For them, the timeless nature of the album puts Reasonable Doubt up there with the work of Prince, Michael Jackson and other soul classics that OGs would play in their respective cribs.

It's crazy because you got younger generations of kids listening to this album and really appreciating the production and the wordplay, you know, like seeing like, wow, this guy's he's the greatest all time.

It's like one of those albums like, you know, when your mom used to kick your mom was playing some old Motown.

You just loved it.

You know, it's old music, but you like, damn, this still sounds

I don't think one without the other would have necessarily been able to get to that next stage.

Yo, Dame is the same Dame with $1 or $100 million.

He's always been the same exact person, hustler.

He kind of instilled that in everybody around him.

You know, you're around him so much, you know, you can't help but to say, you know what? I want to be a hustler too.

You feel me? He just always brought that, yo, we got to, we got, we're going to make this happen energy around.

We're going to do it.

He was unsuccessful.

He made that verse famous at Mad Wednesdays.

So that's why he got Maria Davis to do the skit as if we was at the club.

Because that's how she would talk at the club.

She was famous for that.

I hated that beat.

I did not want him to have that beat.

However, with the introduction of Pro Tools, Ski threw the ADATs away, thinking he would no longer need them.

That's still my favorite to this day.

I had to dig for that one, man.

I got inspired to make that record when I heard Pete Rock's The World is Yours by Nas.

And I heard that record and I'm like, yo, where did he find those pianos? Why is this so, you know, it was just so emotional, but crazy with the drums.

And I said, yo, I want to find a record like that.

I want to find something that gives me that same feeling.

And I know I couldn't find it in Seoul.

Initially, the song wasn't even made with Jay in mind, but Ski is a team player.

He explains getting his demo into the hands of Clark, who eventually introduced him to Dame and his cousin, Darien Dash.

I knew Clark Kent.

And he said, hey, if you're ever in New York, look me up.

It was the perfect time because he was like A&R'ing at Atlantic Records.

So I called him up.

I said, hey, man, I got a demo tape.

Got a new group called Original Flavor.

Ski explains how he and Clark began working on Reasonable Doubt without really knowing it at first.