What do you think are Jay-Z's best album(s)?

[shoalin23jordan]

^^

 

[addict4sneakers]

Reasonable Doubt

 

[theandrea3000]

Originally Posted by Addict4Sneakers

Reasonable Doubt

 

[skip2mylou23]

The Black Album

 

[uknowmy m o]

Originally Posted by TheAndrea3000

Originally Posted by Addict4Sneakers

Reasonable Doubt

 

[putting in work]

The Blueprint
Reasonable Doubt
The Black Album
American Gangster

 

[the pga tour]

his best: reasonable doubt

my favorite: vol 2..

 

[packersgotme]

Reasonable Doubt

HANDS DOWN!! you can tell the hunger in his rhymes

 

[nocomment6]

Well if you wanna know my fav, then it's between blueprint, blueprint 2, Black album and American Gangster.
But his best is Reaosnable doubt, which I dont like at all.

 

[mw2889]

I really don't understand how there isn't more love for the Dynasty album. I think it's the production because he went in on every verse.

 

[allen3xis]

It's either RD or the BP

can switch everyday for me

 

[jpap348]

reasonable doubt
blueprint

 

[d0njaye]

the first Blueprint.

 

[lb81986]

Originally Posted by Mw2889

I really don't understand how there isn't more love for the Dynasty album. I think it's the production because he went in on every verse.

Production on Dynasty is

. Its like a prequel to the Blueprint,production wise. Maybe too much Bleek is why the CD gets slept on.

 

[crossisom]

Maybe because there were a lot of fillers.

Did you guys honestly like "Holla" or "The R.O.C." for example? But of course tracks 1-5, 7-9, 1-900-Hustler, Soon You'll Understandand Where Have You Been are heat rocks.

My Favorite (Jay-Z) Album: The Blueprint

Favorite Track from album: Renegade- Some of the best and realest verses ever spit by two legends...

[Jay-Z]
!$%%%!!%*+!+% -
say that I'm foolish I only talk about jewels (bling bling)
Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?
See I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined
That same dude you gave nothin, I made somethin doin
what I do through and through and
I give you the news - with a twist it's just his ghetto point-of-view
The renegade; you been afraid
I penetrate pop culture, bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they
pop toasters, and they live with they moms
Got dropped roasters, from botched robberies @@*$*+ crotched over
Mommy's knocked up cause she wasn't watched over
Knocked down by some clown when child support knocked
No he's not around - now how that sound to ya, jot it down
I bring it through the ghetto without ridin 'round
hidin down duckin strays from frustrated youths stuck in they ways
Just read a magazine that %%##$# up my day
How you rate music that thugs with nothin relate to it?
I help them see they way through it - not you
Can't step in my pants, can't walk in my shoes
Bet everything you worth; you lose your tie and your shirt

[Eminem]
Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen
I ain't no politician but I'll kick it with 'em a minute
Cause see they call me a menace; and if the shoe fits I'll wear it
But if it don't, then y'all'll swallow the truth grin and bear it
Now who's these king of these rude ludicrous lucrative lyrics
Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics
usin his music to steer it sharin his views in his marriage
But there's a huge interference - they're sayin you shouldn't hear it
Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit
Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish
But I'm debated disputed hated and viewed in America
as a +!%$%$*!%++% drug addict - like you didn't experiment?
Now now, that's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror
and see yourself as a kid again, and you get embarrased
And I got nothin to do but make you look stupid as parents
You ###!%+ do-gooders - too bad you couldn't do good at marriage!
(Ha ha!) And do you have any clue what I had to do to get here I don't
think you do so stay tuned and keep your ears glued to the stereo
Cause here we go - he's {*Jigga joint Jigga-chk-Jigga*}
And I'm the sinister, Mr. Kiss-My-%+* it's just the

[Chorus: Eminem + Jay-Z]
[Em] RENEGADE! Never been afraid to say
what's on my mind at, any given time of day
Cause I'm a RENEGADE! Never been afraid to talk
about anything (ANYTHING) anything (ANYTHING), RENEGADE!
[Jay] Never been afraid to say
what's on my mind at, any given time of day
Cause I'm a {RENEGADE} Never been afraid to holler
about anything {anything?} Anything {ANYTHING!}

[Jay-Z]
I had to hustle, my back to the wall, ashy knuckles
Pockets filled with a lot of lint, not a cent
Gotta vent, lot of innocent of lives lost on the project bench
Whatchu hollerin? Gotta pay rent, bring dollars in
By the bodega, iron under my coat, feelin braver
Doo-rag wrappin my waves up, pockets full of hope
Do not step to me - I'm awkward, I box leftier often
My pops left me an orphan, my momma wasn't home
Could not stress to me I wasn't grown; 'specially on nights
I brought somethin home to quiet the stomach rumblings
My demeanor - thirty years my senior
My childhood didn't mean much, only raisin green up
Raisin my fingers to critics; raisin my head to the sky
Big I did it - multi before I die (!!#*$)
No lie, just know I chose my own fate
I drove by the fork in the road and went straight

[Eminem]
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare
Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here
To shatter the picture in which of that as they paint me
as a monger of hate and Satan a scatter-brained atheist
But that ain't the case, see it's a matter of taste
We as a people decide if Shady's as bad as they say he is
Or is he the latter - a gateway to escape?
Media scapegoat, who they can be mad at today
See it's easy as cake, simple as whistlin Dixie
while I'm wavin the pistol at sixty Christians against me
Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics
in holy water - no wonder they try to hold me under longer
I'm a +!%$%$*!%++% spiteful, DELIGHTFUL eyeful
The new Ice Cube - !$%%%!!%*+!+% HATE to like you
What did I do? (huh?) I'm just a kid from the gutter
makin this butter off these bloodsuckers, cause I'm a muh'###!%+


The beat went kinda hard too, real laid back, but hard and gritty all at the same time. One of my favorite songs ever.

 

[thagreatj]

Blueprint
RD
TBA
AG

 

[page86]

reasonable doubt, ftw!

vol. 1 has some dope cuts too!

 

[bigavelli]

Reasonable Doubt
The Bluprint
American Gangster
The Black Album

 

[jj1223]

Blueprint
Reasonable Doubt
American Gangster
Black Album

basically, everyone in here is gonna have more or less the same lists

 

[zokid]

Reasonable Doubt
Blueprint
American Gangster
Vol.1 In My Lifetime
Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse
The Black Album
Vol. 2 Hard Knock Life
The Dynasty: Roc La Familia 2000
Kingdom Come
Vol. 3 Life & Times Of S. Carter

 

[air bonilla 23]

Vol. 1 would have been classic material if not for the flashy gimmicky tracks.

Imaginary Player
A Million And One Questions
The City Is Mine
Lucky Me
Streets Is Watching
Rap Game / Crack Game
Where I'm From

The top two are def. Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint. The rest are debatable. Personally, Reasonable Doubt is my favorite.

 

[eddiehouse5]

just stay away from vol 3. maybe kingdom come also, it seems to be universally hated, i'll get around to it sooner or later.

 

[dj236]

Top 3:
Reasonable Doubt
The Blueprint
The Black Album

 

[harlemtothebronx]

Reasonable Doubt
The Blueprint

I honestly don't get why people loved The Black Album so much. It was good, but it wasn't one of his best IMO.

 

[nickthesneakerkid]

the blueprint
the black album
reasonable doubt