Better Debut Album: It’s Dark and Hell is Hot or Reasonable Doubt?

[Conscious Pilot]

What’s good brehs, Ring Gang Radio collective of @LauderdaleBoss @patscorpio and myself decided to do a retro review and discuss which of these goat tier rappers debut album was a better outing. Check it out and drop your thoughts in here. Much Love.
Shouts out to @King P and @PJTech

 

[imfromthesouthside]

It’s dark most definitely. RD doesn’t have better songs than Stop Being Greedy, Get at Dog, RR Anthem, Crime Story, How It’s going down, X is coming. Plus Dmx had better professional videos. He had the world on fire with his album. Jay-Z wasn’t in the conversation among Nas, Mobb Deep, Biggie, 2Pac, Snoop Doggy Dogg, UGK, Too Short, Geto Boys, E-40, those are artists we played in 1996 and what you heard out of cars not jay z. I admit he ran the world in 1998. But in 1996 he was the guy with the cool song with foxy brown. But he wasn’t what he was 2 years later.

 

[Omar Little]

Reasonable Doubt. I preferred Jays lyricism on there.

 

[FreshAIG]

I play Dark more, so that's my pick. Dark is in my top 5 favorite rap albums. RD is close though.

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Both excellent and perfect in their own ways....


....but RD was just a great album to me. Whereas "It's Dark..." kind of changed my life at the time, and I saw it change other peoples around me.

RIP X.

 

[ThirdAct]

That's a hard one, I honestly can't choose. RD def got it locked on lyricism though.

 

[FreshAIG]

Both excellent and perfect in their own ways....


....but RD was just a great album to me. Whereas "It's Dark..." kind of changed my life at the time, and I saw it change other peoples around me.

RIP X.

Yeah I don't think any album had a bigger impact on my life than It's Dark and Hell is Hot

 

[areohbee824]

I prefer Reasonable Doubt personally but DMX took over the planet with this album and I love this album too

 

[Dipsey Doo]

Reasonable Doubt has gotten way overrated over time IMO. Accolades came way after Jay was established as a mainstream star.

It's Dark was a complete bat out of hell. Album put the East Coast back on top and filled the void 2Pac left.

 

[spliz]

IDAHIH literally meant the world to me when it dropped. RD was just super fire. I think if I’m being honest to myself it’s IDAHIH for me but I wouldn’t be mad at anyone putting RD over it.

 

[Cladyclad]

Jay Z the goat

 

[Metal Face]

It's Dark is harder

RD is too RnBish

 

[ChuckTaylor84]

It's Dark and Hell is hot intro

 

[Food Mane]

It's Dark. Reasonable Doubt aged really well. But if we're talking debut album It's Dark and Hell is Hot had one of the biggest immediate impacts of any debut album of any genre ever.

 

[ajnapoleon]

This is the coli


Bow wow first album is better than any Jay album on here