20 years later. How time flies. But in order to celebrate the greats, time must past to appreciate them. And now that we have hit the 20th anniversary of Reasonable Doubt, we can fully appreciate the greatness Jay-Z brought to hip-hop and music as a whole. But long before Reasonable Doubt hit 20 years, there were plenty of reviews: bad and good. RESPECT. collected a handful of reviews for y’all to check out. Let’s see how people felt about Reasonable Doubt in the last 20 years.
Let’s start with the OGs: The Source Magazine! This clip goes way back to the exciting days of the mic ratings and of course, Jay got four mics. Check it out:
Take a look at Billboard’s intro of Reasonable Doubt to their readers:
This just keeps getting better and better. Here is XXL‘s Reasonable Doubt by the Numbers:
Here are some more worthy mentions:
Hit The Floor’s Review of Reasonable Doubt
Entertainment Weekly even came through with a review!
Rolling Stone called Reasonable Doubt the 17th top album of the 90’s
Rap Reviews took it “Back to the Lab” with their review
All Music Gave Reasonable Doubt a ten out of ten
We can go on and on and give you a ton of reviews BUT how about you just go take a listen to Reasonable Doubt and tell us what you think!
To read up more on Reasonable Doubt, hit up the respect-mag.com site. It’s Jay Day, All Day Baby!
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