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I just listened to it again for old times sake because I love 1996, and the only track that I think is dope is the opening track with Mary J. Blige, and that's probably only because it brings back memories of 96 since it was the radio single.Seriously.. this shit is trash.. I mean, people shit on Puffy but if you listen to No Way Out or Life After Death or most of those Bad Boy Records of that era he had amazing attention to detail. I mean, even his skits were fuckin dope, like the little prayers he did for before one of the last joints on BIG's album and all that shit was way CINEMATIC. But Jay-Z's idea of a skit is some radio personality telling guys to put out their refer... yet strangely she was serious and it was supposed to be some pro-black message or something when most the album is talking about selling drugs... lol, but the thing is it wasn't humor, it was just like a lack of focus and creativity that I think plagues the whole album and this is just one example.Then he has a track where he is supposedly freestylin and doing the Tribe Called Quest "Can I Kick It" thing.. so your expecting that he's really gonna drop some mind blowing punchlines or something.. and then your still left waiting at the end of the track looking stupid waiting for him to finally bring it....How did this album serve as the foundation for a billion dollar career... damn, this dude must owe his life to Dame Dash and his own marketing skills because if he had to rely on talent this dude would've been finished long ago.
some of yall i suspect are just jay enthusiasts who cant really understand how at one point puff had more credibility musically then jay.
alot of ppl here werent even listening to rap at the time, some of yall were still shitting in your pampers when these albums came out.maybe it was a thing where you had to see the impact a record had on the culture. ppl didnt really check for reasonable doubt untill streets was watching dropped.no way out carried the east coast for a minute...if u werent wutang affiliated back then east coast records werent popping as hard.no way out lead to a tour that put brooklyn and harlem on its back, alot of cats ate on that tour...not that any of yall on a west coast forum give a shit but its true.some of yall i suspect are just jay enthusiasts who cant really understand how at one point puff had more credibility musically then jay.
Infinite's opinion on hip hop isn't worth the time of day. A few years ago we we discussing rap and how much he hates Mobb Deep yet at that time never heard the track Shook Ones pt 2. Mobb Deep's most popular tracks and one of the greatest east coast tracks of all time. That just goes to show what a fucking joke the deadbeat dad is. Brain hates Jay-Z because to him Jay is fake. Even though Jay founded his own lable from money made by hustling. He actually made money doesn't have to go through renting cars and jewels for videos. He actually worked his way out of the projects. Yet Brian grew up worshiping rappers that would talk about what murderers they were and this that the other yet had no criminal records and can't afford to leave the projects. Yet Jay is the fake one, go figure. Brian's opinion on Jay is extremely bias yet he will use the fact he can tolerate Can't Knock the Hustle as proof he is giving Jay a fair shake, same principle though as the racist white guy that says he has a black friend. Brian doesn't like Jay because of his bias and because half the shit Jay is spitting goes right over Brian's head. He tries to paint himself as an intellectual but he is actually a fucking moron.Personally I think Reasonable Doubt is a classic but it took some time to grow on me. But to say the album is trash just shows how bias shit brick really is.
Quote from: K1NG PETEY on October 11, 2010, 12:18:21 PMsome of yall i suspect are just jay enthusiasts who cant really understand how at one point puff had more credibility musically then jay.musical credibility? I don't think so. Popularity and impact, certainly, but then again the same can be said for Nas. No one was checking for illmatic when it dropped.
Quote from: K1NG PETEY on October 11, 2010, 12:18:21 PMalot of ppl here werent even listening to rap at the time, some of yall were still shitting in your pampers when these albums came out.maybe it was a thing where you had to see the impact a record had on the culture. ppl didnt really check for reasonable doubt untill streets was watching dropped.no way out carried the east coast for a minute...if u werent wutang affiliated back then east coast records werent popping as hard.no way out lead to a tour that put brooklyn and harlem on its back, alot of cats ate on that tour...not that any of yall on a west coast forum give a shit but its true.some of yall i suspect are just jay enthusiasts who cant really understand how at one point puff had more credibility musically then jay.i agree with you to a degree, i mean you'd be stupid to argue that puff around that time was more influential but we're speaking on a purely musical quality level, and we all know the only reason No Way Out was as big as it was and everyone wanted to hear what puff had to say is because of everything that had just happened with Biggie, and the subsequent success that Ill Be Missing You had...but i still think, on a musical level, track for track, Reasonable Doubt is a better album... regardless of whether people were checking for it or not at the time, thats irrelevant as thats been the case with many albums which are now considered classics
Quote from: rapsodie sees the elano in you on October 11, 2010, 01:25:30 PMQuote from: K1NG PETEY on October 11, 2010, 12:18:21 PMsome of yall i suspect are just jay enthusiasts who cant really understand how at one point puff had more credibility musically then jay.musical credibility? I don't think so. Popularity and impact, certainly, but then again the same can be said for Nas. No one was checking for illmatic when it dropped.yeah music credibilty, puff was putting niggas on...jay still aint found an act that he has put on that has been successful, that in my opinion equals musical credibility. jay didnt blow up till his third album niggas took a second to catch on to nas but not that damn long...