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The Tribeca Film Festival opened with the Nas documentary Time Is Illmatic. Robert Deniro, who co-founded the festival, introduced the Erik Parker and One9 film about Nas’s Ilmatic and let the crowd know he was 20 years too early to appreciate hip-hop. Nas later took to the stage and talked about the creation of the album and performed some of the songs. There is no word yet on seeing the film outside of the festival, but if you are in New York you can view it this weekend.

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Nas made a memorable appearance at Coachella this year performing the entire Illmatic album and having Jay-Z and Diddy join him for “Dead Presidents,” “Where I’m From” and “Hate Me Now.”

Nas and Q-Tip celebrate Illmatic’s 20th anniversary with a performance of their “One Love” collaboration on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.

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Nas and Bill Maher talk about why Illmatic has lasted and was a new milestone for hip-hop when it came out 20 years ago.