PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Matthew Gasteier has written for various publications, including the Boston Phoenix and Prefix Magazine. He lives in Boston.
The album in question, Illmatic, is an inarguable choice...from the cover art (the portrait of the artist as a very young man), to the future-forward evolution of the music form it led, to the timeless high quality multi-syllabic rhyming, weaving complicated rhythms around those still-borrowed-from beats — author Matthew Gasteier hit it square. * KEXP Seattle * The on-the-ground reportage is way more compelling than the awkward. abstract discussion of Nas' lyrics. -- Derek Walmsley * The Wire *
