On this day 25 Years ago, Jay Z releases his masterpiece Reasonable Doubt

[FunkDoc1112]

Hearing Ski talking about the making of Dead Presidents is cool - The WOrld Is Yours inspired him to make a beat with that same vibe and he just threw the "Presidents to represent me" sample to hear how Nas' voice sounded on it. When he played the beat for Jay he was like "Ignore the Nas part, I just threw that in there" but Jay was like " Nah keep it breh"

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Jaz didn't even mean to be on the Ain't No nikka hook . He was just singing a reference of how he wanted it to sound and the label liked it

 

[TheNig]

ONE OF THE MOST OVERRATED
ALBUMS IN HIP HOP.

NOT A TOP 3 JAY ALBUM.

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I don't think it's overrated. I appreciated it for what it was.

 

[MJ Truth]

ONE OF THE MOST OVERRATED
ALBUMS IN HIP HOP.

NOT A TOP 3 JAY ALBUM.

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Keep your dumb ass opinions in The Coliseum.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

So Jay wasn't really feeling Dead Presidents 1 that much and DP2 was a freestyle he kicked over the beat and decided to put on the album

 

[Easy-E]

 

[Deltron]

DP2 was a freestyle he kicked over the beat and decided to put on the album

filthy...christ. DP2's a fukking freestyle?!

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Pain in Da Ass was just a Roc A Fella Intern and one day he flipped out in the lobby after some hoes curved him; Dame Dash and Biggs happened to be there and thought his voice was funny

They called him in the office after the incident and dude thought he was bout to get fired but Dame was like "We putting you on the album. You bout to be part of a classic"

 

[Nomad1]

jay did a great job fooling everyone into thinking this shyt is a classic

 

[drugxglory]

I dont know how many times i relistened to this album within the yrs and still dont get why people call it a claasic

 

[mson]

Why are people coming in here hating?

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Why are people coming in here hating?

The last few replies are the loud ass Pac stans who are always weirdos about Jay

People always use this "NOBODY WAS PLAYING IT BACK THEN" argument against it as a way to retroactively celebrate Jay not having an album that was a smash hit...but the shyt went gold in 3 months. It sold no worse than numerous other East albums that were heralded like The Infamous and OB4CL AND had a song on the Nutty Professor soundtrack Clearly the East Coast was feeling it

 

[Cladyclad]

Dudes still mad at Hov lol

25 years in and cats just can’t accept his greatness

 

[Nature's Fury]

One of the greatest albums to come out of NYC and the East coast in general. I wrote a comparative college paper between Jay Z mindset on Regrets & Macbeth.

Got an A

Link it up. Sounds interesting.

 

[DeuceZ]

For the brehs like myself this album though good might even say great did not have a great impact at the time. Pac, Nas, the Fugees, Outkast all had albums that were more seminal.

What a year