- hip hop, east coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop, hip hop rap
- 65 min
- 16 tracks
- Columbia
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.
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Character
Grave, classical in form, spare and character-led.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Chicago Sun-Times2.5/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- NME8/10
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- The Source4.5/5 ★
- USA Today4/4 ★
- The Village VoiceB−
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Tracks
- 1Album Intro2:51
- 2N.Y. State of Mind, Part II3:36
- 3Hate Me Now4:44
- 4Small World4:45
- 5Favor for a Favor4:07
- 6We Will Survive5:00
- 7Ghetto Prisoners4:01
- 8You Won’t See Me Tonight4:23
- 9I Want to Talk to You4:36
- 10Dr. Knockboot2:25
- 11Life Is What You Make It4:05
- 12Big Things3:40
- 13Nas Is Like3:57
- 14K‐I‐SS‐I‐N‐G4:16
- 15Money Is My Bitch4:03
- 16Undying Love4:25
16 tracks, 65 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Nas
- Label
- Columbia
- Released
- 1999
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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