Jay-Z's flow & delivery on Reasonable Doubt maybe the greatest of all time

[I love Latina women]

Damn Nas and AZ never showing up to the studio.

I'm surprised people still haven't found out the sample Premier used for "Bring It On" yet. It makes me want to reflect on a life I never lived.

But hey, it all worked out in the end. RD is still a great album, Nas did his thing as did AZ. It would've been nice if they would've been on the album tho.
It's gotta be a joint from the 70's, just the feel and sound of that joint sounds like the 70's. I could hear the music playing in the score of a 70's movie.

 

[Rain]

Mannerisms of a young Bobby DeNiro, spent spanish wisdoms
in a whip with dinero, crime organized like the pharoah
I cream, I diamond gleam
High post like Akiem, got a lot of things to drop
Brooklyn to Queens, I gotta keep my steam
nikkaz wanna try to hem my long jeans
Uptown fiend for Jay-Z to appear on the scene
In the meanwhile, here's somethin dope for y'all to lean

 

[theflyest]

Rd is the better album, but I think jay sounded better as a rapper on volume 1.

 

[NaijaRich99]

Method Man on 36 Chambers and Biggie on Life After Death is up there. One of Jay's strongest points has always been his flow.

Maybe it's just me, but I feel people often skim over just how insane Meth's flow is. He's one of the few dudes in the Jay-Z/Biggie/Snoop league when it comes to his flows

 

[ThirtyPlus]

Jay up there...but Biggie on LAD?

Uhh, I dream filthy
My moms and pops mixed me with Jamaican Rum and Whiskey
Huh, what a set up
Shoulda pushed 'em dead off, wipe the sweat off
'Cause in this world I'm dead off, squeeze lead off
Benz sped off, ain't no shook hands in Brook-land
Army fatigue break up teams, the enemies
Look man, you want to see me locked up, shot up
Moms crotched up over the casket, screamin b*stard!
Cryin, know my friends is lyin'
Y'all know who killed 'em, filled 'em with the Lugers from they Rugers
Or they Desert, dyin' ain't the shyt but it's pleasant
Kinda quiet, watch my nikkaz bring the riot
Giving cats the opposite of diets
You gain thirty pounds when you die no lie, lazy eye
I was high when they hit me, took a few cats with me
shyt, I need the company
Apologies in order, to T'Yanna my daughter
If it was up to me you would be with me, sorta like
Daddy dearest, my vision be the clearest
Silencers so you can't hear it
Competition still fear it, shyt don't ask me
I went from ashy to nasty to classy, and still

 

[Billy Ocean]

Maybe it's just me, but I feel people often skim over just how insane Meth's flow is. He's one of the few dudes in the Jay-Z/Biggie/Snoop league when it comes to his flows

He's top 3 flow-ers in Hip Hop history. Meth can embarrass an elite rapper on a track just by his flow alone. He was the rapper Big was always bigging up before Jay. Only rapper he got on his debut.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Jay-Z on reasonable doubt is overrated flow wise.
So many better performances than him.
He does alright but nowhere near the top,kind of boring.
Juvenile on 400 degrees
50 in GRODT
D.O.C. no one can do it better.
Pac on thuglife,matw,
Doggystyle
Cube and eazy on S.O.C.
BIGGIE ON BOTH albums
Mase Harlem world
Wayne on hot boys guerrilla warfare
Wayne on any cash money release
From 97' till 01'
LL on BAD,mama said knock you out
Mc lyte on EYES ON THIS.
ICE CUBE ON death certificate
Dmx on his first three albums
Eminem on sslp, mmlp
So many more too

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Shaggy 2 Dope flows better on fukk The fukk Off Motherfukker (FTFOMF)


and Big L on his first album

 

[O.Red]

 

[O.Red]

 

[TripleAgent]

BIG on LAD was flowing like fukking water breh

That's the pinnacle of flow + delivery

Facts. That performance will likely never be bested.

 

[the cac mamba]

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If you gave this to some other rapper, he wouldn't know what to do with it.

wasnt even as good as this

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

too bad the flow belongs to Jaz


that song pre-dates RD btw. I'm still a fan of RD though.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

wasnt even as good as this

i just joined this forum not long ago but from the few threads I've seen, you can tell a majority of the people that post here are in their early to mid 20s. From people thinking Illmatic was the first album with multiple producers, someone not knowing about "it's my thing" to the overall vibe of everyone thinking hip hop started in 1994

 

[alpo]

no mase?