BK The Great
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true....plus one was 30 and the other was another teenager
Jay was making mature music since the beginning, Mase has some too early on but this was different.
Mase or Jay-Z?: The Source Asking Who Had The Better Rookie Album
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Jay was making mature music since the beginning, Mase has some too early on but this was different.
breh....it sold more.....had way more influence....and had crazy air/video play.....you from the D right? they were playing reasonable doubt on your TV and on your airwaves? get outta here
yo coli wolves pull up tour dates n lets end this nonsense.
wtf do sales got to do with being classicbreh....it sold more.....had way more influence....and had crazy air/video play.....you from the D right? they were playing reasonable doubt on your TV and on your airwaves? get outta here
yo coli wolves pull up tour dates n lets end this nonsense.
only when it comes to jay z is where sales determine is a album classic
harlem world is ok borderline good at best
you not familiar with children of the corn?
prior to his debut
jay-z prior to his debut.
stop the lies.
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BK The Great
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everything back then. Monkey barz from Sean Price is in my personal top5 LPs but I would never have the audacity to call it classic. Nobody knows who Sean Price is.
How is Harlem world not a classic when it literally changed rap.
Reasonable doubt has zero impact on rap. It didn't bring anything new 2 the table. Dope album but stop it. Ma$e changed how people rap and make LPs.
Jay-Z had to go back to the drawing board cause reasonable doubt was a dub. "Dumb down my lyrics 2 double up my dollars"
Not for nothing a lot of MCs didn't have 2 do that and had success. A lot of people blew major way younger than him. How many times did HOVA change his identity?
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Reasonable Doubt was the better album. Too bad Jay didn’t think so cause he bit pieces of Harlem World right after
exactly....great example.....jay-z literally has ma$e DNA in him after working with him and observing with him. he was a feature on Harlem world and ranks on the bottom end of that album. He was not rapping like that AT ALL PRIOR TO WORKING WITH MA$E.
case closed. hell of a chameleon tho.
BK The Great
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Jay didn’t sound like Mase until the 2nd album because that’s what was popular at the moment though. They had that Cheat On You together too. Mase dissed him on that I’m No Playa song.
its semantics at this point. the overall point is that Jay-Z constantly switched up as a grandpa.
I'm from the school where that means something. Not from the era where designer "wasn't a future biter" BROOKLYN THO
BK The Great
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I don’t really like to pick and choose between rappers I like. I listen to both still regularly. Mase & Jay are not the same artists though.
ThatTruth777
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I liked HW more 
I feel you but this whole thread is about giving credit where its due. They have been trying to re-image this shyt for a minute. I love RD especially as someone who rhymes. But NO history n the facts matter.
If we don't preserve this thats how platforms like COMPLEX get to re-write history.
Kill that noise.
2 many rappers are unsung and got plagiarized.
BK The Great
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I don’t really hear Mase on Reasonable Doubt as much from what I know, again they’re not the same artist. Jay is a rapper who raps about getting out the drug game. Mase was a fly dude getting chicks who played ball and rapped about the flamboyant rich lifestyle.