Pictures from Jay-Z's The Dynasty album release party back in 2000

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Revisiting it now. 1st 5 joints is all still great. The intro still go hard, Change The Game, I Just Wanna Love U, This Can't Be Life all still sound the test of time.
"Get Your Mind Right Mami" was aight but typical song that could've been the average single for the radio.

1-900 hustler, Parking lot pimpin, Where have you been, Soon you’ll understand are all gems too
 

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Album had a lot of heat imo, Guilty Til Proven Innocent is Jay at his best:

Jigga hit me over the head with a champagne bottle at the bar, can he buy me a car?
Nah, how do you equate your pain?, would it all go away if I bought you a Range?
I got 1 or 2 of those, nothing gonna change.

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jay was so arrogant :blessed:
 

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jay was so arrogant :blessed:

I loved that arrogance, he was sonning everything in sight back then, Jay is the goat imo.

Friend or Foe 1&2 was that sarcastic/arrogant flow at its finest, brought to life by those Streets is Watching visuals.

1

Check one check two, you know what to do
Primo, cold crush when I give it to you
Friend or foe yo, state your biz
Ya tend to dough, ah, there it is
Me, I run the show, oh, and these kids
Don't like nobody commin around here fukkin wit they doe for shyt
You enterprisin though,
And I like it
But fukk with the big dogs though, I gotta bite ya,
Look, its out of my hands
And you gettin money round here, its not in the plans
So hop yo ass out of that van, head back to kansas
I'm sendin nikkas back up in campuses
Chance is slimmer than that chick in calvin klien pantses
Let me guess, they said it was money round here
And the rest is me stoppin you from gettin it, correct?
Sorry to hear that, my guess is you got work at the hotel
I'll take care of that, you'll see, now please
Give me the room key
You're twitchin, don't do that, you makin me nervous
My crew, well, they do pack, them nikkas is murderous
So would ya, please put your hand back in sight
They don't like to see me nervous you can understand that, right?
You draw, better be picasso, y'know the best
Cause if this is not so, ah, god bless
You leave me no choice, I leave you no voice
Believe me son I hate to do it just as bad as you hate to see it done
Now calm your boys,
Cause I'm findin it a little hard to concentrate with all the noise
Get the point, I'll let ya go,
Before ya leave, I guess I aughta let you know, I need those keys
And promise you never, no matter the weather
Evaevaevaevaevaevaevaevaeva come around here no mo

2

I'm done talking
Ran up in the spot gun smoking
Shot it in the air, one woke him
Sun-soaking, sweating in his bed like Dunlo
Thinking to himself what done provoked him
His thoughts is racing like a Vulcan
I swear I saw a light bulb when
He finally figured out who was the culprit
I said yeah, remember me from Friend or Foe when
I told you don't ever ever come around here no more
Time to pay now, he tried to rise, I wave the gun - lay down
This time you're really going to listen to Jay now
I try to talk sensibly, hoping that eventually you realize
I had this locked and it just wasn't meant to be
Plus I had sympathy and we all bought rims with your keys
And it wasn't afterthought that maybe you'll try to revenge me
But I was like "Nah", Homes had to know he was wrong
And if you caught me on the foul know you would sing me the same song
Plus you promised
And that's really no fun
And here I find you in this Motel 6 with all these guns
And all your goons, lined up in adjoining rooms
Like some wild cowboys coming to get me at high noon
But my mind's like a flower in bloom
Peep how my eyes just scower the room
I'm alert, plus I paid the clerk I got it laid out
You think you the first nikka I played out, in a 2 hotel town?
Come on now, I peep your Lexus at you
Left the exit got some nikkas on that side of the town
Money well invested, rudely interrupted
Jamaican accents (Boy you know who you dun fukked with?)
A gun in your face and that's all you can come up with?
I'm done talking, back up and clap them, one in the abdomen
Do me a favor dude, get 2 ice cubes I pass them
Take that ice up, for the nicest MC
And please yo, tell BIG, he's unbelievable
Friend or foe bytch!

:salute:
 
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I loved that arrogance, he was sonning everything in sight back then, Jay is the goat imo.

Friend or Foe 1&2 was that sarcastic/arrogant flow at its finest, brought to life by those Streets is Watching visuals.

1

Check one check two, you know what to do
Primo, cold crush when I give it to you
Friend or foe yo, state your biz
Ya tend to dough, ah, there it is
Me, I run the show, oh, and these kids
Don't like nobody commin around here fukkin wit they doe for shyt
You enterprisin though,
And I like it
But fukk with the big dogs though, I gotta bite ya,
Look, its out of my hands
And you gettin money round here, its not in the plans
So hop yo ass out of that van, head back to kansas
I'm sendin nikkas back up in campuses
Chance is slimmer than that chick in calvin klien pantses
Let me guess, they said it was money round here
And the rest is me stoppin you from gettin it, correct?
Sorry to hear that, my guess is you got work at the hotel
I'll take care of that, you'll see, now please
Give me the room key
You're twitchin, don't do that, you makin me nervous
My crew, well, they do pack, them nikkas is murderous
So would ya, please put your hand back in sight
They don't like to see me nervous you can understand that, right?
You draw, better be picasso, y'know the best
Cause if this is not so, ah, god bless
You leave me no choice, I leave you no voice
Believe me son I hate to do it just as bad as you hate to see it done
Now calm your boys,
Cause I'm findin it a little hard to concentrate with all the noise
Get the point, I'll let ya go,
Before ya leave, I guess I aughta let you know, I need those keys
And promise you never, no matter the weather
Evaevaevaevaevaevaevaevaeva come around here no mo

2

I'm done talking
Ran up in the spot gun smoking
Shot it in the air, one woke him
Sun-soaking, sweating in his bed like Dunlo
Thinking to himself what done provoked him
His thoughts is racing like a Vulcan
I swear I saw a light bulb when
He finally figured out who was the culprit
I said yeah, remember me from Friend or Foe when
I told you don't ever ever come around here no more
Time to pay now, he tried to rise, I wave the gun - lay down
This time you're really going to listen to Jay now
I try to talk sensibly, hoping that eventually you realize
I had this locked and it just wasn't meant to be
Plus I had sympathy and we all bought rims with your keys
And it wasn't afterthought that maybe you'll try to revenge me
But I was like "Nah", Homes had to know he was wrong
And if you caught me on the foul know you would sing me the same song
Plus you promised
And that's really no fun
And here I find you in this Motel 6 with all these guns
And all your goons, lined up in adjoining rooms
Like some wild cowboys coming to get me at high noon
But my mind's like a flower in bloom
Peep how my eyes just scower the room
I'm alert, plus I paid the clerk I got it laid out
You think you the first nikka I played out, in a 2 hotel town?
Come on now, I peep your Lexus at you
Left the exit got some nikkas on that side of the town
Money well invested, rudely interrupted
Jamaican accents (Boy you know who you dun fukked with?)
A gun in your face and that's all you can come up with?
I'm done talking, back up and clap them, one in the abdomen
Do me a favor dude, get 2 ice cubes I pass them
Take that ice up, for the nicest MC
And please yo, tell BIG, he's unbelievable
Friend or foe bytch!

:salute:

Jay was spitting back then :obama:

What's your favorite Jay-Z album?
 
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I know it’s not that popular in here but I like Vol 1 best, the only track I don’t like on the album is ‘I know what girls like’

I respect that. Yeah, that "I know What Girls Like" joint was the only 1 on there I didn't like either. I didn't care for "Lucky Me" either.
 

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Everytime I hear "You, Me, Him and Her". I'm always brought back to the infamous summer jam where that beat dropped right on que after that famous line "Ask Nas he don't want it with Hov.......noooooooo" Also the diss to Amil with the changed hook which they all sung united.....

Jigga man what
Sigel Sigel Y'all
Memph Bleak uh
Amil-lion...........GONE:bryan:
 
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