Damn you old ass nikkaAAAAA:webbielol:
How Old Are You? Reasonable Doubt Is 18 Years Old Today
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forgetting all i ever knew convienent amnesia i suggest you call my lawyer i know the procedure lock my body cant trap my mind easily explain why we adapt to crime I rather die enormous than live dormant thats how we on it- 
great album, Jay at his prime Can I Live is one of my favorite hip hop songs ever
great album, Jay at his prime Can I Live is one of my favorite hip hop songs ever
Also coli posters anyone over the age of 30 isn't old. 55 is when that shyt starts
JuvenileHell
Veteran
Bring it on if you think you can hang 
If not then let me do my thing
If not then let me do my thing
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
Album dropped when i was 10...i didnt hear it until i was 12 around when Vol. 2 dropped. copped RD, Vol. 1, and Vol. 2 all within a few weeks of eachother.
oO J Smooth Oo
All Star
Was 11 when it dropped. Listened to this the other day fully its jiggas best cd by far. Do you think it got slept on 96 due to the standard of quality that was dropping weekly in my favourite era of hip hop?
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
Bring it on if you think you can hang
If not then let me do my thing
I love how cinematic and sweeping the strings on that isJay-Z is stupid, he needs to make another album with strings and horns. Have Just Blaze, Kanye, RZA, Preem work with an orchestra and a couple Jazz bands
you missed all the great eras in hiphop u stuck with this wack generation of fruitcake rappersI feel for you tho
Still did better than Illmatic and other major label promoted classics from that era, independentlyI don't understand why people get upset when you say hardly anybody was checking for this. It has nothing to do with the quality of the album, there was just too much shyt coming out back then, from higher profile rappers.
I knew one guy that copped this when it came out. He wasabout it so I gave it a spin, liked it a lot. "D'Evils" is still my favorite Jay song.
It was an uphill battle trying to convince people to listen to it though. Most people were listening to BONE, Wu, Outkast, Pac, etc. Then again I'm from the midwest.
Fred.
.So saying that no one was checking for it is completely irrelevant, comparing it to the commercial superstars who were at the Grammys and shyt while he had teams getting locked up for life is completely irrelevant.
It's known that it was indie, it's always the same people just mentioning this dumb super obvious observation. Which is why people get upset.
"Hey let's appreciate the greatness of RD"
And I can bet a stack on someone responding
"It didn't sell any records, it wasn't nominated for Grammys, he wasn't the most added on MTV, he wasn't on the cover of magazines".
But I've never seen you comment on the fact that since 98 he's been leading all those categories, why did you not give BP3 props for winning all those Grammys, selling all those records, topping all those charts. Nah, cause in those cases it's irrelevant.
That is the simple reason to why people shake their head at the same type of cats always mentioning this super stupid and super known fact. Jay himself had mentioned it on about three songs and a bunch of interviews. Motherfukkers mentioning commercial performance while discussing classic music is one of the worst inputs to the discussion of music. Now if we discuss hits, music business, money etc then we have a completely different discussion.
UpAndComing
Veteran
baracka zulu
I don't pop molly, but I'll fuk Rob Ford (nh)
*stops throating Nas*
Garbage.
*goes back to throating Nas while mumbling "fukk Jay Z" @ intervals*
Garbage.
*goes back to throating Nas while mumbling "fukk Jay Z" @ intervals*