Back in April of 1994, Illmatic hit record shops and people started talking about this Nas dude up in New York. Everyone started looking at the album like it was part of some east coast response to the gangster rap/G-Funk coming out of the West Coast for a few years at that point.

Filmmaker One9 directed Nas: Time is Illmatic, a documentary about the creation of that seminal album as well as the influences that the man behind it poured into one of the great records of that decade (and maybe one of the most important in hip-hop). That film will be making its debut on October 1, so in conjunction with the release, Nas is headed on tour across 14 dates throughout the month of October.

Here’s where it gets nuts: each tour date will have Nas screening the doc followed by a full performance of Illmatic from beginning to end (except for the Rochester and Vegas dates – tough luck).

You can find the tour dates below. If you can’t make it out to any of the showings, Nas has released Illmatic XX which is a special edition version of the classic album. It’s a little pricey, but you should give it a listen. The doc is getting a national release but will also be available via Video on-demand and iTunes.

Oct. 2nd Rochester, NY Main Street Armony
Oct. 3rd Albany, NY Palace Theatre
Oct. 4th Washington D.C. Lincoln Theatre (Matinee)
Oct. 5th Glenside, PA Keswick Theatre
Oct. 8th Toronto, ON Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Oct. 9th Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit
Oct. 10th Hammond, IN Horseshoe
Oct. 11th Lincoln, NE Bourbon Theatre
Oct. 12th Denver, CO Paramount Theatre
Oct. 15th Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
Oct. 16th Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
Oct. 17th Las Vegas, NV The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas*
Oct. 18th Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
Oct. 19th Oakland, CA Fox Theater