![]() The recording of one of Reasonable Doubt’s best-loved tracks, "Brooklyn's Finest,” JAY-Z’s first collaboration with the Notorious B.I.G, resulted in a friendly competition between two Brooklyn emcees, even though the recording session revealed they had more in common than previously thought: While pushing pen and paper towards each other in the studio, the two men discovered that they both employed a “no pen, no pad” method of preparing to record their verses. ![]() It was, and is, a portrait of an artist on the cusp of success and fame the songs were too good for any other outcome. Chest-puffing nods to the luxe life are woven together with stark drama and dark ruminations on the realities of his early life. ![]() Reasonable Doubt has been heralded for its gritty realism, dense wordplay, and mellifluous musicality as evidence of its greatness. ![]()
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