the_dallas Says:
^ Uh…. No, and hell no.

I respect when you say that your top 25 is a list of your personal favorites, but when you flat out say that The Dynasty is better than Reasonable Doubt, well, that’s just wrong. I like The Dynasty, I think it might be Jay’s second best album, but if you went line for line, beat for beat through those two albums, Reasonable Doubt would blow The Dynasty out of the water. I feel like people don’t actually listen to Reasonable Doubt sometimes, I mean, on the list that was eventually assembled at Straightbanging it was number 15. That’s a travesty to me. The whole album has a cohesive feel, even though Jay is rapping about the money he has made, there is such a saddness behind it, a feeling of inevitable fall. His imagery is so vivid, and at times so emotionally moving and deep that not many albums can compare. Reasonable Doubt shows such understanding and consciousness of what its depicting its astounding to me. Am I the only one who feels this way? Can someone please explain this to me?