Check out the latest mixtape from the Fresno California native Fashawn. On the mixtape Fashawn spits verses over instrumentals from Nas’s classic debut album, Illmatic. In Fashawns XXL interview he explains that the idea came from the comparisons his first album, Boy Meets World,” was getting to Nas’s first album . “My album was getting a lot of comparison’s to Nas’s first album… So I threw the idea out there, like what if I redid Illmatic …will people still say I sound like Nasir…or will they just trash the whole notion?” (XXL.com) Listen to the mixtape and leave us your comments. Do you feel the Nas comparison is legit?
Fashawn – Ode To Illmatic (Hosted by DJ Green Lantern)
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