The Similarities Engine

Albums similar to Illmatic

These are the albums most often named alongside Nas - Illmatic by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Nas, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. Wu‐Tang Clan - Enter the Wu‐Tang (36 Chambers)
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Common Sense - Resurrection
4. Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
5. Madvillain - Madvillainy
6. Jaÿ‐Z - Reasonable Doubt
7. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
8. Mobb Deep - The Infamous…
9. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
10. Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
11. Channel Live - Station Identification
12. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
13. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
14. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
15. Radiohead - OK Computer
16. Common - Be
17. Pink Floyd - Animals
18. OutKast - ATLiens
19. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
20. Jay‐Z - The Blueprint
21. OutKast - Aquemini
22. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
23. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
24. Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
25. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
26. Radiohead - In Rainbows
27. Slint - Spiderland
28. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
29. Ab‐Soul - Control System
30. Ahmad - Ahmad

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