How many mics did Jay-Z's album In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 get in The Source?

[Bigblackted4]

Great B Sides

 

[re'up]

Vol. 2 has "A Week Ago", to give it that weight, which was always, always, a favorite from the moment I heard it, because Jay spit so raw on it, the disgust just dripping in his tone, but it needed one more to close it out, along the lines of "Wishing On a Star", or "Where Have You Been". Jay was known for that always, the last track vulnerability

Reasonable Doubt: Regrets
In My Lifetime Vol. 1: You Must Love Me
Hard Knock Life Vol. 2: Money Ain't a Thing (though It's Like That, is close)
Vol. 3 There's Been a Murder/Come and Get Me/NYMP/HOVA song, no one can argue that
The Dynasty: Where Have You been
The Blueprint: Momma Loves Me

We're not going to get into BP2 and beyond lol

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

Vol. 2 has "A Week Ago", to give it that weight, which was always, always, a favorite from the moment I heard it, because Jay spit so raw on it, the disgust just dripping in his tone, but it needed one more to close it out, along the lines of "Wishing On a Star", or "Where Have You Been". Jay was known for that always, the last track vulnerability

Reasonable Doubt: Regrets
In My Lifetime Vol. 1: You Must Love Me
Hard Knock Life Vol. 2: Money Ain't a Thing (though It's Like That, is close)
Vol. 3 There's Been a Murder/Come and Get Me/NYMP/HOVA song, no one can argue that
The Dynasty: Where Have You been
The Blueprint: Momma Loves Me

We're not going to get into BP2 and beyond lol

Week ago


The lawyer I retained you said you leakin some things
All this after a week in the bang
I'm mad at myself cause I didn't spot the weak and lame
I woulda bet the house you wouldn't speak a thang
nikka this was the oath, to the top of broke
Even pricked our finger, anything that got between us
we sposed to cock the ninas, what happened to that?
Instead you copped out to a misdemeanor
fukk it, the same thing make you laugh make you cry
That's right, the same game that make you mad could make you die
It's a dice game, and sometimes you crap
Who woulda thought you'd get popped one time and rap?
Now you know that's bad when your sister is mad
and your son gotta grow up like, "This is my dad?"
The labelling of a snitch is a lifetime scar
You'll always be in jail nikka, just minus the bars


shyt hit different when you been in the shyt before

 

[re'up]

My favorite bars are

Had nikkaz thinkin I was from Uptown for real
I had so much hustle plus I was down to ill
Like a Brooklyn nikka, straight out of Brownsville
Down and dirty, down to fight the round thirty
Freezin on them corners still holdin my crack
Lookin up and down the block, the fukk is the dough at?
Came from flat broke to lettin the dough stack
You tell them feds I said I'm never goin back
I'm from Marcy, and Marcy don't raise no rats
You know the consequences of your acts, you can't be serious

Raw shyt

 

[OHSNAP!]

U wanna compare that to Where I'm From, You Must Love Me, RGCG, Lucky Me, Imaginary Player,Streets Is Watching???? GTFOH!

 

[OHSNAP!]

You right, Hard Knock Life should have gotten 5

Volume 3 is by far Jay worst album and the shyt ain't close. He tried to mix everything in there, doing songs for every coast but the shyt ain't work at all.

Terrible take. Maybe switch to Macarena and Mambo Nr 5 brah

 

[Cloud McFly]

U wanna compare that to Where I'm From, You Must Love Me, RGCG, Lucky Me, Imaginary Player,Streets Is Watching???? GTFOH!

Wasn’t trying to compare to anything, but you said the cuts I bolded were bland and/or uninspired, while I feel quite the opposite.

Not to down Vol. 1, as I love that album, but I’d take NWNW, Reservoir Dogs, and It’s Like That over RGCG. The latter two would actually fit perfectly on Vol. 1.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

A Million & One
Imaginary Players
Streets Is Watching
Friend Or Foe 98
Lucky Me
Who You Wit
Real nikkax
Where I’m From
You Must Love Me

Wow..some of the finest work of a 1st ballot Hall Of Famer. Thinking about this album makes it such a shock that Jay-Z became what he did. Not in my wildest dreams did I think THAT guy would grow to be THAT big of a deal.

These were the days when this guy would perform in Kevlar & stand in one spot moving his hands like a crossing guard..those were the fukking days

This will always be my favorite era from this guy

 

[The Dust King]

My favorite Jay album, I don't think I heard until 1999, after I got Vol. 2, I heard "Sunshine", and "The City is Mine" and had to have this, even if I used my lunch money and change to buy a used copy.

Intro/A Million And One 5/5
The City is Mine 5/5
Imaginary Player 5/5
Streets Is Watching 5/5
Lucky Me 5/5
Where I'm From 5/5
You Must Love Me 5/5

I think that is his best work ever, on an album, just Jay at his essence, the hustler, before the larger than life persona, but the flossy and grimy Jay, the Versace swagger and most humane, regretful, I think it's his best work as an artist, with Reasonable Doubt second, and Vol. 2, third. I was barely 13 when I bought Vol. 2, so of course age plays into this, but to me, Jay's first three are his best. By far. The edges were sharper and the flossing was the Bad Boy era, which was always my favorite.

city is mine 5
friend or foe 5
sunshine 5
who u wit 5
faceoff 5
rap game 5
wishing in a star 5

 

[LevelUp]

 

[LevelUp]

 

[Izanami]

It being the anniversary, I recently revisited this album this to me is a strong 3.5 mics for me. The filler and commercial tracks are amongst some of Jays worst. I love the top tracks but the bad outweighs the good

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

top 3 jay album

rd/tbp1
vol. 1