However, its initial sales fell below expectations and its five singles failed to achieve significant chart success. The album debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 63,000 copies in its first week.
Styled as a hardcore Hip Hop album, Illmatic features multi-syllabic internal rhymes and inner-city narratives based on Nas’s experiences in Queensbridge, New York. The album’s production was handled by DJ Premier, Large Professor, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, L.E.S., and Nas himself. After signing with the label with the help of MC Serch, Nas recorded the album in 19 at Chung King Studios, D&D Recording, Battery Studios, and Unique Recording Studios in New York City. It was released on April 19, 1994, by Columbia Records.
Illmatic is the debut studio album by American rapper Nas.
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