...applies enough emotion and visual flourishes to steer clear of hacky Behind The Music territory, and it’s an incredibly smart choice to subtitle the lyrics during the performance scenes...

...Life's a bitch and then you die. Here's 74 minutes well spent.

...en fortælling om, hvordan historien blev til musik. Og hvordan musikken bevarer historien.

A chronicle of the effects of poverty and poor housing on a generation of New York’s black kids, Illmatic was a scouring exposé.