Jay-Z Feat. Too $hort - A Week Ago REACTION | This one of them ones!

[@Mercury6_]

Jay-z said it best “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man”

[@Alkheezy]

"You will always be in jail just minus the bars.." That line is so cold. 🔥🔥

[@GeronFletcher]

Man!

[@DexTVReacts]

HARD!

[@jeffwilliams2828]

This is one Hovs most underrated songs. This and 1-900-Hustler certified his dealer status for me.

[@andremiller1566]

These verses are just pure perfection. This is when rappers made songs you played 1000 times. Bring real Hip Hop back.

[@DexTVReacts]

Man! All 3 were cold!

[@destryfrazier4705]

Ninjas hate on jz now but back in the day he spit facts that no other ninja could put together

[@mrverser]

Bruh u gotta do more Jay z songs the best story teller

[@LoKeyMoney]

I always took "Now you sit down and aim" as pointing your finger in the courtroom

[@DexTVReacts]

Damn I didn't think about that, you might be on the money, Money!

[@214-v4g]

I always did too but Dex is right as well. Could be a double entendre

[@chillwill8108]

💯💯💯

[@UrBMsCrib]

Word. as many times I’ve heard this song I never looked at it that way🤔 It deffy Could be a double entendre🤷🏾‍♂️ That’s when u know ur spitten at a diff level when ni66as could hear ur ish 25 years later, listening for the 2,000th time, and still catch new isht

[@214-v4g]

@@UrBMsCrib exactly

[@laimont36]

i'm glad you can recognize Jay z real deal and a goat in this HIP HOP Thing

[@57kwest]

😅

[@DexTVReacts]

It didnt take me long to find out lol he cold!

[@VinceBond-ky2zt]

@@57kwestnobody in kentucky you can interact with?

[@57kwest]

@@VinceBond-ky2zt 4.5 million in Kentucky. I'm sure that I can get at least one human to "interact" with... But why would I do that from Jersey?

[@jay-nx4uq]

NOBODY paints pictures like my Brooklyn brethren HOV 🫡

[@DexTVReacts]

Facts bro! You can feel that shit!

[@cody1363]

The samples from Isley Brothers Ballad for the Fallen Soldier

[@jervarolburke6315]

Coming of age with bleek is 🔥

[@pocketfullofghost2347]

Part 1 and 2

[@jervarolburke6315]

@@pocketfullofghost2347 indeed they go hand and hand.

[@mrverser]

Definitely

[@Juniormore97]

Love your reactions man! You must react to “ where I’m from” and “streets is watching”

[@antoniomcmahon3499]

"throw da work down an.. ruuuun"!!! 🔥

[@ChazBrown22]

One of the simplest but best hardest bars was “out here freezing,still holding my crack…looking up n down block like where the fuck is the doe at?”….I always took “sitting down to aim” is pointing people out in the courtroom.

[@DexTVReacts]

I think that was my favorite bar too lol he got a special way of talkin that talk when it come to hustling. Shit different

[@Scoobinho11]

Double entendre. Sit down to aim also means you are a biotch now

[@Alkheezy]

Dex with a Jay-Z reaction, an automatic like 👍..

[@DexTVReacts]

Got some more coming this week!

[@im_Just_A_Vibe]

Song is about Dehaven

[@Knitty610]

Lol you can hear how he put it together.. nobody else can talk this sht like Hov! The greatest

[@DexTVReacts]

Nobody! This shit different!

[@acoop5688]

"I did it my way"... Ur welcome brodie one of them ones💯

[@laimont36]

You Gotta do Jay Z and too short = Real Niggaz

[@ayoshamir]

This is a true story about him and his old friend Dehaven

[@marcelo_vrda4589]

TOO SHORT is an OG, he got all kind of joints to listen too, all kind of moods. he is for sure an legendary MC

[@DexTVReacts]

Ima have to tap in!

[@dogotek2]

A million dollars worth of game for $9.95 😂

[@mikeburnside8776]

The real 🐐

[@57kwest]

😅

[@addicted2dafly]

JAY-Z “CAN I LIVE” Gospel 🙏🏾

[@lol-ywood9080]

This is what you gotta react to next Dex when it comes to Jay Z

[@DexTVReacts]

Bet! Ima knock it out soon! Its about that time

[@addicted2dafly]

Jay-Z heart of the city

[@nrgmanifest]

Subbed! Glad I found you. I think one of the only reactors that damn near do everything I like from stopping, commenting, then rewinding to actually playing the whole shit back after first listen if it's hot to looking at the lyrics to STOPPING AND GETTING THE EXPLICIT VERSION lol to giving feedback at the end and thru out. Good shit. Hope you take requests from comment section too for the poor ninjas😅 but keep em coming NO DIDDY

[@DexTVReacts]

lol I feel like I be doing the most sometimes, but thats how I really listen to music lol I cant change just cause the camera on! Glad you enjoying the content! What song you want me to run? I got you!

[@nrgmanifest]

@@DexTVReacts My nigg I was literally about to suggest Streetz Is Watching and BOOM you JUST put it out 2hrs ago😂 so I'm def about to go check that out cuz I already know you gonna LOVE it and I'm make my suggestion on that vid. But real talk whoever you getting your suggestions from on top of it frfr can't lie

[@UrBMsCrib]

This is why BIG & HOV is my 1a & 1b I can’t pick one over the other…when I’m listening to hov I think he the best but then when i listen to BIG I think he the best idk 🤷🏾‍♂️ 1a & 1b

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

Same bro same

[@DexTVReacts]

I feel like I've had that feelin with Big, Jay, Nas, and Prodigy!

[@TL-fc8zw]

🔥🔥🔥🔥 Classic!!! I used to play this back to back!!!

[@jamalgrant1091]

Classic!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@tyehodge4075]

Classic straight 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@mightymouseusf]

Coming of Age parts 1&2 are another set of songs like this one where he’s telling a street story with Memphis Bleek.

[@DexTVReacts]

Part 1 on the way!

[@Maurice1191]

"the same thing make you make you math make you die, it's a dice game...." More than one "die" is called "dice" and all games involving dice require math.

[@robertmercado901]

You gotta react to Jay-Z’s Where I’m From, Hovi Baby, Breathe Easy(Lyrical Exercise)& All I Need. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥He spits that shit we love

[@DexTVReacts]

I got you Rob! Lets go!

[@RealJamesJones24]

Lil Durk situation rn

[@shaalexis4221]

This album is what really blew Jay Z career up absolute classic

[@DexTVReacts]

You must love me on this album?

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

@@DexTVReactsthat’s on the album before this

[@shaalexis4221]

@@DexTVReacts no this volume 2 Hard knock life album. Check out Money Cash Hoe's ft DMX

[@DexTVReacts]

Bet!

[@elcapi171]

Facts

[@Tevin-w3c]

I’m going to say this now, since you are early into Jay. When you get done with his catalog and features, you’ll call him the greatest.

[@Iceman-dk9bw]

Jay is nice definitely …but Nas is the greatest in my opinion!

[@Tevin-w3c]

@@Iceman-dk9bw I certainly respect your opinion. Many people agree with you. That’s the beauty of art.

[@joejohnson9024]

@@Iceman-dk9bwnot the greatest but great yes!

[@SteveRivera77]

The Greatest.

[@57kwest]

😅

[@Ohiobuckguy]

He is talking about D Haven

[@robertmontoya9996]

Too Short "Ain't Nothin Like Pimpin'"

[@EricGoule81]

You need to listen to "Street is watching". But this one is hard though.

[@UrBMsCrib]

The 3rd verse on there might be my fav Hov verse of all time…deffy In my top 3, he got kinda of a wierd flow on it so it’s not easy to catch all the jewlz but if u kno u kno 🫡

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

@@UrBMsCrib3rd verse is a masterpiece

[@mo2k638]

Also where I’m from second verse 😮‍💨😮‍💨

[@UrBMsCrib]

I meant the 3rd verse(had to go back & edit that lol)!!! That second verse so short I be forgetting it has 3 verses on there…Deffy was talkin bout that 3rd one. He SNAPPED on there! But u really had to be living a certain type of life to catch everything & understand how much he snapped. Like I said tho if u kno u kno 🫡🫡

[@AbdulAziz-kv6cr]

Streets is Watching and Streets is Talking

[@mr.caldwell7065]

Only hustlers understand

[@IndieCarpenter-nf9zc]

Sit down to aim basically on the stand pointing

[@Alkheezy]

Go Crazy (Remix) & Seen it All - Jeezy feat Jay-Z 2 songs that scratch that Hustlers itch..

[@DexTVReacts]

Ima run em soon!

[@AbdulAziz-kv6cr]

🔥 Reaction! Too Short is a Legend

[@vongriffin9793]

He's getting at dehaven

[@Ohiobuckguy]

Finally 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@JMIZZLE7]

Gotta do Coming of Age Da Sequel with him and Memphis Bleek rapping back and forth....

[@DexTVReacts]

Dman it s a sequel? lol I just ran the first one!

[@JMIZZLE7]

@@DexTVReacts yessir!! There's a sequel

[@chillwill8108]

Another classic real talk, listen to this song everyday 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@DexTVReacts]

Same here bro! One of them ones!

[@laimont36]

Jay Talking About dehaven In Some Parts.

[@mo2k638]

Nahhh

[@GeronFletcher]

Fun fact, pimp c was supposed to be on this song but they never agreed on where to record it.

[@DexTVReacts]

Bruh if Pimp would've got on this track! Shit would've been crazy!

[@MaccaveliPL]

You need to do "Lucky Me". One of them ones. Wayne's favorite verse.

[@GeronFletcher]

This shit too real

[@xandermarley8552]

You GOTTA do Jay Z joint with M.O.P … “4 Alarm Blaze”

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

🔥🔥🔥

[@jahialkebulan3468]

If you want to know who Jay is talking about in this song, look up "Marcy Made" its a documentary by Dehaven, Jay old partner. When he came home from prison and realized Jaz wasn't rocking with him, he put out a documentary about growing up in Marcy Projects with Jay Z, and them hustling together

[@DexTVReacts]

Bet! definitely gone check it out

[@dedricpurvis]

GOAT!!!

[@lol-ywood9080]

Im really happy that people have now started to recommend the good Jay Z tracks 😂

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

Really only one mid track was recommended which was If I Should Die

[@mr.caldwell7065]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@johndevine3955]

Classic

[@lol-ywood9080]

Can I live by Jay is the one you gotta react to b

[@maxphilippe7828]

This my shit 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ChazBrown22]

Fun fact-Hov wanted Pimp C on the hook but he wouldn’t do it cuz his loyalty to Pac but this is Storytelling at its finest. It’s a good thing Too Short doesn’t rap cuz he ain’t no good.

[@MaccaveliPL]

Pimp C never knew Pac and he collaborated with Jay later.

[@charlescurry2568]

Too Short is one of the most positive rappers EVER.

[@isayyo6857]

🔥🔥🔥reaction ..minority report from kingdom come album..adressing the Katrina or His pov on the katrina especially on the FEMA delay disaster..and many lives were lost ..families left Abandon for days and days..i forgot how many days before our president the george bush finally send help .. One of the worst american tragics. Jay z ..Minority report.. kingdom come .. thank you

[@DexTVReacts]

Adding both to the list! Thanks!

[@jfloyd0122]

Dehaven came out and said this song was about him. But more recently he was asked about the song and said he DIDN'T think the song was about him. I always thought it was wierd because one, they were still cool when this song came out, and two Jay never said the song was about him.

[@DexTVReacts]

Thats interesting! Ima watch a few interviews and documentaries and see whats up. The song cold tho! 3 crazy verses!

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

He the damn 🐐 I don’t care what no one says

[@DexTVReacts]

You might be onto something lol

[@57kwest]

😅

[@Dmaj089]

​@@DexTVReactsIf you go through every rapper catalog, Ye, Nas and Kendrick have the best. Just above it is Jay, without a pen. Easily the greatest and each song has a different flow and bars that go over your head for years

[@true-n-living]

Fuck no Nas just dropped 5 fresh albums within 3 years while Jay ain’t drop nothin

[@57kwest]

@@Dmaj089 who's pen? He's been bitin for decades 🤔

[@acoop5688]

It's gotta be in ya not on ya brodie...If u knw u knw💯

[@DexTVReacts]

Facts!

[@blockablocka7608]

react to "imaginary player" by jay -x next

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

🔥🔥🔥

[@DexTVReacts]

Adding it to the list! Dont let me down lol

[@casinolife7534]

@@DexTVReacts Jay Z, Big, Nas, Mobb Deep didn’t make Duds! Everything they made was classic

[@blockablocka7608]

@@DexTVReacts i won't let you down. trust me but you gotta react the music video of it. the video is straight fire and funny at the same time

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

@@blockablocka7608nahhh I was with you until you said the music video. Half the lyrics are drowned out in the video .

[@JohnDaDon12]

You don’t know - The original and remix with MOP

[@emsee7602]

Was never fan of Vol 2, I always thought Vol 1 was a much better album but this is one of the gems off of Vol 2.

[@addicted2dafly]

🔥🔥🔥

[@eliporter3980]

You def gotta check out You Know off the American Gangster album. The entire song is a double entendre. Shit is dope as hell. Glad you fucking with Jay-Z songs.

[@DexTVReacts]

Bet! ill check it out. Im glad im listening to Jay lol this shit different!

[@eliporter3980]

@@DexTVReacts a lot of what he says has multiple meanings.

[@noizynaybah5827]

Dehaven

[@selfintrest332]

"We weren't quiet partners. i hit him off my key (kilo of coke) let him unlock doors off my keys (kilos)"

[@DexTVReacts]

HARD!

[@bigcuzz32able]

Wait til you hear the black album

[@oldschoolhip-hopheadriorea9178]

HOV🐐

[@jfloyd0122]

"Told you put away some cheddar now you crying for bail". On Never Change he says, " Chains is cool to cop but more important us lawyer fees". Your story never changes when youre telling the truth.

[@DexTVReacts]

He be talkin that talk!

[@SEPBXBOY]

Again I’m telling you to check JayZ “coming of age” with Memphis bleek. It’s on this same wave.

[@DexTVReacts]

I got you tomorrow bro!

[@Jimmystarr21]

Careful bruh, few more songs you’d be calling him the GOAT fr

[@DexTVReacts]

lol real shit!

[@214-v4g]

Streets is watching is even harder than this bruh

[@DexTVReacts]

He got more?!? lol

[@214-v4g]

@@DexTVReactsstreets is watching, streets is talking, rap game/crack game, dead presidents 1, bring it on, dope man etc …. Plenty bruh

[@EricGoule81]

@@214-v4gThe younger generation don't know this side of Jay Z..."Friend of foe" etc.

[@ChazBrown22]

It’s fire but it ain’t better than this. To each their own tho 💯

[@jamalgrant1091]

EXACTLY…….”Bring it on” tho…..🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ecarmovercom9759]

🐐

[@nrgmanifest]

First I'll say this is 1 of my fav Jay Z songs so from that you should know I won't steer you wrong ... Non-donation requests for poor ninjas😂: Lost One Where I'm From You Must Love Me Squeeze 1st

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

He already reacted to You Must Love me. But I concur with the rest.

[@nrgmanifest]

@@ArtisanWindchimes oh shit bet omw to his page rn 😂 good looking out

[@lirrflaco]

Dex what up💪. Yo peep Jay Z Ft M.O.P. “U don’t know” remix. But be warned you may be liable to slap a mofo after listening to that joint, M.O.P. Is straight raw to your gut and Jay’s verse is 🔥🔥

[@DexTVReacts]

I just added that to the list. Ima check it out. I never heard of MOP

[@mrverser]

TBE I been on Jay since Hawaii Sophie him and Jaz-o crazy people think Wayne better

[@casinolife7534]

He’s talking about DeHaven, who put him in the game, got locked up, then allegedly snitched on the whole crew! Jay don’t fuck with him no more

[@mo2k638]

That’s cap because this song was in 1998 there is literally a video of Jay z and dehaven chilling together in 2000 it’s on mtv

[@casinolife7534]

@@mo2k638 Is he with Roc Nation? Did Emory get locked up right after DeHaven? Jay don’t fuck with him any more is what I stated, it doesn’t matter what year it was

[@mo2k638]

@@casinolife7534 but the point I’m saying this song couldn’t have been about dehaven because Jay z and dehaven were cool and homies around the time this song dropped this is a song about ratting in general Jay and dehaven didn’t haven problems till later around 2007 when Jay z said f dehaven for craving made men ain’t suppose to make statement which was around the American gangster era

[@casinolife7534]

@@mo2k638 You need to watch “Marcy Made” a documentary made by DeHaven. He points this song out in particular, breaking down how Jay wasn’t taking his collect calls

[@vincentwilliams71]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@antoineherbert48]

Can you do Jay-Z Where I'm from, it's 4:27

[@jamalgrant1091]

I’m waiting for him to do “WHERE IM FROM” & “BRING IT ON” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 if he loves this he gonna LOVE THOSE!!!!! LoL @Dex

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

Aye Dex do yourself a favor and watch Jay-Z’s B Sides concert on your own time. The whole thing is on YT. You will realize he’s the 🐐.

[@cibida1]

Looking up and down the block. Fuck is the dough at?

[@DexTVReacts]

My fav bar lol

[@KamilWalton]

If you haven't really been on the block, a lot of Jay's lyrics go over your head.

[@DexTVReacts]

Facts! if you know you know!

[@214-v4g]

Pimp C was supposed to be on this too. Didn’t happen cuz both didn’t want to leave where they was to do the song.

[@DexTVReacts]

Damnnnn Pimp! His sound on this track would've made it harder than what it already is!

[@214-v4g]

@@DexTVReacts fa sho! Them niggas should’ve made dat shit happen.

[@ltrotman128]

If you like that drug shit gettin money talk listen to jay-z (American Dreaming). He definitely sets the story of how alot of niggas got started in the game.

[@jervarolburke6315]

Pimp c was supposed to be on this according to the trill og

[@selfintrest332]

I can definitely see pimp on this

[@jervarolburke6315]

@@selfintrest332 due to the east coast west beef Jay wasn’t leaving New York and Pimp wasn’t leaving the south so hence the reason too short is on it.

[@dirtyface-capone7622]

Jay slick with the words.I've just never been into his subject matter.All that high stakes trap talk never appeals to me.I think that element gets overly glorified.Nothing unique about it.Most working class folks can't relate.To a certain subset demographic, the guys who dabble in the "game" like Tony Montana, I can see how they'd find it relatable/dope tho.

[@VinceBond-ky2zt]

Go listen to Nas then jeez

[@dirtyface-capone7622]

@VinceBond-ky2zt Don't care for Nas.This vid's about Jay Z, tho.Different people gather around in the comment section to give their differing opinions.Besides, who said I don't listen to Jay? I know how to derive energy from music that don't appeal to me.There's a bunch of rappers who have rap about subject matters I don't relate to, but I still feel the ambition, and hustle in their spirit.That can go all the way from King Von, to Lil Boosie, or even Young Jeezy.Sometimes I'm actually in the mood for all of it.

[@VinceBond-ky2zt]

@@dirtyface-capone7622 You just want to feel like you belong. move along goof

[@murdockparker1274]

Don't know how you didn't like hov!

[@DexTVReacts]

I was young lol had nothing to do with his music. I never gave him a chance after they started calling him the best rapper alive lol being from the south I thought Wayne deserved the title. Im here tho! Better late than never! This shit different bro lol

[@njnatl09]

What's good you got my other Jay and Big reaction coming this week?

[@RJeter]

Nice pick.

[@addicted2dafly]

Jay-Z u dont know

[@s001til]

If it weren’t for Pac and Big, Jay would hold the crown.

[@addicted2dafly]

Jay-Z dead Presidents

[@pocketfullofghost2347]

Already has a reaction for it

[@Philly2Gunz]

Bruh!!!! I’m from the old sckool n I respect ur channel but if you really want to hear a rapper spit some real real check out AR-AB EXODUS… AR -AB made a lot of bad decisions it his lyrics are reality. He was one of Phillys top goons. Now serving 45 years for drugs n murder.

[@kazesmith727]

O.B.H.💯

[@DexTVReacts]

I fck wit AR-AB on some street shit but never really listened to his music. He got some shit you think I'd like?

[@Philly2Gunz]

@@DexTVReacts Exodus by Ar-Ab. Any of his music is real shit n hard

[@qna95B]

Jay just bitin Nas He not a writer, he a biter

[@DexTVReacts]

lmao!

[@yofresh723]

Boy u crazy hov the 🐐