Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt: The Untold Story #shorts

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Relating After like so 96, all the material that's on Reasonable Doubt was pretty much already like in my head.

[00:00:07]Thing about that album is the freedom in it.

[00:00:11]And how naive I was. I didn't know anything about the music business. I wasn't trying to make the greatest song or you know, Streets is Watching, the third verse is like 68 bars.

[00:00:23]It's not like 16 structured bars that I know is like be palatable for the audience.

[00:00:29]>> [music] [singing] >> What I was thinking during Reasonable Doubt was when my guys hear this it's going to be like they're going to their minds going to be blown because we just left Vegas and this tells the story about whole trip. They're going to go crazy. This story that we just completed and now we're back home, they had on wax. That was it. I was trying to make music for guys who were in the street and living just like us to have like a soundtrack to you know, the emotions that we were dealing with. Not just like the highs, not the Lexuses, anything.

[00:01:04]That was part of it, yes. Like that's the eye candy, the Lexus with the TV sets and then but the interior feelings and emotions was really what I was trying to accomplish as a writer. Like how do I go even deeper to like I'm going to tell you what you were thinking when you were doing it.

[00:01:21]Cuz it was it was exactly what I was thinking. I know exactly how you felt in that moment when you felt that paranoia or that exhilaration, whatever it was. I've been around this block [music] too many times. Rocked too many nights.