It's A Family Affair
December, 2004
Ten years ago Nasir Jones busted out of Long Island City's Queensbridge projects with a masterpiece, Illmatic. With its stripped-down East Coast sound and moral complexity, Illmatic altered the course of hip-hop. Over the past decade Nas has tried, with varying success, to recapture the magic of that first release. In 2.001 he found himself in the middle of a bombastic feud with fellow New Yorker Jay-Z, which seemed to revive Nas's career. In 2002 he returned strong with God's Son, which pointed...
