Album: Reasonable Doubt
Song: Ain't No Nigga
Date: 3-26-96
Status: Acquired
In 6 months 2Pac would be dead, and 6 months after that Biggie would die, leaving a huge unserved demand for "intelligent gangster rap". Jay Z would rise to fill the role.
Ain't No Nigga is a portent of things to come, and yet its not. The flow and the clever lyrics are there, but the content is a caricature of a high rolling Mafioso lifestyle that has more in common with western movies than the actual west (or street dreams over real streets). Jay Z's latter work would weave in more ambiguity and hard truth about life without loosing its edge of mastery of that life.
Jay Z is great, but Foxy steels show with her verse near the end. She's fine and a true MC.
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