And everybody was like, “Well, if you’re going to do it for whatever…” Jay changed the verses around right there, and was like, “This is where you go, right there.Jay-Z’s landmark debut Reasonable Doubt turns 25 today. I go get Big, bring him upstairs, and they met each other the right way, properly.
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So then I’m like, “If I get him to do it for free would you do it?” He was like, “Yeah, we’ll try it.” So I run downstairs. He likes it.” Jay was like, “I don’t really know him like that.” And Dame was like, “I ain’t paying him, neither.” I was just like, Ah, okay. Why don’t you put Big on that record? He heard the beat. I was like, “Big wants to be on that record. I’m leaving the studio to go to D&D to track it for Jay, and Big’s like, “Yo, I want to be on that record.” So I was like, “Yo, just come with me.” So I went upstairs, and I left him downstairs. He was like, “I want the beat.” I was like, “Nah, it’s Jay’s beat.” He’s like, “You’re always giving this guy everything.” He wanted that beat real bad. We were doing Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s, and he heard the beat and went crazy.
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Afterward, we all went to see Bernie Mac at Radio City Music Hall.Ĭlark Kent: I just freshly came off of tour with Big. But he came back and laid down a little bit more, left again, and then he came back and finished it. Biggie lay down like a line or two, then he said he couldn’t finish, he had to go home and finish it. That day we went in, I think Jay laid down his whole part. That’s when they found out that both of them didn’t write. They’re both looking at the pad like, Go ahead, you take it. It was funny, ’cause they came in with a pad, and Jay pushed the pad to Biggie. We had a date, and they went in and recorded. We went to the studio, and we spoke to him. I remember being in the office, and at five o’clock the phone rings. Dame had told Biggie to call the next day at five o’clock. They drank like five bottles of Cristal, shot for shot.
Dame was talking about it, and said, “Do a record tomorrow.” Him and Dame was drinking. It was just funny how it happened from being put on the spot.īiggs: Biggie came to the video for “Dead Presidents,” and he was saying how much he liked Jay, the whole style. And Clark did the track, and it was a classic. And they kept going back and forth, and Big was like, “Man, listen, whatever, anytime, anywhere.” So Dame called Clark Kent like, “I got Big right here, he wants to do that record with Jay, whatever, whatever.” So that same night, they ended up recording the record. So Dame was trying to put him to the test. He had the biggest record out, Puff was doing his thing, and Bad Boy was on fire. Whatchu sayin’?” Dame was like, “I’m sayin’, though, we could do it right now.” At the time, Jay was comin’ up and Big was the shit. Roc-and Damon approached Biggie, like, “What’s up with that record? You gonna do something with Jay?” And Big was like, “Whatever, nigga. And it was during a break, Damon was being Damon, and everyone was around talking-Jay, Big, Lil’ Cease, D. Lenny Santiago: I was doing promotion at the time, and we were at the video shoot for “Dead Presidents.” If you remember, Biggie was in the video. and the hit single “Ain’t No Nigga,” which turned a 16-year-old Foxy Brown into a household name-loom ever larger with the passage of time. Nevertheless, it announced the arrival of Jay-Hova, the God MC, and its moments-“Dead Presidents,” with the Nas sample that would play so prominently in the greatest rap battle of all time “Brooklyn’s Finest,” where Jay trades verses with the Notorious B.I.G.
23 on Billboard’s album chart, and wasn’t certified platinum ’til 2002. It sold just 420,000 copies its first year out, peaking at No.
The album didn’t set the world on fire right away. Recorded at the storied D&D Studios in Manhattan, with production from DJ Premier, Clark Kent, Ski, Jaz, Peter Panic and Irv Gotti, Reasonable Doubt was released Jthrough a distribution deal with Priority Records. Never short on confidence, Jay got with fellow hustlers Damon Dash and Kareem “Biggs” Burke, and, using capital saved from the streets, founded a label, Roc-A-Fella Records, and set to work on a debut album.
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