What are your opinions of Jay-Z Vol.2 Hard Knock Life album?

[Alvin]

I personally think it could be his best album bc it mixes the perfect of amount of street shyt with pop hits

not to mention it has this song

 

[OfTheCross]

Issa classic

 

[Trilogy]

Classic album... fukk what anybody says

 

[Asicz]

I just learned that Eric Sermon helped produce Reservoir Dogs with Rocwilder

 

[Zero]

Awful album save 4 songs

 

[Controversy]

It was the biggest hip hop album of 98

 

[Canada Goose]

Hard Knock life
If I die
A week ago
Money cash hoes
Nikka What, Nikka who
Coming of Age Part 2
Can I get A.....


Are the only good songs, rest of the album is trash.

 

[1-8-7-Skillz]

"A Week Ago" is a classic song
Some other dope songs but also some Boring shyt

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

i always thought it was weak but its grown on me in recent years...its def one of his best albums...but still under RD and Vol 1 for me.

 

[Piffery]

I think it's incredible, and I can play it through at anytime and be happy.
The best of the Volumes easily.

 

[Alvin]

It was the biggest hip hop album of 98

over DMX?!

 

[THE MACHINE]

My second favorite Jay album behind blueprint. It has its flaws but I just vibe well with this one. He's floating all over everything.

Even the overlooked tracks have so many incredible bars

As a young'un, dumb and gun in the waist
Sold crack to those who couldn't take the pain
And had to numb it with base
Couldn't drink the Henny straight, I needed somethin to chase
Nowadays I throw shots back, leavin' nothin' to waste
Life's like a treadmill, nikkas runnin' in place
Gettin nowhere fast, a whole year done past
I vowed to never stop winnin', 'til the earth stop spinnin'
Rock hot linen, cop hot cars and hot women
If it's not him then you got it confused, y'all not rememberin'
My motto is simply "I will not lose!"
Abide by the block rules, I buy my Glocks used
Wit bodies on it, let me know anybody want it?
I'm raised, illrational, way misunderstood
If you ain't live like I live, been one with the hood
I done what I could, to come up with this paper 'til this day still
Run with the hood, guess it's part of my nature
If hell awaits a, nikka I'm comin' with the razors
Still flashin' ya shyt, try to pass me in a Six
Type classy on the wrists, every bit of 30 karats
This is, not a game this is not why I came
May these words find a spot on your brain and burn
Then I recycle my life I shall Return.

I'm a hop skip and a jump from grippin' the pump
Spittin' a couple of curse words, and hittin' you chump
shyt, I get digits in lumps
I'm a motherfukkin' problem, is this what you want?
Overachiever, I love chicks that puff cheeba in reefer paper
I hate the ones that blow up ya beeper
Cause I, go in deeper, I only bone divas
Impregnate the world when I come through your speakers (ha ha!)
fukk hot, my records got the fever
nikkas kick dirt, get ya whole block sweeped up
I creep up when the beef heats up
Caught him with his feet up and shoes off, bout to snooze off
Hatin', cause you can't turn the booze off
You dudes is too soft, why I don't fukk with you all
I might bark with X, or spit at The Lox
But, other than that, I don't be fukkin' with cats
Just me, Ty and B-High, thug it like that
E, Dame and Biggs, what's fukkin' with that?
Y'all can never diss Jigga, get nothin' for that
Other than a couple of slugs in ya back (huh huh)
Rappers y'all, runnin' around like I won't gun ya down
Last nikka that fronted, two shots spun him around
Lord, accept this offerin' here's somethin' for your crown
I meant no malice, I just met his challenge and won

 

[Asicz]

I think the anti Swizz Beatz bias and anti non traditional NY production on the L.P.
affects the way the album gets regarded over time.

It's a classic / near classic album at the least.

 

[Asicz]

I'm a hop skip and a jump from grippin' the pump
Spittin' a couple of curse words, and hittin' you chumps

"It's Like That"

 

[THE MACHINE]

I'm a hop skip and a jump from grippin' the pump
Spittin' a couple of curse words, and hittin' you chumps

All I Want

I get digits in lumps/
Ima muthafukkin problem, is this what you want?