Kanye West & Jay-Z - Watch The Throne [2011]

i pretty much gave up on this whole thing when kanye either referenced or bit that wayne line from "miss me"

(not a snarky statement btw; at least one of those women is horrible, but I like what they are doing)

ugh if I wanted awesome forward-thinking beats and half-assed lyrics about dicks being sucked, I wouldn't have paused my lil b playlist long enough to listen to this shit

i'm not sure how anyone could really feel invested in this at all -- there was just a kanye album that against all odds was pretty great but not especially for the rapping & then we all know about jay-z

i guess people just need star power rap to care about all the time regardless of it's actually good or not? i guess kanye/jay spitting stilted raps over an 'of the moment' producer suffices

xp ... cuz at least he has charisma. and an excuse.

kanye sounds so bored

Shouldn't it be H.A.A.M?

Biglinton Says:
January 11th, 2011 at 7:43 am
Wow hmmmm i guess ill be the first to say, im not really feeling it and i mean the whole song. Isnt going HAM a southern term to go crazy, stupid, wild when has kanye or Jay-z ever used someone elses TERMs or words, they are inovators. Just like when trey songz went at r kelly for using Auto Tune when r kelly is the man when it comes to singing and is respected by all in R & B im just not feeling it. And this beat is not Kanye or Jay Z, you ever wondered what KRS-ONE would sound like on a three six mafia beat or NAS on a LIL JON track this is how i felt it was not the beat for them, the only east coast rapper thats good on southern beats is Jadakiss, and im just giving my opinions, just saying and in my defense im 24 i got every jay cd every kanye cd i know wat there capable of but this is not it and the track wasnt put together very well sounds kinda bad for two top artist

wonder if that kanye/terius collabo is ever gonna happen?

xxp it's usually accepted that one can omit articles from acronyms

biglinton pretty much otm... except about kanye and jay-z not jacking other ppl's words, lol

there should be a poll -- in which year in the next 10 will people finally stop caring about new jay-z music?

according to 'dj tech', never:

dj tech Says:
January 11th, 2011 at 7:52 am
get ready for the gays or pink mafia niggas to go on every hiphop blogsite cosignin this bullshit all day actin like they like this bullshit. this shit sound like two people tryin to do somebody else style point blank

WATCH THE THRONE!

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that... this is terrifying

i like the beat better than most of MBDTF and it's a good look for lex luger i think but wow the rapping is dire. who is kanye trying to ape in the first verse?

good beat. bad rapps. lex luger is a great producer.

disappointed that GIS wouldn't help me find a picture of a toilet on a TV screen

has any artist lost it as completely and totally after being so brilliant for so long as jay?

rod stewart is the one that comes to mind

thank god this has a thread so it doesn't slip by our attention

hahaha the weird classical breakdown reminds me of the Great and Mighty Poo from Conker's Bad Fur Day lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w5neFPat1w

^^^way better song

god this sounds like one of those things where some random internet guy raps over a real beat and uploads it to napster as "NEW KANYE/JAY-Z"

the beat is not redeeming either of them. it makes everything worse. i'm sure its pretty great on it own but the whole package is insufferable

god this sounds like one of those things where some random internet guy raps over a real beat and uploads it to napster as "NEW KANYE/JAY-Z"

in fairness this is exactly what happened; it's only a coincidence that it's actually Kanye and Jay-Z

people who act like Lex Luger is a great producer are fronting harder than people who act like Jay and Kanye are still great rappers imo

lol @ Kanye trying to doubletime for practically the first time in his career, and still filling a bunch of bars with grunting "HAHHH"

the beat reminds me of some trae song i can't remember the title of

(the main beat not the tarded classical stuff)

lol @ Kanye trying to doubletime for practically the first time in his career

lol

people who act like Lex Luger is a great producer are fronting harder than people who act like Jay and Kanye are still great rappers imo

― some dude, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:56 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

some dude acting like 'like me' or 'grove st party' are flukes is fronting harder that his initial reaction couldnt possibly be incorrect

You both are right to an extent -- lex proved himself to be more creative than maybe a lot of us thought, but ppl aren't trying to get "grove st party" beats from him. Everyone wants "bmf" and now we're on like the the 56th incarnation of that beat

there should be a poll -- in which year in the next 10 will people finally stop caring about new jay-z music?

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:08 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you might as well be asking when people will stop making a big deal over shitty new U2 or Paul McCartney albums i.e. never

some dude acting like 'like me' or 'grove st party' are flukes is fronting harder that his initial reaction couldnt possibly be incorrect

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:53 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the second half of this sentence went off the rails somewhere, i don't even understand it

yeah poorly worded but it makes sense if u parse it -- sayin u are in denial that your initial reaction to lex being an overrated one-dimensional producer is wrong

i gues this isn't really my biznass but if there's one thing that i really admire about al it's his ability to -- seemingly -- not hold grudges & in a way evaluate songs/albums as if previous works by the artist didn't exist

jay-z sounds hilarious on his chorus!

Man. Both Nas/Lil Jon collabs that I know of are awesome.

Anyway, the beat is awesome and al is mad, Kanye sucks, the classical bits suck, Jay is ok.

"Grand Finale" for sure

Yeah, the Nas/Lil Jon songs are fantastic. "Grand Finale" is really good too.

ok i am never going to listen to this again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s53SiLUIguk

^better rapping, better classical, worse beats imo

urban appropriations of opera wld be such a better thred than this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gHULq5-Qo

doooope

this is terrible

i don't think the beat on h.a.m is good at all. it's got no knock, would sound pretty unremarkable on a mixtape. kind of imagine lex luger rolling his damn eyes @ jay z and kanye wanting to make a retarded attempt at high art & probably making 100 grand or whatever ppl get paid for jay z beats for adding an opera sample to something he had prepared for a french montana mixtape cut

I just figured the opera was Kayne's meddling.

some dude acting like 'like me' or 'grove st party' are flukes is fronting harder that his initial reaction couldnt possibly be incorrect

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:53 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the second half of this sentence went off the rails somewhere, i don't even understand it

― some dude, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 6:06 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah poorly worded but it makes sense if u parse it -- sayin u are in denial that your initial reaction to lex being an overrated one-dimensional producer is wrong

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 11, 2011 6:44 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

deej i am so glad u went to the mat for this incomprehensible jibber jabber never change

Don't get why you've latched on to "Grove St. Party" as a standout, maybe my least favorite song on Flockaveli.

WHAT

ok u keep bumping "bricksquad ft gudda gudda"

drums, partial beyonce echoes, shreiks

I like the track on the new Lil B tape with the "Lift Off" beat. Suits him better i think, kind of undercuts the grandiosity

Lil B could undercut the grandiosity of Young Marble Giants

the most epic based god tracks >>>> anything off WTT

This album represents the kind of professionalism that makes me get bored of professionalism.

who cares >> anything on WTT

the last song (on the album proper, not the deluxe version) with mr hudson>>>>>>>>everyone itt

Hubert & Philippe should be proud to have a friend like you.

http://www.insound.com/Watch-The-Throne-2xLP-Jay-Z-and-Kanye-West/P/INS102975/

$140!

it makes you wonder if when they say gold they mean

also this: http://lifeandtimes.com/glory-feat-b-i-c

Why is MBDTF 3 LPs?!

Two songs per side... how convenient.

i am p into the couple of dadrap #s we've heard from jay so far, something about rough sledding & then being a dad is k moving to me in a way he otherwise isn't

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A custom Rolex watch gifted to the engineers of the Watch The Throne project by Kanye West and Jay-Z so they wouldn’t leak the album.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9942/p5fcm61327165850.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_dA32oH44

so dumb that they had a big premiere for the video in LONDON

so cray

so epilay

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babay jay-once! awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....

so dumb that they had a big premiere for the video in LONDON

i don't think they did, i think someone was trolling people but i couldn't bring myself to care to find out who or what or anything

that shit about as cray as a 12-year-old with photoshop

so dumb that they had a big premiere for the video in LONDON

― some dude, Friday, February 10, 2012 8:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

iirc kanye banned from France so that other people get a chance to buy Louis Vuitton

this is my favorite album of all time

dogg what happened to you

Question for people who know things about major label machinations...
re: this: http://pitchfork.com/news/45713-jay-z-and-kanye-west-settle-syl-johnson-lawsuit/
How could that album have ever come out with such a prominent sample uncleared? Aren't there entire legal departments that make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen, or is there a point where labels at that level go "eh - let's see what happens"?

i don't know if it makes a difference, but that was one of the songs from the G.O.O.D. Fridays series back almost a year before WTT dropped, and was only on the deluxe edition of the album. so maybe they just threw it on as a bonus track at the last minute and didn't go through the usual process with it? i agree that that's surprising, though. last month Tyga's album almost got pulled from stores because his dumb ass put an uncleared sample of Martin Luther King Jr. on the album.

god, that's so funny

careless world indeed

So are we starting a thread for the new album or what

Bought this on Amazon for $5 (luxury clearance).

This is otm:
he's much smarter than kanye... which usually wouldn't matter either which way, but w/ the type of thing they're trying to pull off here it makes a big difference

A lawyer wrote me that someone is "likely to go HAM on appeal"... I asked, What does that mean? I'm picturing Spider-Ham. He sent me a link to the "H•A•M" video.

But is he gonna go gorillas?

Better to go HAIM on appeal!

better to brougham on appeal