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When this is the one and only love I've ever known (Only) Alicia Keys – Goodbye
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The year was 2001, and Hov had released 6 albums to this point including The Blueprint, which he most likely is referring to as one of the three classics. The other two are probably Reasonable Doubt of course, and Volume 2 Hard Knock Life. Now Volume 2 isn’t an extremely popular choice as a classic, but on his birthday last year, Jigga ranked his best albums in order with Volume 2 being placed at #4 respectfully. Alongside it was a parenthesis labeled (classic). The other albums Jay thinks are classics are Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint and The Black Album (2003).
Of course, we don’t know if Jay was talking about these albums as classic, since this was released in 2001 and Hov ranked the albums in 2013.
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A venture away from normal production(P-Diddy was ex. producer) and a underwhelming performance from Meth led to this album being a let down for most.
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With Nas’s opening line, he wants you to first envision a world where weed is completely legal. According to ACLU’s original analysis, marijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States, a racial bias was also revealed:
The legalization of marijuana in America, as of July 2015, is still a widely debated topic even though there are a vast number of states where the usage in some form is legal.
Interestingly, It Was Written was released in July 1996. California passed the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 on November 5, 1996, thus becoming the first state to legalize medical marijuana after a voting process.
Nas once mentioned in an interview with the source magazine how he was detained for smoking weed in his projects. This was back when illmatic was released.