JerkishBehavior Ode: Eve "Let There Be Eve: Ruff Ryders 1st lady"

The JerkishBehavior Ode is the section where we take time out to remember classic moments, events, things, and individuals throughout history that have brought us fond memories in the past and contributed a singular moment of greatness to the masses. So here's to remembering the classic with a JerkishBehavior Ode.

JerkishBehavior Ode to Eve "Let There Be Eve: Ruff Ryder's 1st Lady"



Does anyone remember when female rappers weren’t an endangered species? Well when female rappers was in their golden era (circa ’96-01), Eve’s debut album “Let There Be Eve: Ruff Ryder’s First Lady” put the whole game on notice especially the two female heavyweights in Foxy Brown and Lil Kim. This album was a breathe of fresh air from Eve’s crazy flow with no ghostwriter, stellar top-notch Hip-Hop production, the aggressive and sensitive but untouched subject matter by a female rapper. I was totally shocked and amazed when I heard this album because it was so good and after one listen, I declared Eve the best female rapper in the game (unfortunately but neither her nor there, this Eve was never seen again after this album).

This album was classic because Eve was able to hold her own lyrically with some of the hardest dudes in the game at the time in DMX, The Lox, and Beanie Sigel while also being sensitive by touching on real issues that real females deal with such as domestic abuse, rape, and self-esteem. This album is littered with classic songs from the aggressive side was “Scenario 2000”, “We On That Shit”, “Philly,Philly” which put Philadelphia on the map and was an anthem for the city, and “Let’s Talk About” which sees Eve going bar for bar with Drag-On. The songs that really won me over was the more sensitive tracks geared toward female empowerment in “Love Is Blind”, “Gotta Man” and one of my personal favorites in “Heaven Only Knows”. My favorite song on the album is “What Ya All Want” Remix which sees Eve spitting her most memorable bars over Swizz Beats production geared towards clubbing on an exotic album. The skits was even classic who can forget the “Philly Cheese Steak” skit with the Arab and the line “No, Philly is where I From”. The illest pitbull in a skirt had a well-rounded album and was the first female rapper that didn’t use the cliché sex/materialistic songs as the main focal point of the album. Eve’s debut album will forever be a Hip-Hop classic and that’s why this JerkishBehavior Ode is to Eve’s “Let There Be Eve: Ruff Ryder’s First Lady”.


Here are 2 videos from Eve's "Let There Be Eve"