Reasonable Doubt or Illmatic ?

[Tha Crip]

I personally gotta go with Jay's, as much as people hail Nas's first album as one of the best rap albums ever.... i just couldnt get into it like others did, jay'z album i can listen to the first 10 songs straight without skipping a track (i cant do that with illmatic lol)

[teecee]

Nas album more boom bap, much grittier, no sung hooks, none of that.   Jay's was much more commercial but still had some str8 hiphop joints as well.


I remember getting Illmatic as one of my free cds from COlumbia House.  At the time I was really only into DPG/Deathrow shit, and i played it a few times and thought it sucked.  A few months later, I saw the One Love video, threw the cd back on, and  BAM!  that cd hit me like no other.  I can still see how others don't feel it, but to me it really is one of the best hip hop albums ever.  RD was nothing new, just Jay doing what everyone else at thje time was doing, which was that mafioso, druglord type shit.  I liked RD, but everyone who was around at that time didn't really feel it like THAT, and didn't until Hard Knock Life. 

ILLMATIC by far.  Give it some time, its a grower, it has a lot of depth, and its NAS, premo, Pete Rock, etc at their very best.

[NotoriousTDA]

jigga takes it.

[BakinSodaFree]

ILLMATIC by far.  Give it some time, its a grower, it has a lot of depth, and its NAS, premo, Pete Rock, etc at their very best.

[KURUPTION-81]

Illmatic easily, great from start to finish.

[13th Duke]

I've lived with both albums for 15 years, and Nas' is far superior. Better production throughout, lyrically superior (Jay-Z's lyrical prowess was always there but I don't think he hit his peak until a few albums into his career) and more cohesive as a unit.

Illmatic easily.

I'd say looking at both of their careers, Jay-Z does actually have the better entire album discography, but Illmatic is better than any album either Nas or Jay-Z have done in my humble opinion.

[No Compute]

Illmatic easily. Reasonable Doubt always struck me as one of the weakest albums to have that undeniable classic status, great album but it does not contend with the upper echelon of classic albums of which Illmatic is possibly the greatest.

[PLANT]

Illmatic without a doubt.

[BOX5 the best poster on this site yell]

Equals overrate illmatic since the source championed it's cause to make it compete with doggystyle one time for yo mind is wacc by the way Yell

[es-jay]

Illmatic. no doubt in my mind.

[Chamillitary Click]

Illmatic could be the greatest album of all time.

[J-FUNKTION]

reasonable doubt...

i never could get into illmatic...wasnt feelin the production....i even tried a few weeks ago listening to it again and once again i couldnt get into it...

once thing i noticed years ago, is that the east coast took a longer time to transition into the "new era" of production...even my homies who are mainly east coast listeners fully agree that the east for the most part took their time evolving....you had shit out like the chronic in 92 which changed the game drastically...and doggystyle in 93....yet cats from NY in 94 and 95 still had beats that sounded like they were from 91...

[Tha Crip]

lol well ill check illmatic again, maybe theres something im missing there 

[OG Jaydc]

Illmatic and it's not even close. Illmatics been called a classic since it's release, nobody called rd classic until jay z started telling everyone it was

[Elkoizm]

Illmatic could be the greatest album of all time.