In My Lifetime (the song) really is among Jay's best tracks

[987654321]

As we were @Shadow King

Yes.

 

[Shadow King]

As we were @Shadow King

Yes.

No.

 

[Cladyclad]

Damn daniel…

 

[Ohene]

Ive been saying this for yrs on this board

 

[ISO]

Nah, Jay hadn’t found his style yet he was still doing the fast rap and voice inflections on that and more multis.

It’s a dope track in his old style though.

“I never slept cause sleeping keeps you deep in debt, on the block you be lucky if you even see my silhouette”

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Nah, Jay hadn’t found his style yet he was still doing the fast rap and voice inflections on that and more multis.

It’s a dope track in his old style though.

“I never slept cause sleeping keeps you deep in debt, on the block you be lucky if you even see my silhouette”

It's not as animated as Original Flavor era though. It's not too different from his Reasonable Doubt flow (especially Feelin' It), just a little more animated and faster. But a clear departure from the goofy shyt like



I think the big difference is once Jay realized he actually had to talk about shyt on full-blown songs, he cleaned up the rough edges of his style

 

[FunkDoc1112]

This song is like the prototype of Lyrical Exercise