"Hand It Down" is way too low on the list. Preemo laced the beat and
Bleek did his damn thing on it.

BY JUSTIN CHARITY

12. "Holy Grail," Magna Carta Holy Grail (2013)
11. "Intro" f/ Idris Elba, American Gangster (2007)
10. "A Dream," The Blueprint 2 (2002)
09. "Intro (Hand It Down)," Vol 2., Hard Knock Life (1998)
08. "The Prelude," Kingdom Come (2006)
07. "Interlude," The Black Album (2003)
06. "What We Talkin' About," The Blueprint 3 (2009)
05. "The Ruler's Back," The Blueprint (2001)
04. "Hova Song (Intro)," Vol. 3, Life and Times of S. Carter (1999)
03. "A Million & One Questions/Rhyme No More," Vol. 1, In My Lifetime (1997)
02. "Intro," The Dynasty: Roc La Familia (2000)
01. "Can't Knock the Hustle," Reasonable Doubt (1996)

http://www.complex.com/music/2014/11/ranking-jay-z-album-intros/

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Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

No joke though. I downloaded it from a random site (he gave it away for free so shuddup) and I put it on. By the 30 second mark "and baaaaby" or whatev....I seriously thought I had been punked, as I have been before...and that someone labeled a Nickelback album as the new Jay-Z album.

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I don't really care to rank all of these, but my top 3 would probably be (in no particular order):

A Million and One Questions/Rhyme No More
The Ruler's Back (what up Bink!)
Can't Knock the Hustle

The Prelude would be an honorable mention. That album was wildly uneven but I always loved that track.

This kinda leads me into another question, which I think has been posed here before in its own poll but I'm still interested...which beat do people like better: A Million and One Questions or Rhyme No More?

I've always loved both but thought the Rhyme No More beat was far superior. Not even sure why, it just does it for me more. But both tracks are fire.

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that dynasty joint is haunting

1 A Million and One Questions
2 Can't Knock The Hustle
3 Dynasty Intro
4 The Ruler's Back

You can keep the rest

It's just Just Blaze talking. wtf?

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But honestly I actually really enjoy that intro, mostly because of whatever that instro is that is playing in the background. It's like an old school Brooklyn sound I recognize but can't put a finger on. Anyway I always liked it, thought it was a great lead in to December 4th.

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So, that would have to be #1 for me.

@rob_starrk

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

And even though it wasn't on his album, Dear Summer deserves to be on there, at least as an asterisk.

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I've listened to that song for over a decade now, and it still STILL surprises me

The way people suck that Intro's dick really talks to how mediocre Jay has been as a lyricist his whole career.

as #1 instead