Sean Kantrowitz shares why he thinks Reasonable Doubt is Jay-Z's true origin story and how its intriguing narrative of rhyme and reason plays a big part in cementing his legacy.

After nothing else, it's the origin story for who has become one of the most celebrated and popular and esteemed artists and writers in hip-hop.

It's almost impossible to divorce yourself from... where it stands in the timeline of his legacy and your feelings about it, because this was the ground zero.

This was the foundation

Sean Kantrowitz, host of the Can't Knock the Shuffle podcast, asks one question.

Brooklyn's finest.

I mean, do you like rap? What do you want? What more do you want? You want Jay-Z and Biggie going back and forth? neck and neck.

Oh, and we're not going to even do like a four, four, like sample.

Like we're going to kind of have this odd timing, like this odd time signature.

What do you want? Being from Brooklyn, right off