Jay Z’s Reasonable Doubt has long been heralded as one of his most acclaimed releases. Even Jay himself named the album his personal best.
Now, a new revelation has been released about Jay Z’s debut album–the believed to be original tracklisting for the project. 2DopeBoyz in coordination with the album’s art director/designer, Adrien Vargas, have made public an early version of Reasonable Doubt’s tracklist.
The list features 17 tracks (not including a bonus for “Dead Presidents [Remix]”) as opposed to the 14 on the mid-’90s released version. The songs “The Hurt,” “Tell Me,” and “Hot” apparently did not make the album and have never surfaced in any format.
Reasonable Doubt was released on June 25, 1996. It peaked at #23 on the US Billboard 200 and charted for 18 weeks. In 2002, it attained platinum status after becoming gold within its first five months. Upon release, the album received good reviews, including four mics in The Source magazine.
View the newly released early tracklisting below:
fake as fuck.
probs
who gives a fuck this album fucking blows
If u truely think this sux then u def listen to shit rap, rick ross and the rest of em, so plz keep ur opinion to urself.
^why don’t you keep yours then stupid. he has a right to his as well
most overrated artist of all time
Truest shit I’ve hear on this website.
It don’t get more real than this.
Jay aint made a dope album since the black album n he aint been spitting good since American gangster too much money I guess
the blueprint was his best album
agreed and bp came out before black album
aint no nigga is the worst song of all time.
Hey troll
No I’m here stupid
Garbage
mad over rated album if you ask me but i havent heard it in a while…
Its a great album but I think there are other classics far superior Illmatic WU TANGS ENTER Supreme Clientele the chronic doggystyle raekwons OB4CL Mobb deep the infamous
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There’s a new group call cb4 wit: officer ricki. wale. plies. n gun play
Nice graffiti hand whoever wrote the titles!!
lol. I thought the same. Wish they had that as a font to choose from.
Best Jay-Z album
There’s a new group call cb4 wit: officer ricki. wale. plies. n gunplay
KING HOV THE GOAT!!! FUCK THE HATERS
apparently you have never listened to one underground rapper
yet you hating stupid…fuck you n Queen Hova
No underground rapper can ever be reffered to as the Goat Fool, They are underground for a reason.
@C Tha Fraud
You’re probably as stupid as u sound, the name you’re using is ho-ish.
One of the greatest albums ever, after this he stopped trying. Jay needs to leak his unreleased shit.
Blueprint 1 and 2 were dope as fuck and that Dynasty album is the greatest compilation record ever released.
blueprint 2?
jay needs to retire
Great Album but this list is strictly for publicity. pure bs.
Lol There’s a new group call cb4 wit: officer ricki. wale. plies. n gunplay
Do y’all run out of stuff to write on Jay Z or nah? I heard he wiped his butt, you want to write an article on that too?
Who are you, the Mad Rapper?
I loved the first Dead Presidents track and wish that was on there instead of Part II. Also I was surprised In My Lifetime wasn’t on there. Anyways don’t matter, it was still his best album and actually mad underrated at that time.
Hov is factual n actual in his rap thats why lame blacks who want to hear gun shot in rap n see album cover of niggas with blood on them or posing with guns. That shit have never been cool all you fool get in return with that type of rap is stupid niggas trying to u fools what you like. Y’all should stay stupid like y’all have always been why Hov make history n stay winning. You rat bastard
How poetic
Tell these fake hiphop head who don’t know they are giving hiphop head. HOVA THE god MC
who gives a flying fuck about this… SMH.
is this news?
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666 out the nites
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Who cares? This is jay-z’s best piece of work. But if it was so good, why has he had to go so hard to push it? True artists let the work speak for itself. Jay-z is a rip-off artist with a bunch of light minded fans. OC’s…”Word Life” album is way better than the over rated “reasonable doubt.” But he didn’t suck anyone off for radio spins, and promotion. Anyone over 30 can name 20 better albums that came out in the same year.
Oh yeah, Jay-Z is terrible. Terrible. No flow/lyrics/presence/personality, no interesting albums or bangin songs, all bullshit. Man, one of the faces of Hip-Hop ain’t shit right? I’d rather bump some obscure, poorly mixed and recorded records that only 100 dudes heard of because I’m special.
@Anonymous
If you think O.C.’s classic album is “obscure” and “poorly mixed” then you don’t know anything about hip-hop, it’s one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever made, with some of the greatest producers, and “Time’s Up” is better than any Jay-Z song.
yeah o.c. and a.g. them niggas is underrated and not as acknowledged as they should be.
@burnieblue: you must have read one of my comments. 1996 Resonable doubt nobody was checking for that shit. Sure it was hot but in 1996 Nas dropped(it was written) Mobb Deep dropped(Hell on Earth) Tupac dropped (7days and All eyes on me). Fugees came out with the Score. Redman had the Whut Album. Lost Boys had Legal Drug Money. Bone Thugs had east 1999. Outkast had their Album. List goes on and on. Not to mention in 1995 Az dropped Do or Die, Kool G rap dropped his shit(forgot the name now) and Raekwon dropped his shit(obfcl) Not to mention 2pac dropped Me against the world and Mobb Deep had the classic Infamous.(well all the albums I named were classic)
Sure Reasonable doubt is a classic(not instant) cause no artist promoted an albums years later like Jay. And its still a classic. But in 1996 there were album better then Reasonable doubt. Not saying all the albums I named was better. But most of them were. Especially in 1996.
I remember hearing he wanted Nas/AZ on “Bring It On” and Nas on “Dead Presidents” as well, but they turned him down. Maybe it would have been a better album if they were on it. Reasonable Doubt was undoubtedly Jay-Z’s best album, but still not on the level of other albums of that era. I still play OB4CL and Illmatic all the time, I never play this. I’m not impressed
same album that Jay Z begged Nas and AZ to be on…lol..I think The Black Album was his best album
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The Black Album was horrendous. Jay-Z’s best albums are Reasonable Doubt, Blueprint, and Blueprint 3.
BLUEPRINT 3??? LMAOOO!!!
lol Blue print 3 is like up there with his worst albums.
opinion but Blueprint 1 is Jay best album don’t care how much he wants to promote that Reasonable Doubt shit.
Reasonable Doubt is second Black and American Gangsta is up for grabs at 3. And HardKnock life is his 5th. Dynasty was hot too. The rest of Jay’s Album are mediocore to wack. Jay-Z make Albums that hit for the first week, then get wack the second week. The six albums I named are all good tho.
Another thing, All of his albums sound almost the same. Or at least all of his albums follow the same formula. He tried to be a little conscious on Kingdom come and look how that trash came out. Also on Jay_Z (in my life Vol 1) The album he considers to be his worst album, he try to be a little conscious too. His conscious are deep on that album but the commercial songs were terrible. Still wasn’t as bad as some of his other albums. Actually wasn’t bad at all but since Jay-Z promoted that way that’s what its gonna be.
Jay got mad unreleased tracks that we’re gonna be on the blueprint and bp2….i heard em all n they’re all bangers
He kept the bangers off, to put on commercial puff songs on his albums.
here is a raw tracklist https://soundcloud.com/logicinthechi/tour-a-poor-mans-soul-logic-in
Jay-Z had to change the songs in order to make his album sound more like Biggie. Jay-Z is a great rapper and Reasonable Doubt is a great album, but Jay-Z completely ripped off of Biggie’s style and flow. Jay-Z has ripped off of a lot rappers in his career, that’s why he has had so many disappointing albums. You can listen to him on songs in ’94 and ’95 and his flow was completely different than on Reasonable Doubt.
Yo, you said Blueprint 3 is a top 3 Jay album…your opinion ain’t shit.
Let em hate for speaking the truth. Good shit.
It’s actually called growth. FYI Big and Jay-Z styles both come from Big Daddy Kane’s style. If you really listened to both Big’s and Jay-Z, especially back then, their styles were completely different.
yea Jay actually toured with big daddy kane as well so ripping off biggie sounds stupid.
Yeah he doesn’t need to rip off Biggie’s Style cause he pretty much took mostly all of his good lines and quotes. Mrs Wallace should have a big check every Jay-z album
Memphis Bleek was supposed to be on Can I Live? Kind of glad he wasn’t.
meeeh
I wonder if he’ll release those tracks or do a repackaged version of “‘Doubt”?-I don’t think it’s too late.
wow mad jay-z hate, 5 years ago half of you were on his nutsack, now all a sudden its trendy to be a jay-z hater…smfh what a bunch of faggots.
Looks like you’re on his satanic worshiping nutsack hoe. He’s always been overrated fuckboy.
stupid ass hip hop site with a bunch of haters hating on arguably the most popular rapper of our generation. Talking mad shit aint stoppin jays shine. He is still the man and can still put on a good verse. No wonder this site puts up Jamar shit all the time and has retards agreeing with him. Most of y’all are troll ass hating fuck boys. Jesus…
Are you on gay-z’s payroll? If not, do what big L said and please get off the next man’s d–k!
people can hate on Jay-Z all they want, but the man truly is the king of rap. You don’t believe me? Ask any rapper who is currently in the conversation about who they think the king is. Jay-Z’s name will be mentioned more than anyone else. You can say he ripped off Biggie’s flow, but so did a lot of rappers. The only difference is that Jay is successful. So people, stop hating on the man just because he has more classics than your favorite rapper. P.s. calling him Gay-Z is uncreative and homophobic, so come up with another nickname to show your unwarranted disapproval.
I GUARANTEE BRYCE SWALLOWS LOADS WITH HIS GAYZ WANNABE BIG LIP F A G G O T AZZ
Why is this news? No wonder Obama stopped trying.