Nas “Illmatic” (1994)

A pure classic, now completely mainstream, but at the time this was the first album that made me (and I believe many others) definitively love rap, using a lot of jazz to make it great, and this was just after the grunge (Nirvana) and shoegaze (Ride/Slowdive/My Bloody Valentine) era, so we were not at all prepared, well done Nas though…