Gallery: 22 Pictures of "Reasonable Doubt" Era Jay-Z
Looking back at the birth of a legend.
June 25, 2012
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Today is the 16 year anniversary of Jay-Z’s debut album, Reasonable Doubt. To celebrate, we hooked up with UpNorthTrips and got 22 pics (for his 22 twos) of Jigga back when he used to spell his name Jaÿ-Z (we never understood what that umlaut was all about) and you could actually get Kareem "Biggs" Burke to take a picture. For those of you who may not have been paying attention to the Jiggaman in 1996, this is what the birth of a legend looks like.
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