Pre-Reasonable Doubt Hov

[the rhyme king]

i thought it was bring it on that jay wanted nas and az to be on

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Didn't he want Nas on DP2? Or was that Can I live?

it was bring it on, az and nas was suppose to be on it, but they never showed up to the studio session, jay said this on rd documentary, so him sauce and jaz just spit on it

 

[Ineedmoney504]

The first Dead Presidents song dropped around November/December 95. The album dropped in late June 96. It was a nice lil gap between the single and album so I guess they updated it with new lyrics so it wouldn't feel old.

yea i feel that but that shyt need more shine then it got, i dont no anybody outside of the tri state area that heard that version they think its just a from freestyle fade to black tour

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

yo newark 88 do u think there was a difference between reasonble doubt jay or before
reasonble doubt jay ?

The difference is before and after jay heard illmatic

 

[Coach Gully]

I don't enough people realize how much Illmatic changed things for Hip-Hop. As much as I respect Jay-Z, Hov's flow was one of them.

 

[the rhyme king]

I don't enough people realize how much Illmatic changed things for Hip-Hop. As much as I respect Jay-Z, Hov's flow was one of them.

lmao

 

[Colilluminati]

All these joints is Pre-Reasonable Doubt Jay. Around 94/95 when he was still underground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys4SYf632C8
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Hov stole my heart with this 1

 

[FreshAIG]

[YOUTUBE]EFpetj-sA9k[/YOUTUBE]

 

[the rhyme king]

more wack shyt from that werido ^^^^^^^^^^

 

[FreshAIG]

[YOUTUBE]5KNcwfbzsNw[/YOUTUBE]

 

[FreshAIG]

[YOUTUBE]XEz4sHIBtn8[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Newark88]

Did Jay's flow change around 94/95? Yea. Was it because of Illmatic? I don't think so due to the fact that Jay and Nas never really rapped the same. Plus around late 93ish/early 94, the fast rapping, high voice, animated style of rhyming got played out. And it got played out before Illmatic came out. If anything, I would say Illmatic inspired rappers like Jay and others to step their spitting game up. But did Jay changed his whole style solely off of Illmatic? I highly doubt it because like I said, they never really rapped the same back then or now.

 

[the rhyme king]

Did Jay's flow change around 94/95? Yea. Was it because of Illmatic? I don't think so due to the fact that Jay and Nas never really rapped the same. Plus around late 93ish/early 94, the fast rapping, high voice, animated style of rhyming got played out. And it got played out before Illmatic came out. If anything, I would say Illmatic inspired rappers like Jay and others to step their spitting game up. But did Jay changed his whole style solely off of Illmatic? I highly doubt it because like I said, they never really rapped the same back then or now.

i think it was combanation of things i think it was mainly because of biggie
and that style just got played out.

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

You can post that freestyle he spit at the birthday party"met up with g rap on the road to riches"
That he later spit with big l

 

[DANJ!]

yea i feel that but that shyt need more shine then it got, i dont no anybody outside of the tri state area that heard that version they think its just a from freestyle fade to black tour

That was the first song that started building his buzz... and it was the version on the video, which was getting pretty regular play when it was out. Wasn't a mega-hit of course, but I don't think it's all that obscure. Although I will say that if it didn't hit your radar at that time, I can see how you don't remember that, because it did kinda get overall "replaced" by the second one.

And yeah man... 'Reach The Top' makes me sad... cause Jay himself prob. doesn't even have a no-DJ quality version of that song, and hearing it made me wish he had put that on Reasonable Doubt, or even a single. That joint deserved way more light than it'll ever get. I've heard most of his pre-RD unreleased stuff, and that song is the only one that makes me think he deserved to get signed.