And There Was X Vs The Life VS Times of Shawn Carter Volume III

[DaHNIC82]

Both of these albums came out around the time hip hop was flourishing in late 1999-early 2000. Both X and Jay were neck and neck in terms of popularity and these were the two albums that pretty much certified both of them in the streets. I felt that JayZ's album lyrically was much better. He had alot of fire on that shyt and it was way better than Volume 2. So Ghetto, Do it Again, Dopeman, Watch Me, Come and Get Me along with that sick HOVA Intro. But he also had some wack shyt up there like S.Carter, The Mariah cut, and that Juvenile Cut. The bootlegg was much better. I'd still give it a 8/10

DMX's on the other hand I was a bit dissapointed with at the time because production wise it was hit and miss. But at the same time X was at his peak and he showed that he was that dude on songs like One more Road to Cross, More 2 a Song, Whats My Name, Angel, and Fame. More 2 a Song was a personal favorite of mines along with Party UP before radio killed it.. But it grew to me and I'd probably give the album a overall 7/10

What yall think?

 

[the rhyme king]

jay-z easily both some of they weaker efforts but jay-z easily has the better album between the two.

 

[Mag149]

Two shyt projects by the basic law of math cancel each other out, and jay is my #1 (falling fast) and I grew up when x had the game by nuts

 

[tremonthustler1]

And Then There Was X >>> Vol. 3

To this day I still think Vol. 3 was Hov's weakest solo effort to date

 

[Ashtrey]

DMX >>>>

His last good album.

 

[J-MIL]

Vol. 3 was better imo

And then there was X had some good singles but the rest was mediocre. Thats his worse album imo and imma huge X fan

 

[Shadow King]

Interesting to see others fukking with Volume 3 seems very overlooked. I hated it on first listen too.

 

[Ashtrey]

These albums were the original Kanye/50 sales battle. They were released a week apart and ppl were wondering who would sell more first week. DMX did about 700,000 and Jay 400,000 from what I remember.

Def Jam was expecting each to do 1 million

 

[JayYoung314]

Both of these albums came out around the time hip hop was flourishing in late 1999-early 2000. Both X and Jay were neck and neck in terms of popularity and these were the two albums that pretty much certified both of them in the streets. I felt that JayZ's album lyrically was much better. He had alot of fire on that shyt and it was way better than Volume 2. So Ghetto, Do it Again, Dopeman, Watch Me, Come and Get Me along with that sick HOVA Intro. But he also had some wack shyt up there like S.Carter, The Mariah cut, and that Juvenile Cut. The bootlegg was much better. I'd still give it a 8/10

DMX's on the other hand I was a bit dissapointed with at the time because production wise it was hit and miss. But at the same time X was at his peak and he showed that he was that dude on songs like One more Road to Cross, More 2 a Song, Whats My Name, Angel, and Fame. More 2 a Song was a personal favorite of mines along with Party UP before radio killed it.. But it grew to me and I'd probably give the album a overall 7/10

What yall think?

is u kidding bro, that is one of his best songs of all time

 

[DaHNIC82]

is u kidding bro, that is one of his best songs of all time

I hated that song bruh. I always thought Amil was wack

 

[The_Third_Man]

then there was X. Never liked vol.3

 

[DoomzdayzV]

both albums are weak as hell.