On this day 25 Years ago, Jay Z releases his masterpiece Reasonable Doubt

[Losttribe]

People hating on this album don't even have legit reasons and never present a real pov.

 

[Losttribe]

Nas stans hate this album but it's a certified classic

Nas Stans.. love this album

It's the Pac stand that hate it

 

[mson]

 

[Rapmastermind]

Check out my Two Disc 25 Anniversary Track list. Featuring remixes from the singles and other B-sides.

Disc 1

1. Can't Knock the Hustle Featuring Mary J Blige
2. Politics As Usual
3. Brooklyn's Finest Featuring B.I.G.
4. Dead Presidents II
5. Feelin It featuring Mecca
6. D'Evils
7. Two 22's
8. Can I Live
9. Ain't No nikka Featuring Foxy Brown
10. Friend or Foe
11. Coming of Age Featuring Memphis Bleek
12. Cashmere Thoughts
13. Bring it On Featuring Big Jaz and Sauce Money
14. Regrets

Disc 2
15. Can't knock the Hustle (Fool's Paradise Remix) featuring Melisa Morgan
16. Dead Presidents I
17. Can I Live II
18. Dead or Alive Featuring Sauce Money
19. Ain't No Playa (Rae & Christian Mix) Featuring Foxy Brown
20. In My Lifetime (Big Jaz Radio Remix)
21. In My Lifetime (Original Ski Street Version)
22. Can't Get Wit That (Clark Kent Mix)
23. Ain't No Playa (Ganja Kru Techno Mix) Featuring Foxy Brown
24.Can't Knock The Hustle (Hani Techno Mix) Featuring Mary J. Blige

 

[Champion]

D'Evils

 

[FunkDoc1112]

alot of people on here downplay this album because THEY were late.

they do the same thing to illmatic as well and try to say some chit like IWW was better.

this is easily jay's best album by far and it was heavy in the streets in real-time on the east coast.
and as far as nobody knowing he existed nationally, the guy was getting daytime spins on MTV and stood next to foxy brown for pete's sake.





you claim to be in your 50s and from new jersey, but yet you say some stupid chit like this.

i always knew you were lying about that, but now im beginning to think that youre a 23 year old russian.

Yeah I've noticed in the last 2 years that this board has been fronting on Illmatic and reasonable Doubt while overrating It Was Written and In My Lifetime. So fukking bizarre.

 

[Formerly known as...]

Reasonable doubt is a classic, don't let nobody tell you otherwise. You can like this and Illmatic you know!

No need to debate or compare all albums. Appreciate this masterpiece for what it is.

 

[Deltron]

Yeah I've noticed in the last 2 years that this board has been fronting on Illmatic and reasonable Doubt while overrating It Was Written and In My Lifetime. So fukking bizarre.

I see it less as overrating and more of appreciating.

We all already know Illmatic and RD are classics.

Think people are just revisiting the other LP's in the discograph and finding new found appreciation for those LP's.

 

[Change]

We all already know Illmatic and RD are classics.

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Do we? I see a lot of kids from the Midwest that say it wasn't hitting like that at recess time.

 

[Deltron]

Do we? I see a lot of kids from the Midwest that say it wasn't hitting like that at recess time.

they classics

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Did this man really say he’s only doing one album?? Glad he lied about that.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

I see it less as overrating and more of appreciating.

We all already know Illmatic and RD are classics.

Think people are just revisiting the other LP's in the discograph and finding new found appreciation for those LP's.

Maybe IWW, but In My Lifetime has way too many duds for me to give it anything more than 3.5 mics.

 

[Wacky D]

Uhh,’she was the reason for the spins

Still doesn’t make it a classic. So you saying it was a tri-state classic?

the point is, how can somebody say that nobody knew jay-z when he had a big hit, regardless of foxy being the star of it.
im just pointing out how disingenuous some of these arguments are.

east coast is bigger than the tri-state.
are you willing to admit that illmatic, infamous, OB4CL and all these other albums were just east coast......or tri-state classics as well??

The difference? People organically came around to IWW whereas Reasonable Doubt was practically campaigned into people’s consciousness by Jay-Z

IWW is campaigned more than RD.

and the revisionist rank of IWW is downright ridiculous.

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

IWW is campaigned more than RD.

and the revisionist rank of IWW is downright ridiculous.

Not at all. Nas rarely talked about IWW or saying it was unappreciated and he didn't made documentaries about it. IWW start to gain appreciation during the years because of some rappers talking about how they discovered nas with IWW and were influenced by it. And because the original desdain for the commercial side of IWW was a non factor with the way rap evolved

 

[Harry B]

Do we? I see a lot of kids from the Midwest that say it wasn't hitting like that at recess time.

Trust
1. kids
2. kids from a region that had two notable acts during the whole decade. Do these kids even know more than two btnh songs and a single common song?


Unless you have broad and solid hiphop knowledge, why would you even talk about what is what.