Comments on: Feelin’ It

By: Rahiem

Rahiem — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:01:43 +0000

jay-z best track on reasonable doubt was the nas sampled dead prez reasonable doubt was a great albumd ont get me wrong but i was written blows it out the water on every single track I gave you power alone is better then ever song on the album it was written had its succsess but over looked by critics

By: hiphop head

hiphop head — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:24:27 +0000

i don’t understand where catz get off tripping like dude ain’t did it on that shit. you make all these points why the nigga don’t deserve it, but point is the nigga is just that fucking hot. you talk about a nigga changes is flow up, that is called growth nigga. then the nigga wasn’t just talking about drug dealin if you are really listen. he is talkin about making somthing from nothihng. if you go through all his raps he painted the picture of the shit. i don’t dick ride, never did, never will, but it is just simple and plain the nigga deserves it. he didn’t even gradute high school and is now the president of the most power arm in hip-hop. more artist need to get on the grind like that, plus this nigga don’t write. i do admit that now it is time for someone new, but that was the greatest. now there is someone that needs to grab the torch and teach kids how to hustle on the next level. this kid i heard while i was down south named KAIZEEN is gonna be that next shit that niggas be quoting. i got that little nigga mixtape Outta Nowhere in South Carolina, the little nigga don’t write either and is spitting on a level that might pass Jay.

By: geti

geti — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:11:48 +0000

to the last person who posted in here , actualy the source did making of illmatic

By: dj madwax

dj madwax — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:22:38 +0000

they never did an Illmatic Making Of… but I forgot to ad Making of Capital Punishment by Pig Bun

after all this chatter on this blog post, I went and relistened to the album. the magic was there when I first copped it but I just wasnt “feeling it” in june of 2006.

By: Decatur Bwoi

Decatur Bwoi — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:08:40 +0000

Also to Gluvnast…

Nas’s illmatic was definitely not overlooked in ’94. It was so anticipated that the shit was bootlegged like crazy from NY to GA. The shit was on the streets before the release & Columbia records was rushing to put it out for damage control. Jay-Z most definitely was under the radar early in his career for sure & most people were not checking for him. He changed his style up & tweaked it a few times & gave audiences the pop shit to make the paper then cashed out by retiring. If you pay attention to history or if you lived through that period in hip hop then all the real cats know the deal.

By: Philly Black

Philly Black — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:54:56 +0000

Yo I gotta give props to LOL…You know your history because everything you said was straight up fact!

By: Philly Black

Philly Black — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:51:25 +0000

Yo that dude LOL is right…

By: Manny

Manny — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:45:17 +0000

LOL at niggas talkin about mics on the XXL site…

By: Jerz!

Jerz! — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:57:15 +0000

^^ You mean ahead of its time.

We all know what reasonable doubt is and was. Ahead of its time? not really, too many classics came out in the same time frame. The thing that gets me is that Jay Z was on the first cover of xxl when reasonable doubt came out,and since nobody else with classic albums get the cover on there 10 year, what the fuck?

Jay z’s obviously that dude, but how much are they gonna feed that too us over and over? Dudes retired, and there are a lot of artists doing big things with there albums this year, do we really have to give this man a cover for an album he got a cover for 10 years ago? Kinda lame… :/

By: Small Pro

Small Pro — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:19:55 +0000

I need this explained to me, cuz niggas tryin to re-write history again…how did Jay bite Nas’s steez, when Reasonable Doubt came out BEFORE It Was Written? Jay’s shit in 1995 (In My Lifetime could have very well been a RD throwaway track) is perfectly within the scope of his material at that time period; don’t act like Jay suddenly was this new artist after Only Built 4 Cuban Linx dropped. Yes, they awarded Reasonable Doubt 5 mics after the fact…same thing has happened with great art throughout history. It was before its time, simple as that. Stop h-a-t-i-n-g.

By: lol

lol — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:21:21 +0000

great job of ducking my point. Nobody cares about what kinda weight he pushed, all that street shit is irrelevant….the point is, this is hip hop fuckin music, and anyone who has actually been listening to the shit for more than 10 years KNOWS Jay’s whole STEE changed overnight as soon as Nas and Rae blew that Wu Gambino shit out of the water. I dont give a fuck about drug dealers and their poison, I’m talking about hip hop. Fuck what Reasonable Doubt meant to hustlers, it was a dope album back then, I aint frontin. But the Source…in 1996, the last year it was a reputable mag before Benzinos ass came into play….gave that shit 4 mics. Four mics! Then 5 years later, all of a sudden it’s 5 mics?? Only after he’s turned into the megastar Jay Z? What part of the game is that?

Go and study hip hop. Go and study Jay Z in 89, to 95, peep how his flow was always 3 years behind the times. Nigga was on that jiggida-biggida-wiggida-miggida-figgida bullshit for a couple YEARS after Wu and Nas threw the whole East Coast for a loop on some futuristic Rakim shit. This nigga owes them niggas half of his stock in Def Jam, got the new generation of rap newjacks and niggas who dont know shit about hip hop fooled with this “my first album was an instant classic!” bullshit. Fuckin fraud ass hoodwinking bamboozling ass nigga.

By: Gambino NOT...

Gambino NOT... — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:27:05 +0000

Whatever duke…Hova is the realest to ever do it…Hova doesn’t come off like Italiano’s ala Raekwon on Reasonable Doubt…The streets know that Hova was pushing weight in Trenton, Maryland, and Virginia….
Ever heard of Danny Diamonds, Calvin “Klein” Bacote, Chiles, Rich Porter, Richard “Fritz” Simmons, Melvin Douglas Williams? Reasonable Doubt is the blueprint for the hustler’s that was getting that qwap for real…not some make believe shit that Nas Escobar, and Lex Diamonds(Raekwon) were on…

By: LOL

LOL — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:08:08 +0000

LOL Nas was a fuckin GAMBINO runnin with the Wu when they brought that whole mafioso steez back to the front of the game (after G Rap of course)….Nas already had his fuckin alias before It Was Written dropped. Everyone knew what type of shit he was gonna be on with It Was Written.

If you ask me, Jay peeped game in advance, realized the 1991 flow he was still stuck on with that “In My Lifetime” bullshit was played out, copped Cuban Linx, and viola….all of a sudden, he’s a hustla, he’s-he’s-he’s a hustla! But let yall little newjack fucks tell it, he’s always been a major player in the game. The nigga was rappin for like 7 years before he even got a deal, guest starring on nobody niggas records like Original Flavor and nobody gave a fuck about him back then. He was always under the radar. It’s just funny to me how he blew the fuck up after he followed the Gambino formula. Obviously, he didnt steal their whole slang and ideas, but he did switch up his flow AND his image something drastic after 1995. Do the research and you’ll see I’m right. Don’t stay stuck in 1999, hip hop did exist before Puff Daddy and Mase.

By: long duk dong

long duk dong — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:25:02 +0000

yo small pro, eat a dick. IT was Written is classic as well.

By: gluvnast

gluvnast — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:51:19 +0000

@ mad wax

i thought they DID to a making of illmatic two years ago…or something to that effect, i remember they interviewed all the producers that made that album whut it was…

By: XRAY3000

XRAY3000 — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:41:26 +0000

not the president though!!…the H.N.I.C..im definitely feelin this

LINEN SHORTS SO MY BALLS DONT GET HOT!!

By: alleyeCNTower

alleyeCNTower — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:42:58 +0000

that’s simply DOPE.

they better have a classic article talking about how basically NO ONE has spit that millionaire hustler shit as good since ‘Reasonable Doubt’.

yes sirrr (as it was said already:)

reasonable doubt, classic, shoulda went triple

and for the record, I have thought that album was a classic since I got it in 1996.

it’s Jay-Z’s ‘Illmatic’ if he ever had one

By: thoreauly77

thoreauly77 — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:29:06 +0000

yella figgas
yella nigga
shit copped three hundy
aint no room to wundy
dick in ass
smokin grass
ripped dame and peeps
for fundy

hooray, rapping is fun!

By: 911

911 — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:47:37 +0000

If I get my copy a week after its already been on the shelves for like a week as usual……man yellownigga you gon have a disgruntled mag addict.1

By: dj mad wax

dj mad wax — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:06:21 +0000

the main reason I started checking for the XXL shit back in the day was the “Making of…” articles. In fact its the reason I eventually subscribed. Theres been what, 4 of them so far?

1. Ready 2 Die
2. Life After Death
3. Makeveli
4. Cuban Linx

we need more of these joints YN. They make the magazine shine – I’d rather see this shit than the typical so and so got an album coming out and they wax philosophical about bullshit we dont care about.

suggestions:

Making of Illmatic
Making of the Chronic or 2001
Making of DOC “No One Can Do It Better” – the only 100% dre produced album if I’m not mistaken.. hell you dont even need covers for these, just a regular feature.

article suggestion: Dre’s Secret Vault of music he has stashed. Are you kidding me, thats a gold mine right there.

peace