Thank God for Hip-Hop.

Nas — who has already been celebrating the release of Illmatic XX — will continue to honor the historic album’s 20th anniversary by hitting the road for various dates throughout the month of October. In addition, most of those dates will also be rewarded with a screening of the documentary Nas: Time is Illmatic. Hell yes.

You can check out the dates below; Time is Illmatic officially debuts October 1st and Tribeca, followed by an iTunes release two days later.

Nas: Time Is Illmatic Tour Dates:
10/02 – Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armony *
10/03- Albany, NY @ Palace Theatre
10/04 – Washington D.C. @ Lincoln Theatre (Matinee)
10/05 – Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre
10/08 – Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
10/09 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
10/10 – Hammond, IN @ Horseshoe
10/11 – Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre *
10/12 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
10/15 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
10/16 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
10/17 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas *
10/18 – Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theatre
10/19 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater

* = No film screening of Nas: Time is Illmatic

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