Founded all the way back in 1887, the company is now the oldest surviving brand name in recorded sound, and only the second to produce recorded records.ĭownload Nas - Illmatic (Full Album) Zip Downloads Artist name - Album name Link to the album on streaming services such as iTunes, spotify, soundcloud, deezer, etc (Linking is optional but it's to ensure that we don't upload the wrong album). Over 125 years later, it is safe to say that Columbia Records, now part of the Sony Music Group, has established itself a timeless icon in music.Ĭolumbia Bruce Springsteen, Daft Punk, Electric Light Orchestra, Pharrell Columbia Records boasts one of the most eclectic and star-studded music catalogues in existence, and is undoubtedly a huge supporter of Hi-Res audio. Founded all the way back in 1887, the company is now the oldest surviving brand name in recorded sound, and only the second to produce recorded records.
You can download Nas’ demo tape for yourself here.Columbia Bruce Springsteen, Daft Punk, Electric Light Orchestra, Pharrell Columbia Records boasts one of the most eclectic and star-studded music catalogues in existence, and is undoubtedly a huge supporter of Hi-Res audio. But in-light of a beat competition at the Savannah Urban Arts Festival, and a brief but extensive conversation about the current state of hip-hop with a couple classmates this morning, I felt I should share one of my favorite bodies of hip-hop music one that was shared with me. Sometimes I forget my love for hip-hop music. “Rumors about the way we made pay is well-heard.” “You might as well be a singer but ain’t harmin-Nas” – which he says in such a way that you understand his play on the word “harmonize” in association with singers. “When I walk niggas is rollin’ out the red carpet.” “A Black man caught by the Klan couldn’t hang with this.” Nas not only shared the views he developed from living in the projects during his adolescence and pre-adulthood but also displayed his ability to say things in ways that still give me the chills. Written in school textbooks, Bibles, etc.?’
Mind’s in another world, thinking, ‘How can we exist through the facts “Sometimes I sit back, with a Buddah sack
His views on school back then are clear on the track “One Love” - from “Illmatic” - where he applies rhetoric rapping: Nas, although he dropped out prior to high school, took time to educate himself - evident throughout his entire catalog of music. When I first heard that line it blew my mind because he didn’t say it on “New York State of Mind,” which I still don’t understand because it sounds so good like that.Īnyways, with a copy of the demo tape, I finally got to listen to the tracks Nas originally rapped many of his famous one-liners and Queens Bridge stories on. The difference between the original version - the first verse on “Just Another Day in the Projects” from his demo tape - and the one from the final verse on “New York State of Mind” is that on the demo tape he goes on to finish the story about his “gangster” dream saying, “The cops caught the car and sprayed it ’til it was smoked up… That’s when I woke up.”īUT…on the verse that follows he continues, saying, “The whole things was a nightmare/ I fell asleep watching Scarface, laying in a chair.” With my long-term admiration for Nas’ narrative skills and subject-matter in mind, good friend, and one-fourth of PayUp Game, Andre burned a copy of the demo tape for me in fall of ’08. Or so I thought…until I heard his demo tape. Nas originally told this tale on “New York State of Mind” from his debut album “Illmatic.” Drinking moets…holding techs/ Making sure the cash is correct, then ” And so did “Nasty” Nas.īut the dream Nas shared with listeners during his late-teens was one in which he “was a gangster.