JAY-Z ILM TRACKS POLL RESULTS - WORD TO THE HYPHEN IN MY NAME

1) Where I'm From
2) U Don't Know
3) Takeover
4) Nigga What Nigga Who
5) Hard Knock Life
6) It's Hot (Some Like It Hot)
7) Can't Knock the Hustle
8) Brooklyn's Finest
9) Politics as Usual
10) Money Cash Hoes
11) Public Service Announcement
12) Success
13) Streets is Watching
14) Blueprint (Momma Loves Me)
15) D'Evils
16) Addicted to the Game
17) Ain't No Nigga
18) What More Can I Say
19) Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
20) Never Change
21)Oh My God
22) Money Ain't A Thang
23) Dirt Off Your Shoulder
24) It's Alright
25) So Ghetto
26) Show Me What You Got (kind of regret this vote, but like the beat and wanted to throw a pop tune a bone)
27) Big Pimpin'
28) Friend or Foe
29) Jigga My Nigga
30) Niggas in Paris
31) H.A.M.

Also feel kind of meh about my Watch the Throne track votes, but at the same time I think that album got so overly shit-talked on ILM that I wanted to up it a little.

AWESOME POLL SOME D

My ballot:

1. It's Hot (Some LIke it Hot)
2. Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)
3. Politics As Usual
4. Where I'm From
5. Come & Get Me
6. Friend Or Foe '98
7. Can I Get A...
8. The Takeover
9. Intro/A Million And One Questions/Rhyme No More
10. Girls Girls Girls (Remix)
11. Dead Presidents II
12. Meet The Parents
13. Who You Wit II
14. Money Ain't A Thang
15. U Don't Know
16. Big Pimpin'
17. So Ghetto
18. Nigga What, Nigga Who
19. Can't Knock The Hustle
20. Is That Yo Bitch
21. Poppin' Tags
22. Hey Papi
23. Parking Lot Pimpin'
24. H To The Izzo
25. Streets Is Watching
26. Public Service Announcement (Interlude)
27. Money, Cash, Hoes
28. You Must Love Me
29. La La La (Excuse Me Miss Again)
30. Brooklyn's Finest
31. Song Cry
32. N***a Please
33. Can I Live II
34. 1-900 Hustler
35. Stop

lol "99 problems" just missed the top 40

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, August 2, 2013 1:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, knew it would. I don't even hate the song (actually love it tons, even the homage to UGK in the last verse), but I hate that it was a gimmicky tune that non-Jay fans still throw out whenever you say you like Jay-Z. "Oh, it's the 99 Problems guy". fuck that.

sad that ther ewasn't much A Week Ago love :(

this was really fun

here's my ballot

1. big pimpin (ft. ugk)
2. can i get a... (ft. amil & ja rule)
3. nigga what, nigga who (originator 99) (ft. jaz-o)
4. intro/a million in one questions/rhyme no more
5. heart of the city
6. poppin tags (ft. big boi, twista & killer mike)
7. stretch & bobbito 95 (w/ big l)
8. so ghetto
9. izzo (hova)
10. money cash hoes (ft. dmx)
11. PSA
12. dead presidents II
13. what we do (ft. freeway & beanie sigel)
14. i just wanna luv u
15. money ain't a thing (w/ jermaine dupri)
16. jigga my nigga
17. this can't be life (ft. beanie sigel & scarface)
18. it's hot (some like it hot)
19. the bounce (ft. kanye west)
20. reservoir dogs
21. is that your bitch? (w/ memphis bleek & missy elliott)
22. party people (w/ timbaland &magoo/twista)
23. jigga that nigga
24. frontin (w/ pharrell)
25. heartbreaker (w/ mariah carey)
26. snoopy track (ft. juvenile)
27. mya - best of me pt 2 (ft. jay-z)
28. hola hovito
29. lobster & scrimp (w/ timbaland)
30. guess who's back (w/ scarface & beanie sigel)
31. hard knock life
32. niggas in paris (w/ kanye west)
33. missy elliott - one minute man (remix) (ft. jay-z)
34. u don't know
35. 1-900-hustler

xxpost awesome poll overall tho

my ballot, outside top 40 bolded:

Where I’m From
Lucifer
I Just Wanna Love U
Hey Papi
U Don’t Know
Who You Wit
Streets Is Watching
Song Cry
Come And Get Me
Can I Live
Can I Get A
So Ghetto
Money Ain’t A Thang
Guess Who’s Back
Intro/A Million
My 1st Song
Rap Game/Crack Game
Imaginary Player
Hard Knock Life
This Can’t Be Life
Is That Yo Bitch
1-900-Hustler
Can’t Knock The Hustle
Encore
What We Do
Best Of Me (Remix)
All I Need
Heart of the City
Diamonds From Sierra Leone
It’s Alright
Friend Or Foe ’98 -
Change the Game
PSA
Nigga What
Dead Presidents

YAY ANOTHER "CHANGE THE GAME" AND "ENCORE" VOTE, lol.

I had Friend or Foe 98 on my orig list but I think I removed it as I didn't wanna vote for both songs in a series.

i was gonna say that i'm really surprised that "what we do" didn't place but i actually had to re-send my ballot to shiplo cuz i forgot the first time

that's one of jay's best verses though

i have a friend who hates Jay's "What We Do" verse, i wouldn't go that far, but really i'd like the song almost as much if all Jay did was tell Free "keep it flowin'"

What We Do is maybe my favorite Roc song

guess I'm the only one who loves Momma Loves Me

it's really good. just always gets outshined by its album and some slightly similar songs in the catalog i guess.

on "what we do" i don't see how jay and beanie sigel's verses can be anything but letdowns after freeway's?

dunno if this fits in the thread but my roomie was playing this over and over last week and now I'm obsessed

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDxeugnRQLo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXDxeugnRQLo

Fuck, this was v definitely the wrong thread haha

Sorry kinda faded

I feel like the secret to "Is That Yo Bitch" is the demo-quality vocals

My top twenty-five: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/gotta-learn-to-live-with-regrets-best-of-jay-z/

never really understood the "can i get a" love. so many superior songs from that 5 year period

cuz it sounds great on the radio? Simple as that.

that's easily one of jay's most memorable verses ever... i think i've been able to rap it from memory since i was 12

and amil's verse is great

this list is trash

http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/all-274-jay-z-songs-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html

Any list that puts Empire State of Mind over Takeover and Heart of the City is doing something wrong.

so much volume 3 slander

This poll was perfect

4:44 is like me least fav song off his new alb

can you imagine listening to snoopy track or come and get me and thinking, "these songs are firmly in the bottom half of the jay-z discography"

spottie otm re: this poll

yeah ilx is good

would be interested to see our results and these side by side:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/jay-z-50-greatest-songs-w510043

seems like a decent list

too bad they quote the money machining line wrong

The albums I'd preserve.