Reasonable Doubt (album)
Priority Records
Production
- Ski
- Clark Kent
- DJ Premier
- DJ Irv
- Big Jaz
- Knobody
- Dahoud Darien
- Sean Cane
- Peter Panic
Studios
- The end of 1995 - early 1996
- D & D Studio
Reasonable Doubt is the debut album by rapper Jay -Z from Brooklyn, New York City. It sold 1.5 million copies in the U.S. today. In the publication year 420,000 copies were sold, and Reasonable Doubt went to number 23 on the Billboard charts. The hip-hop magazine The Source awarded 4 Mics for the album ( an award for especially good hip-hop and Rapalben ). Reasonable Doubt is traded as a classic and is held in the Mafioso Rapstil the late 1990s. The Rolling Stone led the album in 2012 at No. 250 to its list of the 500 best albums of all time.
Survey
The album is often compared to Nas debut album Illmatic, which was published two years earlier, but never achieved the same status. Jay -Z was so excited about Illmatic that he sampelte on the track Dead Presidents II Nas ' voice with the pun "I'm out for dead presidents to represent me" from the song The World Is Yours.
Reasonable Doubt was released in a time during which played the "Mafia " image a large role in the hip- hop scene. Jay -Z was then inspired by the other Mafia -inspired albums like Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Raekwons ... and AZ's Doe or, as he told in later interviews. There are also connections with The Notorious BIG, the long the gangster pseudonym Frank White was a time, which is also represented on Reasonable Doubt. As singles the songs Dead Presidents II, Is not No Nigga, Can not Knock The Hustle (featuring Mary J. Blige ) and were feelin 'is selected It ( featuring Mecca ). At all four songs, videos were made.