It was a Billboard Hot 100 hit, and had a controversial music video directed by Hype Williams. 'Hate Me Now' features Puff Daddy and is produced by D-Moet, Pretty Boy and The Trackmasters. Other leaked songs include Find Ya Wealth (later on QB's Finest), U Gotta Love It (later on The Lost Tapes), My Worst Enemy, Amongst Kings and The Rise & Fall.

Wanna Play (later on Dame Grease's 'Live on Lenox' The Album) Drunk by Myself (later on The Lost Tapes) Knockboots (Do's and Don't) (later on I Am.) Poppa Was a Player (later on The Lost Tapes) Fetus (Belly Button Window) (later on The Lost Tapes) Although several bootleg versions have appeared on the internet over the years, an official version of the intended double album has never leaked and it remains unclear whether or not it was ever completed. The concept of this album as can be seen by tracks such as 'Fetus' from The Lost Tapes was to be an autobiography of sorts for Nas. Some of the leaked songs were later released on the compilation LP The Lost Tapes in 2002. I Am.became one of the first major label releases to be widely leaked using MP3 technology. However, most of the original sessions were bootlegged forcing Nas to discard many songs and adjust the release to one disc.

This album was originally to have been a double album titled I Am.The Autobiography. received generally positive reviews from critics. I Am… would later be certified double platinum in the United States, making it Nas' second best-selling release behind It Was Written.

The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling over 470,000 copies in its first week of sales. Although he was able to use most songs, other songs that would have made I Am… a double album leaked onto the internet in MP3 format, forcing him to record new material for two separate single-disc releases (hence, the release of Nastradamus in the same year). Following the commercial and critical success of 1996's It Was Written, Nas put to work on a double album that merged the styles of his first two albums and detailed entire aspects of his life. is the third studio album by American rapper Nas, released on April 6, 1999, by Columbia Records.

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