tompetrez3;3034841 said:reasonable doubt isnt classic. just because a nigga drop a debut dont make it classic. fuck you 90s crackbabies. NOBODY was checkin for Jay Z in 96. album didnt go gold until 98 so what that tell you. any album with aint no nigga is automatically DQ from being a classic. like i asked before what makes it classic? someone please give me an educated answer so i can STFU. please tell me what Jay Z was doing in 96 that was ahead of the game when you had a stable of New York rappers releasing albums in their primes. If RD is a classic then everything that dropped in 96 was classic.
Illmatic sold the same amount of albums as Reasonable Doubt, does it not make it a classic since the albums like Ready to Die, Doggystyle, 36 Chambers, and The Chronic had more commercial success? The only difference between Reasonable Doubt and Illmatic back then was a 1 mic rating in the Source and some Asian bitch over at the Source recommending the perfect rating. Reasonable Doubt went gold within 12 months after it realease and it didn't go platinum till 2002. What makes it classic, what makes anything classic

If you're gonna be a hater and try to play off RD as this marginal album then you would have to do that with Illmatic,Da Shinnin, Enta Da Stage, etc that didn't garner great commercial success.
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