Duro is a mixer/engineer and now a label exec
JAY-Z - Anything
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Duro is a mixer/engineer and now a label exec
I think there has to be other reasonable explanation about the performance of this track on the charts.
It's not because of quality.
I think Rap game at the time had competition intensify at that moment with DMX and the South blowing up.
Not sure if my memory serves me.
It's not because of quality.
I think Rap game at the time had competition intensify at that moment with DMX and the South blowing up.
Not sure if my memory serves me.
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Right and the radio spins of Hard Knock Life I think we're becoming excessive at its height. Like it had a very long duration and frequency of spins on radio for that time.
Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
I like the hook to "Sunshine" but it sounds out of place with the rest of the song. I can't hear it without wanting to listen to "Cha Cha Cha" by MC Lyte instead.
Girls Best Friend was dope. It was on the Blue Streak soundtrack.
Say what you will about Hov. But he ALWAYS made dope crossover joints
Newark88
Superstar
Can we say probably the most underrated Jay single ever? One of my favorite Jay songs of all time where I still feel that it doesn’t get its just due. Also if I’m not mistaken, this along with Do It Again we’re out practically the same time. Cus if my memory serves correct, around December 99 both videos were out along with being on Hot 97 rotation.
Too much HKL trashing in this thread. One of my favorite memories playing a Jay song, is when I played Anything on a balcony on a starry night during college. But HKL is still one of the ultimate rap sing along songs, and it's aged very well/still gets fans to this day.
It's just more polished than Anything and is written perfectly, I can't rank Anything above it with this third verse.
"I don't know how to sleep,
I gotta eat, stay on my toes
Got a lotta beef, so logically, I prey on my foes
Hustlin' is still inside of me,
and as far as progress
You'd be hard-pressed
to find another rapper hot as me
I gave you prophecy on my first joint,
and y'all lamed out
Didn't really appreciate it 'til the second one came out
So I stretched the game out,
etched your name out
Put Jigga on top
and dropped albums non-stop for ya, nikka!"
It's just more polished than Anything and is written perfectly, I can't rank Anything above it with this third verse.
"I don't know how to sleep,
I gotta eat, stay on my toes
Got a lotta beef, so logically, I prey on my foes
Hustlin' is still inside of me,
and as far as progress
You'd be hard-pressed
to find another rapper hot as me
I gave you prophecy on my first joint,
and y'all lamed out
Didn't really appreciate it 'til the second one came out
So I stretched the game out,
etched your name out
Put Jigga on top
and dropped albums non-stop for ya, nikka!"
he_is_I
All Star
This song has always been my shyt... kept me motivated when I was younger. A few weeks ago I randomly stopped on a channel where the movie they sampled this song was playin and they were singin the song. I litterly had the 
face. I didnt know it was sampled.
face. I didnt know it was sampled.
Aje
All Madden
Does anyone remember, during this time, there was at least one other "show tunes / broadway sample" hip-hop track that was out. I think it might've been Busta or someone else trying to catch the "HKL / Anything" wave?
Aje
All Madden