REASONABLE DOUBT released in 96..didnt go PLATINUM till 2002

[Absolut da poet ®]

Volume 1

Was my first listen to Jay Z

I didn't hear RD til after Volume 2 when I went back to find it and see what it was about

I was hooked on first listen.. just didn't hear it til damn near 3 years later

 

[Cheech&Chong]

Ya no one fukked with jigga back then. All my boys made fun of me when I bought Reasonable Doubt they didn't start messing with Hov till streets is watching

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

That was just after the battle with Nas

Reasonable doubt accolades are over the top

so we basing the greatness of music on what it sold?


is it 2003 already 50 cent?

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

If jay had the death row / bad boy hype machine behind him in 96 he would have went plat a lot sooner...

lmao rofl. He had biggie and Mary on that album though

 

[Don Jesus]

reasonable doubt was hyped up to greatness on some revisionist shyt, but the album is a flawless so it worked.

pac wouldnt have been able to do this with 2Pacalypse...or TI with Im Serious

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

reasonable doubt was hyped up to greatness on some revisionist shyt, but the album is a flawless so it worked.

pac wouldnt have been able to do this with 2Pacalypse...or TI with Im Serious

i disagree... nobody ever hyped up this album to be successful

anybody who was alive during that era knows that biggie was the man... to be followed/equal with wu... and that brought the east back from the west coast stranglehold


ain't no nikka was popular but that was cause foxy... but jay wasn't a factor and everyone knew it... fukking method man was bigger than jay at that time



what cannot be denied is, it's a great album... there are classics on there.. it's not some 2.5 mic bullshyt ass album... and 20 albums later, everyone still says it's jay's best album and most lyrical


so i get why someone would say "nah it wasn't classic back then and jay wasn't huge" no shyt


but the music on the album is the exact same music... and when you listen to it today... you'd be hard pressed to tell me that it's a shytty album that doesn't fukking bang to this day

 

[bucks3115]

Nikkas don't remember a time before Internet buzz.

It took Illmatic 7 years to go platinum. Is anyone going to deny that Illmatic is a classic?

I dnt care abt hw long it took to b platinum , RD and Illmatic are classic ....

 

[sneakers&sex]

this is when i first knew about jay


i remember thinking this tall dude was wild corny

 

[DontEemTry]

Your favorite rapper reveres RD.

Don't know what this thread tryna prove

 

[mr.africa]

i'ma stay outta this one!!!
@Art Barr schooling both jay and nas fans!!!

 

[mobbinfms]

nearly no album was an instant classic back then unless you had backing of jewish media like The Source

The editor in charge of the mics was a black man from Harlem.

 

[FromBillionsCameOne]

anyone saying Jay forced people to think of RD as a classic is tripping it's a classic to me and many others it's a great great album and takes you to that era. I couldn't give a fukk less what Jay thinks about it shyt Jay claims Kingdom come was wack and he's bugging that shyt was dope

 

[krazykid18]

anyone saying Jay forced people to think of RD as a classic is tripping it's a classic to me and many others it's a great great album and takes you to that era. I couldn't give a fukk less what Jay thinks about it shyt Jay claims Kingdom come was wack and he's bugging that shyt was dope

Stop the bullshyt if Jay didn't start from the hard knock life telling people it was slept on and it was classic and then Jay started using his clout to get the Source to give it a 5mic retroactively then throwing celebration concerts, pop up shops Jay has written books and will open about the album and how he made it and also using that LP as an excuse why he did Dame dirty.

To say Jay didn't force the notion is not true Jay has told you RD was a classic more times than any rap artist i can remember shyt even 50 doesn't push GRODT like jay does RD or Snoop with doggystyle.

Jay is a student of hip hop and he knows having a classic debut LP is what the legends have and he crafted and mined that til it is now a known classic but when it dropped it was in the same vein as Do or Die

 

[grock2727]

Stop the bullshyt if Jay didn't start from the hard knock life telling people it was slept on and it was classic and then Jay started using his clout to get the Source to give it a 5mic retroactively then throwing celebration concerts, pop up shops Jay has written books and will open about the album and how he made it and also using that LP as an excuse why he did Dame dirty.

To say Jay didn't force the notion is not true Jay has told you RD was a classic more times than any rap artist i can remember shyt even 50 doesn't push GRODT like jay does RD or Snoop with doggystyle.

Jay is a student of hip hop and he knows having a classic debut LP is what the legends have and he crafted and mined that til it is now a known classic but when it dropped it was in the same vein as Do or Die

Bullshyt is what you and some others are writing here. RD was highly respected and considered a classic long before even Jay was saying it:

Think about what it took to make it on this list back in January of 1998, way before Jay blew up with Vol 2 and had any real power or pull in the game. How many 1000's of Hip Hop albums were out by 98? RD earned a spot on this list on the publication that many considered the Hip Hop Bible in that era. Yall are the ones trying to revise history, but its respect is well documented, there's no arguing with this proof.

 

[Harry B]

Stop the bullshyt if Jay didn't start from the hard knock life telling people it was slept on and it was classic and then Jay started using his clout to get the Source to give it a 5mic retroactively then throwing celebration concerts, pop up shops Jay has written books and will open about the album and how he made it and also using that LP as an excuse why he did Dame dirty.

To say Jay didn't force the notion is not true Jay has told you RD was a classic more times than any rap artist i can remember shyt even 50 doesn't push GRODT like jay does RD or Snoop with doggystyle.

Jay is a student of hip hop and he knows having a classic debut LP is what the legends have and he crafted and mined that til it is now a known classic but when it dropped it was in the same vein as Do or Die

What type of sheep do you people think people are


Do you think mad rappers, the whole hiphop fanbase except the dumb ass haters and on are calling it a classic cause Jay-z called it a classic. Rappers call themselves the goat too, but no one calls them goat. They call their albums classic but no one else does etc

He might be higher than god to you and some other weirdos but to the rest of us we couldn't give a fukk about if he calls any album a classic. He called BP3 one of his best albums, do you see any of us calling BP3 a classic album?