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Despite all the demons infesting his soul (money, power, etc.), this song isn’t an exorcism. The best verse-in the song, and on the entire album-is the second, wherein he details kidnapping the a former friend’s baby momma.
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“D’Evils”: Born in a dream of Jay’s and executed brilliantly by DJ Premiere, who pits Snoop Dogg against an Allen Toussaint gospel record, “D’Evils” is Hova realizing he’s in a horror movie and refusing to hide in the closet. “I know, I contradicted myself,” he raps, one step ahead of the criticisms he’s sharp enough to see coming. With a glass of champagne in one hand and a joint in the other, Jay thinks about his mother’s nightmares about him getting shot - then gets back to counting his money and making it with chicks who might not dig him if he were broke. “Feelin’ It”: The light and bright Ahmad Jamal jazz sample provides an apt backing for this weed-fueled bit of self-reflection. He opens the third verse with some pure wordplay about how he’s “mic-macheted your flow,” and while he sprinkles in a few more criminal references, the kick he gets from rhyming seems to replace the thrill of the hustle. The first verse centers on a fellow dealer getting shot up, while the second finds Hov moving on, “swinging for the fences” despite the danger at every turn. “Dead Presidents II”: Over a mournful sample of Lonnie Liston’s Smith‘s “A Garden of Peace,” Jay delivers some of the LP’s rawest street reporting. Hova has the higher, nervier voice, and if he’s not quite as cold-blooded with his rhymes, he still has “pistols blazin’, hot like Cajun,” and he still manages to keep pace with his more established collaborator. On this vicious and thrilling duet, Biggie rhymes milkshake-thick about his none-too-sweet business tactics (“shoot your daughter in the calf muscle”). Notorious B.I.G.: The greatest MCs in BK history couldn’t sound more different on the mic. It’s a lot of pain buried between the lines.
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“It’s a lot of big money in my sentence,” he raps to cap a line about the Magnavox TV in his car. “Politics as Usual”: Gliding smoother than producer Ski’s Stylistics sample, Jay cruises through your town “on some do-or-die sh–.” He’s moving product, making money and coming to terms with the sacrifices inherent to the lifestyle. “Let’s get together and make this whole world believe us,” he raps toward the end, ever-so-briefly accelerating his flow as producer Knobody’s lax beat thuds behind him. Blige - part lover, part mother, pure inspiration - Jay jokes, boasts and sneaks in Pete Sampras references like only he can. He’s got “short-term goals,” as he says in the opening line, but he’s clearly packing long-game skills. Blige: After some interpolated Scarface dialogue about getting deeper into the drug game, Jay gets on the mic to justify his exit. (Note: The bulk of Jay Z’s catalog is exclusive to Tidal, so only three Reasonable Doubt songs are embedded below.) Here’s a track-by-track take on the first chapter in a great American success story. And yet many look back on Reasonable Doubt as Jay’s finest hour. 2… Hard Knock Life, to really set him on a path toward world domination. It would take his third album, 1998’s Vol. It wasn’t bad for a relative unknown, but he wasn’t doing Biggie or Tupac numbers. Reasonable Doubt produced two top 10 Rap Songs hits and reached No. Jay Z’s ‘Reasonable Doubt’ Turns 20: Kareem ‘Biggs’ Burke Reflects On the Hip-Hop Classic He also catalogs the spoils and thrills like someone who’s maybe not ready to give it up, though by his own admission, he was. In hustling, he’d found a way out of poverty, but throughout Reasonable Doubt, he hints at the remorse he feels flooding his community with crack. If there’s one thing Jay knew about, it was supplying product. They had me traveling places to do in-stores, and my product wasn’t even available in the store.”
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As he told Yahoo! Music in 1999, Payday “didn’t know how to work a record.” He added: “The things that they were setting up for me I could have done myself.
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Blige and other contributors were reportedly paid with bags full of cash - but it suited Jay’s purposes. This wasn’t your typical music-biz operation - Mary J. Jay was originally signed to Payday Records, but when the label didn’t support him like he wanted, he teamed with friends Dame Dash and Kareem “Biggs” Burke to form his own company, Roc-a-Fella Records. Which isn’t to say he wasn’t cutthroat about certain things.