Songs like this made me create a sample playlist on Tidal so I could hear the original and then how it was used in the song. Also, Jay-Z always dropped a lot of game in his music, it was just overshadowed by his popularity.
I'm 26 years which isn't an old head by any means; when I was diving into rap my juinor year and developing my overall music taste. Jay was the first rapper I fell for following Biggie and ever since he's stayed stuck @ number one ever since; a few days ago even having had Politics as Usual as one of my favorite songs and played it adnaseum- I still discovered new and compelling aspects of it for myself not even while listenining to it. Just while mulling over the lyrics as if I was listening while on a walk.
That's incredible! That's exactly how I feel. I was listening to the album again, in the car, and I caught so many more lines that I didn't catch in my initial reaction. Are you on TikTok? I want to expand the convo there.
@@HiphopNovicejust wait till few more years you will catch even more new lines from same song. I’ll be 40 in may so trust me on this one theres more to find. He is the most layered rapper of all time. Its sad that his success breed a lot of envy his way but he will get full props from future generations after he’s gone because they wont have any bias
It's in the opening of the song and the way it's sampled and spun is 😤 classic. Hearing, this way, this way, this way, this way again, this way again, this way, this way... 🤤
You should check out: Jay-Z - Girl’s Best Friend Jay-Z - Bitches and Sisters Jay-Z - Hey Papi Mya feat Jay-Z - Best Of Me Part 2 Jay-Z feat Missy and Memphis Bleek - Is That Your Chick (Lost Verses) Jay-Z feat Foxy Brown - Sunshine But it seems like you starting from the beginning. If so do your thing and I hope you at least react to all his first 8 albums up until The Black Album. 1996-2003.
We had crazy Jesus pieces in the 80s and the 90s....Kanye at best was just falling in line with the culture....but this song has all of our hip hop terminologies tied up with Brooklyn and NYC street lingo... once you listen to it enough you understand it like it is your own hood. Plus that beat was banging. I became a Jay-z fan after I heard this on a mixtape...3 months before RD dropped
Nice reaction when I saw you was reacting to Jay had to subscribe Kanye come out in the 2000s plenty of rappers rapped about diamonds in Jesus Pieces before him. Also how familiar are you with the biggest music have you heard his two albums Ready to die and Life after death
@JustJayReactions most definitely. Both are Classics I think life after death the double album is a little more versatile and hos lyricism got better , its little less gritty but either one would be good albums to react too.
Jesus pieces were "common" in East Coast rap in the mid-90's (Biggie, Nas, Jay-Z, Wu-Tang, etc. all rapped about them and wore them). Kanye only talks about/wears Jesus pieces bc they did.
Actually Jesus pieces were worn in the 80's in NYC. I snuck and wore my uncle's to school in '83 and had to fight ninjas just so I could put it back before he found out 😅
