FIRST TIME HEARING- Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt REACTION/REVIEW
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- In this First Time Hearing video, I give my REACTION/REVIEW to Jay Z's album "Reasonable Doubt." I discuss the album in detail, giving my thoughts on each track. I also give a REVIEW of Jay Z's career and what makes this album so special. I hope you enjoy my review!
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When I go out to Vegas again. I gotta get my pops on this channel 😂🔥🔥
I know your dad is sooo proud of you bro
Yo you gotta peep the Streets is Watching movie. Hov does all his joints in a movie format.
@@chazbrown5800 Ahmad gotta do that. Full reaction. And also his B Sides concert which is on CZcams in full.
check out
tha dogg pound - dogg food
dj quik - safe + sound
t.i. - urban legend
jay z - the blueprint
snoop dogg - doggystyle
t.i. - king
nas - god's son
gangstarr - moment of truth
May Allaah bless you and your dad young akh 👊🏻
This album and Nas' debut album just have a different vibe to them. They're so raw and the artists are so young. You can just imagine the vibes in the studio as these masterpieces were being put together. There's just something different about them, something so special. I absolutely love that era!
Jay Z wasn't young he was 27
26 going on 27
honestly they arent really comparable. Nas was a street kid who had a huge come up in the game with the best NY producers backing him. Jay was a big time hustler and already an established figure in the rap industry who originally only wanted to make one album. Nas was making a masterpiece because he wanted to make it big and be respected. Jay was making a masterpiece because he felt like this one album was going to be his entire legacy in the game.
@@WHG369 so 26 and 27 aren’t young ? What are you like 12 or something ? He was a young man when that album dropped in 96 u making it seem like he as 48 or something
It’s crazy when it came out everyone thought it was trash y’all old Niggas need some new ears this shit hard
The greatest most dangerous rapping in the history of hip hop. Jay Z's flow on this album is the pinnacle.
Jay killed this one! He said “ I left the paramedics breathing soft on em” That’s the illest CPR line ever.
Jay-Z said something years ago that always stuck with me: "People say Reasonable Doubt is my best album... of course, it took me 26 years to make that album. Every other album I only took a year or two to make." The sheer breadth of experience and the amount of thought he put into this album dwarfs anything else he did except maybe 4:44.... and the MUSIC and FLOW are better.
Jigga rank his albums on how they sold. We rank them based on how nice it is. Vol 1 my fav, black album, blueprint, 4:44, then kingdom come is my top 5
@@Dave2one6 Vol 1 my favorite too. I love Vol 3 and The Dynasty. I even LOVE Blueprint 2. But I gotta put The Blueprint and RD and also Black Album as his best from start to finish.
@@Dave2one6 I got Reasonable, Black Album, Blueprint, American Gangster, Vol. 2, 4:44, and Vol. 3 in that order. He's so nice there's almost no wrong answer.
This is true of so many debut albums in all sorts of genres.
@@MICjordanTPR facts
Can’t tell you how much I love this album. What a masterpiece.
This is Jays best album by far. It’s still in weekly rotation.
blueprint...
@@ezekwu reasonable doubt is better lyrically but blueprint is better production wise
@@mo2k638 blueprint is better lyrically and production wise...
The black album is better then both
@@seankelly4594 no...
Takes your whole life to make your first album depending on how old the person is . Every album after that is basically on a time frame . That’s why debuts albums have so much substance and feeling to them
@@camronshean1758 lol glad you caught that .
@@jayant-vb2klNot if you are talking about the greatest artists for them no luck is involved they are great.
@@jayant-vb2kl my top ten all have great first albums. KRS-One, Jay-Z, Eminem, 2pac, Biggie, Talib Kweli tied with Lupe Fiasco, DMX, Guru, Big Pun tied with Big L.
That phone call with your pops was beautiful. Peace and salute.
My favorite Jay Album is “In My Lifetime Volume 1” .. His flow is stupid crazy on that album
Better than this or American Gangster, or Blueprint? 2 me volume 1 he could've saved
Beats are too commercial. One of his least favorite albums. He said that
@@WHG369 it's not commercial at all in comparison to blueprints 2, 3, and kingdom come
Very interesting point I gotta push on some of my hov ating friends
@@keithmckinney3892 yes, my favorite
Nas wrote Foxy's verse on "Affirmative Action" and Jay wrote her verse on "Ain't No Ninja."
Smooth Da Hustla wrote Foxy's verse for Ain't No Nigga . Jayz wrote Foxy's verse on I'll be, and her songs Foxy Bells, and Take You Home .
And she performed them to perfection. Her voice and flow were unique.
@@bowling4clarity817 Yup... He Basically Did A Slightly Altered version on Hustlers Theme...✊🏾
Nope. Nas has never written for Fox, that's a straight up lie. Foxy wrote her OWN verse on Affirmative Action up until the part "Bet It On, my whole crew..." That part was Nas's reprise second verse but Foxy's flow was on fire and it sounded better with Fox closing the song out so Nas gave Fox his final verse to close out but originally that was his verse to close out but Foxy was just too good
@@phoenixforce6595trigga the gambler was penning lyrics for Fox at one point
Love the convo with your pops. He sounds like a great dad and I can tell he’s proud of you. 💯
The exchange between you and your father was beautiful god! Secondly the bar on can I live " you can lock my body but can't trap my mind" ...the book " the curse of Willie lynch basically explains that eventually to keep the slaves is psychologically...stay up god
How about you just don't have favorites? Stick with a top 5 lmao
You addressing me?
Nah it was put on the wrong line. It was for Ahmad
I shed a tear frfr cause my son and I have that same type vibe with music and movies ❤️❤️💯🐐🦾👑💐🍾🏌🏿♂️
That was such a beautiful moment between you and your dad. Shout out to him for showing you true fatherly love and putting you on classic hip hop. ✌🏼
One of the best things about this album are all the hidden jewels. There are a lot of double/triple meanings sprinkled throughout the album. This was ‘96 when rhymes were a lot more simplistic and straightforward. He was giving us bars but real life not just meaningless wordplay.
When you said that the album made you feel like a Mafia Boss, immediately I knew that you got it. This is what made Jay-Z who he is. This is why people say that he's the goat. It's kind of like when Wu-Tang came out with their first album & how they made you want to be from Staten Island and talk that Kung Fu stuff.
Jay-Z change the rap game, but even more he changed the street game. All the dudes on the block selling nickels and dimes, all of sudden wanted to hustle harder and do better and make more money, so that they could live how he was talking on the album. He's not the first person to ever come out talking about that level of lifestyle, but he did it so amazingly, that it influenced people to want to follow his blueprint.
I had never sold drugs in my life, but after I heard a promotional 3 song and 4 snippet tape of that album before it even dropped, i started selling crack 2 Days Later. And I actually tried to do it exactly the way he described on the songs that I had heard. When I say exactly, I mean with the same mindset that he's talking about.
Brooklyn- Jay & BIG
QUEENS - Nas Prodigy 50 LL
Bronx- Fat Joe, Pun KRS 1
Harlem- Big L, Cam
Yonkers- X LOX
Im missing other MCs from these borroughs but kings there
Something you mentioned early in the review was the songs were making you feel like a boss. That definitely was the intention. In the mid-90s a lotta East Coast rappers adapted Mafioso personas (Nas=Escobar, Kool G Rap=Giacano, Biggie=Frank White, Ghostface=Pretty Tony, etc). Some amazing music came out during those times.
Except Hov didn’t “adopt a persona”. Unlike everyone you mentioned, Shawn Carter was a drug lord. His discography is autobiographical
@@PrimeraEspadaStark I specifically didn't name Jay. I said a lot of rappers did
Sure he was… Sure.
@@egilskallagrimsson2941 Sure who was what?
This was the blueprint for Ross.
This album is a five alarm blaze in your ears on every track. Enjoy! 🔥
Dad moment was so wholesome and relatable. I’m from Brooklyn and when I was 7 me, mom , and dad moved out to Arizona - and Jay Z is a CORE memory for me. He’s still my favorite rapper to this day, but the man has so many flows. And you have to listen to some of these lines a few times to catch on. “Like short sleeves I bare arms”. Definitely feel like a big time drug dealer 😂
And Foxy is NOT to be played with. In Fade to Black (documentary) they confirmed that Foxy wrote the verse herself at 16.
What often gets overlooked about Reasonable Doubt is that Jay was about 27-28 when it came out. Compared to most of his peers he was an old man yet this album put him in the “he got next” class of emcees that came out that year.
Jay-Z was 26 when reasonable doubt drop in April 1996
I have CAN I LIVE tattooed on my arm. I got that tattoo 25 years ago. Love to hear you say that CAN I LIVE is the best song on this album. This is my #1 fav album all time. Great review!!
Literally one of my favorite songs oat (behind d’evils). Goes over so many heads
“ Nigga, please, like short sleeves, I bear arms ” 🔥🔥🔥 that line is still hot till this day and
so is biggie’s “THE M.A.F.I.A KEEP CANNONS IN THEIR MARC BUCHANAN’S “
Reasonable Doubt has to have one of the highest replay values of any hip hop album.
nah...
Introspective Jay-Z is my favorite Jay-Z. You get that on 'd'evils', 'regrets', 'you must love me' and 'this can't be life' to name a few. On 'moment of clarity' he let's it be known that he simplified his rhymes for wider appeal. I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars
They criticize me for it, yet they all yell "holla"
That moment on the call with your dad was powerful. To me Can I live is Hov's most powerful song. It instantly puts you in a different state of mind and mood where your confidence goes to level 10.
Peace to you and your pops. That visualization you painted and the love between both y'all touched me. Coming from a representative of young men raised by single mother's. And father myself too.
Peace Ahmad.
❤️🤝
@@KingAhmadTv appreciate it.
Idea!!!! Do a review with your Pops on another song y'all use to listen to.
Music is a time machine. Only way we go back in time and relive special moments.
To know where Jay Z is now as was manifested back in ‘96 is wild
Super wild 💯🤯
Scarface Untouchable & The Fix album are a must do.. Classics
the pops call was goat status. i love you bro...that was awesome...cherish the day! peace king!
This is one of my Top 5 albums, and it's the project that solidified Jay-Z as one of the best to ever do it. The Roc A Fella era was one of the dopest in Hip-Hop history, and back then we were gifted with a few albums that were 5 Mic classics, and this is definitely one of them!
Side Note: The Brown Sugar line by Jaz references the ladies (Nice way to put it)(Check D'Angelo's brown sugar)
This first Jay Z album change my life. I love it
Another fun fact: The beat for "Feelin' It" was originally intended for Camp Lo. They actually recorded it before Reasonable Doubt came out. It's on CZcams
Facts
Ski Beats produced both albums
Thats why no one could mess with jay-z
love that piece with you and ya pops, you can hear in his conviction he loves you and you’ve blessed his life in ways you’ll never understand. we need to love each other like this more often this community would be stronger
Classic. Love the dialogue with you and your pops. You should review blueprint and Stillmatic to see Jay and Nas when they were going at it constantly
Your album reactions make my day.
“The price of LEATHERS got me deeper than ever, and just think winters here, I’m trying to feel MINK nigga…” basically he been going hard just to get a leather and shit like that. Now he about to turn up even more cause he want minks and more lavish shit🔥🔥🔥
Definitely one of my All-Time favorite albums. Classic - Genius level lyrics and production.
Congrats on getting the main channel back up and running
All the Jay-z Haters would count on 22 Two to see if he really use 22 (2,To,Two) lol
**CORRECTION**: On the 2nd verse of "D'Evils", Jay talked about how he undercut his boy to be intimate with his baby mother.....he would give her money and sex just so he could get more information about his old friend that is now his enemy....you know, keep you friends close but your enemy closer.
That Dead Presidents sample is Lonnie Liston Smith. Timeless music
"A Garden Of Peace" was the original by LLS czcams.com/video/gVHCYIdbLg4/video.html
“Isaac Hayes” (The look of Love) the sample to Jay-Z (Can I live) 😎
The 5 grand was for picking up the 2 keys. From movie Scarface.
Salaams Bret, tht was an amazing exchange between father & son. Bless up!
Really glad you got this album review done. One of the top 10 albums in Hip Hop history.
btw that "dont neva eva eva eva come around here no mo" is from the movie Friday....
Where the rap game is today talking about big money, moving weight, trips out the country, this where it started. Cats was rhyming about it before Jay but Jay was doing it before he rhymed about it and you can tell the difference. Mind you this was his first album. Wasn’t like he dropped the album, blew up then started talking like this, he came in like this and kept going up from here
You right Bruh. That's why this album didn't sell like it was supposed to. He was talking REAL BIG BOY SHIT not rinky dink shit. Most people never really ever sold drugs and ones who did only were workers so the references were going WAY over people's heads. Most people just rap cliches they heard from their Uncles and Friends. It's like Too Short versus Suga Free one talks fly and the other Really did what he was talking about.
But don't forget about the depth, the stress, regret, childhood, mindstate and the decisions you have to make, everything with a Scorsese twist
He was speaking in code this WHOLE album. If you know you know.
19:10 - Clark Kent said when Big heard this verse, his response was "Nah, he got it" - signaling that he felt Jay was superior.
Pops sounds like a real one. That's dope. Can't wait to shoe my son this era . Stay blessed.
This album is so amazing and jay-z at his best 🔥🔥🔥
What up Ahmad?! You have the best reactions man, it’s awesome seeing how you react like we did hearing all these back in the day, glad you’re back bro, keep it up 💯
Regardless of where Jay-Z is placed he's one of the best to ever do it.
Best ever for me, top 3 by default
Love this reaction people act like Jay wasnt nice back in the Biggie era btw you should do Biggie's freestyle called "Real niggas do real things" is basically Biggie killing West Coast beats
About time you did this album a listen. True masterpiece
Love how much love your pops showed you. You have to get him on an episode one day.
When I go out to Vegas. Imma bring him on the channel 💯😂
I agree. Pop definitely need to make a appearance. Its a good look the love that a father and son have. Very positive for the community.
This album is definitely one of those classics. I still listen to this and I was born the same year this album was released. 🔥🔥🔥
Aside from this album being a classic, that phone call with your dad earned you a new subscriber. Keep up the good work young one! 👌🏾🙏🏾
One the best Hip Hop albums ever💯💪🏾
You should continue his discography into Vol. 1, 2 and 3. Great reaction.
Couldn’t wait for you to hear Regrets for the first time 💯
Yes, that’s exactly how I felt when I first heard this album. Back when everyone listened to entire albums.
The "chemistry" with Bleek was bc Jay wrote the entire song. Bleek was just who he chose to execute the concept.
Once I REALLY got put on to Hov I went back to listen to this and mannnn this shìt is a CLASSIC dawg.. I was born in 94 and my ear for LYRICS developed around 07 so I was late lol
Great album👌🏾. Glad to have u back bro. We NEED that Nas KD3 next💪🏾
This is still Jay’s best album. So many quotables, so many classic tracks, Jay was talking that slick hustler gangster shit on this!
I just think why it isn’t his best is because it sounds dated and the mix & mastering pales in comparison to “the blueprint” and “the black album.”
D'evils, dead presidents II, and feelin it are my fav joints off of this album
Still my favourite Jay-Z album. I saw him live around 5 years ago and expected to hear mainly new stuff, but he played ALL the classics, including about half of this album.
About time!!! You review this masterpiece/Gem/ Timeless album … Reasonable Doubt (Thanks)😎
Glad u back my boi. Comin out swingin wit bangers. That’s how u do it, young boi!!! Keep goin
🔥🔥💪🏾
Big facts
I know Nas is your favorite but keep listening to Jay-Z's albums and you might change your mind. You should hear The Blueprint. Arguably the album of that decade.
Yo…….you speaking facts my boiiii!!!!!! Jay z the 🐐
Jay Z doesn’t touch Nas
@@Severed89 you probably think steph curry better than Lebron too...🤡
@@edwinlopezjr2011 nah not even close. But Jay z switched his whole rhyme style once he heard Nas
“And bring it back up top, remove the fake king of New York
You show off, I count off when you sample my voice
I rule you, before, you used to rap like the Fu-Schnickens
Nas designed your Blueprint, who you kidding?
Is he H to the izzo, M to the izzo?
For shizzle you phony, the rapper version of Sisqo”
Peace to pops! Loved the conversation
💙🤝
I agree with you on Foxy. My favourite female rapper too. Listen to her Broken Silence album. It goes hard.
Beautiful moment bro. Imagine growing up with this music. Nothing like it. We knew they were geniuses when the world didn't quite get it. Good job Pops #90sBestDecadePeriod
Definitely one of my favorite Hip Hop Albums of all time 🔥
You described it perfectly at 22:05 this whole album got Vintage Mafia Don vibes, you will feel like Pablo Escobar in his prime after listening to this album 😂
You have wonderful relationship with your pops.. I am so happy we are seeing this.. One..
Man I think you’d really love Pieces of a Man AZ’s second album it’s another classic Brooklyn album
Doe or die or the 9 lives album from az go hard
It was mad cool that you called your dad and had that reminisce talk. RD is my third favorite rap album
Reasonable Doubt is the hustlas bible.
I said that exact thing at the end of the vid 😂💯🔥
Top 5 albums ever right here.
All of Jigga’s albums are excellent, but this one just hits a high water mark that requires CRAZY hunger…and Jay became a legit millionaire after this album so that kinda hunger was gone. But even Jay knows this is his best album.
Yo it's amazing to see Jigga growth and development 💯💯💯
He's got an unorthodox flow and the way he pronounces words is just different
10/10s man, that’s what we grew up on. Masterpieces
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:
In "Dead Presidents" he said he was still spending money from '88...(the album came out in 1996).🤔🤔🤔
I love Jay z and I Love this album 4 eva
Seeing you react to the "Demarco!" Is priceless, yup that's where DJ Don Juan Demarco got the drop from 😂
Ayy this is good stuff King, this is cool seeing generations bridged together through music. Much respect!
I watched this whole video just to listen to "Bring it on"😅 all three verses are individually legendary, still probably my fave Jay z song, tied only by any other Preemo collab eith him.
I just noticed when Biggie said pardon me pass the safe before I blast the place and leave six shots just in case and the background you hear him saying bow bow bow bow bow bow
When I listen to music from this era some legendary groups like Mobb Deep and Wu have songs that are (still good but) haven't held up well as the genre has evolved. This is an album you can still rock from start to finish
This album takes me back to this time. Great album, great time.
Next Jay-Z album you should do is Vol 2 hard knock life VERY UNDERRATED ALBUM ‼️
It went 5x….Dont think underrated is the right word
@@robertsbanksfacts not only that it won him his first Grammy how can’t call that underrated
Great reaction!!! In the future do the Black Album and Amercan Gsngsta
Faith was pregnant at the time and this was after the infamous pic with her and Pac was floating around. That’s why BIG said if she had twins, she’ll have Tupac’s (as in 2 Pacs)
Feelin' It is Jay-Z, ft. Mecca and Spotify definitely lists that, my brother LOL! Great reaction Young King!!
Crazy story: Middle school field trip to Amish country. Album wasnt out yet, but 2 tracks popped up on satellite radio and somebody taped the clean versions. I'm in the back of the bus trying to get action from this rich suburb chick. She didnt finish the job but i heard Dead Presidents on repeat for like a hour straight while catchin some mean hand on a Tinted Charter Bus. You couldnt tell me shit!!!!!!
I'm thinking You need to do Jay Z's American Gangster