In My Lifetime Vol1 CD

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In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 is the second studio album by Jay-Z, originally released on November 4, 1997, by Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings. The majority of the production is handled by Puff Daddy\’s production team The Hitmen from the Bad Boy label. Though the productions are just a bit flashier and more commercial than on his debut, Jay-Z remained the tough street rapper, and even improved a bit on his flow, already one of the best in the world of hip-hop. Still showing his roots in the Marcy projects (he\’s surrounded by a group of kids in a picture on the back cover), Jay-Z struts the line between project poet and up-and-coming player, and manages to have it both ways. He slings some of the most cutting rhymes heard in hip-hop, brushing off a legion of rappers riding his coattails on Imaginary Player. For Streets Is Watching, high-tension background strings and vocal samples from the gangster film Sleeper emphasize the pitfalls of a rapper everyone\’s gunning for (\”If I shoot you, I\’m brainless / But if you shoot me, then you famous\”). The song leads right into Friend or Foe \’98, the sequel to a track from Reasonable Doubt that only increases the sense of paranoia. But Jay-Z plays the ghetto celebrity equally well, and continues his slick, Cristal-sipping image with I Know What Girls Like (featuring Puff Daddy and Lil\’ Kim), (Always Be My) Sunshine (featuring Babyface and Foxy Brown), and Lucky Me. TRACKS 1 Intro/A Million and One Questions/Rhyme No More 2 The City Is Mine (Feat. Blackstreet) 3 I Know What Girls Like (Feat. Lil\’ Kim & Puff Daddy) 4 Imaginary Player 5 Streets Is Watching 6 Friend Or Foe \’98 7 Lucky Me 8 (Always Be My) Sunshine (Feat. Foxy Brown & Babyface) 9 Who You Wit II 10 Face Off (Feat. Sauce Money) 11 Real Niggaz (Feat. Too $hort) 12 Rap Game/Crack Game 13 Where I\’m From 14 You Must Love Me