Illmatic one of the best Album in Music history. Period

Her energy is non wasteful , calm and straight forward.

Faith gives off a calm, beautiful and semi-mysterious vibe. Kinda like Nas, actually.

The album that brought me back to Hip Hop.. When Kane and Rakim didn't transition to the 90s well.. I left it. Nas brought me back. Salute Nas.

Thank You Faith Newman for your vision and passion getting this MASTERPIECE out. ♥

She has to be the realest A&R ever

Faith Newman is beautiful

Such a great woman and a great ear for music.

Faith really believed in Nas vision

She seems much more humble, personable and affable than Sophia Chang lol but I guess both get their work done in different ways. Faith really seems to suit a professional and personal relationship with Nas, so laid back and calculated.

Faith was an integral part of hip hop starting from the early days. Much respect to Faith for helping progress the art thru all the years

Best album in the history of rap music 👌

visionary thank you!

it;s amazing that these backstories add so much insight to making the album. will watch all, "The Architects" series. It's like anyone that remembers when Illmatic dropped, there was multiple pressings of the CD. I had the first day release that was red, but i remember seeing a different colour label years later in a 2nd hand store. It's like adding the symphony creates a regal flair to a legendary collection of music that lets the OG generation reflect, and remember 1994, and how much we have grown up and expanded our musical palette.

I love this, we need more things like this breaking down old albums and paying homage to artists. Thanks Hennessy

"Biggie's Ready to Die album came out several months after Illmatic, and Biggie was crowned king of New York in the popular culture of Hip Hop heads, Ready to Die unfairly over-shadowed Illmatic, which is truly a classic album. Though they were quite distinct artists, they innovated in analogous ways. Biggie merged language that was high and low, vernacular and vocabulary words, in a way that sounded natural. He did this with a sophisticated understanding of the patterns of black language. When a different or unusual word or phrase could be introduced while still maintaining the aesthetics of black language, he inserted it. NaS, in contrast, merged concepts that were high and low, vernacular and metaphysical, in a manner that was whole rather than pieced together, thus presenting a complex that is unusual in any music outside of jazz. What Biggie started to do with language in 1994, NaS had already begun to do with ideas on Illmatic. He carries us through the "Righteous steps" of the cosmic, oceanic, and literal dimensions of his person. He transcends." - Imany Perry (Born To Use Mics)

Sit down kiddies, another Nas Story!

MC Search got Nas signed to Columbia Records

Nas is the greatest

Great contribution for putting this album out Faith !

Dope. Had to google her. Saw the pic in the hockey jersey with Extra P, Tip, Preem, Nas...I'm not gonna lie, she was looking like some work 😁 I wonder if it was a fight to be taken seriously in the industry at the time? Obviously dudes were gonna be trying her from all angles...

Man I really like this woman and her place in hip-hop. I think Nas would've been successful one way or the other, just people can cross our paths, that make things the way they are as well.

Thank you lady for making the right move , now its history

Damn she mustve been a teen too.

That One Love symphony joint sounds like a James Bond theme song.

A piece of my life

Dope

00:23 ....now I understand why I drank a bottle of Henny yesterday

So nice

She sounds like she is in love with Nas.. I know he hit, I can tell.

Imagine if illmatic never came out

She’s beautiful

no Faith = no Illmatic

I wonder what would’ve been the other 2 tracks if it would have came out as 12 tracks

where is qtip??

What is the password to the Mass Appeal Shop? I'm trying to buy the Vinyl

where is the interview faith newman did with nas when illmatic xx dropped in 2014? its no longer anywhere online

💯🙌🏾💚

Best female producer, period

No dis but I always wonder whn I see some folks how they know certain thg abt certain genres. How certain folks are in high powers of creative controls etc

Did she really say 30 years lol

ATONEAMENDARISE+GODJUDGERULER=POWERPURPOSEPRESENCE S

fuck i feel so stupid, my entry ticket to nas was "it was written" haha i dont get illmatic

Illmatic is the most overrated album of all time !!! Ready To Die/Doggystyle/The Chronic are far better albums but they don’t get talked about like Illmatic does

Illmatic one of the best Album in Music history. Period