Writing "Illmatic" | Nas Live From the Kennedy Center | Great Performances on PBS
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2018
- Critically acclaimed hip-hop artist Nas describes his experiences writing "Illmatic" in the projects of NYC and performing it twenty years later at the Kennedy Center. Two decades after the album's release, Nas teamed up with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. to stage a symphonic rendition of "Illmatic," one of the most revered albums in hip-hop history.
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Two decades after the album’s critically acclaimed release, hip-hop artist Nas teamed up with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, to stage a symphonic rendition of “Illmatic,” one of the most revered albums in hip-hop history. The new concert film Great Performances - Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop captures the energy and nostalgia of this collaborative performance and premieres nationwide Friday, February 2 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). The program will be available to stream the following day at pbs.org/gperf and PBS apps.
Released in 1994, “Illmatic” is the seminal debut album from Nas, and has long been considered one of the greatest hip-hop records of all time. The album is a densely textured, deeply lyrical portrait of life in the largest public housing project in North America, the Queensbridge Houses, located in the Long Island City area of New York City, home to nearly 7,000 people.
“It’s crazy, you know, I wrote this in the projects in New York City. Here we are in the capital of America, Washington, DC, and, you know, a bunch of white people with strings and all that, playing this album, and they [sic] feeling it,” says Nas in exclusive behind-the-scenes footage captured during on-stage rehearsal before the concert.
Alternating between candid reflections from Nas, photos from his youth, backstage footage and a symphonic performance of “Illmatic,” the program gives an inside look at the inspiration behind Nas’ music and his early life growing up in New York City. The combination of Nas and the orchestra reinvents the sound of some of his most popular songs, like “N.Y. State of Mind,” “The World Is Yours,” “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in Da Park)” and “It Ain’t Hard to Tell” to create a classical hip-hop journey.
“This was the first time, as a classical orchestra conductor, I was going to branch out into the realm of doing hip-hop music and rap music. And the idea of finally tackling this genre was something I was really looking forward to do,” says National Symphony Orchestra Principal Pops Conductor Steven Reineke about this innovative collaboration.
This performance was recorded live in March 2014 as the centerpiece of the One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., home of the National Symphony Orchestra.
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A Mass Appeal production, Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop is directed by Jason Goldwatch and executive produced by Nas, Anthony Saleh, Peter Bittenbender and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. For Great Performances, Bill O’Donnell is series producer; David Horn is executive producer.
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I just love Nas
I just respect this humble dude to the fullest
NAS TRUE KING
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I wanna dedicate this whole entire theme to my sons Massiah & Zay...one love
I've always been out & proud about my musical tastes & was bullied 4 it. We're getting more enlightened that music isn't about genre at all.👌
Thanks for keeping it real Nas. Your album Illmatic changed my life. I am from L.A. and was so disenfranchised with rap at the time with rappers reveling in misogyny and street life that I had escaped. D.J. Quick was the last straw and I turned to Reggae then Classical as a means to relax and control my spirit during graduate school a Howard University in 1994, where I left a very violent city for the Murder Capital in the District of Columbia. Your album helped me to not be ashamed of my violent upbringing but helped me to process it and use the energy and street knowledge in another walk of life. BTW, we as a people don't need the approval of Western Society and Classical music to qualify us or our music. They have acknowledged that Rap is the next Jazz and has now been recognized, like Jazz, as the only home grown music from the USA that has permeated every corner of the earth! Like Jazz, Big Band, Blues, and Rock and Roll, it is being stolen and repackaged. Could this have happened years ago with "Classical" music? Please read the bio. of the Virtuoso Violinist/Composer/Champion Fencer Joseph Boulogne, The Chevalier of St. George. Although 11 years his senior, Saint Georges is considered the Black Mozart. It has also been shown that while Saint George was in good graces with the Court of Versailles, Mozart was envious of him and even stole and reproduced his music. Saint George died in obscurity and most of his music was conveniently "lost". This along with learning that the violin has its origins in Africa originally as the Fiddle, as turned me off to Classical Music and Classical ideology as a whole!
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amazing story ❤
I love music!! I used to attend operas, musicals, concerts, and anything that had something to do with music when I was younger. I've listened to hip hop as well as Nas. And I must say that this classical version is my favorite by far. I LOVE IT!!!! Great job!!
NAS's Illmatic changed the rap game . He is an innovator because his first album is still relevant today as it was when it first dropped in 1994. Nasir Jones is definitely top five rapper and a G.H.O.A.T.
This is so dope
I would’ve loved to have seen Nas collaborate with the late great great legend Roy Hargrove!
Nas and Roy have that same smooth, soulful, spiritual swag about themselves!❤
You got a swag that don,t need words that's dope.
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Anybody got a link to the whole documentary? I'll buy it if anything. This is monumental.
😍 it!!!!!!!
Not into classical music 🎶, but I enjoyed this show.
Marvelous video. #NAS
GREAT SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't have a boobtube anymore, hope y'all have it live streaming or uploaded!!! Please do!!
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#callingallhumans 👍😌🤗
I love hip hop and always have but over the last decade+ I've become disillusioned like so many others with the direction the art form has been going in. I think alot of the big rap icons took too long time to grow up. I would love the new cats coming in the game to look at a concert like this with the live band, conductor and DJ on the one and twos and be inspired by the possibilities at hand if they just take time to think. I would also ask our legends to stop co-signing the trash that is suffocating the essence out of the culture. Stand up against the machine that is churning out brain numbing and commercialised garbage and resurrect the art form to where it should be. Save the music. Good looking out Nasir!
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Please don't write this kind of comment. There are always retarded people who put dislikes after seeing this kind of comment bro.
Come on Nas why would you Express yourself like that.
like what?
Saying bunch of white people with strings