Old heads, is it true Reasonable Doubt...

[THE K-MAN]

give my nikka E-40 some fukkin respect!! lmao

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

again......that is bullshyt........Aint No nikka was featured on the Nutty Professor Sdtk bruh....which was released several weeks before Reasonable Doubt......nikka had like four singles from that album........like I said there was too much heat in '96......

name a jay album that had less promotion than reasonable doubt.
name a jay album that had less commercial appeal than reasonable doubt.

i'll wait.

 

[Big Mel]

No.


they did give MATW 4 mics though. i think he toiled in the 3.5 mic range prior.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Um, no. A classic album is 5 mics.

So an album like The Infamous isn't a classic even though it got 4.5 mics? If I remember correctly, I believe The Chronic also got 4.5 mics. And you can't sit here and say those aren't 5 mic'ers.

 

[THE K-MAN]

all that damn heat droppin

 

[Goat poster]

It was considered a great album when it dropped, its just that Jay wasn't very popular at the time and there were other artist like Pac, Nas, Wu, and the Fugees, etc. that were really popular during that time so the album wasn't given the same type of love, but the people who did have it and the people that heard it all knew it was dope.

It got 4 mics in the Source (same as IWW)
http://ifihavent.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/classic-reviews-reasonable-doubt-in-the-source-1996/

And the Source also listed it as one of the best albums of 1996 in their '96 Year In Review issue (Jan. '97)

JESUS CHRIST ..this really shows the quality hip-hop had back then.

This is from ONE YEAR...we prolly haven't had this many great rap albums in the past 10YEARS!!!

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

example being 2pac not having a single 5 mic effort under his belt. oh now i done did it.

 

[Big Mel]

I love when it rains in Los Angeles.....Tony Toni tone lied.

 

[West Coast Avenger]

name a jay album that had less promotion than reasonable doubt.
name a jay album that had less commercial appeal than reasonable doubt.

i'll wait.

nikka that was his first album.....LOL @ asking some bullshyt like that.......especially in '96 when Jay wasnt even know like that yet and is no where near the level he is at right now........how old are you bruh?..........or better yet how old were you in '96?....

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

So an album like The Infamous isn't a classic even though it got 4.5 mics? If I remember correctly, I believe The Chronic also got 4.5 mics. And you can't sit here and say those aren't 5 mic'ers.

The Source got it wrong.

Those ARE 5 mic'ers. I didn't think dude was dude was talking literally about the albums The Source coronated, but rather saying he could call an album a classic yet not give it 5 mics himself.

My bad if I misunderstood that.

 

[the rhyme king]

nikka that was his first album.....LOL @ asking some bullshyt like that.......especially in '96 when Jay wasnt even know like that yet and is no where near the level he is at right now........how old are you bruh?..........or better yet how old were you in '96?....

u a idiot but even a idiot get something right for once

 

[brickfare]

It was considered a great album when it dropped, its just that Jay wasn't very popular at the time and there were other artist like Pac, Nas, Wu, and the Fugees, etc. that were really popular during that time so the album wasn't given the same type of love, but the people who did have it and the people that heard it all knew it was dope.

It got 4 mics in the Source (same as IWW)
http://ifihavent.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/classic-reviews-reasonable-doubt-in-the-source-1996/

And the Source also listed it as one of the best albums of 1996 in their '96 Year In Review issue (Jan. '97)

jesus christ that was a good year for hip hop

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I couldn't escape from that album as I wasn't a Jay-Z fan when it dropped.........and still ain't.

I was stuck on Heltah Skeltah, Bustah Rhymes and Ghostface for the most part while the rest of the heads around the way were bumping RD non-stop.

Come to think of it, you couldn't even get a mixtape back then without Jay-Z on it.​

 

[West Coast Avenger]

u a idiot but even a idiot get something right for once

LOL @ calling me an idiot when you make idiotic threads on the daily.........and have been for years......you autistic fakkit.....

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

jesus christ that was a good year for hip hop

We been done tol' y'all, but y'all didn't listen. The amount of piff at the end of the 90's was.........

We're still waiting for a plateau of similar proportions from these cats out now, but we're disappointed in their efforts.​