Allen Iverson (born June 7, 1975, in Hampton, Virginia), nicknamed A.I. and The Answer, is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association.

Illmatic is the debut album by rapper Nas, released on April 19, 1994 through Columbia Records, and featuring production from Large Professor (of Main Source), Pete Rock (of Pete Rock & CL Smooth), Q-Tip (of A Tribe Called Quest) and DJ Premier (of Gang Starr), as well as a guest appearance from AZ.

Publications ranging from the The Source to the NME have since recognized it as one of the greatest albums ever created in hip hop history. The album holds the distinction of being one of the few hip hop albums to be included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, ranking at #400.

On December 11, 2001, Illmatic was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and as of that month was selling 3,000 copies a week in the U.S. A remastered commemorative edition of Illmatic was issued by Columbia for the album's tenth anniversary in 2004, with a bonus disc of four remixes and two previously unreleased tracks.

Armand Van Helden (born 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a record producer and remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow," which reached the top of the UK Singles Chart, and his own track "U Don't Know Me," which was Number 1 in the United Kingdom in January 1999.