Nas "I Am" 2x LP OOP Large Professor Gang Starr DJ Premier
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Nas "I Am" 2xLP Columbia Records C2S 41881 (US)

Out of Print!!

Records are EX, Jacket is VG.

Track Listing:

A1 N.Y. State Of Mind II Mixed By – DJ Premier Producer – DJ Premier A2 Hate Me Now Producer – D-Moet, Pretty Boy (2) Rap [Featuring] – Puff Daddy A3 Small World Keyboards – Mike Goods (2) Producer – Carlos "Six July" Broady, Nashiem Myrick A4 Favor For A Favor Bass – Kirk Lyons Rap [Featuring] – Scarface (3) B1 We Will Survive Producer – Jamel Edgerten B2 Ghetto Prisoners Producer – Grease* B3 You Won't See Me Tonight Mixed By – Jimmy Douglass Producer – Timbaland Vocals – Aaliyah B4 I Want To Talk To You C1 Natures Shine C2 Dr. Knockboot C3 Life Is What You Make It Rap [Featuring] – DMX C4 Big Things D1 Nas Is Like Mixed By – DJ Premier Producer – DJ Premier D2 K-I-SS-I-N-G D3 Money Is My Bitch D4 Undying Love

I Am… is the third studio album by American rapper Nas, released April 6, 1999 on Columbia Records. It debuted #1 on the charts, selling over 470,000 copies in its first week. I Am… would later be certified 2x platinum in the United States. Upon its release, I Am... received generally mixed to positive reviews from music critics.

Background

This album was originally to have been a double album titled I Am...The Autobiography, however most of the original sessions were bootlegged forcing Nas to discard many songs and adjust the release to one disc. I Am...became one of the first major label releases to be widely leaked using MP3 technology. Some of the leaked songs were later released on the compilation LP The Lost Tapes in 2002. The concept of this album as can be seen by tracks such as "Fetus" from The Lost Tapes was to be an autobiography of sorts for Nas. Although several bootleg versions have appeared on the internet over the years, an official version of the intended double album has never leaked and it remains unclear whether or not it was ever completed.

Music

The two singles from I Am... were "Hate Me Now" and "Nas Is Like". "Hate Me Now" features Puff Daddy and is produced by D-Moet, Pretty Boy and The Trackmasters. It was a Billboard Hot 100 hit, and had a controversial music video directed by Hype Williams. The song had a version of the O Fortuna from Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana." "Nas Is Like" is one of two tracks produced by DJ Premier who scratches vocal samples from Nas' "It Ain't Hard To Tell" into the chorus. The "Nas Is Like" music video was directed by Nick Quested and is still very popular in underground circles and continued a long list of popular Nas/DJ Premier collaborations.

The album also contained the song "We Will Survive", a tribute to Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. The song criticized his peers, most notably Jay-Z, who "claimed to be New York's king" following B.I.G.'s death, the record has been cited as potentially encouraging the Nas vs. Jay-Z feud.

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