Top 3 Best Jay-Z albums?

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JayToTheZ
JayToTheZ Members Posts: 454 ✭
edited August 2011 in The Face Off Forum
Hello The Ill community!
This is my first post, so i am going to start with something good!
So what are you guys Top 3 Jay-Z albums? Post em up!

Here are mine! :cool:
1: Blueprint
2: Reasonable Doubt
3: Vol. 1: In My Lifetime
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  • StoneColdMikey
    StoneColdMikey Members, Moderators Posts: 33,543 Regulator
    edited August 2011
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    Black Album
    Blueprint
    Reasonable Doubt
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  • FyHunnit
    FyHunnit Members, Writer Posts: 9,699 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    In my honest, most honest opinion:

    1. Blueprint
    2. American Gangster
    3. Reasonable Doubt
    - Black Album
    - Vol 2


    (shout out for the Vol.1 Love .. very underrated album)
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  • mryounggun
    mryounggun Members Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    In no particular order:

    Black Album
    Reasonable Doubt
    Vol. 2

    But I dig all of his joints, so that list changes pretty often. Black album and RD are permanent, but depending on the day, I might slide in Vol. 1 or Blueprint in there and take out Vol. 2.
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  • Niggas back
    Niggas back Members Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    Vol 1 and RD are his top 2, the last spot is a toss up between BA and the Blueprint
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  • JayToTheZ
    JayToTheZ Members Posts: 454 ✭
    edited August 2011
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    imILL wrote: »
    In my honest, most honest opinion:

    1. Blueprint
    2. American Gangster
    3. Reasonable Doubt
    - Black Album
    - Vol 2


    (shout out for the Vol.1 Love .. very underrated album)

    Yes its a very good album, i feel like its underrated along with American Gangster.
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  • usmarin3
    usmarin3 Members Posts: 38,013 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    1. Black Album
    2. American Gangster
    3. Reasonable Doubt
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  • riddlerap
    riddlerap Members Posts: 17,132 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    never heard one
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  • JayToTheZ
    JayToTheZ Members Posts: 454 ✭
    edited August 2011
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    riddlerap wrote: »
    never heard one
    Then don't post? LOL....
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  • MAKAVELI25
    MAKAVELI25 Members Posts: 5,595 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    In retrospect, The Blueprint really isn't that great an album. Like I've said before, great production doesn't make up for mediocre lyricism. i'll call it a classic because because of its impact, but nothing else. For me it goes like this:

    1. Black Album
    2. American Gangster
    3. Reasonable Doubt
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  • StoneColdMikey
    StoneColdMikey Members, Moderators Posts: 33,543 Regulator
    edited August 2011
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    American gangster is jay's most underrated album imo
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  • Cigarello Slim
    Cigarello Slim Members Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    1. Reasonable Doubt
    2. The Black Album
    3. American Gangster / Vol. 2 (I flip-flop between these two)
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  • Already Home_17
    Already Home_17 Members Posts: 14,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    black album
    blueprint
    reasonable doubt/american gangster
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  • FyHunnit
    FyHunnit Members, Writer Posts: 9,699 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    MAKAVELI25 wrote: »
    In retrospect, The Blueprint really isn't that great an album. Like I've said before, great production doesn't make up for mediocre lyricism. i'll call it a classic because because of its impact, but nothing else. For me it goes like this:

    1. Black Album
    2. American Gangster
    3. Reasonable Doubt

    IMO the Blueprint ? all over The Black Album..


    ? with the bottom 2 tho
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  • MAKAVELI25
    MAKAVELI25 Members Posts: 5,595 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    imILL wrote: »
    IMO the Blueprint ? all over The Black Album..


    ? with the bottom 2 tho

    Opinions are like ? my friend. TBA just has too many classic joints:

    Encore, Dirt of Your Shoulder, Moment of Clarity, PSA, 99 Problems, Lucifer, My 1st Song

    Its one of the few albums I can listen to front to back (sans "Change Clothes")
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  • Say What
    Say What Members Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    Blueprint
    Vol 1
    Black Album
    I don't lisen to RD that often
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  • mryounggun
    mryounggun Members Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    skooby2315 wrote: »
    American gangster is jay's most underrated album imo

    I'd have to go with Blueprint 2. Followed by Vol. 1. Then AG.
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  • Jimi Swaggart
    Jimi Swaggart Members Posts: 75
    edited August 2011
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    Great question. I gotta go with...

    1. Reasonable Doubt
    2. The Black Album
    3. Blueprint I

    In that order. He ain't GOAT to me, but he's a genius and has had an incredible career. Gotta respect him.
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  • t_m_a_c_f_a_n73088
    t_m_a_c_f_a_n73088 Members Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    Black album is soooo slept on. Anyways:

    1) RD
    2) Blueprint
    3) Black Album

    Black Album and Blueprint are reallllllyyyy close though
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  • gman82
    gman82 Members Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    1. Reasonable Doubt (classic)
    2. The BluePrint (classic)
    3. Black Album
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  • southsil4lil
    southsil4lil Members Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    1. Black Album
    2. Blueprint
    3 Reasonable Doubt


    Jay The Goat
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  • dc's teflondon
    dc's teflondon Members Posts: 5,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    1. reasonable doubt
    2. the black album
    3. vol. 2/bp/ag
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  • DMTxTHC
    DMTxTHC Members Posts: 14,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    1. The Blueprint...BP isn't as lyrical overall as RD, but the production on this album is phenomenal, his only classic imo.
    2. Reasonable Doubt...A revisionist classic, but still a great album nonetheless. This is Jay in his rawest form. Plus RD has one of the best album openers i have ever heard on a Hip-Hop album, Can't Knock The Hustle.
    3. It's a toss up between AG and TBA...I like AG better overall, but AG has a skippable track, Hello Brooklyn 2.0; And Hello Brooklyn 2.0 is a horrible song...TBA on the other hand, have no tracks i feel i would need to skip; I can play TBA from front to back with ease.

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  • JayToTheZ
    JayToTheZ Members Posts: 454 ✭
    edited August 2011
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    DMTxCannabis wrote: »
    1. The Blueprint...BP isn't as lyrical overall as RD, but the production on this album is phenomenal, his only classic imo.
    2. Reasonable Doubt...A revisionist classic, but still a great album nonetheless. This is Jay in his rawest form. Plus RD has one of the best album openers i have ever heard on a Hip-Hop album, Can't Knock The Hustle.
    3. It's a toss up between AG and TBA...I like AG better overall, but AG has a skippable track, Hello Brooklyn 2.0; And Hello Brooklyn 2.0 is a horrible song...TBA on the other hand, have no tracks i feel i would need to skip; I can play TBA from front to back with ease.

    l.jpg

    Yeah I feel ya! Vol. 1 had about 2 track that I could skip those would be : Sunshine and I know what girls like.
    But the rest of the tracks on that album are fire, that's why it's one of my favourite albums by him!
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  • dc's teflondon
    dc's teflondon Members Posts: 5,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    JayToTheZ wrote: »
    Yeah I feel ya! Vol. 1 had about 2 track that I could skip those would be : Sunshine and I know what girls like.
    But the rest of the tracks on that album are fire, that's why it's one of my favourite albums by him!

    i don't think sunshine is bad...the video just made that song bad
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  • DMTxTHC
    DMTxTHC Members Posts: 14,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    JayToTheZ wrote: »
    Yeah I feel ya! Vol. 1 had about 2 track that I could skip those would be : Sunshine and I know what girls like.
    But the rest of the tracks on that album are fire, that's why it's one of my favourite albums by him!

    Lol, the video for Sunshine was WOAT, Jay looked like he stepped out of a Dolemite movie.

    But yeah, Vol. 1 is a good album...it's leaps and bonds away from that retail techno mixtape BP3.
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