Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt (w/ guest KL Martin)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian are joined by writer-director-producer-manager KL Martin (kaleidosightfilms.com and 3143mgmt.com) to discuss Jay-Z's debut album Reasonable Doubt (1996, Roc-A-Fella). KL talks about "stealing" this album from his cousin and being fascinated by the world it depicted. We discuss how Jay-Z fits into the 90s rap world with the Notorious BIG, Tupac, and the East Coast/West Coast dichotomy. Then we get into a whole bunch of stuff about each song!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.0	The landmark debut album, Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z.
0:11.9	You know how we do. Rockafella. Forever.
0:22.1	You can catch me skating through your town
0:23.3	putting it down
0:24.2	y'all relating no waiting
0:25.7	I'll make your block in for red hot
0:27.3	I'm like Satan
0:28.0	y'all feel a nigger struggle
0:29.5	y'all think a nigger luddle
0:31.0	hustle behind the wheel
0:32.5	trying to escape my trouble
0:34.0	can't stop to greeting me
0:35.5	I'm talking sweet the keys
0:37.1	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music, talk about what makes it great.
0:43.2	Try to have the conversation around the music that fans do.
0:45.9	We tie it all together with a track-by-track review in which we discuss the things we think about while listen to the music, the things we like.
0:53.9	And today, we're
0:55.5	going to have someone sharing their experiences with us on this album so that we're not just doing
1:01.1	it ourselves. Brian, who is that? Yeah, we're bringing in a gentleman by the name of K.L. Martin.
1:06.2	He is the founder and president of Collido Sight Films, as well as the proprietor of 3143 artist management,
1:16.2	who were kind enough to distribute my band, The Paper Jets,'s most recent album.
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