The twentieth anniversary of one of the hottest albums of the rap game should be a celebration. Which is exactly what we’ve come to do- celebrate Jay- Z and his notorious album, Reasonable Doubt. The album highlights the many peaks and valleys in the drug game he was involved with and life in general. Jay makes the stories maneuver so swiftly with the beats as he spits; it amazing that this was his first album. Here are 20 lyrics from Reasonable Doubt that make the album the classic it is.
“Im making short term goals, when the weather folds
just to put away leathers and put ice on the gold”
“We get together like a choir, to acquire what we desire
We do dirt like worms, produce G’s like sperms
Until legs spread like germs”
“At my arraignment screaming
All us blacks got is sports and entertainment until were even
Thieving, as long as I’m breathing
Can’t knock the way a n*gga eating, f*ck you even”
“You ain’t seen money in your life, when it
Comes to this cheese yall like three blind mice”
“Ain’t no stopping the champagne from poppin
The drawers from droppin, the law from watchin- I hate em.”
“Time to separate the pros from the cons
The Platinum from the bronze
That butter soft shit from that leather on the Fonz”
“Jay-Z the icon, baby, you like Dom, maybe this Cristals’ll
Change your life huh? Roll with the winners
Heavy spinner like hit records: Roc A Fella
Don’t get it corrected, this sh*t is perfected”
“If every n*gga in your clique is rich, your clique is rugged
Nobody will fall cause everyone will be each others crutches”
“I keep it realer than most, I know you feeling it
Cristals on ice, I like to toast, I keep on spilling it
Bone crushers I keep real close, I got the skill for this
On my back the flyest clothes, looking ill as sh*t”
“Whoever said illegal was the easy way out, couldn’t
Understand
The mechanics and workings of the underground, granted
Nine to five is how you survive, I aint trying to survive
Im tryna live it to the limit and love it a lot”
“She said the taste of dollars was sh*tty so I fed her fifties
About his whereabouts I wasn’t convinced
I kept feeding her money til her sh*t started to make sense”
“And even if Jehovah witness, bet he’ll never testify, D’evils”
“Too many ladies give these n*ggas too many chances,
Too many brothers wannabe lovers don’t know what romance is”
“To all my brothers it aint too late to come together
Cause too much black and too much love, equals forever”
“At your wake I peek in, look in your casket
Feeling sarcastic, “look at him, still sleeping.””
“However brief, I know this game got valleys and peaks
Expectations for dips, for precipitation we stack chips hardly
The youth I used to be, soon to see a million
No more Big Wille, my game is grown
Prefer you call me William”
“Id rather die enormous than live dormant, that’s how we on it”
“My mind is infested with sick thoughts that circle
Like a lexus, if driven wrong its sure to hurt you”
“When it boils to steam, it comes to it
We all fiends, gotta do it, even righteous minds go through this”
The hook :
“This is the number one rule for your set
In order to survive got to learn to live with regrets
On the rise to the top many drop, don’t forget
In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets”
This is certainly what Jay-Z has been doing, living with no regrets. A toast to this album being a classic into the next 20 years!
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