The Bad Boy formula of mixing R’n’B with rap can be heard in this smooth hit off Jay’s second album, 'Vol 1. You know how it goes “H to izzo V to the…”Īnother banger off the 'Watch The Throne' collab album between Jay and Kanye that samples a classic Otis Redding song (and the video is wild).Īnother classic joint off the same album as 'Hard Knock Life', it sees Jay and another 90s superstar, Ja Rule, flowing over the bouncy Irv Gotti beat. Off his supposed retirement album, ‘The Black Album’, this Timbaland produced track recalls the bouncy beats Jay-Z scored big hits with in the late 90s.Ī Jay Z anthem produced by Kanye. One of his stronger recent songs, this Kanye produced track also features Frank Ocean on the hook. The hook samples Nas’s ‘Dead Presidents’.
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From his debut album, a more soulful, introspective Jay-Z talks about the struggles he’d already faced. It's also one of the first songs Kanye West produced for Jay.Īnd this is the song Jay references in Takeover when he's getting into Nas ("I sampled your voice, you was using it wrong"). This was the first big shot in the Jay-Z/Nas beef.
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In Hov's own words, the song talks about how to "transform that into something bigger."Ī monster of a song that announced Jay’s intention on the stone cold classic 'Blueprint' album. Taken from his 2017 album '4:44', 'The Story Of OJ' focuses on the successes and failures we all go through in life. It samples the Tupac song “Me and My Girlfriend”. The start of a real life love story, Jay teamed up with Bey for this song produced by Kanye off 'The Blueprint 2'. A classic beat from Just Blaze with some Jay's cleverest wordplay.įrom talking about girls all around the world to just one girl. The fourth Kanye joint off Blueprint that samples a classic soul song for Jay to rap about his first love - Brooklyn.Ī ballad (sort of) to all those girls Jigga loves (sort of). How ever far Jay’s come he always returns home. Carter' that brings in southern legends UGK as the south starts to get respect in rap. One of the great summer hip-hop songs off 'Vol.3. This collaboration from his 1994 album 'Reasonable Doubt' is unbelievable. Nothing announced your arrival to New York rap in the 1990s better than holding your own against Biggie.
Who would have thought a sample from ‘Annie’ would do that? Who could have handled a beat like this without sounding goofy?! The song that took Jigga into the mainstream and one of the biggest sounds of the mid-90s. Here is our pick of Jay-Z's 20 best tracks: Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
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