Illmatic celebrates its 20th birthday on April 15th, and the date will be celebrated with the release of Illmatic XX, a remastered edition of the record, complete with b-sides, remixes and rarities.
We've already heard a few remixes of the iconic tracks from the seminal debut, and the most recent one is an arsenal remix of "Life's A Bitch".
If you're looking for some more mixes of Illmatic tracks, check out Large Professors take on "It Ain't Hard To Tell".
Nas will also be setting out on tour to perform his debut in its entirety on a number of dates. Details here.
Quotable lyrics:
But as long as we leaving thieving,
We'll be leaving with some kind of dough, so
Until that day we expire and turn to vapors
Me and my capers
Will be somewhere else stackin' plenty papers
Keeping it real, packing steel, getting high
Cause life's a bitch and then you die
