Welcome to Eleven Days of Jay!

dope looking foward to this

OH Shit been waiting on this week for a year man stanery is on crack right now lol . Can’t wait to see what you guys do and ima try and put together some more art work to accompany what you you have going on this week peace!!!

@ Charity, that’s basically what “The Blaqprint” is. I don’t even understand why he continues to work with these slightly above average cats instead of dudes like Nas, Rakim etc. Even some of the “newer” cats that he’s worked with that are miles ahead of Blaq Poet, see Reks, Torae, Termanology etc. Why would he give an album of (mostly dope) beats to BP and not any of the aforementioned artists? I’m aware that he didn’t produce the whole album, but he did executive produce it and a large majority is produced by him so…

But w/e, I guess he can do what he likes with his music. He’s still one of the greatest producers ever, I just wish he’d give an album of beats to someone who’d wreck ‘em. Instead, I have to force myself to sit through most of the “Blaqprint” if I wanna hear the dope beats. (and wtf was he thinking with that “Stretchmarks and Cigarette Burns” song, that shit is terrible, why did Preemo let BP use that on the album!!??!!!) Anyways, I’m sick of all of these lame “underground” heads that only listen to this or that. A good album that dropped this year was Slim Thug’s “Boss Of All Bosses”. Now Thugga obviously isn’t a lyrical god, but he’s decent and he has a pretty great selection of beats on that. “Top Drop” and “Leaning” are always on repeat for me. I like beats and rhymes combined but if I get fantastic beats over average rapping or vice versa I’ll usually pay attention and at least give something a shot.

@Thomas
The album is mostly “punch you in the face” type of shit. The beats “bang” for the most part and the lyrics are pretty gritty so I guess that’s a complete definition of a banger. Like I said the only song I flat out don’t like in terms of rapping is the joint with Em but the beat is dope so I can sit through it. I suggest you listen to the album with a better system, it can change the way an album feels and obviously it will sound better. I’m amazed that you could sit through a whole album with BP though and the “Oh No” verse kills it for you. (although Crooked comes in and completely makes up for it) The only other song that I could understand a complaint about rapping is the Prodigy joint but I’ll admit that I’ve gotten used to hearing P x ALC so it doesn’t bother me as much. (HNIC, HNIC 2, Return of The Mac) I understand why someone wouldn’t like that track though. As for the production matching up with the artist, I disagree. Kool G fits perfectly with “ALC Theme” and Three 6 and Juvy also sound great on “That’ll Work”. Twista and Maxwell work fantastically on “Smile” and “Therapy” was already dope (imo) but then Kweli was on the album version to make it better. “Lose Your Life” is a bit old but it’s as good as ever, Snoop on the hook and Pusha and Jada on the verses all mesh for an insane track. Fame sounds proper on the hard-hitting “Lights, Camera, Action”. “On Sight” definitely shows that Alan isn’t getting to far away from his homeLAnd. Alchemist even closes off the album with his dope track “Take a Look Back”. The only songs that I could actually see some complaints to in terms of rapping are “Grand Concourse Benches”(maybe) “Keep The Heels On” and “Chemical Warfare” and the beats on all three of them are well done IMO.

I’ll not longer be talking about “Chemical Warfare” because I pretty much gave a mini-review of the album. I guess it’s either you like it or you don’t, I like it and y’all don’t. I wasn’t expecting any insanely high score but in comparison to the “Blaqprint” it’s just a better album IMO.

Anyways, I like Hov, he has a lot of classic songs. No classic albums in my eyes, but if you took all of his songs you could get a nice collection of five or six 14 track albums. I have a bigger problem with his fans than I do with Jay-Z. He’s somehow brainwashed these people to put him in their top 10′s and to call him consistent. My definition of the word is constantly putting out (at least) good albums. Yet he has three “classics” out of 11? IMO Vol 1-3 have insanely dope tracks, but OVERALL as albums they are average at best. BP 2 is hit or miss (why’d he even try for the double disc??) BP3 you haven’t heard yet, but it’s just like most Jay albums, few dope tracks but overall a let down. Dynasty is average, KC is …………. AG is good, but not great. So IMO, overall Jay has 3 albums that you absolutely need to hear. (and one of those I don’t even like, but I’ll let you all call it a “classic” *cough BP1) Like I said before, if you take Vol 1-3, BP 2 and 3, Dynasty, AG and KC and picked the dopest tracks along with Black Album, RD, and BP1 you’d have a pretty decent six albums. BUT, I look at the overall, and in the big picture Jay isn’t cutting it for me. I’ll tip my hat to him for taking advantage of stupid people, having “(one of) the hottest chicks in the game, wearing his chain”, and becoming insanely rich though.

Word up to the real GOAT Rakim though. Can you believe how dope ’96 was? I mean All Eyez On Me, Seven Day Theory, ATLiens, Ironman, Illadelph Halflife, It Was Written, Hell On Earth, Bow Down, Muddy Waters, The Score, ETC. I’m a fan of a lot of newer music, but I highly doubt any future time period is fucking with 92-97 in terms of hip-hop. Very long post… and now I’ll be heading to bed. I’ll be back tomorrow and see the replies. Deja Vu? Ha.

After listening to both albums I’m pretty sure its OB4CL you should be counting down till.

Umm, I told you so? Haha. Still haven’t listened to OB4CL2 but I’ve read nothing but great things. Waiting ’till Tuesday to go pick it up.