The Inevitable New Jay-Z Album: Blueprint 3

i don't know if i have the heart to listen to this.

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.

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

The beat for Venus vs. Mars is kinda cool i suppose. The album is a total mess though.

An interesting mess?

My opinion on what i've heard so far: At least it's conceivable U2 could have a big hat club.

what

lol old boring folk still making music and people making a big deal out of it.

(the edge fella wears lots of hats.)

i thought you were suggesting the album somehow sounded like u2 and i was so happily confused

I think I'd prefer it if he'd stop making old man complains about hiphop hiphop records and made a u2 record, yeah.

^^^

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

man this seems like yesterday ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXcxex7-148

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmsAw7xrcKM

swizz beats song sounds like 'headsprung'

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

wtf @ "forever young" tho

^^^

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. :(

the "interpretation" or whatever is awful but it's probably my second favorite track on the album just because i like the original song

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

didn't read the thread, is this really dropping on 9/11 lol

like the beat by swizz on "on to the next one"

j. cole is okay.

the beat to "already home" is real nice actually.

venus and mars is just unreal bad.

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

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

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

^^one for the CD sticker

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.

I like how he pedantically disputes Jay-Z's claim of ten #1 albums (which is correct) while snarking about "fact-checking"

obv they're not on the same page wrt the definition of an "album"

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

haven't heard the beat but lollllllll

ok just heard the beat and looooooool

lol @ passion of the weiss now being "la times' jeff weiss"

movin on up

ok sorry big hoos, i c&p'd from the times.

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

ugh that review is worse than the album

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.

ttly agree re: off that. song is ok, concept is lolz considering jay being "on" grizzly bear

hahaha

im just gonna post the whole second verse of "reminder" if that's ok

k

what the hell have yall done
(pause) to even have have an opinion on what i've been doing
what the hell ahve yall won?
(pause) only thing you can identify with is losing
ten #1 albums in a row, who better than me?
only the beatles, nobody ahead of me
i crushed elvis and his blue suede shoes
made the rolling stones seem sweet as kool-aid too
96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001 and beyond
02, 03, 04, 05
06 & 7, 08, 09
back to back double plat
i did what you want
men lie, women lie - numbers don't
aint nothin changed but the year it is
i think i need to send you a remindurrrrrr, here it is

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?"

third verse also contains this gem
"in the environment in which i did it in"

xp haha yea reminded (dur) me of wayne reciting the whole alphabet

"Hater" sounds more like a Kanye song f/ Jay-Z than vice versa

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

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, September 2, 2009 1:29 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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