This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
What better time than the eve of the millennium for such a prophetically titled album?
And on Nastradamus, his second CD in six months, quietly intense New York rapper Nas makes a few dire predictions of his own: Drying oceans, killing fields, global apocalypse, that sort of thing. But it isn’t all bad news; as usual, Nas spends half his time wrestling with the demons of thuggery and the other half praising the angels of wisdom, deploying his nimble verbal gymnastics over a bed of simple, soulful grooves. One of the most forward-thinking rappers on the scene today, Nas proves he has the vision for the next century.
