Where is the Explicit version?
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By GoodByeRiddance
At one time iTunes had both now the only option available is this censored version. I want to buy the 10th anniversary edition but refuse to buy the censored version. When I click Explicit version it takes me to the 1994 version. Please get the explicit version!
Here for Ruth
5
By Fix it or else...
RIP, Wyatt.
Wheres the original illmatic??
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By Kidddddddda5
Why doesn't itunes have the original illmatic?
Rap fan
5
By Anthony Nochi
I like this album Nas got lyrics man his best album he has other good albums too but this is his best. I listen to the whole album you love it live wit it ya don't don't mess wit this classic 5/5
Dope album but..
5
By Crazy-braden
I got it for 5 bucks at best buy
QB
5
By DilMatic7
QB doesn't stand for Quarter Back .... Nasty Nas
Nas is great
5
By MC.Macintosh
I just love this album I am 13 and I put this in my stereo it is also on my iPhone and I listen to it every time I right a rhyme
ill + matic
5
By Matya247
Obviously illmatic is illmatic. Don't need to tell you anymore. But I got this exact deluxe version at Best Buy for like 8 bucks. So buy it there instead of iTunes!! lol
Good album, poor censoring
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By sorryaboutleroy
I hate the people who edited this CD. I don't hate them because I hate the very notion of editing profane music (it can be done tastefully), but because they did so in the worst possible way. Instead of simply muting the offensive words -- as is the standard now -- the editors distort the sound of the words, so you are left with a lot of incomprehensible gibberish. Heaven knows this was not the best way to censor this CD and others like it, so why did they do it this way? It DESTROYS the music. I can listen to a rap song with the F-words muted and still appreciate its essence, but I can't appreciate a song that has sounds that don't even belong in the recording (i.e., the distorted words that replace the actual words). One other thing. Why are references to drugs removed from rap music? Such references are not removed from country music (e.g., Johnny Cash), yet somehow they are never allowed in the edited versions of rap music. Why? This is a flagrant double standard and one which must be stopped immediately. Forget this CD until they revise it with better editing.
5 Stars
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By konjahrad
Nas got lyrics
