{"product_id":"in-my-lifetime-vol-1-cd","title":"In My Lifetime Vol.1: CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn My Lifetime, Vol. 1 is the second studio album by Jay-Z, originally released on November 4, 1997, by Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings. The majority of the production is handled by Puff Daddy's production team The Hitmen from the Bad Boy label. Though the productions are just a bit flashier and more commercial than on his debut, Jay-Z remained the tough street rapper, and even improved a bit on his flow, already one of the best in the world of hip-hop. Still showing his roots in the Marcy projects (he's surrounded by a group of kids in a picture on the back cover), Jay-Z struts the line between project poet and up-and-coming player, and manages to have it both ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe slings some of the most cutting rhymes heard in hip-hop, brushing off a legion of rappers riding his coattails on Imaginary Player. For Streets Is Watching, high-tension background strings and vocal samples from the gangster film Sleeper emphasize the pitfalls of a rapper everyone's gunning for (\"If I shoot you, I'm brainless \/ But if you shoot me, then you famous\"). The song leads right into Friend or Foe '98, the sequel to a track from Reasonable Doubt that only increases the sense of paranoia. But Jay-Z plays the ghetto celebrity equally well, and continues his slick, Cristal-sipping image with I Know What Girls Like (featuring Puff Daddy and Lil' Kim), (Always Be My) Sunshine (featuring Babyface and Foxy Brown), and Lucky Me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRACKS\u003cbr\u003e\n1    Intro\/A Million and One Questions\/Rhyme No More     \u003cbr\u003e\n2    The City Is Mine (Feat. Blackstreet)     \u003cbr\u003e\n3    I Know What Girls Like (Feat. Lil' Kim \u0026amp; Puff Daddy)     \u003cbr\u003e\n4    Imaginary Player     \u003cbr\u003e\n5    Streets Is Watching     \u003cbr\u003e\n6    Friend Or Foe '98     \u003cbr\u003e\n7    Lucky Me     \u003cbr\u003e\n8    (Always Be My) Sunshine (Feat. Foxy Brown \u0026amp; Babyface)     \u003cbr\u003e\n9    Who You Wit II     \u003cbr\u003e\n10    Face Off (Feat. Sauce Money)     \u003cbr\u003e\n11    Real Niggaz (Feat. Too $hort)     \u003cbr\u003e\n12    Rap Game\/Crack Game     \u003cbr\u003e\n13    Where I'm From     \u003cbr\u003e\n14    You Must Love Me\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recordstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49975653236978,"sku":"5363922","price":2.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0850\/1621\/5794\/files\/SharedImage-117853.png?v=1787639394","url":"https:\/\/recordstero.shop\/products\/in-my-lifetime-vol-1-cd","provider":"recordstero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}