Now It's Hard Not To Kill ******... (Vol. 1 Appreciation Thread)

[Cloud McFly]

"It's like a full time job not to kill nikkas"

Minus the terrible 2 (IKWGL & Sunshine), I've always loved this album. It gets alot of hate, but there are a few classics on here, including one of my top 5 Hov songs in You Must Love Me.

4.5/5 for me

 

[Tuling]

I agree 100x . It's either on par with AG or just behind which makes it top 5.
His best intro
Streets is Watching, Where I'm From, You Must Love Me are top 10 to me.

But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in this shyt
The life and times of a nikka mind, excited with crime
And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind
I figured, "shyt, why risk myself I just write it in rhymes
And let you feel me, and if you don't like it then fine

 

[intilectual recipricol]

Nicca, he flowed his ass off on Sunshine though... can we acknowledge that before we just throw it in the bushes?

"Damn playboy, where the fukc is the hummer at?"

 

[Cloud McFly]

I agree 100x . It's either on par with AG or just behind which makes it top 5.
His best intro
Streets is Watching, Where I'm From, You Must Love Me are top 10 to me.

But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in this shyt
The life and times of a nikka mind, excited with crime
And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind
I figured, "shyt, why risk myself I just write it in rhymes
And let you feel me, and if you don't like it then fine

I have it right behind The Black Album, with both being 4.5/5 for me. RD, BP, and AG are his top 3 for me, all being classics imo.

Man, Streets Is Watching is was prompted me to make this thread, as it came on the ipod at work. Dude was blacking out.

Having Friend or Foe 98 right behind it was perfect.

But my mind's like a flower in bloom
peep how 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

 

[mikishere]

4.5/5 easily... was a real dope album... probably my fav jay track right here

 

[DaPresident]

Loved this album, it's in my top 4 Jay albums, definitely slept on by those who don't check for Jay...serious classics on this album, but critics say it's "commercial"...although I was always a fan of Hov...THIS was my actual FIRST Jay-Z album...I bought Reasonable Doubt shortly after this...

96 moms was on that "no cussing music in the house" when I turned 13 in 97 i convinced her to let it go, and went and bought this with my allowance lol...

LOL@ allowance...free money for simple chores (i do everyday for FREE now lol)that was the good life

 

[MouseTeeth]

Mannnnnn that intro was swag to the fukkin maximum


I would start quoting it but then I'd have to copy n paste the whole damn thing...n the extended version w the different second beat???

Don't even get me started on Imaginary Player dog

 

[23 is God]

Lol@the thread title