In 1998’s Volume 2, Jay-Z the star was born. Although this album isn’t Jay’s lyrical best, he still managed to maintain the overall central theme of the album – black excellence. Watch The Throne is obviously the best collaborative album Jay-Z has ever recorded, especially in the production department. Jay and Ye have chemistry, and when the chemistry is flowing, magic happens. But it’s tracks like “Lucky Me” and “Who You Wit” that bring the album back to the streets without purposely catering to the masses. Being the businessman he is, Jay-Z made this album possess a more mainstream feel.
His second studio album was similar yet so different from Reasonable Doubt. Jay-Z definitely did his thing on this album.
If a rapper is looking to create a “retirement” album, looking to The Black Album for inspiration may be their only way to success. Songs like “December 4,” “What More Can I Say?” “Allure” and “Public Service Announcement” are the perfect soundtracks when creating an exit strategy. This was allegedly supposed to be Jay-Z’s “retirement” album, and with retirement comes lots of pomp and circumstance. Not to mention that Jay was also awaiting the legal outcome of not one, but two criminal trials, which ultimately made The Blueprint his venting tool as a cultural ambassador. With intricate production and soul-sampling combined with the building rap tensions between Jay-Z and other rappers like Prodigy and Nas, The Blueprint became Jay-Z’s most explosive body of work. Reasonable Doubt or The Blueprint? This question seems to spark long-winded debates that never end with a concrete conclusion. The Blueprint is Jay-Z’s sixth studio album, but arguably one of his best albums to-date. From the gritty street anthems to Jay-Z’s witty and intricate rhymes, Reasonable Doubt was refreshing, organic, somewhat simple, and completely hip-hop, which is why Reasonable Doubt is Jay’s best album.
Reasonable Doubt is undoubtedly a classic, and Jay-Z is right, Reasonable Doubt “should’ve went triple.” Reasonable Doubt debuted at number 23 on the music charts in 1996, but no one in the hip-hop world realized a star was birthed on June 25, 1996. We here at GlobalGrind decided to argue it out and rank Jay-Z’s albums from best to worst.Ĭheck out our ranking and tell us how you feel in the comment section below. Magna Carta Holy Grail is a solid album, but compared to his classics, Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint, The Black Album, and In My Lifetime Vol. In the world of hip-hop, rappers come and go, and some artists even disappear, but over the past 17 years, Jay-Zhas managed to stay relevant throughout time and the ever-changing music trends.Īmazingly enough, Jay-Z has released twelve solo studio albums and three collaborative albums over the past two decades.Īlthough some of his albums weren’t his greatest bodies of work, like Jay said, “y our last shit ain’t better, t han my first shit/ Your best shit, ai n’t better than my worst shit.”ĭuring Jay-Z’s interview with Power 105’s The Breakfast Club, he personally ranked his twelfth studio album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, as his fourth best album.Īlthough we love Jay-Z, we respectfully disagree.
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