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Title: Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt
Year/Genre: 1996, Hip-Hop
Condition: New (sealed)

Cultural Facts:

1. Written in the Marcy-to-Manhattan hustle era—Giuliani “quality-of-life” crackdowns and the crack-era hangover shaped its cold, watch-your-back worldview.

2. The cigar/fedora “boardroom” cover was an image hack: selling uptown status codes and street finance logic before the late-’90s bling peak.

3. A snapshot of NYC’s mid-’90s rap web: Brooklyn narrative rap crossing Harlem style and mixtape circuits, with verses traded like favors and street credit.