Did Jay-Z write any of Reasonable Doubt?

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heads up: youre easily, top 3 WOAT in the Booth..

Ill personally make sure, your demise is in the immediate future.. feel free to respond, but just know.. youre time is running up here.. :salute:

Jigga stans all in they feelings :mjgrin: I already stated Jay Z is a great businessman and that I bought the Blueprint, it's one of my favorite albums. But miss me with all this GOAT rapper sh*t, you can't be a GOAT rapper and spit a written from your album, you're no better than Drake or Troy Ave. Cry me a river. Nikkaz wanna resort to censorship because they don't want to hear facts, what part of the game is that? #absolutepowercorruptsabsolutely :hhh:
 

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Exactly.

ALL the greats have done this at one point or another.

The only rappers who TRULY freestyle and do it well are Lupe Fiasco, KRS One, Oddisee, Black Thought, and Common.

You can throw Em in there too I suppose.


There’s no shame in spitting a written or two. Rappers have literally been doing it forever

Not so sure about Lupe but now we are in the realm of real emcees. I would cautiously add Twista, Kweli, and Mos Def off the top of my head to that list. And again for the record I don't think it's a shame to spit a written either. But cotdamn not one of your most recent singles. I really think Black Thought is a super underrated emcee by the way, he's top 15 for me.
 

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LMAO dudes will go so out of their way to stan, Jay CLEARLY stole the flow to the song not to mention the hook was already done so even the concept was stolen, imo jay even bit some of their cadence on the whole RD album, plus jay known to shark even afterwards, "Can I get A" was Ja's song. "Give it to me" was whatever roc flunkie was on the hook, The dynasty album was a roc album, jay just went around the studio like anything hot im stealing and that's from his own label that hes supposedly trying to help succeed, and this dude acting like puffy when he stole everyones record for that puff and the family album. dudes like cam and 50 were giving away hits so their artists could prosper, meantime jay so stuck on fame hes jacking shyt from his own artists let alone camp lo
 

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What I do?! :damn::wtf::picard::sadcam:
You threw rocks at Jay-Z by suggesting that he somehow did not actually had or does not actually have the capacity to do all the 'writing' in his head

Nobody give a fukk that you are focusing on Reasonable Doubt.. they are not feeling the implied diss

Type carefully, Coli Streets is Watching
 

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Exactly.

ALL the greats have done this at one point or another.

The only rappers who TRULY freestyle and do it well are Lupe Fiasco, KRS One, Oddisee, Black Thought, and Common.

You can throw Em in there too I suppose.


There’s no shame in spitting a written or two. Rappers have literally been doing it forever

Both times I've seen Odd rap on radio/video (Sway and Westwood) they were verses from projects.

Does he have actual freestyle videos/audio?

I don't care either way (it's not important) but I didn't know he could/has gone off the top before.
 

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You can't name ONE rapper that gets nikkas as heated as Hov, and this nikka damn near 60 years old and nikkas still mad to this day. If that don't prove he the GOAT I don't know what does.

You can't not be the GOAT if you on nikkas minds this much and ya debut album came out in 96. Peep this nikka in here goin extra hard :damn:
 

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Jay Z's media team coming here to explain how it's OK to be the GOAT rapper and spit writtens from a current single in a freestyle:

"Everybody else does it" :mjlol:

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"But he's real" :mjlol:

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"Have some breakfast first" :mjlol:

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It's like these nikkaz findin' out Santa Claus isn't real and sh*t :dead:
What does any of this have to do with what I posted? :dwillhuh:
And as for your assertion that GOAT rappers never spit writtens in freestyles, I don’t know what else to say other than you’re terribly wrong :yeshrug:
 

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I know this was the only album where he wrote rhymes on pen and paper, but that was probably during the early sessions. By the time he recorded "Brooklyn's Finest," he wasn't doing that anymore because he and Biggie kept passing each other a blank pad to write something down and they weren't. :pachaha:
It’s actually the opposite I thought. I remember hearing that most of the album was rhymes in his head. There was one song where he had to sit down and write new rhymes. I have a feeling it was politics as usual or can I live.
 

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I know Jay doesn't write. But I seen a video around the time 444 or mchg where he clearly had a pen in his had writing down lyrics.

I fukk with Jay z and yall gonna think I'm lying because I didn't provide a link

My boy dont write most of the times but sometimes he does lol.

He punches in one or two lines at a time in the booth, elsetimes he has the whole 16 written beforehand

I'd imagine Jay is the same.

Saying you don't write sounds amazing to people who havn't been in studio before lol
 

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It’s actually the opposite I thought. I remember hearing that most of the album was rhymes in his head. There was one song where he had to sit down and write new rhymes. I have a feeling it was politics as usual or can I live.

It was definitely "Can I Live," because that was the last song he remembers writing down. I wouldn't be surprised if he wrote two or three songs on paper, but then realized he didn't need to and just switched to memorizing his verses completely.
 
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You threw rocks at Jay-Z by suggesting that he somehow did not actually had or does not actually have the capacity to do all the 'writing' in his head

Nobody give a fukk that you are focusing on Reasonable Doubt.. they are not feeling the implied diss

Type carefully, Coli Streets is Watching

Oh, I wasn't trying to at all
I was just asking a question
 
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