He also reflects on how the album had a positive effect on the lives of everyone involved.

Anybody who does not know about or recognize reasonable doubt as a cornerstone in hip hop, not just in hip hop, but in music, period, they don't have any idea of the magnitude or the effect that it had on all the lives of the people involved.

bring it on finds jay source money and jazz together coining phrases for dollars fondling triggers straight up and making moves that remove pebbles out of shoes it shows the potential of what the hard pack could have become and remains one of hip-hop's biggest what if moments jazz remembers getting the call to come to the studio to record his verse for the song

They called me to D&D.

Jay and Sauce had already completed their verses.

So they let me listen up to that point.

And it was like, one, two, three, go.

So I wrote it on the spot.

You know, they were harassing me.

What was the significance of that name? Jazzo explains.

beat.

Jay had told me that he approached two other producers and he wanted a rendition because it was his idea, the sample and the concept of the song.

And he brought it to me.

He's like, swing at it and see what happens.

And I was like, OK.

So I went in the studio.

I'm like, yo, this is a piece of cake.

Khadija also worked with Jazz on Waiting, featured on Can't Help It by Roll Flush from 1997's Get On Millionaire, and wrote songs with Houdini and Salt-N-Pepa.

It was Big Jaz versus Shaun E.D. who later became known as Jay-Z.

First, let me give credit to a brother who everybody thought was my actual physical brother, Clyde, who is also known as Nike.

I came home from college and not bragging, but I was already a legend in the street as far as the rhyme game.

So when I came back to Brooklyn and Nike found out, Nike got into a discussion with somebody else around his weight.

So the subject was...

You know, who's the best in Marcy.

And then, you know, somebody was like, yo, it's this young kid, Shawnee D. Yo, he nicer than everybody.

Early on, Jazz would create beats for Jay to rhyme over and the two would go all over Brooklyn solidifying their reputations as microphone fiends of the drum machine.