I didnt Like HOV, til the black album came out.... I heard this song.. and my jaw dropped....


I went to the store the next day... bought every CD he had....


this dude is incredible... what had i been missin

Damn you was sleepin on Jay for a while. Ever heard of these guys 2pac and Biggie? They were good. Nah just ****in with you.

How much of Jay's catalogue have you heard?

Reasonable Doubt is one of the best Hip Hop albums ever made IMO.....And you slept on that all these years? Damn Reedy.....:slap:

Kaynan, I don't wear jerseys...I'm 30+

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Classic................

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First Jay album I got was The Blueprint. I think I was about 14. The artist I slept on most, who now happens to be my fav, was Nas. The first album I bought of his was Stillmatic. Again I think I was only 14.

This beat will always have a special place in my heart. I think I impressed with freestyling over this track.

Good times.

Reasonable Doubt is one of the best Hip Hop albums ever made IMO.....And you slept on that all these years? Damn Reedy.....:slap:

defintly one of the best hiphop albums ever. in my top 10.

ive pretty much heard all of them now.... i did sleep on him... i liked the radio play **** like can i getta or big pimpin and ****, but i never got his cds or nothing... i heard black album... and i bought them all

Kaynan, I don't wear jerseys...I'm 30+

gimme a crisp pair a jeans nicka button ups!

haha i was like that, for a while i really hated him (i think mainly cos i'm a big Nas fan) and dismissed all his music as commercial hip-pop trash, but when i actually gave him a chance and listened to everything properly i saw the light... now i rate him as a top 3 rapper of all time

I'm not a biter, I'm a writer for myself and others
I say a B.I.G verse, I'm only biggin' up my brother
Biggin' up my borough, I'm big enough to do it
I'm that thorough, plus I know my own flow is FOOLISH

Reasonable Doubt is classic. The Black Album is way overrated. I liked a few songs though like Threat and Lucifer.

But the real **** you get when you bust down my lines
Add that to the fact I went plat a bunch of times
Times that by my influence on pop culture
I'm supposed to be #1 on EVERYBODY's list
We'll see what happens when I no longer exist
**** this...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Cg4C766Ec&feature=related


Two real old school Jay Vids......

yea man he used to spit crazy. i love his verse on big l's da graveyard.

i like when he says..."pound for pa pa pa pa pound the best around"

I didnt Like HOV, til the black album came out.... I heard this song.. and my jaw dropped....


I went to the store the next day... bought every CD he had....


this dude is incredible... what had i been missin

I bought Reasonable Doubt very early on. And I went to see him at a half-empty SMALL club in Dallas, TX. I was trippin', The place had maybe 100 people for an advertised show.

****in southern boys are so slow.

This is the song that hooked me:

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You know how we do, Roc-a-Fella... forever... You can catch me
skatin through your town puttin it down y'all relatin
No waitin I'll make your block infrared hot I'm like Satan
Y'all feel a *****'s struggle, y'all think a ***** love to
hustle behind the wheel, tryin to escape my trouble
kids stop they greetin me, I'm talkin sweet to keys
Cursin the very God, that bought this wreath to be
My life is, based on sacrifices, jewels like ices
and fools that think I slip, you **** around
you get your guys hit, they built me to be filthy
on some I-do-or-die ****, for real
The price of leather's got me, deeper than ever and
just think, with this here, I'm tryin to feel made nig-ga

Politics as us-ual... I took my
Frito to Tito in the district, blessed me with some
VS somethins I can live with, stop frontin
And for the dough I raise, gotta get **** appraised
No disrespect to you, make sure you word is true
I'm takin wages down in Vegas just in case Tyson
have a major night off, that's clean money, the tax write-off
You ain't seen money in your life, when it
comes to this cheese y'all like Three Blind Mice
A smokin bro, who pump Willie Ike spokes
The furthest you Chiles been is the Pocanos
My portfolio reads: leads to Don Corleone, ***** please
Ten year feleon, heavy on the wrist, our face used
with the diamond blooded Jesus and blind your face
youse for life... sharight, Jigga, I keep it tight nig-ga

Politics as us-ual...
You feel my triumph never, feel my pain I'm lyin
Low in the leather Zion, the best that's ever came
The game changes like, my mind just ain't right
We 'gwan get this dough, I guess it ain't your night
Suckin me in like a vacumn, I remember
tellin my family I'll be back soon, that was December
Eighty-five and, Jay-Z rise ten years later
got me wise still can't break my underworld ties
I wear black a lot, in the Ac', act a lot
Got matchin VCR's, a huge Magnavox
to nitch, green like spinach pop wines that's vintage
It's a lot of big money in my sentence
Hittin towards a mil', lip a, written I kill like that
check-baby one-two cat, yeah, I do dat
Ain't no stoppin the champagne from poppin
the drawers from droppin, the law from watchin, I hate em

Politics as us-ual

i love his verse on big l's da graveyard.

i like when he says..."pound for pa pa pa pa pound the best around"

really? i think that's one of his worse verses

"i get around like a wheel" lol