In retrospect, "In My Lifetime, Vol. 1" really ain't a bad album at all.
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NYK Loyalist
All Star
I've always found it interesting how this album gets hate when it has some of his best songs but Vol 3 rarely gets hate when the only song I would put in a Jay playlist is So Ghetto. The production on that album is 
I love Latina women
Veteran
I've always found it interesting how this album gets hate when it has some of his best songs but Vol 3 rarely gets hate when the only song I would put in a Jay playlist is So Ghetto. The production on that album is
Vol. 3 had some shyt
Come and Get Me
NYMP
It's Hot
Do It Again
Watch Me
So Ghetto
Hova Song
S. Carter
Big Pimpin
Jigga My nikka
There's Been a Murder
You sleeping, bruh
Reebok Jones
Pro
I was just gonna come in here and blast those exact two songs real quick
Newark88
Superstar
Jay absolutely BODIED that track. I remember reading somewhere that he said in retrospect that he should've pushed Streets Is Watching as the lead single for Vol 1. That I agree with but as people said in here, Sunshine was not a bad track at all. It sampled the classic 80's "Rockin It" song and had Babyface on the hook. It was a good standard commercial radio record for the time. I wasn't mad at it at all. Yea the video was a lil nervous tho lol. But like someone said, some of his most hardest, slick, vulgar, vulnerable, and greatest songs are on Vol 1.that third verse on streets is watching... jay lost his fukking mind.
My street mentality: flip bricks forever
You know me and money, we like armed co-defendants
nikka we stick together
shyt whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground
Hustle harder until secret indictment time came around
Then you can look up and down the streets but I can't be found
Put in twenty-four hour shifts but, that ain't me now
Got a face too easy to trace, nikkas mouths got slow leaks
Had to hire a team of workers, couldn't play those streets
Stay out of space like Mercury, you jerkin me? Hectic
Had to call upon my wolves to send nikkas a message
I said this: "Let's play fair and we can stay here"
I'm trying to transform these boys II men like daycare
A Million And One Questions/Rhyme No More
Imaginary Player
Streets Is Watching
Friend Or Foe 98
Lucky Me
Who You Wit
Face Off
Real N*ggaz
Where I'm From
You Must Love Me
Rap Game/Crack Game
Plus you add The Steets Is Watching VHS and soundtrack to this, overall this is probably my favorite era of Jay.
notorious8562
Sine Metu
It's his second best album, so no, it's ain't bad at all.
Always like the album, a solid 3.5/5. This was Jigga trying to find the balance between commercial and streets imo. Over reached a few times for the pop audience but good album, was never bad.
Middle Finga U
Paper Chaser by Nature
I Know What Girls Like has to be the WOAT Jay song. I've skipped that song for so long I forgot it was on the album.
The only other song I didn't care for was surprisingly not Sunshine but Rap Game/Crack Game. I don't know it was something about the production that didn't do anything for me.
The only other song I didn't care for was surprisingly not Sunshine but Rap Game/Crack Game. I don't know it was something about the production that didn't do anything for me.
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
It was a good album.
The problem for most people, that I can understand, is going from RD to this. The radio reaches like "Sunshine" and "I Know What Girls Like" seemed mad forced. So that kinda threw off the vibe of the album. But some of his best work was on this album too. Few classic joints. "Rhyme No More" was on this, so I've always been good with Vol.1.
The problem for most people, that I can understand, is going from RD to this. The radio reaches like "Sunshine" and "I Know What Girls Like" seemed mad forced. So that kinda threw off the vibe of the album. But some of his best work was on this album too. Few classic joints. "Rhyme No More" was on this, so I've always been good with Vol.1.
His 4th or 5th best album after TBA, RD, BP1 and maybe AG
legendary cuts like Where I'm From, You Must Love Me, Streets Is Watching, Rap Game/Crack Game...how can someone not appreciate this?
The dropoff to Vol 2 was hard and brutal
legendary cuts like Where I'm From, You Must Love Me, Streets Is Watching, Rap Game/Crack Game...how can someone not appreciate this?
The dropoff to Vol 2 was hard and brutal
Of course it's not a bad album lol. What you probably meant to say was "This is a good ass album 
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Newark88
Superstar
I Know What Girls like could've been better if it wasn't for the cheesy hook. The lyrics were there.
Agreed.
Agreed the lyrics were there, but it showed you what a shytty hook can do to a song.
I'm in the minority who thought Sunshine was a good song 
cats on here ALWAYS hate his uptempo player tracks 
like
Jigga My nikka
The Bounce
Tom Ford
nikka Please etc...I think those are the type of tracks where he gets in his zone
cats on here ALWAYS hate his uptempo player tracks likeJigga My nikka
The Bounce
Tom Ford
nikka Please etc...I think those are the type of tracks where he gets in his zone
He has extended mixes of both of thoseI'm always mad he didn't separate the 2 different beats on One in a Million into 2 separate classic songs
UpAndComing
Veteran
I'm in the minority who thought Sunshine was a good song
Jigga My nikka
The Bounce
Tom Ford
nikka Please etc...I think those are the type of tracks where he gets in his zone
He has extended mixes of both of those
