Jay-Z's Volume 1 Appreciation Thread

[malbaker86]

Didn't he record "You're Only A Customer" around this era too????? Wish that woulda made the album. One of my fav Jay songs "graphic like Sega Saturn"

 

[the rhyme king]

What's the position you hold? Can you really match
a triple platinum artist buck by buck by only a single goin gold?
Questions like Wendy Williams, harrassin me
then get upset when I catch feelings

 

[Farrinto]

It's Jay's greatest album to me. I can play it through without skipping anything.

 

[the rhyme king]

@BmoreGorilla what is your favorite rhyme scheme off this album.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

@BmoreGorilla what is your favorite rhyme scheme off this album.

A lot of speculation On the monies I've made, honeys I've slayed How is he for real? Is that nikka really paid?
Hustlers I've met or, dealt with direct Is it true he slay the beef and slept with a tech? What's the position you hold? Can you really match A triple platinum artist buck by buck by only a single goin gold?
Roc-A-Fella ship fold, and you're left out in the cold Is it back to charging motherfukkers 11 for an O
For the millionth time askin me
Questions like Wendy Williams, harrassin me
Then get upset when I catch feelings
Can I get a minute to breathe? And in that minute you leave While I'm looking at my Rol' ice spinnin' on my sleeve
Ughh, nice watch, do you really have a spot? Like you said in Friend or Foe and if so, what block?
What you doin in L.A., with Filipinos and ese's Latinos and Chevys, down by Pico with Frederico
I answer all your questions but then y'all got to go
Now the question I ask you is how bad you wanna know? BLAOW!

 

[the rhyme king]

A lot of speculation On the monies I've made, honeys I've slayed How is he for real? Is that nikka really paid?
Hustlers I've met or, dealt with direct Is it true he slay the beef and slept with a tech? What's the position you hold? Can you really match A triple platinum artist buck by buck by only a single goin gold?
Roc-A-Fella ship fold, and you're left out in the cold Is it back to charging motherfukkers 11 for an O
For the millionth time askin me
Questions like Wendy Williams, harrassin me
Then get upset when I catch feelings
Can I get a minute to breathe? And in that minute you leave While I'm looking at my Rol' ice spinnin' on my sleeve
Ughh, nice watch, do you really have a spot? Like you said in Friend or Foe and if so, what block?
What you doin in L.A., with Filipinos and ese's Latinos and Chevys, down by Pico with Frederico
I answer all your questions but then y'all got to go
Now the question I ask you is how bad you wanna know? BLAOW!

I'm done talking
Ran up in the spot gun smoking
Shot it in the air, one woke him
Sun-soaking, sweating in his bed like Dunlo
Thinking to himself what done provoked him
His thoughts is racing like a vulcan
I swear I saw a lightbulb when
He finally figured out who was the culprit
I said yeah, remember me from Friend or Foe when
I told you don't ever ever come around here no more
Time to pay now, you try to rise, I wave the gun - lay down
This time you're really going to listen to Jay now
I try to talk sensibly, hoping that eventually you realize
I had this locked and it just wasn't meant to be
Plus I had sympathy when we all wore rams with your keys
And it wasn't afterthought that maybe you'll try to revenge me
But I was like "Nah", Chromes had to know he was wrong
And if you caught me on the foul now you would sing me the same song
Plus you promised
And that's really no fun
Yeah I find you in this Motel 6 with all these guns
And all your goons, lined up in adjoining rooms
Like some wild cowboys coming to get me at high noon
But my mind's like a flower in bloom
*** my eyes just scower the room
I'm alert, plus I paid the clerk I got it laid out
You think you the first nikka I played out, in a 2 hotel town?
Come on now, I peep your Lexus at you
Left the exit got some nikkas on that side of the town
Money well invested, rudely interrupted
Jamaican accents ***
A gun in your face and that's all you can come up with?
I'm done talking, back up and clap them, one in the abdomen
Do me a favor dude, get 2 ice cubes I pass them
Take that ice up, for the nicest MC
And please yo, tell BIG, he's unbelievable
Friend or foe BIOTCH!


jay-z in his prime >>>>>>>>>>>>.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I'm done talking
Ran up in the spot gun smoking
Shot it in the air, one woke him
Sun-soaking, sweating in his bed like Dunlo
Thinking to himself what done provoked him
His thoughts is racing like a vulcan
I swear I saw a lightbulb when
He finally figured out who was the culprit
I said yeah, remember me from Friend or Foe when
I told you don't ever ever come around here no more
Time to pay now, you try to rise, I wave the gun - lay down
This time you're really going to listen to Jay now
I try to talk sensibly, hoping that eventually you realize
I had this locked and it just wasn't meant to be
Plus I had sympathy when we all wore rams with your keys
And it wasn't afterthought that maybe you'll try to revenge me
But I was like "Nah", Chromes had to know he was wrong
And if you caught me on the foul now you would sing me the same song
Plus you promised
And that's really no fun
Yeah I find you in this Motel 6 with all these guns
And all your goons, lined up in adjoining rooms
Like some wild cowboys coming to get me at high noon
But my mind's like a flower in bloom
*** my eyes just scower the room
I'm alert, plus I paid the clerk I got it laid out
You think you the first nikka I played out, in a 2 hotel town?
Come on now, I peep your Lexus at you
Left the exit got some nikkas on that side of the town
Money well invested, rudely interrupted
Jamaican accents ***
A gun in your face and that's all you can come up with?
I'm done talking, back up and clap them, one in the abdomen
Do me a favor dude, get 2 ice cubes I pass them
Take that ice up, for the nicest MC
And please yo, tell BIG, he's unbelievable
Friend or foe BIOTCH!


jay-z >>>>> in his prime.

That album was Jay in his prime lyrically. He was already making plans to retire and pass the torch to Bleek on this album

 

[razassin]

exactly..songs like where im from,imaginary player is jay at his best.
sunshine and i know what girls like reek of p diddy combs.

although most jayz albums winded up sounding like whatever was popular at the time.....

I can see why hardcore fans hate what girls like, but his flow on that bytch was

 

[malbaker86]

I actually like "I know what girls like"

 

[RAW_SPK]

i like the raps on "I Know What Girls Like" but everything else about the song is unbearable

 

[Cynic]

" They sent National Guard to get me" :leonadis:

"The difference is 30-40 grand cokksucka beat it! " :usherlol:


The disrespect. The imagery. The braggadocious ness :leonadis:

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

This shyt was dope imo, kind of an upbeat production but he sounds so damn depressed on this

 

[razassin]

I thought coli nikkaz was gone hate on this shyt, but Im surprised most a yall fukk with it

Makin' me teary eye n shyt

 

[Jack Trippa 3z company ho]

Not a cohesive album at all. There are a few great tracks, the rest was mostly skips just like most jay albums.

Jay made some classic songs, no classic albums. Even RD has skippers on the last 3rd of the album.

 

[AJtheOne]

yea definitely an underrated album, a lot of my fav Jay tracks on this

I don't really mess wit Jay these days or these past few years but his old stuff is