i know right? i've basically had the same experience w/ this as with the last 2 Jay records, where i really want to find a leak of the whole thing to download, not so much cause i'm eager to hear it as that i don't want to feel any temptation to buy it on the release date and wanna just get my disappointment out of the way now.
― tweedle dee and tweedle (some dude), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm happy to report that most of what i've heard of this is at the very least "pretty darn good"
take it with a grain of salt - i loved american gangster
― I'M IN MIAMI, TRICK-OR-TREAT (Beatrix Kiddo), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
The beat for Venus vs. Mars is kinda cool i suppose. The album is a total mess though.
― Number None, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
An interesting mess?
― do HOOS ever just steen into space and weep (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 31 August 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
My opinion on what i've heard so far: At least it's conceivable U2 could have a big hat club.
― b hoy hoy (a hoy hoy), Monday, 31 August 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
what
― do HOOS ever just steen into space and weep (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 31 August 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
lol old boring folk still making music and people making a big deal out of it.
― b hoy hoy (a hoy hoy), Monday, 31 August 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
(the edge fella wears lots of hats.)
i thought you were suggesting the album somehow sounded like u2 and i was so happily confused
― do HOOS ever just steen into space and weep (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 31 August 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I'd prefer it if he'd stop making old man complains about hiphop hiphop records and made a u2 record, yeah.
― b hoy hoy (a hoy hoy), Monday, 31 August 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^
― stfuhut (k3vin k.), Monday, 31 August 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
thing about still following bands with fading talent is that it's usually only evident in one place - jay-z is a mediocre rapper who feels the need to constantly apologize for that fact with his "i'm old, been there done that" lyrics. i don't like being hit over the head repeatedly with the fact that he is old
― stfuhut (k3vin k.), Monday, 31 August 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
man this seems like yesterday ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXcxex7-148
― Thought you were regal/Now who needs "Boston Legal"? (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 31 August 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmsAw7xrcKM
― Thought you were regal/Now who needs "Boston Legal"? (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 31 August 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
swizz beats song sounds like 'headsprung'
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
this is pretty bad. "off that" is growing on me a lot, though - even tho i still dislike the sentiment, it's got some nice lines and i'm basically of the opinion at this point that the faster jay raps the better the song's gonna be
― stfuhut (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf @ "forever young" tho
― stfuhut (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
― ojo, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly, Forever Young pushes this album firmly into the gahbage pit. that track name, that guest star, that interpolation, that complete and pathetic lack of self-awareness. it's like him giving the final speech at the funeral of his rapping career. :(
― methanietanner, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the "interpretation" or whatever is awful but it's probably my second favorite track on the album just because i like the original song
― stfuhut (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
d.o.a. thru off that is solid, rest i can do w/out
major lols @ forever young. my roommate & i just kinda looked at each other like o_O
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't read the thread, is this really dropping on 9/11 lol
― am0n, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
like the beat by swizz on "on to the next one"
― i'm beasting off the riesling (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
j. cole is okay.
the beat to "already home" is real nice actually.
venus and mars is just unreal bad.
― i'm beasting off the riesling (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
talking bout the beat or jay? cuz the beat is actually kinda nice, i like the cracked-out spacey feel, but jay is awful on it
― king dom, come (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
no the beat, i just meant the beat to already home is a cool beat IMO, best one on the album so far by a mile
― i'm beasting off the riesling (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
YIKES this beat to "hate" what the fuck is this!
it reminds me of when i took some leftover vicodin and fucked around with MTV Music Generator on the original playstation but not as good
― i'm beasting off the riesling (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
^^one for the CD sticker
― king dom, come (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/09/a-first-listen-liveblog-of-jayzs-blueprint-3-.html
track-by-track review by teh latimes' jeff weiss.
― ojo, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I like how he pedantically disputes Jay-Z's claim of ten #1 albums (which is correct) while snarking about "fact-checking"
― R Gmail Still Down? (Remember Me) (some dude), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
obv they're not on the same page wrt the definition of an "album"
― king dom, come (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
haven't heard the beat but lollllllll
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ok just heard the beat and looooooool
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ passion of the weiss now being "la times' jeff weiss"
movin on up
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
ok sorry big hoos, i c&p'd from the times.
― ojo, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
haha nah dude i'm not knocking your 100% correct attribution! sorry if it came off that way. i'm just mildly bemused when i see bloggers making it to bigger platforms
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh that review is worse than the album
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i figure most reviews of this will be unreadable. if i'm going to listen to this album in full at some point, it'll have to be a pure, personal experience between me, the music, and the bloated corpse of my youthful jay-z standom.
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
ttly agree re: off that. song is ok, concept is lolz considering jay being "on" grizzly bear
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha
― king dom, come (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
im just gonna post the whole second verse of "reminder" if that's ok
― king dom, come (k3vin k.), Friday, 4 September 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
k
― some dude, Friday, 4 September 2009 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
what the hell have yall done(pause) to even have have an opinion on what i've been doingwhat the hell ahve yall won?(pause) only thing you can identify with is losingten #1 albums in a row, who better than me?only the beatles, nobody ahead of mei crushed elvis and his blue suede shoesmade the rolling stones seem sweet as kool-aid too96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001 and beyond02, 03, 04, 0506 & 7, 08, 09back to back double plati did what you wantmen lie, women lie - numbers don'taint nothin changed but the year it isi think i need to send you a remindurrrrrr, here it is
― king dom, come (k3vin k.), Friday, 4 September 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
such a weird feeling when he's rattling off those years...you're like "hm, he's really gonna name all them isn't he?"
― king dom, come (k3vin k.), Friday, 4 September 2009 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
third verse also contains this gem "in the environment in which i did it in"
― king dom, come (k3vin k.), Friday, 4 September 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
xp haha yea reminded (dur) me of wayne reciting the whole alphabet
― johnny crunch, Friday, 4 September 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"Hater" sounds more like a Kanye song f/ Jay-Z than vice versa
― flowers for algernod (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
it's sooo bad...it's like they had a dare to see who could be more annoying with their lame-ass word-stretching and vocal inflections
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 9 September 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
― some dude, Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:29 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
::barf::
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Monday, 28 September 2009 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1605128/20090213/west_kanye.jhtml
^^ srs question, what song do you think Kanye was referring to when he said he did "probably one of the best hip-hop beats of all time" for this album -- i swear to god out of the 8 beats he did on BP3 "Run This Town" might actually be the closest thing to a realistic candidate
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Monday, 28 September 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link