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Reasonable Doubt is the first studio album by American rapper Jay-Z. It was released on June 25, 1996 on Roc-A-Fella/Priority Records in the United States and on Northwestside Records in the United Kingdom. The album features production by DJ Premier, Ski, Knobody and Clark Kent, and guest vocals by Memphis Bleek, Mary J. Blige, Sauce Money, and The Notorious B.I.G. It peaked at number 23 on the Billboard 200, received platinum status in 2002, and sold 1… read more
Tracklist
Track number | Play | Loved | Track name | Buy | Options | Duration | Listeners |
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1 | Can't Knock the Hustle — Jay‐Z feat. Mary J. Blige | 5:17 | 57 listeners | ||||
2 | Politics As Usual | 3:41 | 93,391 listeners | ||||
3 | Brooklyn's Finest — Jay‐Z feat. The Notorious B.I.G. | 4:37 | 55 listeners | ||||
4 | Dead Presidents II | 4:25 | 127,393 listeners | ||||
5 | Feelin' It — Jay‐Z feat. Mecca | 3:48 | 63 listeners | ||||
6 | D'Evils | 3:31 | 112,548 listeners | ||||
7 | 22 Two's | 3:29 | 90,292 listeners | ||||
8 | Can I Live | 4:10 | 93,085 listeners | ||||
9 | Ain't No Nigga — Jay‐Z feat. Foxy Brown | 4:02 | 46 listeners | ||||
10 | Friend Or Foe | 1:49 | 79,500 listeners | ||||
11 | Coming of Age — Jay‐Z feat. Memphis Bleek | 4:00 | 45 listeners | ||||
12 | Cashmere Thoughts | 2:56 | 68,239 listeners | ||||
13 | Bring It On — Jay‐Z feat. Big Jaz & Sauce Money | 5:01 | 25 listeners | ||||
14 | Regrets | 4:34 | 70,526 listeners |
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Biography
Sean Corey Carter, professionally famous as Jay-Z, was born and brought up in Brooklyn, New York. His father left the family when Sean was just a kid, and they were constantly short of money. So the boy soon became independent and learned how to take care of himself. He started rapping being a teenager, and in the neighborhood, people called him Jazzy, or Jay-Z. Once, when Jay-Z was wondering around the streets, he accidentally ran across a rapper with small fame called Big Jaz, or Jay-O. The colleague told to the fresher some of his experience about show business and advised what to do in order to become prominent in rap circles. Jay-Z was the member of the hip-hop command Original Flavor for a short time, but then instead of signing to a major recording company, he decided to start his own label Roc-a-Fella Records. Having found a reputable distributor Priority Records (which later would become Def Jam, headed by Jay-Z himself), the artist recorded his debut album Reasonable Doubt in 1996. Such guest celebrities as Mary J. Blige and Notorious B.I.G. along with the theme of gangster life made the whole New York talk about Jay-Z.
In 1997, the autobiographic disc In My Lifetime, Vol. 1, fortified the success of the Reasonable Doubt. Besides the hardcore tracks, the work featured pop rap - such things, as Sunshine and The City Is Mine showed that Jay-Z is not serious and brutal all the time and exposed him to a wider auditory. Next year the album Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life saw light and brought the first Grammy award to the rapper. Being faithful to the one-year-one-record tradition, Jay-Z issued Vol. 3: Life And Times Of S. Carter in 1999. Dr. Dre and Timbaland produced this epic thing, full of sincere stories from Jay-Z's hard times, while singles Big Pimpin and Do It Again (Put Ya Hands Up) became big hits. In 2000, the rapper had one more ace in the pocket - the full-length Dynasty Roc La Familia, which was much contributed by his protégés. The highly lyrical and passionate composition I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me) became the loudest success from the work. The sixth masterpiece titled The Blueprint affirmed Jay-Z's top position in rap in 2001. Around the same time, the scandalous rivalry between the rapper and his colleague Nas began - for the whole year both of them devoted angry and witty rap odes to each other, which greatly contributed to the popularity of both Jay-Z and Nas.
It could be that rivalry that greatly inspired Jay-Z - he secluded himself in the studio, where he wrote about 40 songs, 25 of which featured the double disc The Blueprint: The Gift & The Curse, which saw light in 2002. The cover for 2Pac's song 03 Bonnie & Clyde, featuring Beyonce, became the lead hit from the album. By that moment, it was clear that the two artists had a romance. In 2003, after the release of The Black Album, the performer announced his departure from rapping. The same year he had a farewell tour with rapper R. Kelly, which finished in pretty sum lawsuits to each other from both. In 2004, the retired artist became the Def Jam Records president. The company endured a crisis by that moment, but Jay-Z managed the situation. In 2005, he made a concert titled I Declare A War, during which made public his come back in rap. In 2006, the rapper made a forceful re-ignition with the long anticipated by fans album Kingdom Come. Next year he made the listeners amused with the album American Gangster, which was written under the impression from the eponymous film and contained Jay-Z's speculations on the theme of streets life.
In 2009, Jay-Z was ready with his brand new record The Blueprint, Vol. 3. Despite extended speculations on the artist’s creative recession, he proved that he was still able to make fascinating music.
Studio Albums
The Blueprint 3
American Gangster
Kingdom Come
Singles
Compilation albums
Lives
Soundtracks
After several guest appearances in the early 1990s and the release of his first single “In My Lifetime” in 1994, JAY-Z released his debut album Reasonable Doubt on June 25, 1996 through his Roc-A-Fella Records imprint with distribution from Priority Records. The album features hardcore New York hip-hop with backdrops from Ski Beatz, Clark Kent, DJ Premier, Irv Gotti, and Jaz-O among others.
In a 1997 interview with German station WWETV, Jay discussed the meaning behind the album’s title:
We named the album Reasonable Doubt because with anything you do in life, people are going to judge you, whether it be doing interviews or radio or whatever you do in life, people will judge you. So, the album is basically on trial, whether you like it or you don’t, it’s reasonable doubt. This being my first album, people heard me on guest appearances and things like that but they wasn’t so familiar with me putting out a full-length project and things like that. So it’s reasonable doubt.
It’s just a chronicle of all the events that happened during my life, or things that I’ve seen or people around have seen, things that I’ve witnessed.
Jay originally intended for this album to be his only one, as DJ Clark Kent detailed to Spin magazine:
I think that’s the reason why it was so good, because it was more, like, effortless. ‘Yeah, we gon’ do it. We gon’ put this record out and we gon’ walk away.’ That’s what the plan was.
The album presented tales from the streets of Brooklyn and the Marcy Projects mixed with mafioso rap, hustler stories, witty rhymes and friendly competition between Jay and guest artists such as Jaz-O, Sauce Money, and another one of “Brooklyn’s Finest,” The Notorious B.I.G. The album also introduced Foxy Brown and Memphis Bleek.
Reasonable Doubt peaked at #23 on the Billboard 200 and #3 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart before reaching platinum status with support from the singles “Dead Presidents,”“Ain’t No Nigga” with Foxy Brown, “Can’t Knock the Hustle” with Mary J. Blige, and “Feelin' It.” The album has been featured on several “best of” lists, including The Source’s list of the Top 100 Rap Albums of All Time and a rank of #250 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Before Jay-Z fashioned himself into hip-hop's most notorious capitalist, he was a street hustler from the projects who rapped about what he knew -- and was very, very good at it. Skeptics who've never cared for Jigga's crossover efforts should turn to his debut, Reasonable Doubt, as the deserving source of his legend. Reasonable Doubt is often compared to another New York landmark, Nas' Illmatic: A hungry young MC with a substantial underground buzz drops an instant classic of a debut, detailing his experiences on the streets with disarming honesty, and writing some of the most acrobatic rhymes heard in quite some time. (Plus, neither artist has since approached the street cred of his debut, The Blueprint notwithstanding.) Parts of the persona that Jay-Z would ride to superstardom are already in place: He's cocky bordering on arrogant, but playful and witty, and exudes an effortless, unaffected cool throughout. And even if he's rapping about rising to the top instead of being there, his material obsessions are already apparent. Jay-Z the hustler isn't too different from Jay-Z the rapper: Hustling is about living the high life and getting everything you can, not violence or tortured glamour or cheap thrills. Intel dual core 2 1 ghz. In that sense, the album's defining cut might not be one of the better-known singles -- 'Can't Knock the Hustle,' 'Dead Presidents II,' 'Feelin' It,' or the Foxy Brown duet, 'Ain't No Nigga.' It just might be the brief '22 Two's,' which not only demonstrates Jay-Z's extraordinary talent as a pure freestyle rapper, but also preaches a subtle message through its club hostess: Bad behavior gets in the way of making money. Perhaps that's why Jay-Z waxes reflective, not enthusiastic, about the darker side of the streets; songs like 'D'Evils' and 'Regrets' are some of the most personal and philosophical he's ever recorded. It's that depth that helps Reasonable Doubt rank as one of the finest albums of New York's hip-hop renaissance of the '90s.
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Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream |
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1 | 5:17 | ||
2 | C. Biggs / Cynthia Biggs / Shawn Carter / D. Willis / Rev. Dan Willis | 3:41 | |
3 | Leroy Bonner / Shawn Carter / Rodney Franklin / Christopher Wallace / Gary Webster | 4:36 | |
4 | Shawn Carter / Peter Phillips / Lonnie Liston Smith / Rev. Dan Willis | 4:27 | |
5 | 3:48 | ||
6 | 3:31 | ||
7 | Shawn Carter / D. Willis / Rev. Dan Willis | 3:29 | |
8 | Burt Bacharach / Shawn Carter / H. Davis / Irv Gotti | 4:10 | |
9 | 4:03 | ||
10 | Shawn Carter / Chris Martin / DJ Premier | 1:49 | |
11 | 3:59 | ||
12 | Hamilton Bohannon / Shawn Carter / Leroy Emanuel / Rodney Franklin | 2:56 | |
13 | J.T. Burks / Shawn Carter / Carl 'Groove' Martin / DJ Premier | 5:01 | |
14 | 4:34 | ||
15 | Jay-Z / M. Johnson | 3:57 |
Jay-Z discography | |
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Studio albums | 13 |
Live albums | 2 |
Compilation albums | 5 |
Soundtrack albums | 1 |
Collaborative albums | 5 |
American rapper Jay-Z has released thirteen solo studio albums, four collaboration albums, one live album, five compilation albums, one soundtrack album, two extended plays, one hundred and fifteen singles (including forty-five as a featured artist), nine promotional singles and eighty-two music videos. As of December 2014, Jay-Z sold 55 million studio albums worldwide.[1]
Jay-Z began his music career in the 1980s, building a reputation as a fledgling rapper in his hometown of Brooklyn and collaborating with his mentor and fellow rapper Jaz-O.[2] Jay-Z later founded Roc-A-Fella Records with close friends Damon Dash and Kareem 'Biggs' Burke and released his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt in June 1996.[2] The album peaked at number twenty-three on the United States Billboard 200 record chart and has since been recognized as a seminal work of the hip hop genre.[3][4] Its singles included 'Dead Presidents', 'Ain't No Nigga' and 'Can't Knock the Hustle', all of which reached the top ten on the BillboardHot Rap Songs chart.[5]In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997), which saw Jay-Z collaborating with producers such as Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs and Teddy Riley,[6] peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and earned a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[3][7]Vol. 2.. Hard Knock Life was released in September 1998 and became his first number-one album in the United States.[8] The album featured the international hits 'Can I Get A..' and 'Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)', which both reached top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100.[8]Vol. 2 was certified five times platinum by the RIAA and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in 1999.[9] Two more chart-topping albums – Vol. 3.. Life and Times of S. Carter and The Dynasty: Roc La Familia – followed in December 1999 and October 2000 respectively. The albums included hit singles such as 'Big Pimpin' and 'I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)' and featured several guest appearances from artists signed to Roc-A-Fella Records.[2]
Jay-Z's sixth studio album The Blueprint, released in September 2001, became controversial for including lyrics attacking other New York City rappers.[2] Nonetheless, The Blueprint topped the Billboard 200 and produced Jay-Z's first Billboard Hot 100 top ten single, 'Izzo (H.O.V.A.)'.[3][8] The Blueprint is critically reviewed as his best album. The Best of Both Worlds, a collaboration with American R&B singer R. Kelly, and The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse were both released the following year. The latter album peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and featured the top ten singles '03 Bonnie & Clyde' and 'Excuse Me Miss'.[3][8]The Black Album, released in November 2003, was intended by Jay-Z to be his final studio album and features his impending retirement as a recurring theme.[2][10] The album performed well commercially and was later certified three times platinum by the RIAA.[7]
Following a period of dormancy, Jay-Z became president of Def Jam Recordings in December 2004 and resumed his rap career two years later with the release of Kingdom Come, which peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and was certified two times platinum from the RIAA.[3][7][11] The concept album American Gangster followed in 2007 and continued his streak of number-one albums in the United States.[3] With the release of The Blueprint 3 in September 2009, Jay-Z surpassed Elvis Presley as the solo artist with the most number-one albums on the Billboard 200.[12] The album included the international hits 'Run This Town', 'Empire State of Mind' and 'Young Forever'.[8]Watch the Throne, a collaborative album with American rapper Kanye West, followed in August 2011 and became Jay-Z's eleventh number-one album in the United States.[8] His album Magna Carta Holy Grail was released in July 2013 to great commercial success, topping the Billboard 200 and having the second-biggest sales week for 2013 at the time of its release.[13]
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Studio albums[edit]
- RIAA: Platinum[7]
- BPI: Platinum[25]
- MC: Platinum[28]
- SNEP: Gold[37]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||||
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US [3] | US R&B [14] | CAN [15] | FRA [16] | GER [17] | NLD [18] | NOR [19] | SWE [20] | SWI [21] | UK [22] | ||||
Reasonable Doubt |
| 23 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 140 |
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In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 36 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 78 |
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Vol. 2.. Hard Knock Life |
| 1 | 1 | 13 | -- | 76 | -- | -- | 34 | 49 | 109 |
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Vol. 3.. Life and Times of S. Carter |
| 1 | 1 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 75 | 155 |
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The Dynasty: Roc La Familia |
| 1 | 1 | 5 | -- | 98 | -- | -- | -- | 89 | 86 |
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The Blueprint |
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 73 | 55 | 51 | 36 | 30 | 59 | 30 |
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The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse |
| 1 | 1 | 8 | 79 | 61 | 66 | -- | -- | 52 | 23 |
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The Black Album |
| 1 | 1 | 12 | 66 | 47 | 66 | 18 | 41 | 29 | 34 |
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Kingdom Come |
| 1 | 1 | 6 | 79 | 76 | 71 | -- | 45 | 17 | 35 |
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American Gangster |
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 58 | 99 | 64 | 29 | -- | 17 | 30 |
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The Blueprint 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 22 | 12 | 15 | 44 | 12 | 4 | ||
Magna Carta.. Holy Grail |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
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4:44[40] |
| 1 | 1 | 1 [41] | 43 [42] | 15 | 11 | 11 [43] | 16 | 5 | 3 |
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Collaborative albums[edit]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||||
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US [3] | US R&B [14] | CAN [15] | FRA [16] | GER [17] | NLD [18] | NOR [19] | SWE [20] | SWI [21] | UK [22] | ||||
The Best of Both Worlds (with R. Kelly) |
| 2 | 1 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 12 | -- | 42 | 18 | 37 |
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Unfinished Business (with R. Kelly) |
| 1 | 1 | -- | 68 | 77 | 60 | -- | -- | 65 | 61 |
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Collision Course (with Linkin Park) |
| 1 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 15 |
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Watch the Throne (with Kanye West) |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 3 |
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Everything Is Love (with Beyoncé as The Carters) |
| 2 [54] | 1 | 4 [55] | 44 | 23 | 4 | 11 [56] | 14 [57] | 5 | 5 |
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Live albums[edit]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
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US [3] | US R&B [14] | UK [22] | |||||||||||
Jay-Z: Unplugged |
| 31 | 8 | 153 |
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Live in Brooklyn |
| 35 | 6 | -- | |||||||||
'—' denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Compilation albums[edit]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||
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US [3] | US R&B [14] | AUS [60] | GER [17] | NOR [19] | SWI [21] | UK [22] | |||||
Chapter One: Greatest Hits |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 65 |
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Blueprint 2.1 |
| 17 | 6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Bring It On: The Best of Jay-Z |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | --[B] | |||
Greatest Hits |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 84 | |||
Jay-Z: The Hits Collection, Volume One |
| 43 | 11 | 83 | 89 | 16 | 98 | 20 |
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'—' denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Soundtrack albums[edit]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
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US [3] | US R&B [14] | ||
Streets Is Watching |
| 27 | 3 |
Notes[edit]
- ^Magna Carta Holy Grail was released on July 4, 2013 worldwide to Samsung mobile users through a special mobile app.[38]
- ^Bring It On: The Best of Jay-Z did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 34 on the UK Budget Albums Chart.[64]
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- ^'Greatest Hits – Jay-Z'. AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
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External links[edit]
- Jay-Z at AllMusic
- Jay-Z discography at Discogs