Comments on: The Making of Illmatic (XXL, April 2009)

By: Misreading Rap: Fish Tank & “Life’s a Bitch” at No Trivia

Misreading Rap: Fish Tank & “Life’s a Bitch” at No Trivia — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:10:02 +0000

[...] Press-Fish Tank by Dana Stevens for Slate-Fish Tank by Aaron Kilkenny-Fletcher for Thinking Faith-XXL’s Making of Illmatic-”Deconstructing Illmatic” by Dan Love for Oh [...]

By: wiseworth

wiseworth — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:07:47 +0000

Nas is MONSTER “Only the Gods can watch the Earth twist I’m physically trapped down on the surface…..”

By: jay.soul

jay.soul — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:43:15 +0000

thanks for post. some nice behind the scenes info. anybody know if that pr remix was ever released?

By: Pee Duble

Pee Duble — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:17:23 +0000

Look out for ILLTRAVIS, a remix of Nas’s classic album with new production, using the original samples. http://www.myspace.com/thewilliamsproject and http://www.kevinnottingham.com. Peace!!

By: Tre

Tre — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:24:46 +0000

wheres that PR remix

By: Tre

Tre — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:20:15 +0000

damn thanks for posting this article

By: thomasv(troyblog)

thomasv(troyblog) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:04:16 +0000

Jeeez Uskrïst

By: Jeeez Uskrïst

Jeeez Uskrïst — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:43:54 +0000

in other words, blah blah blah for nothin…moron!

By: thomasv(troyblog)

thomasv(troyblog) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:40:15 +0000

#3. Thanks for pointing that out, I didn’t notice that they weren’t really the same scan.

You’re right, he probably had the same thoughts as me to share the article to the public but I went to OKP and I noticed that he posted that a few hours after me… nothing big, but you saying that his scans were better is just pointless. He didn’t even scan the intro page + the 2hi-res pics of Nas.

FWMJ, you don’t really have to give me credit since these aren’t my scans, but if you want to add the intro+2pics that I included, you can…

Peace,

By: DBDR

DBDR — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:13:53 +0000

1. Calling somebody a faggot b/c they made a fairly benign comment on a message board is wild emotional and “busterish” to borrow from Jamie Foxx.

2. Did you really just demand that people give you respect for being able to work a scanner? That is comedy.

3. FWMJ pulled the scan from OKP–I saw the post on OKP–those scans aren’t even the same scans you made! Those scans are actually better and don’t have the edges cut off, and are also 6 files instead of the 9 you turned it into. So again, b/c somebody else read the article and had the same thought you had, to share it with the public, everybody owes you “respect” or “credit”? That is crazy talk.

4. You are really not doing yourself any favors by going around to each person that has linked to FWMJ’s post and begging for props–especially since the article scans are not the same as yours.

5. Free advice: get offa blogspot and get some hosting so you don’t have to send everything to megaupload, etc. Having to deal with a filesharing site for a magazine article is super low-budget. Probably one of the main reasons (along with the PR remix of Street Dreams) that more people are linking back to RIK has the article hosted and viewable w/o having to deal with Rapidshare, etc.

Sincerely,

DBDR

By: FWMJ

FWMJ — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:33:43 +0000

i didnt know it was your work, i just saw a post on okayplayer.

give me a link to where u want me to link to and i’ll make sure everyone knows it was your scan.

By: thomasv(troyblog)

thomasv(troyblog) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:47:56 +0000

I don’t have a problem with you FWMJ, I respect you work…

but DBDR, “That is hilarious. I guess he had the only copy of XXL available in the world.”, That wasn’t very nice either :(
I actually took my time to scan the article, give me some respect too…

By: DBDR

DBDR — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:18:39 +0000

he mad….he mad…

By: FWMJ

FWMJ — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:59:38 +0000

hey thomas, that wasn’t very nice :(

By: thomasv(troyblog)

thomasv(troyblog) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:36:43 +0000

DBDR, you’re a faggot.

By: Moulio Iglesias

Moulio Iglesias — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:00:28 +0000

Wow!

By: j therapy

j therapy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:55:51 +0000

Thanks for the PR remix….fire!!!

By: FWMJ

FWMJ — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:49:40 +0000

meh, I got it off Okayplayer

By: DBDR

DBDR — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:26:45 +0000

That is hilarious. I guess he had the only copy of XXL available in the world.

By: thomasv(troyblog)

thomasv(troyblog) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:47:14 +0000

Thanks to me! Please credit the place where you got it from…

http://philaflava.blogspot.com/2009/02/xxl-nas-illmatic-15-years-later.html

By: sweeneykovar

sweeneykovar — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:53:23 +0000

man scan the cam’ron article

By: FWMJ

FWMJ — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:55:19 +0000

LOL i didnt even notice that

By: AuditoryGlory

AuditoryGlory — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:13:14 +0000

Nice. I’mma definitely grab this.

On a related side note… tell me why they had to go and do that to my man Q-Tip. Got him looking like a Mouseketeer… Damn.

By: E.Classic

E.Classic — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:14:11 +0000

that pete remix is butter.

By: GetRightMusic

GetRightMusic — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:50:05 +0000

Thanks for this post and taking the time to scan it all up for us.

By: King

King — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:49:41 +0000

too cool, PR remix, DUDE!!!

By: nation

nation — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:06:17 +0000

wow… thanks