Pros: "Lucifer", "99 Problems", Jay's on point for most of the album. Cons: "Justify My Thug", "Dirt Off Your Shoulder", occasional laziness.
Before the haters chime in, let me get one thought off here: Jay-Z is a talented dude. Call him a sellout, call him responsible for commercializing rap, call him a big-lipped, commercial pop rapper-but don't sleep on his skills. Besides, none of the ...
Pros: Clean sounding and he's focused man Cons: A few missteps. No Dre. No Primo
You talk to Jay-Z fans and while they like much of his stuff, they always talk about Reasonable Doubt. When is he going to make another record like that? It's his most classic record. It's street. It's gangster. It's his best. But it didn't really ...
Pros: Jay-Z; lyrics; lack of guests; production Cons: could have been more...
It would be ridiculous to spend frivolous review time recapping and dissecting Shawn Carter's career. It's been done, and by better than I - i'm more of a hip-hop fan than historian, and while I'm fairly familiarized with schools both old and new, the ...
Pros: production is great, jay is always great Cons: change clothes and go
”I was conceived by Gloria carter and adnes reeves/ who made love under the sycamore tree/ so which makes me a more sicker emcee/ and my momma would claim that at ten pounds when I was born I didn’t give her no pain” – Jay-Z on “Dec ...
Pros: Stunning production, sharp rhymes, no guests. Cons: Change Clothes & Go, too many Biggie references (again), needs tweaking.
Jay-Z. The name by itself is bound to form all kinds of divides within the Hip Hop community. Quite simply, everyone has an opinion on one of rap’s biggest ever selling artists. The same goes for the various Epinions Hip Hop heads. My stance is a stra ...
Pros: An excellent album with dope production, dope lyrics, interesting concepts, and introspection. Cons: There are a few misteps; the materalistic and gangsta braggadocio gets tiring after a while.
We can argue whether or not he is the best emcee of all time for days, but to say that Jay-Z hasn't made a big impact on the Hip-Hop world is a straight-up boldface lie. From 1996 to 2003, he had released seven albums, all of them being notable in the ...
Pros: Three club hits and two good songs. Lyrical complexity. Whoa, he said "tabernacle". Cons: Still hasn't gotten off Biggie's dick. Too much boasting. Defends selling out... amongst other things.
I would never claim I'm the most objective person on Earth, so let me start off by explaining why I hate Jay-Z – or as people here in Canada call him, Jay-Zed. I started listening to hip-hop because of Tupac Shakur, but right when I was ...
Pros: An autobiographical story of triumphs, tribulations, and fortitude Cons: Nobody's Perfect
I understand now... When I reviewed The Black Album in 2003, I had not yet established myself as "somebody", and while I've always preached to all of my friends to be happy and be confident and accomplish whatever goal you wanted to ...
Pros:Some Brilliant Production, Some VERY Surprising Lyricism, No Guests. Cons:The Neptunes, Timbaland, Still some bad lyricism from Jay-Z and no DJ Premier.
So nearly ten years later and eight albums deep Jay-Z has come to his “end” with his last offering called The Black Album. Having just heard this album this evening I am pleasantly surprised with the outcome (but not over the ...
Pros: Jay's "on" for pretty much the whole album. Cons: Some questionable beat choices and relatively forgettable songs
I think I've probably mentioned something to this effect in most of my past Jay-Z album reviews, but there seems to be a fairly common perception among hip-hop fans (either that or I just spend waaay too much time on the Internet) that the guy only ...
Pros: Vintage (Good) Jay-z. Cons: Production, no DJ Premier.
Not too long ago did Jay-z announce that he was going to retire and that "The Black Album" was going to be his last. He claim that this album would have a pre-RD feel to it (sort of a prequel to his debut album), with 12 songs produced by his 12 f ...
Pros: Some impressive, introspective lyrical content. Production is generally top notch. No guest slots. Surprisingly good. Cons: Commercialism, Some awful production. Lack of Primo and Dre beats. Original, quality ideas dismissed. Overhyped.
“If you can’t respect that, your whole perspective is whack… Maybe you’ll love me when I fade to black…”- Jay Z: December 4’th. Jay Z is one of hip hop’s most confusing enigmas. With a shrewd ...
Pros: Some excellent production; Jay-Z drops some killer rhymes in spots Cons: Too commercial; Jay-Z doesn’t stay lyrically genius and tight throughout the whole thing
The Main Idea: Hip-Hop changed a lot in the 90’s and had a lot of innovators come along and change the game and had a lot of useless artists come along and downgrade hip-hop. But there was one man that did his share of both and he goes by the ...
Pros: The second best album of Hov's career. On point lyrics and great production. Cons: An average track or two.
Brooklyn native Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, has had quite the career as a hip-hop artist. After releasing his career defining album Reasonable Doubt as a debut in 1996, that raw hunger he possessed seem to disappear on subsequent records. ...
Pros: The production by everyone but The Neptunes and Timbaland. Some tight bars by Jay-Z. Cons: Too many for such an excellent artist.
Jay-Z, Jigga, S. Carter, Hova, Jay Hova, or whatever else you want to call him has now released his last album. Yeah right has there ever been a self-imposed retirement that's stuck in the hip-hop industry, I don't think so. Like much of Jay-Z's ...
The Black Album, Jay-Z s tenth and final solo disc, features tracks by Pharrell and Dr. Dre. Cross promotional tie-ins to the disc include the simulta...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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