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Hip Hop Is Dead is not Illmatic. Illmatic stands as one of the most impressive debuts in rap music, and consequently has set up inevitable, and often unfavorable, comparisons with each of Nas' subsequent releases. And so it is practically a given that the two albums in fact do not compare, that the beats, the rhymes, the insight, the flow Mr. Jones had on Illmatic have not been duplicated here, and in all honestly, probably never will. Nas himself seems aware of this -- though he would never admit it -- as throughout the record he references the MCs, the producers, the DJs who made the music what it was and what it is today, many of whom were releasing material in the early '90s, when Nas first made a mark. He himself is one of them.

TRACK LISTINGS

SIDE 1
1 Money Over Bullsh*t 4:16 
2 You Can't Kill Me 3:14 
3 Carry on Tradition 3:49 
4 Where Are They Now 2:44 

SIDE 1
1 Still Dreaming 3:37 
2 Hold Down the Block 3:58 
3 Blunt Ashes 4:03 
4 Let There Be Light / Tre Williams 4:28 

SIDE 2
1 Hip Hop Is Dead / will.i.am 3:45 
2 Who Killed It? 3:10 
3 Black Republican / Jay-Z 3:45 
4 Not Going Back / Kelis 4:09 

SIDE 2
1 Play on Playa 3:33 
2 Can't Forget About You / Chrisette Michele 4:34 
3 Hustlers / Game 4:06 
4 Hope 3:05