**DARKEST**/street/gutter/grimy Jay-Z songs (in the same vein as "Where I'm From")

[Whips-n-Chains]

There aren't really that many (as least that I'm aware of) but I've been wanting to dig up Hov's hardest (pause), most gutter, most hood tracks. fukk all the club shyt, fukk the hustlah shyt, I only wanna hear the Grimy, street ish...fukk cristol

Where I'm From will be #1...





Dead Presidents qualifies as grimy....but what else? Maybe Brooklyn's Finest? Bring it On? There has to be some non-RD tracks I'm forgetting

 

[Nostalgic]

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Yessir, idk how I forgot to include this in OP...underrated af

 

[MJ Truth]

So Ghetto
Squeeze 1st
Originators 99
Most of his Beanie collabs

These are feature or collabs but

Its Murda
Reservoir Dogs
Blackout

 

[Grand_Verbalizer]

Does D'evils apply ?



I think so

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Does D'evils apply ?



I think so

Yea it does...looking for more of a darker sound (i.e. Dead Presidents vs. D'Evils) but it still qualifies. Also, I know RD like the back of my hand, I'm trying to find guest appearances, soundtrack cuts, b-sides, remixes, unreleased ish, his other non-RD albums that I've forgotten about, etc.

 

[Nostalgic]

 

[Crumple]

There aren't really that many (as least that I'm aware of) but I've been wanting to dig up Hov's hardest (pause), most gutter, most hood tracks. fukk all the club shyt, fukk the hustlah shyt, I only wanna hear the Grimy, street ish...fukk cristol

Where I'm From will be #1...





Dead Presidents qualifies as grimy....but what else? Maybe Brooklyn's Finest? Bring it On? There has to be some non-RD tracks I'm forgetting

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/what-jay-z-tracks-have-the-first-grimiest-production-like-where-im-from.749295/

Similar thread and title like I made years ago

Mistake in title first is supposed to be darkest.

Lots of gems in there.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/what-jay-z-tracks-have-the-first-grimiest-production-like-where-im-from.749295/

Similar thread and title like I made years ago

Mistake in title first is supposed to be darkest.

Lots of gems in there.

Much appreciated, edited title. I'd loved to have heard more Hov on Hav, RZA, alc, etc. type beats.

 

[VBM]

Blackout verse?



And Jay on that DJ Paul production

 

[Metal Face]

the closet you'll get
Jay doesn't have that many grimey/raw beats compared to a Nas, Mobb or Wu

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Jay doesn't have that many grimey/raw beats compared to a Nas, Mobb or Wu

Never heard this first track...repped.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Introspective Jay just hits different . Dude made you believe he was the biggest fukking scumbag to come out of Marcy.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Jay-Z + Sauce Money = always a banger

 

[Dre Space Age]

Verse 4: Jay-Z]
Yeah, flow sicker every record
Watch shine, Glock nine, nikka, heavy necklace
Watch mine, 'bout to make nikkas very jealous
Ice in every letter, untouchable, can't fukk with duke
Thug spit, arms shake, who wan' gunplay
With the CEO of the coke on Broadway (huh?)
Never heard so many joints from one man
I make bytches, fukk it, I make the gun jam
Flow's like, sniffin' a hundred grams o' cocaine raw
Rip your whole brain off (uhh)
Make it real easy to lift your chain off
BK style (what), see Jay, how? (Uhh)
We don't play fair, we play foul
Go 'head, stand there, we spray crowds
Live from the 7-1 (8)
If there ever was one (great)
I'm him, nikka, times ten, what?