While Jay is talking about things of substance on those two joints, that's about it for the entire album. I just wish Jay would take more chances artistically at this point in his career.. Dude don't need to have an album full of singles anymore..idk, the album was just bland as hell to me. I liked it when I first listened to it the week it came out, but I haven't felt compelled to go back and listen to it.. still bumping chance, killer mike's shyt, kendrick, joey badass and j cole.I'm not mad at that analysis.....
That moreso my outlook of the album than people saying "all he is talking about is money"
I just see how you listen to songs like F.U.T.W and Heaven and think all he is talking about is money
Well it's cool that you see MCHG as glorifying black success but I'm not sure that's the way a lot of people see it. I think people see this as a vain attempt by Jay to associate himself with other great artists be they black or white, without doing any of the things that actually made them great. Just because you name drop Basquiat every second bar, does not mean you were are as interesting an artist as him. If he did more things like the Picasso Baby performance, he may have a case but right now the best case scenario is the awareness he is providing the common man.Oo well..thats cuz thats just a cracka infiltrating this board as a pseudo pro black militant
And I say pseudo because he believes that seperatism and segregation is the end goal for the pro black movement when in fact that is not the case
The end goal is an evaluation of and distribution of opportunities to each individual based solely on the content of their character
So when I praise black excellence and even hip hop excellence I dnt praise it because these individuals are becoming "white"
I praise it because the more of our people that are portrayed as successors who glorify black ambition and black potential and also make the top more of a melting pot...the more it will ask out of the next generation of our people...and same goes for within hip hop
Hov delivered a performance art show through he vehicle of rap and created a melting pot of different kinds and colors of artist
Jay made the move of truly exhibiting that the art of MCing, the art of controlling the crowd with solely the power of ur words and energy is true art
And Hip Hop and art are one


Well alot of people will also say Jay committed blood sacrifice to attain the status he has..wat u gon doWell it's cool that you see MCHG as glorifying black success but I'm not sure that's the way a lot of people see it. I think people see this as a vain attempt by Jay to associate himself with other great artists be they black or white, without doing any of the things that actually made them great. Just because you name drop Basquiat every second bar, does not mean you were are as interesting an artist as him. If he did more things like the Picasso Baby performance, he may have a case but right now the best case scenario is the awareness he is providing the common man.
The whole black success shtick is a red herring and I hope we can move on from that. His presence being charity is one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard a rapper say.



I have the utmost respect of hip hop as an art form, that's exactly why I am challenging the weak narrative you're providing. Basquiat didn't need to constantly associate himself with a great artist to secure his artistic legacy - he was great on his own terms alone. This is the crux of the matter that I would hope you address. Jay-Z maybe the greatest brand in hiphop but his artistic merit is questionable. To paraphrase the great art barr, jay's biggest achievement is his will smith impersonation.Well alot of people will also say Jay committed blood sacrifice to attain the status he has..wat u gon do
I see alot of crackaz say that same statement of "Jay attempting to align himself with other great artists without doin anything warranting that"
Bullsht....this rhetoric only tells me u dont think much of hip hop when spoken of as an artform
The man who has the greatest career in hip hop history and who has to be one of the most critically acclaimed artists in the genre has no foundation to say teh things he says?
The man who has respects from all his peers and forefathers individuals like KRS, Rakim, Nas, Chuck D etc.
ANd is worshiped by pretty much every new rapper in the game right now
Jay Z is a legend within hip hop and to downplay what he has done equates to downplaying hip hop's value as an artform...which brings me back to emphazing the necessity of a move like that Picasso Baby video
As for his presence being charity...well....the man is self aware![]()
U asked me to do itI have the utmost respect of hip hop as an art form, that's exactly why I am challenging the weak narrative you're providing. Basquiat didn't need to constantly associate himself with a great artist to secure his artistic legacy - he was great on his own terms alone. This is the crux of the matter that I would hope you address. Jay-Z maybe the greatest brand in hiphop but his artistic merit is questionable. To paraphrase the great art barr, jay's biggest achievement is his will smith impersonation.



To make it in hip hop? The fukk are you talking about like Jay-Z is some breakthrough artist and Basquiat is taking him under his wing. Jay tells you to jump and you ask him how high. Go kick rocks/rocs bytchU asked me to do it
Artistic merit?? nikka what??
Newflash breh..to make it in hip hop u must network...all the greats have associated themselves with figures who were previously bigger than them..I dnt understand what ur sayin
Like i said u dnt have respect for hip hop as an art form because if u did u wouldnt say that one of the most revered and respected artists in hip hop and is the leading force for our genre as not being a great artist.
Hip Hop started as who can move the people through the power of words. In a sense..Hip Hop is urban performance arts..Jay just made the move to have hip hop be recognized as high art
You may not like Jay but thats irrelevant to the conversation..like is said..the thread is about MCHG and how people are saying its wack..when lyrically and substance wise it has more depth than a Blueprint...and on a substance tip he is passing off more wisdom than he did on RD
Which is why in this thread i say that if u have qualms with mchg than ur prolly a black excellence hating cracka who hates images of constant black success and the image of a black successor being shoved down ur throat and u hate Jay passing that on and asking more than just being the black underdog these crackaz want
Its as simple as that
MCHG glorifies black success, black monogamy, black family, and hip hop excellence and progression as an art form
People who hate this album are against those things whether they want to admit or not..
Which is why I made this thread highlighting how these songs portray these themes

I didnt really read it but one thing stuck out to me
Lol @ a black man and woman being criminals on the run a representation of... what did he say??? "The perfect and very real image of black royal love and glorifies black monogamy and family"... o yea very perfect, mom and dad bringing the kids out on bank robberies, mom and dad getting locked up and their kids getting put into the foster care system
Whose really the fukking CAC![]()




To make it in hip hop? The fukk are you talking about like Jay-Z is some breakthrough artist and Basquiat is taking him under his wing. Jay tells you to jump and you ask him how high. Go kick rocks/rocs bytch
cracka get outta here u filthy cracka until u can appreciate the image of black success 



No, "we" don'tWe know they are not actually bonnie and clyde..
No, "we" don't
That is just you taking the most positive interpretation possible, like a stan would


