever. It never gets old to me. I loved the song so much that I remade it into a tribute to Michael Jackson after he died. Big ups to Large Pro for producing a timeless classic👍🎤🎧💿🔥
You got the link to the remake you did?
@@KBplay It's the second most current song on my TH-cam channel
@Melker Linder Gustafsson That song is *extra classic* too. When I first heard it as a teenager in the 90s it blew my mind
slamming beats like iron sheik 🔥
Nas said he is the biggest Michael Jackson fan
illmatic flowed from beginning to end non-stop where you never had to skip anything.. each track was placed perfectly behind each other.. One Love and Life's a Bitch blew my mind..
D Goins : STRAIGHT FACTS. Never a skip or Fast Forward. You listened to it straight through. 💪🏾💯
I wonder if Vladimir gonna keep that same energy about nas beat selection
Update. He did keep the same energy.
Exactly lol I can't wait for that. Vlad stay hating on nas
Nope he won't
He kept that energy with Salaam Remi, so we'll see.
Exactly!!
Preach
“It Ain’t Hard To Tell” is arguably my favorite song on that Illmatic album!
Memory Lane is my favorite.
Large Professor is a monster as a producer.
nas "i gave you power" best lyrics best song ever from nas best put together everything! listen good
I completely agree...this song is straight FIRE, no one ever told a story like this before or since in my opinion. #1 Nas song ever, and Top 10 hip hop song of all time
Carlos Shelby Jr. 👊🏻
It was so influential that Tupac came out with "me and my girlfriend" to rival Nas's song about a gun. Pac knew that shit was tight because he came with that later after it dropped😂😂
i agree
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Large Professor got that ill voice
Facts. Word to motha dun-dun.
Up there with Rakim in my opinion
lee Boy nice on the mic. Main Source... What??!!
lee yea his voice dope
his voice is very similar with Big Daddy Kane
At 5:10 Large Professor was totally worn out by Vlad and resolved in his mind, "I'm never doing this again." 🤣
Large Professor really do look like a professor
Lol facts
Facts
From day 1
Lol
NO LIE! 😄
Salute to Large Pro. He is the epitome of what you call a team player....
@VladTV...the best interview in a long time..Large Professor!!..a legend!!..RESPECT!!!..BLESSINGS!!...QUEENS STAND UP!!
I went to record store EVERY DAY the month it was supposed to come out looking top get a copy. Wasn't disappointed... top 10 greatest album, easy! "NY State of Mind" & "Halftime", my favorite cuts.
I wasn't into production at the time, but I always had a sharp, keen ear for Hip Hop Music. I remember park talks with cats I was hangin' out with discussin' the anticipation of this album.
@@tochiRTA We were all waiting for the album, because we was feelin' Nas and all the Producers.
It ain't hard to tell never gets old 20 plus yrs later still🔥🔥🔥
30 years
Memory lane was my joint. Love that beat
The Album was named after One of Nas's boys from Queensbridge named Illmatic Ice who was On trial for Murder at the time in the early 90's.
Yeah I thought Large Pro would've mentioned that. Nas said that in his documentary.
@@itdoesntmatterwhoweare but where did illmatic ice get the term "illmatic" from
@@dizmop Ill means Sick which is slang for cool, matic is like the word dramatic or systematic
@@mr.cifuentes1779 so It's possible that the Album was also named after that word, like Large P says
@@dizmop like Professor said its Queensbridge slang
"Nas and Large Professor slept on my couches while they recorded illmatic." TK Kirkland
🤣🤣🤣🤣
"And I threw a blanket over them cuz it was cold"
85jmurk Lmmfao
Damn I’m late to this meme. How did this start?
@@Butterd4t4ss its cuz tk always has something to say about everyone if u mention a name
This shit right here is straight historical. Thanks Vlad for this. Kids I can't stress to u enough the impact of this album on heads when it dropped!
it ain't hard to tell is easily the best track on the album... SHOUTOUT LARGE PROFESSOR!!!!
Its is
Life’s a Bitch for me but then Ain’t Hard to Tell and NYSOM
Large is a Living Legend
Damn, this just came out!? I've been telling everybody at my school that my favorite hip hop comes from Queens New York: Large Professor, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, Mob Deep, etc. This is the most timely interview man. Thank you Vlad for filming this
ILLMATIC is a classic! Thank you Nas & Large Professor!
"All I know is, 15 albums later Nas is chillin'" lol
Iiimatic the great greatest hip hop álbum of all time hands down..
MILAN FERNANDEZ I agree. I still listen to it in 2019
@Melker Linder Gustafsson yeah, I think It Was Written was Nas most complete album. Illmatic is definitely his most influential. My personal favorite is Stillmatic. His most slept on is Street's Disciple...that album has aged like top-notch fine wine.
Melker Linder Gustafsson not even close! Illmatic far superior!
The Lost Tapes /Bootleg version of I Am is amazing too...Nas catalog stands up with any mc
Nope. That accolade belongs to OB4CL. And no It Was Written isn't better than Illmatic but Nas' rhymes were better on It Was Written. Way more well rounded rhymes that have more complexity to them.
The closest vlad will ever get to Nas
You probably right about that. Lol
what about Nas old bitch?
@@rossboss5072 Exactly lol Nas Was In That And Co Produced A Daughter.... Destiny....
jkm 🤣🤣🤣yup
Vlad will never get Nas Because he can't even get Jungle and Jungle loves telling mad stories
Organized Konfusion
“Stress”
Extra P remix
Featuring Large Professor
👍🏾
Bodied the original version
#Fire
"Yo, that stress shit is ill, if you let it, it will
Have on your ass on the staircase, smoking a krill"
Thats my joint! Fire!
“cause everybody know my solution to being stressed is looking at the front door.” #MicDrop
One Time 4 Your Mind is an A MAZING track.
The intro reminds me of weed smoke going in the air. A smokey vibe. Like Tibetan Gongs,sounds mystical. Like Q tip said Nas is a Ghetto Monk
Only song i skip on illmatic........
Wack simple beat
One Time 4 Your Mind is wack af compared to the other songs on the album. I always skip that song. Even every song on Nas' demo was better
@@tochiRTA Yeah, high on Nas' best songs. Notice when Elzhi remade Illmatic with his classic mixtape Elmatic, he redid every single song *except* "One Time 4 Your Mind". My cousins and friends who like Illmatic don't care for the song either. Guess it's an aquired taste
I usually have favourite songs on albums, but illmatic......i listen to all the songs back to back!
Right got to it put you in the zone I had to hid that album because it my favorite . Since I was a kid remember the first time hear the world is yours in 1994-95 as a kid I was moving my head then my last year of high school in 2004-05 I went and got the album for 10th anniversary.
To be honest AZ spazzed out on life's a bitch but Nas definitely came with it as well. It was just great chemistry in the making all around.
The World Is Yours (Tip Mix)!
What you know about that?!... lol... Tip bodied that joint!
If you gew up in nyc im the 90s thay beat brings you home 1
Bruh.......I cant listen to the Pete Joint no more after the Tip Mix lmao
And Still big facts!
TERRANCE SLAUGHTER: YO! THAT REMIX IS EVERYTHING!!!!
Dude that album is one of the best albums ever..East west it don't matter. some real hip hop shit... I miss it. I'm about to listen to it now!!
Large Professor is the most important person in Nas career. His best collaborator too imo. I just wish they worked together more. Halftime, It Ain’t Hard To Tell, One Plus One etc. Illmatic is my favorite album. If I’m stuck on a island and had to choose one album Illmatic it is.
Mine would be MBDTF. The layers and depth in that production and the array of dope ass features is insane. Masterpiece. If I was stuck on an island 20 years ago possibly illmatic. But not in 2019
Jase Allenson Well that would be your opinion. Different strokes for different folks.
One plus One is ILL
NY state of mind will be one of the best hip hop songs ever! Truly a timeless masterpiece off top
@4:18 the look on his face when they're talking about NYSOFM is amazing. Pure joy!
Large Professer has HipHop running thru his veins. Thank God 4da Qtips, Preemos, Xtra Ps & Fab Five Freddys of the world!
Yo Vlad, it's about time you give us AZ interview. One of the must underrated mc's in history.
Thanks for Large Pro interview, amazing.
we've tried
@@vladtv what about joe fatal?
This interview was dope af 💯
Large Professor super cool down to earth so nyc
C'mon Vlad Extra P is a legendary producer, dont bring him here to talk solely about Nas.
🤨....I was peeping that too.
Ikr
Shit is crazy Dunn
Illmatic is one of the greatest albums of all time and I loved it even more when he performed it with he National Symphony Orchestra.
Large Pro legendary 👑
Bouta hit the gym with Illmatic blastin (“The world is yours” is my fave)
What a legend man...
Yes indeed...NAS+DJ PREMIER+Q TIP+PETE ROCK+ LARGE PROFESSOR= A TRUE HIP HOP CLASSIC!!!
makes you wonder why he never worked with the same line up of producers for another album
At 4:19 Large is just shaking his head like, "Yeah thats the sauce."
I’m from the BRONX and have to admit QUEENS produced some of the best MC’s and rappers ever. Nuff respect to LARGE PRO, he’s heavily underrated. I wish Vlad would stop interviewing people and questioning about other artists. I would rather hear LARGE PRO’s come up. We know NAS’s story 😒
it's because vlad only knows about mainstream rappers and doesn't do research
Chuckie Gravesfield he should know more since he was allegedly a DJ before. I didn’t like the fact SAUCE MONEY’s whole interview was about JAY-Z either.
Large Professor is probably the most approachable vet I've ever met . If you're a true Hip Hop lover he'll have no problem chopping it up with you
It ain’t hard to tell is one of the greatest hip hop song of all time, it’s hard to believe how young he was when he made this song compared to what these rappers think is lyricism today
You could see the passion the extra P got when it comes to the culture. He spews hip hop from within much respect P!!!
"911 WHATS YOUR EMERGENCY?"
NYC: "WE'RE RUNNING DANGEROUSLY LOW ON NYC. SEND HELP ASAP!"
911: "SIT TIGHT. THE PROFESSOR IS ON THE WAY"
"Halftime"my favorite Nas song
i love seeing music nerds w2 musicologists be making me smile
I almost didn't find the DJ Premier interview.
Vlad just drop the whole interview. We're fiending for it bruh
@ourworlds atwar what do you think?
@@vladtv soundcloud.com/drazmusic/the-future-vox
@@vladtv Check the joint I sent. L Jamar would dig it.. drazmusic@gmail.com
Ok?
This album should be in the library of congress not the blueprint. Hiphops perfect album.....
Beginning to end.....PERIOD!!!
Simus Says “Mr. Scarface is back” is the real ILLMATIC . Scarface first solo project from beginning to end was all bangers not one out of pocket song just straight fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@rolltide2937 album was amazing (one of the best album covers) but its in no way illmatic. My favorite face albums though.
Simus Says Face out did him self on that album it came out before ILLMATIC so Nas had to hear how a perfect album could be made he just duplicated what Face had already did!!!!! The only difference to me is Nas gave a NYC point of view and Scarface showed the Houston side of the game!!!!!! The only reason I give him credit is how he uses abstract symbolism were Face just gets straight to the point on some real G shit Scarface didn’t start writing with deep abstract metaphors until he dropped Face To Face the World is yours!!!!!! Which was another fucking monster album!!!!!! Nas is truly one if not the greatest MC!!!!!!! But Mr. Scarface is back is why more hardcore than ILLMATIC!!!!!!!
Couldnt agree more ,politics
I remember Tragedy used da term "ILLMATIC" on da Marley Marl Vol. 1 joint
Tragedy is the one who coined the term "illmatic."
@@ISmokeBlackieChan : AGREED 👍🏽
You see the love he got for hiphop on his face. Salute.
Now that was official shout out to large pro still lookin the same since 93 💯 respect ✊
How dope is it to still have Nas? with us so many Legends that have passed we should be so grateful that we have Nas alive and well even if he is choosing to procrastinate to drop that album
"It Ain't Hard To Tell" 3rd Verse Hip Hop Quotable In "The Source" Great Times In Rap.... Large Professor Also Slayed The First Mix Of That Beat....Much Props To LP.
Humble as hell
Excellent interview.
Great to hear how it all happened , what a album ,Large Professor doesn’t get recognition enough for his body of work either
Anyone else notice when Vlad interviews east coast emcees, producers etc he talks about music...
When Vlad interviews west coast emcees, producers etc he eventually starts asking gang and prison politics
can't believe Halftime and It aint hard to tell were recorded in 1992, the production is ahead of its time.
HELL YES VLAD!! NY STATE OF MIND FOREVER!!! To this day it still makes me feel how I felt back in 94!!!!
Halftime and It ain't hard to tell. My best Nas records.
I need that Large Pro hat!!
ILLMATIC, you had to play that shit while you sit on the benches outside of the project drinkin' Mo and puffin' fat blunts, rocking timbos and avirex jacket...NY STEEZ
Right I'm from New York but I'm not from Queens but he made me feel like I was from Queens when I'm listening to illmatic bra.
You can tell LP has an ear for music because he explained ‘life’s a Bitch’ perfectly
"I was the 1st person to listen to illmatic"-TK Kirkland
🤣🤣🤣🤣
More of these Golden Era interview's.........
Still blastin' that Half Time Beat on full volume til this day
I gotta agree with Vlad on "New York state of mind". That song's a 10/10, in my opinion.
So is Memory Lane ,The world is yours.
The first time I heard that song it froze me in my tracks. I teleported to Queens. It was like being abducted.
represent is the best track on illmatic
Tone Blue that intro to me was the dopest part of ILLMATIC I remember watching Wildstyles as a kid that made the album more symbolic to me it’s about the love of hip hop then Nas begins to destroy every track and by the end you have to listen to it again because you just don’t want it to end!!!!!!! Just pure uncut dope hip hop!!!!!
Nas got that when he said “so I switched my motto,
Instead of saying “fuck tomorrow”
That dollar that bought the bottle
Could’ve struck the lotto...”
Ny state of mind pt 2 is just immaculate!!! Especially if u a New York dude... one of the best hip hop songs EVER made.... “triple cross Niggaz,, just newyork Niggaz, lift u off your feet when they was just talking wit you”...
It Ain’t Hard to Tell is my favorite joint!
Nas should do a collaboration album with J Cole like when i heard the remix of Let Nas Down feat. Nas i was like 😳 WOW!
I doubt it'll happen it seems like with all the albums,freestyles & mixtapes he's done it's just time to officially retire. That last album produced by Kanye had like 3 out of 7 good songs & sounded a bit without passion 😔
First time hearing about LP was in the White Man Can't Jump then Main Source....then was delighted he was reppin' NYC and Illmatic was it for me. One of the best Hip Hop Producers
If u don’t mind where at in the movie is name brought up??
@@218Murai
"Fakin the funk" by Main Source was on the White man cant jump soundtrack..It plays in the film too..
I wanna say it plays when Sidney is driving around to meet up with a client to discuss a job and Billy runs into Sidney telling him Gloria left ..
that whole" cross to bear" speech.
It Ain’t Hard To Tell....over this has over taken The World is Yours as my fav beat on Illmatic. Love Preem and Tips work too of course!
Whew!!! Classic still get chills....Hahah.
NY State of Mind is my favorite Nas song as well!! If you want to experience NY in the 90s, listen to NY State of Mind. You can just listen to the beat and immediately think...oh shit...that's NEW YORK!!!
dude is the most humble
It ain't hard to tell never get old.
Actually is was TK that created the term illmatic.
Heard it was chongo who created the term the illmatcs... It was more like a crew... Like Illmatic ice. I believe ill will was one of them.
Lol
@@illdee04 I thought it was tragedy that coined the term
@@stanspliff92 : yeah,Trag stated it back on da Marley Marl Vol. 1 joint....I tried 2 tell my peeps
DJ Premier is from Houston. Houston has produced really great artists.
The term 'EXECUTIVE PRODUCER' means that you are the one (or ones) putting up the money to fund and direct the project. Unless it was clear that LP put his money up along with his beats, then he was not a executive producer. Cmon Vlad you should know this
Glad does know. But he is asking questions for the viewing public. That’s what an interview is..... Asking questions that EVERYONE probably doesn’t know or would like to know.
@@ultimatetruthteller4169 nope. That was not asked in the fashion for the audience. He clearly did not know what the executive producer role was...you can simply tell by how he worded it.
Large Professor indirectly shaped the Illmatic project by bringing many of the producers in and doing more tacks than anyone. So the concept that he was a sort of "executive producer" is not far fetched; Xtra P by all definitions is the co-executive producer of Illmatic.
@@reimourrpower9357 let me break it down again...
Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights or royalties)
That don't sound like Xtra P at all...
@@dn30001 Executive prodcer is also invovleved in the A&R (talent) of a project, direction , theme & sound of a project. Xrta P was involved with all of that and doing 30% of the music plus additional uncredited production. Break that down.
See it as you wish.
One your better interviews Vlad nice to get a break for you trying to live vicariously through the street dudes you interview.
Best nas story you have right here
Large pro
the legend himself!
Da Youngsta’s The Aftermath album had Preemo, Pete Rock, Marley Marl, The Beatnuts, and Kay Gee on it
TwiliteSpeedball79 Preemo wasn't on that.
Chris Mclaren yes he was. Track 13 called wake em up
So stay civilized time flies though incarcerated your mind dies I hate it when your mom cries. Damn thats some good stuff.
It makes me wanna murder for realla i even got a mask and gloves to bust slugs
One love ✌
Dope interview