Jay-Z Where I'm From?

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Yeah, this was a 27 year old Jay that was obviously still not removed from Marcy, this was probably the last Jay of that 95-97 era, his peak actually. An important reminder of how good he was lyrically, his career is so crazy that people forget this Jay I think.
Jay at his peak>>> 95% of any prominent rapper that ever picked up the mic.
 

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Yeah, this was a 27 year old Jay that was obviously still not removed from Marcy, this was probably the last Jay of that 95-97 era, his peak actually. An important reminder of how good he was lyrically, his career is so crazy that people forget this Jay I think.
Jay at his peak>>> 95% of any prominent rapper that ever picked up the mic.

Yea, this Jay was my favorite rapper all time.

Reasonable Doubt/Volume 1/Streets is Watching era. Add The Blueprint in there too.

The sheer cockiness and bravado :lawd:



He rode this beat so cavalier....like it was it was easy as breathing :lawdeddie:

 

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17 years later this shyt still bangs.. :whew:


this song is straight up FUEL.

Easily the hardest song Jay-Z ever dropped. That beat is NASTY

plenty of music left out there to sample. 70s american soul songs aren't the only place to get great samples. foreign countries, live recordings, there's LOTS of shyt that simply hasn't been touched. not to mention how 5 different producers can flip the same song dozens of ways.

I totally agree with this.

When people say "it's all been done in hip hop", I just laugh. Like how small-minded can one be?

There's so much more hip hop can do but 99.9% choose to sleep at the wheel
 

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Dope, these nikkas sampling audio feedback and random adlibs to make a classic record. This why I love(d) hiphop.

still can't get over that. This beat, one of the goat beats, is audio feedback and some random vocal (adlib). This is why hip hop is the goat genre: it's the most eclectic. And as long as you're raw with it, you can flip anything.
 

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"nikkas been praying to God so long that they Atheist"
"Government? fukk government, nikkas politic themselves"

Those lines stood out to me when I first heard this track :wow: This is arguably Jay's greatest song.
 

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check out the original. 0:54 second mark. if he actually took it from that performance, i gotta give him props.

Goddamn, this along with a lot of Premo and Dilla's samples just have me like:mindblown: . Now obviously since we recognize those parts from our favorite beats they stick out to us, but how the fukk did they even conceive those cuts? Like this:



This is a pretty well known song with tons of obvious sample material...yet this nikka Easy Mo Bee takes the last 5 seconds of the song where one small little instrument is tapering off, and turns it into one of the rawest beats ever:



HOW SWAY?!:damn:
 

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Top 5 Hov songs

Vol 1 was kinda meh due to all that lame pop shyt Puff brought in but this shyt

Where I'm From still bangs
Classic sample flip, classic beat....so atmospheric
 
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