When I go out to Vegas again. I gotta get my pops on this channel 😂🔥🔥

@jayc5756

Жыл бұрын

I know your dad is sooo proud of you bro

@chazbrown5800

Жыл бұрын

Yo you gotta peep the Streets is Watching movie. Hov does all his joints in a movie format.

@ArtisanWindchimes

Жыл бұрын

@@chazbrown5800 Ahmad gotta do that. Full reaction. And also his B Sides concert which is on KZread in full.

@jaypeso1980s

Жыл бұрын

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

@ScottyBanton

Жыл бұрын

May Allaah bless you and your dad young akh 👊🏻

Jay killed this one! He said “ I left the paramedics breathing soft on em” That’s the illest CPR line ever.

The greatest most dangerous rapping in the history of hip hop. Jay Z's flow on this album is the pinnacle.

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!

@WHG369

Жыл бұрын

Jay Z wasn't young he was 27

@WHG369

Жыл бұрын

26 going on 27

@jahterminatedlmao5473

Жыл бұрын

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.

@mo2k638

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@kariblack298

Жыл бұрын

It’s crazy when it came out everyone thought it was trash y’all old Niggas need some new ears this shit hard

Can’t tell you how much I love this album. What a masterpiece.

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.

@Dave2one6

Жыл бұрын

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

@ArtisanWindchimes

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@MICjordanTPR

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@carlclancy

Жыл бұрын

This is true of so many debut albums in all sorts of genres.

@jameshorton5395

Жыл бұрын

@@MICjordanTPR facts

All the Jay-z Haters would count on 22 Two to see if he really use 22 (2,To,Two) lol

That phone call with your pops was beautiful. Peace and salute.

He was speaking in code this WHOLE album. If you know you know.

“ 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 “

This is Jays best album by far. It’s still in weekly rotation.

@ezekwu

Жыл бұрын

blueprint...

@mo2k638

Жыл бұрын

@@ezekwu reasonable doubt is better lyrically but blueprint is better production wise

@ezekwu

Жыл бұрын

@@mo2k638 blueprint is better lyrically and production wise...

@seankelly4594

Жыл бұрын

The black album is better then both

@ezekwu

Жыл бұрын

@@seankelly4594 no...

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

This album is a five alarm blaze in your ears on every track. Enjoy! 🔥

Love the convo with your pops. He sounds like a great dad and I can tell he’s proud of you. 💯

“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🔥🔥🔥

Nas wrote Foxy's verse on "Affirmative Action" and Jay wrote her verse on "Ain't No Ninja."

@bowling4clarity817

Жыл бұрын

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 .

@jaayeee24

Жыл бұрын

And she performed them to perfection. Her voice and flow were unique.

@mr.rashadgrice79

Жыл бұрын

@@bowling4clarity817 Yup... He Basically Did A Slightly Altered version on Hustlers Theme...✊🏾

@phoenixforce6595

Жыл бұрын

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

@tleblanc349

10 ай бұрын

​@@phoenixforce6595trigga the gambler was penning lyrics for Fox at one point

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

@Phuriusstilez

Жыл бұрын

How about you just don't have favorites? Stick with a top 5 lmao

@hisaunbrown7101

Жыл бұрын

You addressing me?

@Phuriusstilez

Жыл бұрын

Nah it was put on the wrong line. It was for Ahmad

@2gfresh367

3 ай бұрын

I shed a tear frfr cause my son and I have that same type vibe with music and movies ❤️❤️💯🐐🦾👑💐🍾🏌🏿‍♂️

Thats why no one could mess with jay-z

Reasonable Doubt has to have one of the highest replay values of any hip hop album.

@ezekwu

7 ай бұрын

nah...

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

@DutchTheBibleThumper2

Жыл бұрын

@@camronshean1758 lol glad you caught that .

@etotheipi42

9 ай бұрын

@@jayant-vb2klNot if you are talking about the greatest artists for them no luck is involved they are great.

@etotheipi42

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

To know where Jay Z is now as was manifested back in ‘96 is wild

@KingAhmadTv

Жыл бұрын

Super wild 💯🤯

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.

19:10 - Clark Kent said when Big heard this verse, his response was "Nah, he got it" - signaling that he felt Jay was superior.

My favorite Jay Album is “In My Lifetime Volume 1” .. His flow is stupid crazy on that album

@keithmckinney3892

Жыл бұрын

Better than this or American Gangster, or Blueprint? 2 me volume 1 he could've saved

@WHG369

Жыл бұрын

Beats are too commercial. One of his least favorite albums. He said that

@Burst644

Жыл бұрын

@@WHG369 it's not commercial at all in comparison to blueprints 2, 3, and kingdom come

@ptmac333

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting point I gotta push on some of my hov ating friends

@yfbnetwork

Жыл бұрын

@@keithmckinney3892 yes, my favorite

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. ✌🏼

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"

“Isaac Hayes” (The look of Love) the sample to Jay-Z (Can I live) 😎

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.

Scarface Untouchable & The Fix album are a must do.. Classics

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.

@gregpuryear8163

Жыл бұрын

Jay-Z was 26 when reasonable doubt drop in April 1996

This first Jay Z album change my life. I love it

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.

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!!

@internetytshorts6719

4 ай бұрын

Literally one of my favorite songs oat (behind d’evils). Goes over so many heads

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

the pops call was goat status. i love you bro...that was awesome...cherish the day! peace king!

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.

btw that "dont neva eva eva eva come around here no mo" is from the movie Friday....

The 5 grand was for picking up the 2 keys. From movie Scarface.

Reasonable Doubt is the hustlas bible.

@KingAhmadTv

Жыл бұрын

I said that exact thing at the end of the vid 😂💯🔥

Salaams Bret, tht was an amazing exchange between father & son. Bless up!

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 💯

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

Жыл бұрын

❤️🤝

@commentwisely3033

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

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)

Ayy this is good stuff King, this is cool seeing generations bridged together through music. Much respect!

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.

@PrimeraEspadaStark

Жыл бұрын

Except Hov didn’t “adopt a persona”. Unlike everyone you mentioned, Shawn Carter was a drug lord. His discography is autobiographical

@maysonstorm4956

Жыл бұрын

@@PrimeraEspadaStark I specifically didn't name Jay. I said a lot of rappers did

@egilskallagrimsson2941

Жыл бұрын

Sure he was… Sure.

@maysonstorm4956

Жыл бұрын

@@egilskallagrimsson2941 Sure who was what?

@wreiad

Жыл бұрын

This was the blueprint for Ross.

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

About time you did this album a listen. True masterpiece

Great album! I missed when you dropped this video. I was listening to this album today and wondered if you reacted to it and what you thought. I’m glad you liked it. It’s timeless! Great job bro! 😎

Really glad you got this album review done. One of the top 10 albums in Hip Hop history.

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 KZread

@DutchTheBibleThumper2

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@mattpfarr5992

Жыл бұрын

Ski Beats produced both albums

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! 👌🏾🙏🏾

Your album reactions make my day.

Congrats on getting the main channel back up and running

That Dead Presidents sample is Lonnie Liston Smith. Timeless music

@Official_Kings_Versus

Жыл бұрын

"A Garden Of Peace" was the original by LLS kzread.info/dash/bejne/mYp8pbuClMWyl5c.html

About time!!! You review this masterpiece/Gem/ Timeless album … Reasonable Doubt (Thanks)😎

The "chemistry" with Bleek was bc Jay wrote the entire song. Bleek was just who he chose to execute the concept.

Peace young king it took a minute for me to find your channel again glad you're back brother keep up the good work

Glad u back my boi. Comin out swingin wit bangers. That’s how u do it, young boi!!! Keep goin

@KingAhmadTv

Жыл бұрын

🔥🔥💪🏾

@gillatineking3236

Жыл бұрын

Big facts

great job per usual on the reaction fam.....but this was about u and you dad....beautiful....can only imagine how things would be if more suns and fathers related on this level.....any level.... peace...peace...peace

**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.

It was mad cool that you called your dad and had that reminisce talk. RD is my third favorite rap album

Pops sounds like a real one. That's dope. Can't wait to shoe my son this era . Stay blessed.

Great album👌🏾. Glad to have u back bro. We NEED that Nas KD3 next💪🏾

When you did this album right here. I subscribed because now you went down an rabbit hole of Lyrical master pieces of songs🎉

Peace to pops! Loved the conversation

@KingAhmadTv

Жыл бұрын

💙🤝

Regardless of where Jay-Z is placed he's one of the best to ever do it.

@franklynmcgradycalderon977

Жыл бұрын

Best ever for me, top 3 by default

This album is so amazing and jay-z at his best 🔥🔥🔥

Definitely one of my All-Time favorite albums. Classic - Genius level lyrics and production.

Greetings Ahmad! I'm enjoying your reactions so far. Your full album reactions especially. It's great to see a new generation appreciate the great material that came through in the '90s. Please do an album reaction to Smiff-N-Wessun's album Dah Shinin'. It's a definitely a classic, and you'll for sure appreciate it. Keep up the good work.

Couldn’t wait for you to hear Regrets for the first time 💯

This album is definitely one of those classics. I still listen to this and I was born the same year this album was released. 🔥🔥🔥

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

@lroyjetsonson5060

Жыл бұрын

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.

@miiiiisvibes

10 ай бұрын

But don't forget about the depth, the stress, regret, childhood, mindstate and the decisions you have to make, everything with a Scorsese twist

Crazy what u said about dead prez. Kuz that’s when it was on the radio in NYC. Winter 96. Every time I hear it it puts me back in old newyork. On a winter night .. carving through the concrete and steel jungle.

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

You have wonderful relationship with your pops.. I am so happy we are seeing this.. One..

Top 5 albums ever right here.

Let's mfn go my guy! This album right here is epic and it means a lot to hip hop

Yes, that’s exactly how I felt when I first heard this album. Back when everyone listened to entire albums.

One the best Hip Hop albums ever💯💪🏾

The way you described the feeling of listening to Dead Presidents II is how I feel when I listen to it and I'm from NY and was around when this dropped.

D'evils, dead presidents II, and feelin it are my fav joints off of this album

This brings me back. Keep it up

Feelin' It is Jay-Z, ft. Mecca and Spotify definitely lists that, my brother LOL! Great reaction Young King!!

I’ve been wondering what happen to you ! Glad your back & this is my all time favorite Jayz album! 2nd BEST debut album behind snoop !!!! This dropped the summer going into my senior year ! Literally pac , & BIG Passed my final year of high school! However….. I knew hip hop would have a king post them ! I knew BIG had a guy on his ass ! ( best friends or not ). My personal ranking 1).Bk Finest 2). I love the dough 3). Young G’s ( only features they share ) ! Production , lyrics , features , all FLAWLESS & timeless # 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

I get joy watching you react to these classics I’m 34 but most importantly I’m a student of hip hop I’ve went back to listen to the music that was out before I was born

I agree with you on Foxy. My favourite female rapper too. Listen to her Broken Silence album. It goes hard.

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

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 😂

Glad you got your channel back KING‼️‼️ 🦾

@KingAhmadTv

Жыл бұрын

Thanks my g 💯🤝

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.

Great reaction!!! In the future do the Black Album and Amercan Gsngsta

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_am_gohan9232

Жыл бұрын

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.”

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

He's got an unorthodox flow and the way he pronounces words is just different

Yo it's amazing to see Jigga growth and development 💯💯💯

I'm thinking You need to do Jay Z's American Gangster

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

You felt just like I did the first time I heard this album..and I bought it because it was the only album in the store I didn't have at the time 😂

I love Jay z and I Love this album 4 eva