I Am... (Nas album)

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Studio album by
Nas
ReleasedApril 6, 1999 (1999-04-06)
Recorded1998–1999
Genre Hip hop
Length64:54
Label Columbia
Producer
Nas chronology
The Album
(1997)		I Am...
(1999)		 Nastradamus
(1999)
Singles from I Am...
  1. "Nas Is Like"
    Released: March 2, 1999 [1]
  2. "Hate Me Now"
    Released: April 6, 1999

I Am... is the third studio album by American rapper Nas, released on April 6, 1999, by Columbia Records. Following the commercial and critical success of 1996's It Was Written , Nas put to work on a double album that merged the styles of his first two albums and detailed entire aspects of his life. Although he was able to use most songs, other songs that would have made I Am… a double album leaked onto the internet in MP3 format, forcing him to record new material for two separate single-disc releases (hence, the release of Nastradamus in the same year).

Contents

The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling over 470,000 copies in its first week of sales. I Am… would later be certified double platinum in the United States, making it Nas' second best-selling release behind It Was Written. Upon its release, I Am... received generally positive reviews from critics.

Background

This album was originally to have been a double album titled I Am...The Autobiography. However, most of the original sessions were bootlegged forcing Nas to discard many songs and adjust the release to one disc. I Am...became one of the first major label releases to be widely leaked using MP3 technology. [2] Some of the leaked songs were later released on the compilation LP The Lost Tapes in 2002. The concept of this album as can be seen by tracks such as "Fetus" from The Lost Tapes was to be an autobiography of sorts for Nas. Although several bootleg versions have appeared on the internet over the years, an official version of the intended double album has never leaked and it remains unclear whether or not it was ever completed.

1998 leak tracklisting

Other leaked songs include Find Ya Wealth (later on QB's Finest), U Gotta Love It (later on The Lost Tapes), My Worst Enemy, Amongst Kings and The Rise & Fall.

An official two-LP pressing of the "Autobiography" version (utilizing the 1998 leak tracklisting) was released by Columbia/Legacy/Sony for Record Store Day Black Friday on November 24, 2023. [3] [4]

Music

The two singles from I Am... were "Hate Me Now" and "Nas Is Like". "Hate Me Now" features Puff Daddy and is produced by D-Moet, Pretty Boy and The Trackmasters. It was a Billboard Hot 100 hit, and had a controversial music video directed by Hype Williams. The song had a version of the O Fortuna from Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana." "Nas Is Like" is one of two tracks produced by DJ Premier who scratches vocal samples from Nas' "It Ain't Hard To Tell" into the chorus. The "Nas Is Like" music video was directed by Nick Quested and is still very popular in underground circles and continued a long list of popular Nas/DJ Premier collaborations.

The album also contained the song "We Will Survive", a tribute to Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. The song criticized his peers, most notably Jay-Z, who "claimed to be New York's king" following B.I.G.'s death, the record has been cited as potentially encouraging the Nas vs. Jay-Z feud.

Cover art

Famed photographer Danny Hastings has shot iconic cover images for Big Pun’s Capital Punishment and Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx , but his album art shoot for I Am... almost ended in disaster. In order to make the iconic mask featured on the cover, Hastings and his crew put a clay mold on Nas' face and poked air holes so he could breathe, but he almost suffocated after clay got lodged in his nose.

“The funny part was that the first attempt, Nas was getting asphyxiated. We almost killed Nas," Hastings told MTV.com. “We cleaned him up, and he was like, 'Let's do it again!' […] Nas was a true sport."

He also explained the meaning behind the cover, and how it built off of previous album art for Illmatic and It Was Written. "The first one, you have him being a boy, very young. The second was a little bit older. And the third one, he was a king," he continued. "He already conquered the world. He was on top of the world. He was doing a lot of big things. We came with the concept of making a King Tut sarcophagus piece." [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Chicago Sun-Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Village Voice B− [8]
Entertainment Weekly B [9]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [12]
The Source Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [13]

Yahoo! Music's Billy Johnson Jr. described the album's production as "somber" and described its songs as "thought-provoking, though average quality". [14] Jeff Stark of Salon noted "distinct identities" for each song and wrote that it does not sound "coherent", but "as if it belongs to a scattershot demographic of subway riders". [15] Franklin Soults of The Village Voice viewed that its music attempts to meet "halfway" with consumer demographics, noting that Nas' "most salient talent is finding and exploiting the middle ground". [16] In his consumer guide for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau gave I Am... a B− rating and named it "dud of the month", [8] indicating "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought". [17] Christgau criticized Nas' "ethos" and stated, "The question is how convincing he is, and only two themes ring true: the bad ones, revenge and money. His idea of narrative detail is to drop brand names like Bret Easton Ellis; his idea of morality is everybody dies". [8] Craig Seymour of The Washington Post attributed its thematic inconsistency to the replacement of tracks that leaked to the Internet prior to the album's release, concluding that "Anyone with a good Web connection might wonder what a profound personal opus 'I Am' could have been". [18] Miles Marshall Lewis of LA Weekly viewed that Nas "tightrope[s] the line between order and chaos, gangsterism and enlightenment" on the album, which he found to be "not a horrendous album. But Nas has now established a pattern of declining album quality, and that makes I Am... Nas' worst album". [19]

Chicago Sun-Times writer Rebecca Little gave the album two-a-and-half out of four stars and stated, "if you get past the torrent of [profanity] and a few terms referring to women as dogs and garden tools, [...] 'I Am' is a notable effort", adding that "The finer moments lie in the rapper's trademark ability to spin a compelling tale about ghetto life". [7] Kris Ex of Rolling Stone gave it three-and-a-half out of five stars and stated, "Nas is still a diamond in the rough — perhaps the rawest lyrical talent of his day but lacking the guidance and vision to create a complete album [...] But what I Am... lacks in content, it makes up for in lyrical acumen; the album doesn't deliver the introspection its title implies, but it compensates for it in storytelling and craftsmanship. I Am... offers tantalizing hints of promise tethered by a need for pop acceptance". [12] Christopher John Farley of Time complimented Nas' lyrics and themes and the album's musical approach, noting "grander, more aggressive, more cinematic" songs. [20] Entertainment Weekly 's Tom Sinclair compared the album to "a bona fide hip-hopera", noting string and keyboard-laden songs and "universal themes". [9] Los Angeles Times writer Soren Baker commended Nas for "adroitly balancing hard-core subject matter with production that should easily find its way onto urban radio". [10] Steve Jones of USA Today gave it four out of four stars and complimented Nas' "dense and deft rhymes" and "nimble, cinematic descriptions", writing that the album "nestles nicely between the underground grittiness of 1994's Illmatic and the high gloss of 1996's It Was Written ". [21]

In a retrospective review, AllMusic editor M.F. DiBella gave the album three out of five stars and noted "blandness" in its production, writing that "Musically, I Am is somewhat unimaginative by Nas' stratospheric standards. [...] some of these tracks lack the sonic depth to do justice to the prophecies of the pharaoh, Nas". [6] However, DeBella added that Nas "still shines as the old soul storyteller and crime rhyme chronicler" on some tracks and cited "Nas Is Like" and "N.Y. State of Mind, Pt. 2" as highlights, adding that they "are nothing short of Illmatic perfection". [6] Steve Juon of RapReviews gave I Am... an eight-and-a-half out of 10 rating and viewed it as an improvement over It Was Written, praising Nas' "power of description" and "much improved" lyrics. [22] Writing in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), music journalist Chris Ryan gave the album two-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote that it has "[its] share of solid material, but ultimately fail[s] in the face of Nas' inability to navigate the divide between the street reporting that made him a legend and the commercial hits that made him a star". [23]

Track listing

I Am... track listing [24]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Album Intro"
Nasir Jones
 2:50
2."N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II"
Jones, Christopher Martin
DJ Premier3:36
3."Hate Me Now" (featuring Puff Daddy)
Jones, Gavin Marchand
Pretty Boy, D. Moet, Trackmasters 4:44
4."Small World"
Jones, Carlos Broady, Nashiem Myrick
Nashiem Myrick & Carlos Broady for The Hitmen 4:45
5."Favor for a Favor" (featuring Scarface)
Jones, Brad Jordan, Leshan David Lewis
L.E.S. 4:07
6."We Will Survive"
Jones, Jamel Edgerten
Trackmasters, Jamel Edgerten5:00
7."Ghetto Prisoners"
Jones, Damon Blackmon
Dame Grease 4:00
8."You Won't See Me Tonight" (featuring Aaliyah)
Jones, Timothy Mosley, Missy Elliott
Timbaland 4:22
9."I Want to Talk to You"
Jones, Lewis, Alvin West
L.E.S., Alvin West4:36
10."Dr. Knockboot"
Jones, Samuel Barnes, Jean-Claude Olivier
Trackmasters2:25
11."Life Is What You Make It" (featuring DMX)
Jones, Lewis, Earl Simmons
L.E.S.4:04
12."Big Things"
Jones, Michael Masser, West
Alvin West3:39
13."Nas Is Like"
Jones, Martin
DJ Premier3:57
14."K-I-SS-I-N-G"
Jones, Robert Kelly, Lewis, West
L.E.S., Alvin West4:15
15."Money Is My Bitch"
Jones, Barnes, Olivier
Alvin West, Trackmasters4:02
16."Undying Love"
Jones, Lewis
L.E.S.4:23
Total length:64:45

Notes

Samples

"Album Intro"

"N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II"

"Hate Me Now"

"Small World"

  • "Love to Last Forever" by Zulema

"We Will Survive"

"Dr. Knockboot"

"You Won't See Me Tonight"

"Life Is What You Make It"

  • "Vitroni's Theme - King Is Dead" by Roy Ayers

"Big Things"

"Pray"

"Nas Is Like"

"K-I-SS-I-N-G"

"Undying Love"

[24] [25]

Personnel

Credits for I Am... adapted from Muze. [26]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [40] 2× Platinum2,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

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