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Reasonable Doubt was really the first Jay album I heard cuz my brother was playing that and Vol. 3 in my mother's car. I thought that was a double disc at that time.
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ill add that DMX's Debut type quieted Vol. 2's hype da second it dropped though...
im almost certain DMX was closing alot of those Hard knock life tour dates
Naw Vol 2 was bigger than flesh and it's dark. Vol 2 had too many dope singles. Juvie, X, and HOV had it on lock though.
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I gotta agree with Ain't No N as a terrible pop song, but it legit made him famous back then. I was feeling Dead Presidents as soon as I heard it, but nobody cared, same with Can't Knock the Hustle. But Ain't No N got the women involved singing it and it took off from there.
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ill add that DMX's Debut type quieted Vol. 2's hype da second it dropped though...
im almost certain DMX was closing alot of those Hard knock life tour dates
Naw Vol 2 was bigger than flesh and it's dark. Vol 2 had too many dope singles. Juvie, X, and HOV had it on lock though.
im talking bout Its Dark And Hell Is Hot.
flesh of my flesh was him playing with house money dropping 2 albums on 1 year.
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ill add that DMX's Debut type quieted Vol. 2's hype da second it dropped though...
im almost certain DMX was closing alot of those Hard knock life tour dates
Naw Vol 2 was bigger than flesh and it's dark. Vol 2 had too many dope singles. Juvie, X, and HOV had it on lock though.
I think Vol 2 and Its Dark sold about the same but It's Dark was bigger. X had Ruff Ryders Anthem, Get At Me, How it's Going Down, Stop Being Greedy. All them songs was big.
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100% what
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said. My intro to RD was the exact same. Went back and checked it after BP1 cause everyone was comparing the two. My first Hov album was Volume 2.
Don't think I'm gonna get floor seats this time I did the last two times. It's lowkey over rated.
Proposition Joe
said. My intro to RD was the exact same. Went back and checked it after BP1 cause everyone was comparing the two. My first Hov album was Volume 2. Don't think I'm gonna get floor seats this time I did the last two times. It's lowkey over rated.
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Proposition Joe
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Naw and then there was Was X was bigger but not his first 2
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X first album was bigger than Vol 2. X had multiple anthems on that album.
Proposition Joe
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Look at all these off brand ******, runnin around yapping they be holding figures as big as J1ggas
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waaaay bigger.
Jay-Z wanted to hop over Ma$e with Vol. 2, he didn't factor DMX being a screaming meteorite slamming down to Earth da way he was with da way Its Dark did.
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X was that dude to the point that Jay went and started making records with him and his producer.
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My first hov album was The Dynasty
Got it as a gift from this girl in the 8th grade.
Took it home and played it on my dads sound system.
He turned it off and took it away maybe about a minute into the intro
Didnt get it back until i was 17-18
Thats why The Dynasty Intro one of the greatest album intros of all time
Got it as a gift from this girl in the 8th grade.
Took it home and played it on my dads sound system.
He turned it off and took it away maybe about a minute into the intro
Didnt get it back until i was 17-18
Thats why The Dynasty Intro one of the greatest album intros of all time
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It's Dark was bigger than Vol 2 but both were huge. Vol 2 is one of my favorite Jay albums.
Vol 3 was nice too but a little too commercial.
I remember being hype for The Dynasty because it was gonna be a compilation album and not a Jay album but I played the **** out of it back then. I still like that album even though it gets shidded on.
I **** with all his albums from RD-TB and then after Blueprint I really don't give a **** about his music except for AG and 444
Vol 3 was nice too but a little too commercial.
I remember being hype for The Dynasty because it was gonna be a compilation album and not a Jay album but I played the **** out of it back then. I still like that album even though it gets shidded on.
I **** with all his albums from RD-TB and then after Blueprint I really don't give a **** about his music except for AG and 444
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Yeah Harlem World was probably the biggest album at that time. Vol. 2 was up there though. That was a great time for NY hip hop now that I think about it.
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I wish you dudes would stop this.
As if everyone had one thought.
If it didn't get love, how the hell did he end up at Def Jam .
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And Country Grammar was bigger than both. What does that mean?
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Nah fam, your Jay hate card is cancelled. Bought the album and considering the show.
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I wish you dudes would stop this.
As if everyone had one thought.
If it didn't get love, how the hell did he end up at Def Jam .
nutty professor soundtrack, you forgot?
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That Nelly had big Pop radio records?
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Chill. Go back and read, nobody was tryna discredit Jay.
Proposition Joe
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I am was huge too, but Nas was still behind jay, x and juvie
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They already had Foxy
Jay was on Priority. Def Jam brought Rocafella in.
You don't have to be on a label to be on a soundtrack. When Jay was on that sountrack he was on Priority. It was his single for Reasonable Doubt. If they thought he was a one hit wonder they could have used that song and let him stay on Priority.
You dudes keep acting like Reasonable Doubt flopped. It didn't. People who cared about lyrics knew how dope that record was.
He had Biggie and AZ in Dead Presidents. Mary on a single. Premier? Biggie on a song.
What do you dudes think Wu, Mic Geronimo, Big L, Bootcamp were doing back then in sales? It took years for Enter The Wu Tang to go platinum. So are you going to tell me that Enter The Wu wasn't well received and people slept on it, when it got the whole Clan solo deals.
So stop applying sales to how an album was received. When you do that, it shows me how much you don't know about rap.
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