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
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 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.
*"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👍🎤🎧💿🔥
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..
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
@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.
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.
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 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
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
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!
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
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.
"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.
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 😒
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.
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
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.
I went to school with Large Professor. He was in my elementary school PS 120. We used to call him Paulie in Flushing, Qns, since that's what everyone called him. I later found out that's his middle name. In the 80s he always had headphones on, studious and talented. God bless.
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”...
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!!!!!
Finally. An interview with someone who actually contributed to the culture.
i94yeh2p underrated comment
IKR
Wat u mean.many pioneers been on vlad
Tk invented the culture
I guess I’ve been watching interviews with no names.
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!
"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
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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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.
Breaking Atoms is one of the best hip hop albums of all time.
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.
Large Professor really do look like a professor
Lol facts
Facts
From day 1
Lol
NO LIE! 😄
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.
"All I know is, 15 albums later Nas is chillin'" lol
Large Professor is a monster as a producer.
*"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
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
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. 💪🏾💯
"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
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!!
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
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
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.
ILLMATIC is a classic! Thank you Nas & Large Professor!
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
This interview was dope af 💯
At 5:10 Large Professor was totally worn out by Vlad and resolved in his mind, "I'm never doing this again." 🤣
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!!
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.
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 never gets old 20 plus yrs later still🔥🔥🔥
30 years
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.
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
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
@4:18 the look on his face when they're talking about NYSOFM is amazing. Pure joy!
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!!!!
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?
Memory lane was my joint. Love that beat
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
You could see the passion the extra P got when it comes to the culture. He spews hip hop from within much respect P!!!
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
"Halftime"my favorite Nas song
Excellent interview.
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
Large is a Living Legend
Great to hear how it all happened , what a album ,Large Professor doesn’t get recognition enough for his body of work either
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?
Large Professer has HipHop running thru his veins. Thank God 4da Qtips, Preemos, Xtra Ps & Fab Five Freddys of the world!
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.
NY state of mind will be one of the best hip hop songs ever! Truly a timeless masterpiece off top
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
You see the love he got for hiphop on his face. Salute.
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
Humble as hell
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
Large Pro legendary 👑
What a legend man...
Dope interview
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
Large Professor super cool down to earth so nyc
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.
At 4:19 Large is just shaking his head like, "Yeah thats the sauce."
"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.
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...”
I need that Large Pro hat!!
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.
"911 WHATS YOUR EMERGENCY?"
NYC: "WE'RE RUNNING DANGEROUSLY LOW ON NYC. SEND HELP ASAP!"
911: "SIT TIGHT. THE PROFESSOR IS ON THE WAY"
Bouta hit the gym with Illmatic blastin (“The world is yours” is my fave)
can't believe Halftime and It aint hard to tell were recorded in 1992, the production is ahead of its time.
i love seeing music nerds w2 musicologists be making me smile
Now that was official shout out to large pro still lookin the same since 93 💯 respect ✊
"I was the 1st person to listen to illmatic"-TK Kirkland
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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
Incoming: Nas is the worst beat picker
Nas firat album was his best-Vlad
I'm waiting for that question, probably on the next part
Best nas story you have right here
HELL YES VLAD!! NY STATE OF MIND FOREVER!!! To this day it still makes me feel how I felt back in 94!!!!
It ain't hard to tell never get old.
Still blastin' that Half Time Beat on full volume til this day
Halftime and It ain't hard to tell. My best Nas records.
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.
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.
Large pro
the legend himself!
More of these Golden Era interview's.........
You can tell LP has an ear for music because he explained ‘life’s a Bitch’ perfectly
It Ain’t Hard to Tell is my favorite joint!
dude is the most humble
Yall be hating on Vlad but he be getting legends
Peace and Love from Rhode Island
"I changed my motto, instead of saying 'fuck tomorrow' /
That buck that bought the bottle could've struck the lotto."
Nas, "Life's a Bitch"
Whew!!! Classic still get chills....Hahah.
I went to school with Large Professor. He was in my elementary school PS 120. We used to call him Paulie in Flushing, Qns, since that's what everyone called him. I later found out that's his middle name. In the 80s he always had headphones on, studious and talented. God bless.
Large Pro. Maximum Respect Fella
If Nas asked for Premier, Pete Rock and Q-Tip, also told Pete Rock to use his voice on the Hook... Nas is the EP of Illmatic!!!
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
With his personality and Nas together I can see how they would clash.
One your better interviews Vlad nice to get a break for you trying to live vicariously through the street dudes you interview.
"World is yours" my favorite Nas track
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”...
Nas worked with some of the greatest producers: Large Pro, Dj Pramier, Pete Rock, Q Tip, Dr Dre, No I.D, Alchemists, Kanye West and Trackmasters.
NY State of Mind. Best opening verse on any rap album. Period.
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!!!!!