2. Reasonable Doubt (1996): Jay-Z's own favorite Jay-Z album was his first one, the deep and incisive boom-bap opus that worked as a hustler's inner monologue laid out in parry-thrust-parry delivery and glittering language. At a 2006 10th-anniversary show at Radio City Music Hall, I watched Jay, a ?uestlove-anchored orchestra behind him, rap this album in full, starting with closer ...