Thank you my crab

Yeah... Nice

agreed

That would be amazing

That would really be magic omg

I did not see this! I appreciate the note because normally you are so accurate! I had been asking myself why you would not include E-40 or if Too Short had retired ! Lol great videos man!

Jayz had the most successful rap career

Definitely

One of his most underrated songs of all time.

Love that track

Should be second to “Feeling it”

It was meant to be Arthur

also, people weren't sampling vocal samples that often back then like they are now

That’s why rap is a detriment to the music world and a stain on music right now Y’all have been doing this for 40+ years and still only know 4/4 time signatures and stealing other peoples instrumentation in favor of Cheeto covered lackadaisical finger presses on buttons…

I heard Ski filtered that sample because that was his only way of creating a bassline for that beat at the time. He said it on a beat breakdown video. I was like wow real producers are resourceful lol

Man I gotta listen to this album now after this video is over lol. Politics As Usual and Regrets are my favorite beats on this whole album. Love that vibe

I wonder if such thing is possible nowadays. If something can slowly build a cult following

@@NavieD it's too hard now because of labels catering to Tik Tok. New generation of listeners too fickle imo

Hi Keejay, I'm actually going to dispute the last part of what you've said here. You can actually find message boards in the early days of the internet where people talk about Illmatic for the first time and are blown away. You may not have been around then (and I wasn't listening to rap then) but people in my circle tell me that you had to be around to hear the hype that Nas generated from his feature on the Main Source's "Live at the BBQ".

Fat Joe would be there too

Ice cube KRS one 1️⃣

And the guy Jay sampled for Dead Presidents as well...... Nas was out a few years earlier, fact.

And Nas too

LL cool j

This album is how my mind thinks. That's the soundtrack

Reasonable Doubt was kinda corny, and he forced it to sale

It’s wasn’t in 96

nah iit wasnt ...and thats only cus they aint get hhim also ppl down south aint have to much access to it @@Jail512

Jay might have had the longest run on top tho.

They haven’t been active or relevant in at least twenty years

@@thewondersofmusic8265 KRS is always dropping new music and it’s good

E-40 is still going strong.

nobody is hyping up a KRS One album in 2023, at least a vast majority isn't@@j2323j

Agreed

Hands down, agreed.

Undoubtably

How it came out in 96 you how much better albums dropped in 96

@@Jail512 I said “one of the best” not “it’s the best” plus… it’s my opinion

yup

American Gangster don’t get it’s just due enough 🔥

Reasonable Doubt is not unsung. It's one of the greatest rap albums (top 10 - 20) of all time. It only suffers from anti ny bias. The arguments you'll here are only NY people were listening to it and If Biggie and Pac didn't die there would be no Jay Z. Those people fail to realize, it was an independent record, they only put 50 thousand copies in the store the first week. So it was hard to get outside of his primary core market. But once "Ain't No Ninja" it ignited the streets. The album sold 43k units the first week, after a year it almost was gold. After 4 more years it was platinum. Remember this was the CD's in store era. So people continued to actually buy the album for years once the discovered it.

Nas doesn't as mentioned with Too Short and E-40 along with Ice Cube etc., but you are right Nas started in 91 with Live at the BBQ and his debut was 94! Jay came two years later! Facts.

@@seancagney8897And Nas is still going

Fr, had me nervous for a minute

My internet cut out. I am sorry sir

@@NavieD no worries gang that's real life

There are so many ways to make beats on FL, and each way might help you make different beats with the same sample

As per Clark Kent in his interview, Jay literally said himself he didn't know Notorious at the time. Even though they went to the same school, I don't think they knew each other.

They knew of each other but wasn’t hanging out together in school

Also can you do a video how to better sample on Serrato cuz I’m looking to purchase it. Any specific version of Serrato to get if better than NI software

Good track for sure

Peter Panic did that beat! one of the few "unknown" producers that Jay-Z has worked with.

The album is trash 🗑 Jay-Z was commercial clown rap in the 90s. People really listened to Mobb Deep Dmx the lox etc.

Too short and e40 still drop music. 1981 and 1989 are there start years. Even mc eiht still dropping albums. 1988/89 he started

I think y’all forget Jay was actually out in 88-89 nas just dropped as a solo artist before Jay did he was already runnin around wit Kane and them guys before live from the barbecue was even thought of and nas is my guy!!! Gotta get the facts right!

shite

Hello

Because it’s mostly disco and music made with synths with drums programmed on a drumcomputer. 80’s is known to be one of if not the worst area of music

Jay was on a track with Jaz-O when he was only 16 in 1986 that got some airplay here in New York, around the same time "The South Bronx" came out by KRS & Boogie Down Production in 1986. Look up Jay Z 1986, it's on KZfaq.

@@amazing50000 what’s your point? Aceyalone had records out as early as 1985. (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLaFispq2ayxoqM.htmlsi=CxS8TmY2sX0ildnp) - what we’re talking about here is the year of their official album debuts.

@@isaacjohnkleinYou said material. You did not say just albums. Stop trying to move the goal post. You were wrong, that was the point.

@@amazing50000 you’re resting your argument on semantics. The OP in the video clearly states that he believed Jay-Z to have the longest running DISCOGRAPHY in Hip-Hop.

@@isaacjohnklein Listen dude, kick rocks.

I remember those in the source. They had alot of titles that didn't come out

Ice cube 🧊

8:44

was the group that Ski was part of when he was rapping & really became known for his beats

Yeah he doesn''t know what he is talking about. The guy at the beginning the played who made The World Is Yours has a longer career if we are going by release dates...... I think his name is Nas ;).

Can u relax