I heard Reasonable Doubt for the first time today...

[Hugs]

This shyt was fire!!!! At the beginning I was like because Hov was just doing Big Daddy Kane type braggadocio. But the rest of the album was :fire:
Politics as Usual
Brooklyn's Finest

Dead Presidents II
Feelin' It

Spoiler

the hook especially

D'Evils the wordplay
22 Two's at the skits at the verses @ the beat
Can I Live
Ain't No nikka
Friend Or Foe
Coming Of Age
Cashmere Thoughts
Bring It On
Regrets
Can I Live II

This album was really ahead of it's time in terms of production. The only thing that's dated about it is Hov's rapping tbh.

 

[kj614]

You just got the Internet breh? Welcome to now

 

[stealthbomber]

my nikka u just heard it now

u never heard dead presidents or feelin it

 

[Hugs]

You just got the Internet breh? Welcome to now

 

[Hugs]

my nikka u just heard it now

u never heard dead presidents or feelin it

Not the whole album
Only heard DP2 and 22 two's before

 

[Nomad1]

dogshyt album.I haven't listened to that wack album in years.

 

[KyokushinKarateMan]

First we had a thread the other day about some rock-underdwelling brotha just seeing Menace II Society for the first time... now another sheltered square just now hearing Dead Presidents.

Salute for at least having enough sense to like it but where the hell are all you sheltered squarebobs coming from

 

[Hugs]

now another sheltered square just now hearing Dead Presidents.

Not the whole album
Only heard DP2 and 22 two's before

You really askin' for this neg, huh?

 

[Ineedmoney504]

You really askin' for this neg, huh?

breh u got 50 rep points, u aint scaring nobody, we can make u bloody now

now ima hov stan so i respect u likeing that album

but im negging u for just hearing and talking bout hove sounding like big daddy kain

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

damn you gotta be like 15 breh

 

[AB Ziggy]

OP is either a 90s baby or someone who grew up sheltered from hip hop by crazy ass parents.

 

[Foxmulder]

First we had a thread the other day about some rock-underdwelling brotha just seeing Menace II Society for the first time... now another sheltered square just now hearing Dead Presidents.

Salute for at least having enough sense to like it but where the hell are all you sheltered squarebobs coming from

Dudes could be young cats breh

 

[BronxFleeZ]

IM 18 and listened to it at 13

 

[KyokushinKarateMan]

Dudes could be young cats breh

I tried to rationalize it that way as well.. it's just that when I too was young, I still could quote scenes from Erik B. and Rakim and had seen Cooley High a million times.

I think my poorly delivered bigger point was that Black culture and the way Black youngsters are brought up, is fading.

Not just because he'd never heard "reasonable doubt", but because there'd never been some older brother, cousin, father, brotha on the block, who felt it neccessary to make/influence him to hear it.

It's along the same vein as the "soul food" thread or whatever.. OP listed a bunch of soul foods and asked how many people still know how to make those dishes outside of our grandmas.

It was a sobering truth.

 

[FlyRy]

my favorite album ever

GOAT