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I Am...

by Nas

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1990's

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1,756
1999

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197

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Overall Rating: 3.1124 I Am... is ranked overall as 3.1124 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.1500 I Am... has an avg. critic score of 3.1500 out of 4 stars

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Entertainment Weekly

Conventional wisdom holds that rap is for the young. ...more

Rolling Stone

"I'm at the Gambling spot/My hands on a knot/New York Yankees cap cover my eyes/Stand in one spot/ I take a nigga's dough/Send him home to his shoe box/You lost that, nigga/I'll put your dollar in a jukebox," Nas raps on "N.Y. State of Mind Pt. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Everything that you expect from a Nas album - a mixed bag with acouple of decent hip hop tracks produced by DJ Premier and a lot of OTTdrama featuring the likes of Puffy.~ It's pointless now to whinge onabout the talent that the boy from Queensbridge has thrown out of the window of his newlimo. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Ras Kass , another one of hip-hop's most prolific rappers, once said that his album Soul On Ice should have been praised merely for his song "Nature Of The Treat," one of the most well-developed and executed rap songs ever. ...more

Yahoo! Music

I Am... is the third album and fourth stage in the evolution of Queensbridge's living legend Nasir Jones, from Nasty Nas to Nas to Nas Escobar to Nastradamus, the soothsaying mega-thug poet. This third installment is an introspective work from one of hip-hop's made men. ...more

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The A.V. Club

The press materials for i am..., Nas' long-awaited follow-up to It Was Written, unironically refers to the artist formerly known as Nas Escobar as "a hip-hop Nietzsche." And though both men were bedeviled by player-haters throughout their...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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