"One Love" with the National Symphony Orchestra | Nas Live From the Kennedy Center | GP on PBS
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Critically acclaimed hip-hop artist Nas performs "One Love" alongside the National Symphony Orchestra. Two decades after its release, Nas teamed up with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. to stage a symphonic rendition of "Illmatic," one of the most revered albums in hip-hop history.
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Two decades after the album’s critically acclaimed release, hip-hop artist Nas teamed up with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, to stage a symphonic rendition of “Illmatic,” one of the most revered albums in hip-hop history. The new concert film Great Performances - Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop captures the energy and nostalgia of this collaborative performance and premieres nationwide Friday, February 2 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). The program will be available to stream the following day at pbs.org/gperf and PBS apps.
Released in 1994, “Illmatic” is the seminal debut album from Nas, and has long been considered one of the greatest hip-hop records of all time. The album is a densely textured, deeply lyrical portrait of life in the largest public housing project in North America, the Queensbridge Houses, located in the Long Island City area of New York City, home to nearly 7,000 people.
“It’s crazy, you know, I wrote this in the projects in New York City. Here we are in the capital of America, Washington, DC, and, you know, a bunch of white people with strings and all that, playing this album, and they [sic] feeling it,” says Nas in exclusive behind-the-scenes footage captured during on-stage rehearsal before the concert.
Alternating between candid reflections from Nas, photos from his youth, backstage footage and a symphonic performance of “Illmatic,” the program gives an inside look at the inspiration behind Nas’ music and his early life growing up in New York City. The combination of Nas and the orchestra reinvents the sound of some of his most popular songs, like “N.Y. State of Mind,” “The World Is Yours,” “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in Da Park)” and “It Ain’t Hard to Tell” to create a classical hip-hop journey.
“This was the first time, as a classical orchestra conductor, I was going to branch out into the realm of doing hip-hop music and rap music. And the idea of finally tackling this genre was something I was really looking forward to do,” says National Symphony Orchestra Principal Pops Conductor Steven Reineke about this innovative collaboration.
This performance was recorded live in March 2014 as the centerpiece of the One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., home of the National Symphony Orchestra.
Great Performances is produced by THIRTEEN PRODUCTIONS LLC for WNET, one of America’s most prolific and respected public media providers. Throughout its more than 40-year history on public television, Great Performances has provided viewers across the country with an unparalleled showcase of the best in all genres of the performing arts, serving as America’s most prestigious and enduring broadcaster of cultural programming.
A Mass Appeal production, Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop is directed by Jason Goldwatch and executive produced by Nas, Anthony Saleh, Peter Bittenbender and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. For Great Performances, Bill O’Donnell is series producer; David Horn is executive producer.
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Regardless of geographic or economic limitations, Great Performances ensures its audiences “the best seats in the house” with a roster of artists and performing arts companies that represent a “Who’s Who” of excellence and virtuosity in the international performing arts.
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At 0:06 when everyone realizes what song it is; the best!
@ciaphagray1063
6 жыл бұрын
Tom Piken I caught it at 0:04 lol
@ciaphagray1063
6 жыл бұрын
Tom Piken crowd caught it at, at like 0:08
@ap0610
5 жыл бұрын
Ciapha Gray sameee, i had goosebumps when i first heard it
He killed it with this performance Big Ups to New York, NYC
Real music never dies
@emmanuelshaul1358
2 жыл бұрын
This is royalty. If blacks were on top. This is where nas would be in a black world. Blessings display reality
Release this as an album. Performance was awesome.
@dax2196
6 жыл бұрын
nigga this is an album LMFAOO, it's called illmatic.
@DjGabrielEscobar973
6 жыл бұрын
Saif Spidey Mfer Im I’m aware of Illmatic. I meant this version. But thanks for commenting.
@JamboGameplay
6 жыл бұрын
#1 Dumbass award goes to you
@nestaparks9370
6 жыл бұрын
MF's just fuck with you on here just to troll. I was thinking the same thing, though. RELEASE THIS VERSION AS AN ALBUM. I was impressed with their version of It Aint Hard To Tell.
@othatdude30
6 жыл бұрын
People always looking for attention. I understood clearly what you where talking about
Another reason why Hip Hop from NYC is the best and truest form of the music
South Africa approves 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
All I can say is MORE HIP-HOP!!!! Peace.
Nas is simply unbelievable
This is Nas at his finest salute King 👑
One love instrumental feels you how events, by this mysterious xylophonia and this dramatic piano, leads you to one fate.
i would pay every price to attend this...damn...goosbumps
@ColHogan-le5yk
5 жыл бұрын
Id do a roadtrip to DC for this, no questions asked. Nas, when are you coming back to Chicago!
ABSOLUTE GOAT
How universal hip hop is! Unbelievable
Would love to see this with a jazz band
Daamn the 3 piece and shoes he's bussin def completes the performance 👌🏽
This DUDE did this with orchestra....NAS IS LIKE......NOW IF HE DID THIS WITH ONE MIC.....
Simply the best, NAS the GOAT!! As time goes by he becomes more classic
this was so hot NOTHING AND NO-ONE CAN TOP THIS
Nas is the greatest..
Nas is Goat
This made a nigga shed a tear. So beauriful and gangster
If y'all haven't watched this I definitely recommend that y'all do. Nas is a great performer and one of the best hip-hop artists of all time (the best imo)
One of the OG's/KINGS. Half Man, Half Amazing :)
This smooth af
Yoooo.... What did I just watch this was legendary
Simply amazing how he braces the stage. Word play is out of this world! Just saw him at the NY state of mind tour and fell in love all over again, 🥰👑
This is rap at its purest and best..
Peace King. NY stand up!
One of goat , great story teller with great ideas ......Long life to Nas.🔥🔥🙏🙏
Damn, this sounds so dope
This would be a dream come true for me!
@netm203
12 күн бұрын
Vegas in the summer with the orchestra!
"now they email u from jail, right?" dead
@familygain6886
6 жыл бұрын
lol they do though
Damn he needs to do a tour with this orchestra!
ill will rip
This is ALL we are gonna get from Nas from here on out. No more albums or new songs. Just Illmatic performances for our nostalgic selves.
Please release a CD of this concert. And please let us know when you guys release it. yours truly the whole world.
I saw this live at the Kennedy Center in DC a few years, it was dope
Nice version of that classic song👏
Amazing!!! Nas is always one of the best rappers out and this version is amazing!
This is a beautiful way and new approach on how rap shows can be heard forever a legend and with the fly 1988 cartier tanks on killem
Nas the best to bless the Mic
Thanks for keeping it real Nas. Your album Illmatic changed my life. I am from L.A. and was so disenfranchised with rap at the time with rappers reveling in misogyny and street life that I had escaped. D.J. Quick was the last straw and I turned to Reggae then Classical as a means to relax and control my spirit during graduate school a Howard University in 1994, where I left a very violent city for the Murder Capital in the District of Columbia. Your album helped me to not be ashamed of my violent upbringing but helped me to process it and use the energy and street knowledge in another walk of life. BTW, we as a people don't need the approval of Western Society and Classical music to qualify us or our music. They have acknowledged that Rap is the next Jazz and has now been recognized, like Jazz, as the only home grown music from the USA that has permeated every corner of the earth! Like Jazz, Big Band, Blues, and Rock and Roll, it is being stolen and repackaged. Could this have happened years ago with "Classical" music? Please read the bio. of the Virtuoso Violinist/Composer/Champion Fencer Joseph Boulogne, The Chevalier of St. George. Although 11 years his senior, Saint Georges is considered the Black Mozart. It has also been shown that while Saint George was in good graces with the Court of Versailles, Mozart was envious of him and even stole and reproduced his music. Saint George died in obscurity and most of his music was conveniently "lost". This along with learning that the violin has its origins in Africa originally as the Fiddle, as turned me off to Classical Music and Classical ideology as a whole!
@boosteddaily1294
5 жыл бұрын
Lol, man, you seem smart and everything, but youre thinking about this too much.
@davemusyoka5144
3 жыл бұрын
@@boosteddaily1294 STFU 🤦, @Hesi re I appreciate that insight, one love.
@boosteddaily1294
3 жыл бұрын
@@davemusyoka5144 LMAO foh cornball
SIMPLY THE BEST
damn that was incredible
So New York dope
Nas is one of a few rappers who can performe with orchestra
This performance is now on Spotify
Derrick Hodge on the bass babyyyyyy
This is my Shhhhh...
one love from new Orleans.
Amazing
Hope it's uploaded streamed , for the kids without television sets.
@BryonLetterman
6 жыл бұрын
Who says 'television sets' anymore?
@marcusfleetwood9960
6 жыл бұрын
It's on pbs.org
Smooth
Man, even with that orchestra I’d still be hype as shit
Nasir Jones yes🔥🔥🔥
Dig it, man
WOW!!!
LEGEND!!!!!
Dope
This is fucking dope
Just wow
Beautiful music background
My favourite rappers performing with a Orchestra > >>>🤯🥵
Beautiful
🔥🔥🔥
Beautiful 👌🏾
NAS 🤴😎❤️
que puta trampo do caraiooooo !!!!!!
wow ! #wow !
This whole Set was Amazing, Would like to see Jay- Z do Reasonable Doubt with a full on Orchestra behind him
❤️👑
Dude rocking a Kangol on the xylophones
Legend
Nice performance. #OneLove
🐐 🐐
this is so cool
Original Nas !
Dahm! This is epic!
진짜 지린다
Put this on bluray ASAP
Still goat
Wtf Omfg 😳😲👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🕴🏾🕴🏾🕴🏾🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
really interesting
God MC. The guy keeps rapping like 20 years ago. Sorry Jay.
@boosteddaily1294
5 жыл бұрын
@@HOTHEAD11234 Jay Z=garbage.
@bigphatty5298
3 жыл бұрын
Jay z is trash, but rap peaked like 24 years ago
Listen to the original on lsd and it's over!!! ONE LOVE
Wish they did the 2nd and 3rd verse too, especially the 3rd
Do yourself a favor and watch the entire show before it expires on March 2nd. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/nas-live-kennedy-center-classical-hip-hop-full-episode/8109/
This is me some years later
jazzmatazz
Can you get the full performance on MP3 or something ?
Does someone know were you can see the full performance?
Mon dieu !
For Lady Te
Ill --- Fucking --- Matic : thatz just what this performance was "Illmatic"
An amazing performance by Nasty Nas real music. Beats Jay z unplugged. Bas is the best rapper ever.
Why i dont get information of this
is the dvd clean version as well? or the performance was ?
Where can i find the entire concert?
@joshuasalgado4694
6 жыл бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/k4FnqJaBn7uaiJM.html
@Grace_acie
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Nasty Nas
What were they blanking out?