Do you remember where you were the first time...?

Question

...you heard Illmatic?

Where were you and what were the circumstances that led you to hearing it?

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This video has absolutely nothing to do with the question but I think it needs to be seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJRMXecS8mo

Answer 1

I don't remember.  But that video was funny. Thanks

Answer 2

No frontin the first time I heard it I didnt like it.  My man Mike use to put it in when we would play NBA Live on the SNES.  I would be like "Mic Gernimo" is way better. Guess I lost the arguement.

Get it Vin, yeah.

Answer 3

the first time I heard Illmatic.. I was at my babysitters house ..as a matter of fact.. I was eating macaroni and cheese at the babysitters house and she kept rewinding every song after it played to hear it again.. lol (yes.. i was only like 11 years old)..

Good times though

Answer 4

When I Bought It A Few Months Back lol

In My Bedroom =D

Answer 5

they're g*y

Answer 6

I purchased the Cassette tape and probly bumped it in my first car whilst knocking back a Coopers Sparkling Ale longneck and smoking a pipe those were the days.

The first time I heard any tracks off it was on a Radio Show called 93.7 degrees in the shade which I credit with changing my perspective on Hip Hop.

Answer 7

One of my friends was big on East Coast hip hop (I'm a left coaster BTW). He always wore NY stuff (Tommy Hilfiger, Fubu, Karl Kani, etc), and was one of the few in my school to rock the NY stuff. I was in high school, and he had the tape. He always had his Sony Walkman. We was kicking it at the quad for lunch, and I peeped the tape, and I was BLOWN AWAY! I've always been big on East Coast hip hop. The horns and the jingling sounds (evident on "Halftime") East Coast producers would use always captivated me, but Illmatic is what really started me up on listening to NY artists more (along with Ready To Die).

EDIT to SagSoulStar : I always thought Big Lez was hotness. She may have had an okay face, but that body was nice! As Kurupt once said, "Body of a goddess, face from h**l".

Answer 8

LMAO @ Vin Diesel breakdancing :)

I heard it first on my stereo.  But it was later after the release, because I was only 1 year old when it was released, so I probably heard it 10 years after the release.

Answer 9

Ya i was in my buddies car and he had it on

Answer 10

Yes, it was like 3 or 4 years ago. You see, I never got around to purchasing it when it first came out, so I decided to buy it a few years ago, and I still don't know what all the fuss is about.

I purchased "It Was Written..." when it first came out, and I think that's the better album.

Answer 11

I have it playing on my laptop right now :o). No circumstances necessarily, I just love the CD..

Wow lol.. Great video

Answer 12

96'

I knew of NaS from "The World is Yours" days but I was only 10 around that time...my focus was on girls.

In 96 I started to get into the music more.  I heard "It was written" that year and was like, man...this dude is nice.

Folks forced me to go to a funeral in Niagra Falls in the summer of somebody I didn't and it was a long drive from Philly so my mom was nice enough to buy me the Illmatic tape to bump on the walkman. Loved the album ever since.

Answer 13

1994 - I was in my dad's car when he took the wrapping off the cassette and popped it in. I became stuck on it ever since. (I was 6 Years old)

Video: Wow, I have seen that video on VH1 and iFilm's "Web Junk 20" a while back.

Answer 14

In my living room about 4 months ago after i bought it on Ebay. I was 2 in 1994, so i didn't hear it then.

Answer 15

it came out in 94 and i was only 9. i really wasnt that much into music because like most kids i was out running about. i didnt hear it til 98 when a friend of my older sister who was a huge nas fan left her cd case for my sister to borrow. i browsed through the case and found a red illmatic cd. when i first played it i just kept skipping each track and once i got to the last song....it was over. "it aint hard to tell" floored me, i had that track repeated over and over. i bought the album just because of that one song. later on the rest of the album grew on me.

Answer 16

My uncle's crib

Answer 17

. . .

I was in Philadelphia, it was summer time (I think).  Everybody on my block was listening to that, Ill Al Skratch, and Tical that summer.  I was 14.

Good times indeed.   Water Ice and Rap City with Joe Claire and Big Lez.