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Jay-Z ’s Reasonable Doubt turns 30 years old this year, and during the first show of his three-day Yankee Stadium residency Friday night (July 10), he wrote a love letter to the debut album that foreshadowed the Brooklyn rapper’s rise to power. Originally made to impress his hustler friends, the project laid the foundation for a label that would eventually become the blueprint as far as rapper-owned record companies go. It was a slow burn, though.

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