Eleven Days of Jay

Kingdom Come: The Video’s

by Thomas September 9, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

Here are the video’s for my least favorite Jay-Z album. Its not that this is a “bad” album I just thought it was sequenced wrong (all Just Blaze tracks within the first 15 minutes of album) and the inclusion of the terrible “Hollywood” and “Anything” didn’t sit well with me. Anyhoo, I would have loved [...]

Jay-Z: Kingdom Come

by Kevin September 9, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

Kingdom Come is the ninth studio album from Jay-Z released on November 21, 2006. This is considered a “comeback album” for the established rapper as 2003′s The Black Album was slated to be his final release. The album was a big commercial success, selling about 680,000 copies in its first week, making it Jay-Z’s highest [...]

Jay-Z x Raekwon

by Thomas September 8, 2009 Around The Net

A fan of Hip-Hop I am. I grew up on that Boom Bap. That New York Hip-Hop. Jay and Raekwon are New York Hip-Hop. Great picture. Props to YN for the flick.

Jay-Z: The S. Carter Collection [Mixtape]

by Thomas September 8, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

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Another dope mixtape featuring Mr. S. Carter. If you are a Jay-Z fan… you have this already. If not grab it after the cut.

The Black Album Remixes

by Kevin September 8, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

The Black Album was the one that started it all… remixing a whole album, that is. Yeah, there are probably more American Gangster remix albums out there, but there are some classic Black Album remixes. I mean, who could forget the controversy over DJ Danger Mouse‘s The Grey Album, where he remixed Hov over beats [...]

Jay-Z: Encore (The Lyrics)

by Kevin September 8, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

Thomas has been doing a great job of holding down our lyrics posts this past week. With The Black Album being one of my favorite Jay albums, I had to help out today. One of my favorite cuts on the album is the Kanye-produced “Encore.” The whole song just gets me really hyped, from Kanye’s [...]

The Black Album: The Video’s

by Thomas September 8, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

Jay’s “retirement” album produced four video’s that included the flossy “Change Clothes” to the gritty black & white Rick Rubin produced banger “99 Problems.” Everything under the hood…

Jay-Z: The Black Album

by Kevin September 8, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

The Black Album is the eighth studio album from Jay-Z, released November 14, 2003 on Roc-A-Fella Records. It was promoted as his final studio album, although Jay-Z subsequently announced a return to solo recording in 2006. The album was very well received by critics and was also a commercial success, debuting at #1 with nearly [...]

Top 25 Jay-Z Songs… Take 2

by Sean Deez September 7, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

There’s a huge list of songs to go through when making any sort of list for Jay-z. While I tried my hardest to narrow down my version of Hov’s Top 25 songs, after reading Fred’s list, I felt he left out joints that are not only vital to Jay’s identity, but essential to understanding the [...]

Top 25 Jay-Z Songs

by Freddie C September 7, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

Jay-Z is one of the rare MC’s to drop multiple classic albums. It’s even rarer that he drops them during different eras in hip-hop. His 1996 debut album, Reasonable Doubt came during the end of hip-hop’s Golden Era from the mid-80s until the mid-90s. Backed by Kanye West and Just Blaze, his soul-influenced 2001 album [...]

Jay-Z: Library of A Legend

by Kevin September 7, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

We are on Day 7 of our 11 Days of Jay extravaganza. I was going to wait to post this one at the end of the week, but couldn’t hold out any longer. This compilation was put together back in 2004 after Jay-Z “retired.” From what I gather, the idea was to put out a [...]

Jay-Z vs. Angelous

by Thomas September 7, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

When I became aware of Angelous in late 2002/early 2003 and heard his song “A.N.G.E.L.” I thought Jay-Z was dissing himself. After a couple listens I figured out it wasn’t Jay-Z. Now there have been some Jay-Z clones before Angelous (Bathgate, Sam Sarcfo) that seem to take Jay-Z’s flow, ad-libs, and style to the 10th [...]

Jay-Z: The Watcher 2 (The Lyrics)

by Thomas September 7, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

Probably the dopest verse on BP2 to me. Jay is aggressive with his content and assertive in trying to make the point on how dope he is. Plus, having the GOD emcee on the track probably contributed to this verse being hot. Lyrics (OHHLA) and Youtube video under the hood.

The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse: Original Samples [Revisited]

by Thomas September 7, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

This is the second set I gave Kev for inclusion on the site. For the most part I believe this sample set is complete. We did miss two samples while using wikipedia/The-Breaks the first go around and those have been included. After going back and listening to the album I’m almost certain “Show You How,” [...]

The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse: The Video’s

by Thomas September 7, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

All of the visual’s from The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse. This album had potential for 3-4 more video’s. Everything under the hood.

Jay-Z: The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse

by Kevin September 7, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse is Jay-Z’s seventh studio album released on November 12, 2002. Parts of the album were later reissued as The Blueprint 2.1 in 2003. This album, like Jay-Z’s previous four, debuted at #1 with over 545,000 units shipped in its first week of sales. The album was criticized for [...]

Jay-Z vs. Cormega

by Thomas September 7, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

Jay-Z and Cormega both rhyme over Stanley Clarke’s “I Got To Find My Own Place.” Cormega has always been on of my favorite artist. I’ve praised his lyrical skills before on this site (here & here). Everyone should know my thought’s on Jay!?! Cormega and Jay-Z go in different directions as far as subject matter [...]

Jay-Z: Unplugged Sessions [Video's]

by Thomas September 6, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

YN from RapRadar.com unleashed these joints in April of this year. Thought it was fitting to bring them for our Jay week. Dope footage of “Somebody’s Girl,” “Don’t You Know,” and “Renegade.” I’ve never understood why this hasn’t hit DVD? Don’t them boys at 1515 want to make some money? Jay probably blocked it tho. [...]

The Blueprint Remix Albums

by Kevin September 6, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

Aside from our Blueprint Remix project (shown above), there have been a few Blueprint remix project floating around. Though it was Jay’s The Black Album that got producers remixing whole albums, Jay actually released the acapellas to The Blueprint first. I guess there weren’t too many people who wanted to mess with a classic. Hit [...]

Jay-Z: Song Cry (The Lyrics)

by Freddie C September 6, 2009 Eleven Days of Jay

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“Song Cry” is Jay-Z at his realest. It’s hard to find a rapper who would willingly cast aside their baller/gangster/mafioso persona and put their real-life problems on wax. Sure, he distances himself by saying he has to make the song cry because he can’t, but the last verse is pure sorrow, saying he’ll mourn and [...]

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