This Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt album is WEAK... and this is what built his career?

[theremedy360]

Not a huge Jay fan and I'm not nearly as high on this album as a lot of people...but it's FAR from weak.

[Fuck Your Existence]

lol @ no way out

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

lmao, you're taking No Way Out or Life After Death over Reasonable Doubt? Credibility gone.

No Way Out and Life After Death shit all over this album.. you want proof?  

Listen to the Jay-Z joints on No Way Out and Life After Death, those tracks are FULLY PRODUCED, those tracks are like mutherfucking movies compared to that corny ass "Brooklyn's Finest" track Biggie and him probably did in the space of a half hour that landed on Reasonable Doubt.

fail....No Way Out is a decent mainstream album. But

D'evils
Dead Presidents II
Bring It On
Feelin It
Can't Knock the Hustle
Regrets

>> anything off that album

and LOL @ you comparing either Life After Death or No Way Out to the cinema. The titles sound thematic, but content-wise they are just decent mainstream albums with absolutely nothing tying the songs together. Reasonable Doubt actually has a theme through the whole album (of course with the exception of Aint No Nigga).

[Chamillitary Click]

Well if we wanna talk debuts, uh yeah, Illmatic fucks all of them over.. backwards and sideways. Lol.

Yeah, but Illmatic is Top 5 all-time. It shits on just about anything lol.

[Action!]

I LOVE SHOCK STATEMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Watcher]

2pac dissed jay, infinite is a 2pac groupie

mystery solved

[BIGWORM]

This album is DANGEROUS! I love this fucking album STR8 Classic.

Cashmere Thoughts is my tune I bump in my CADDY!

[TraceOneInfinite]

2pac dissed jay, infinite is a 2pac groupie

mystery solved

Then how do you explain the fact that I consider Life After Death and No Way Out to be 5 Mic Classics?

[Anunikke]

lmao, you're taking No Way Out or Life After Death over Reasonable Doubt? Credibility gone.

This is Infintie you're talking about, he lost his credibility a long time a go.

I'm the first to call Jay-Z overrated but this album is great.
But a Mafioso rap album in '96 is still very unoriginal.

[Sikotic™]

I dislike Jay-Z and I can't even go with this one.

[KaiserSoze]

lmao, you're taking No Way Out or Life After Death over Reasonable Doubt? Credibility gone.

No Way Out and Life After Death shit all over this album.. you want proof?  

Listen to the Jay-Z joints on No Way Out and Life After Death, those tracks are FULLY PRODUCED, those tracks are like mutherfucking movies compared to that corny ass "Brooklyn's Finest" track Biggie and him probably did in the space of a half hour that landed on Reasonable Doubt.

So basically, you preffer mainstream production values to Jay's low-budget Reasonable Doubt. Fair enough. Personally I preffer lyrical content - similie, metaphor, wordplay, rhyme.. and all of those are better on Reasonable Doubt than on any other Jay album. His flow did improve over the years, and I have heard Jay verses after Reasonable Doubt where his lyrics have been so deep and incredible. But in terms of a whole album, he never brought it like he did with this one. And personally I preffer the beats on this album too, old school 90s shit.

[K.Dub]

No Way Out is trash compared to this.

[Anunikke]

No Way Out is trash compared to this.

Besides victory it's trash, no need to compare it to a good album.

[The Watcher]

2pac dissed jay, infinite is a 2pac groupie

mystery solved

Then how do you explain the fact that I consider Life After Death and No Way Out to be 5 Mic Classics?

2pac groupies are never logical

[StreetsAllSalute]

reasonable doubt isnt weak your taste in music clearly is