The Inevitable New Jay-Z Album: Blueprint 3

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

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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

::barf::

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

i bet its "hate"

still havent listened to this album so i checked that song on youtube -- hilarious!!! its so awful

i don't think even he's that insane (xpost)

deej i lasted 3 weeks -- you can last longer i bet -- in fact really i advocate never hearing it

after 'american gangster' i've pretty much swore off from ever listening to another jay-z album in full

what i hate about American Gangster is that it's always just barely interesting enough that I keep it on but never really enjoy it; at least Blueprint 3 is real easy to turn off, so it's less of a waste of time

heard ghetto techno @ like 4 parties recently after totally forgetting it existed

it's so ridiculous btw

alicia keys annoying the fuck out of me on "Empire State of Mind" tbh

she's the only good thing about the song, though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1nbvplgElw

...this is actually the next single

damn...at least I didn't have to hear "Beach Chair" more than once

i think that's the UK single and "On To The Next One" is the US single? either way, shameful enough for him to even make that song, let alone shoot a video.

"on to the next one" would actually be a good choice, best rap song on the album imo

i like the one that's basically a jeezy song that jay jumped on better but yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DyffCOVjwQ

remember when it felt actually affecting

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513RTusNv-L._SS500_.jpg

smooth jayz

i wonder sometimes if there is a smooth jazz scene. like, do dudes get together and groove on grover washington records and talk about starting bands? do they argue about whether chris botti is really smooth or not? what's the pitchfork of smooth jazz?

wow forever young is so horrible horrible horrible i could only stand about 30 seconds into it. is that sting?

Dude, you don't remember 90210's David Silver?