Vol 2...Hard Knock Life 20th anniversary Thread

[Newark88]

 

[OfTheCross]

jigga man in that bentley >
A Week Ago >

I was randomly thinking about this yesterday...

A Week Ago is probably the 1st song I'd play to someone who's never heard Jay Z

 

[Asicz]

COCAINE WHITER NOW

 

[Newark88]

 

[criminology]

shyt. Love or hate the album, I miss NY when music was everywhere. Anyone here actually old enough to remember NY when this came out? More than once on the A Train a teenager with a fukking boom box just playing hard knocks life on repeat. Still had boom boxes out there in ‘98. Now we ALL got iPhones, isolated, and wonder why NY music is struggling, strangled to death with some beats headphone cords by people who moved here in 2012.

 

[Tom Foolery]

Track comparison below. Just like I said they are even albums but Vol 2 is executed better.

1.Intro-A Million And One Questions/Rhyme No More
1.Intro–Hand It Down

2.The City Is Mine
2.Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)

3.I Know What Girls Like
3.If I Should Die

4.Imaginary Player
4.Ride or Die

5.Streets Is Watching
5.nikka What, nikka Who (Originator 99)

6.Friend or Foe '98
6.Money, Cash, Hoes

7.Lucky Me
7.A Week Ago

8.(Always Be My) Sunshine
8.Coming of Age (Da Sequel)

9.Who You Wit II
9.Can I Get A...

10.Face Off
10.Paper Chase

11.Real nikkaz
11.Reservoir Dogs

12.Rap Game/Crack Game
12.It's Like That

13.Where I'm From
13.It's Alright

14.You Must Love Me
14.Money Ain't a Thang

 

[AMcV'88]

"the re-release of THE CLASSIC album"
"classic, should have went triple"



they knew Jay released a masterpiece and wanted its due.

 

[Danie84]

Gangstas don't die they get Chubby and move to Miami

 

[semicko82]

The GOAT

 

[OfTheCross]

Track comparison below. Just like I said they are even albums but Vol 2 is executed better.

1.Intro-A Million And One Questions/Rhyme No More
1.Intro–Hand It Down

2.The City Is Mine
2.Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)

3.I Know What Girls Like
3.If I Should Die

4.Imaginary Player
4.Ride or Die

5.Streets Is Watching
5.nikka What, nikka Who (Originator 99)

6.Friend or Foe '98
6.Money, Cash, Hoes

7.Lucky Me
7.A Week Ago

8.(Always Be My) Sunshine
8.Coming of Age (Da Sequel)

9.Who You Wit II
9.Can I Get A...

10.Face Off
10.Paper Chase

11.Real nikkaz
11.Reservoir Dogs

12.Rap Game/Crack Game
12.It's Like That

13.Where I'm From
13.It's Alright

14.You Must Love Me
14.Money Ain't a Thang

TI and Juvenile did similar things with Soulja Rags and 400 Degreez as well as Trap Musik and Urban Legend

 

[semicko82]

I remember people skipping class just to buy this album.