The Inevitable New Jay-Z Album: Blueprint 3

99 problems but a big hat ain't one

The best song Oasis never wrote.

Fuck Cowell: everyone make this the 2008 Christmas number one.

jay sums up my reaction to his work in the past 5 years

http://nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jay-z-5.jpg

so jay has his "get off my lawn" moment

what are we talking about

http://www.zshare.net/audio/61001251a628e124/

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kings on set

― BIG HAT like hoos (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, October 2, 2008 7:34 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

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I like D.O.A. It's not so great lyrically, but nice No I.D sampling, as usual. It's a bit weird for a 40 year old dude to care so much...not sure whether it's just a Flex-pleasing excuse for a minor headline, or something more substantial.

so jay has his "get off my lawn" moment

― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Saturday, June 6, 2009 5:20 AM (Yesterday)

yeah funnier still is this was produced by a dude who just recorded an entire album using autotune

^remarkable insight

http://www.jamiedole.com/gifs/HighFivefaster.gif

i am in love with a .gif

http://soulbounce.com/soul/2009/06/jay-z_death_of_autotune.php

He isn't saying anything new. Initially I was all ready to jump on board with Jay-Z and his wacky "Death Of Auto-Tune" idea, but after actually hearing the track, in which he bemoans not only the use of "T-Paining it" but tight jeans and bright colors on a track co-produced by Kanye West, I can't help but wonder if this approach isn't just little passive-aggressive. Here you have a man that has no doubt benefited financially from many of his friends going the Auto-Tune route, and he opts to "kill" it on a song instead of just, I dunno, not using it or even referring to it at all.

This is a gimmick. Just like "Hip Hop is Dead." People have been over Auto-Tune for a while now, but I suppose if Jay-Z gets other rap artists to stop using it, he can just sit back and take credit for starting a movement or saving Hip-Hop or whatever. I beseech anyone reading this not to fall for that shit.

soulbounce otm for once

that fake tracklist was pretty hilarious, btw. "The Audacity Of Dope"!

― some dude, Thursday, October 2, 2008 1:14 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

amazingly someone used an even worse version of that idea in total seriousness:

http://nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/la-coka-nostra-the-audacity-of-coke-450x450.jpg

i almost wish jay'd delay B3 another year so this thread can get even loopier and snarkier

i wish he'd drop "Big Hat Club" already

^^^

really feeling some gratitude that "swagga like us part 2" never happened

It leaked.

excited about the beats, i heard timbo's great on all of his

can't even tell if you're kidding

no really!

ok...i like a couple of the Tim songs but people in general seemed to be pretty negative on all of them.

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