{"id":38291,"date":"2011-08-18T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=38291"},"modified":"2011-08-18T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:00:29","slug":"nas-reflects-on-illmatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/nas-reflects-on-illmatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Nas Reflects On Illmatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nas, one of hip-hop&#8217;s most respected emcees, is set to hit Rock The Bells stages across the country, performing his classic debut album, Illmatic, in full.<\/p>\n<p>In this exclusive interview Nas breaks down the making of his debut, from Q-Tip&#8217;s original idea behind &#8220;One Love,&#8221; to DJ Premier&#8217;s integral part in crafting the album&#8217;s often-imitated sound.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/rapradar.com\/2011\/08\/17\/nas-reflects-on-illmatic\/\" target=\"_blank\">RR<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuse.tv\/ontv\/shows\/hip-hop-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nas, one of hip-hop&#8217;s most respected emcees, is set to hit Rock The Bells stages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-9XB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}