Nas‘ making a music video for “Represent” 20 years after the initial release of Illmatic is cool. The problem is that it’s mostly Nasir sitting down with a cigar and watching The Thief of Baghdad with his past music videos cut in. Huh? It is that hard to go back to Queensbridge to film this? It seems like that would obvious choice instead of YouTube Space Los Angeles. Directed by Brian Katz.
Did you know we did an article on Illmatic in 2008? Well we did and you can go read that here.