Yesterday’s Jay-Z track, ’99 Problems,’ was from 2003’s The Black Album, a record that the rapper claimed at the time would be his last (didn’t quite turn out that way).
Today’s track is from Jay-Z’s first album, Reasonable Doubt, released seven years earlier in the summer of ’96. The song features Notorious B.I.G., another total mystery to me, so this should give me a chance to check them both out.