Reasonable Doubt or Illmatic ?

[dubsmith_nz]

Both certified Classics, but I gotta go with Illmatic, don't even have to think about it. Although I'd take Blueprint over Stillmatic if it's any consolation.

[goRaiders]

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...

u crazy white boy

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

illmatic by far. I grew up listening to the mainstream west coast sound, so I didn't really like that album when I was a kid, back when my music tastes revolved around whatever the radio fed me. But once I started really getting into hip hop it became one of my favorite albums of all time. It's a different kind of production than you G Funk heads are used to. It's kinda similar to how kids these days probably wouldn't get what's so great about the Chronic. But once you get into it....oooweee. It's got outstanding production, just sounds quite different than the 90s Death Row sound.

[K.Dub]

Ill to the matic for sure.

[HighEyeCue]

Illmatic easily. Personally I like Jay's 2nd album more than his first.

[bouli77]

illmatic no doubt. there's something about this album. the production, the lyrics, the vibe, it oozes sincerity. something RD is lacking.

[Raphael]

Retarded question i think everyone including Jay-Z would say Illmatic.

[Furor Teutonicus]

Illmatic

[Okka]

Fuck Jay-Z.

[Lunatic]

Illmatic but not by a whole lot, I love both albums

[Sccit]

LOL@the 6 votes for reasonable doubt

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

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.

Your right, it was pretty much the same for me only a few years later.

I was into all the DPG/Death Row shit when Illmatic came out it actually fell below the radar for me.  I don't even remember hearing the tracks or seeing the video's back when it came out.  Then "If I Ruled The World" was a mega-hit and one of my top 10 tracks of all time.  Yet still, when I would hear Nas on his It Was Written album and The Firm album, I wasn't really feeling the mafioso thing.  Then he dropped his bricks with I Am and Nastradaumus. 

Yet, I kept hearing and reading over and over again about Nas first album being a classic.  So finally I got it in 99' just to see what all the hype was about.  The only track I was feeling initially was "Half-time".   The shit sounded too simple and I wasn't big enough into lyrics at the time to really get the complex lyricism. 

But being a fan of Eminem and rappers out of Detroit I started to get more into the lyrics.  My brother was going to school out in New York.  So on the plane ride I thought I'd listen to "New York State of Mind".  That's when that shit finally hit me.  And Nas has been 2nd favorite rapper ever since.   

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

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