“I don’t smoke weed or pop molly I wear Tom Ford” - Magger Carter was so trash.

[JustCKing]

All the singles off both those albums get played to this day. So how did they age bad lol?

Breh, people only use that term to discredit music they don't like. Its like peolle are afraid to just say they don't like it and keep it moving. That whole "aged bad" argument is as pretentious, senseless, and retarded as the hook for "Tom Ford". Those arguments look like Jay in the "Picasso Baby" video.

 

[Cladyclad]

Breh, people only use that term to discredit music they don't like. Its like peolle are afraid to just say they don't like it and keep it moving. That whole "aged bad" argument is as pretentious, senseless, and retarded as the hook for "Tom Ford". Those arguments look like Jay in the "Picasso Baby" video.

I don’t feel right dapping this

but I’ll do it

 

[JustCKing]

That whole 2009-2013 era was a low point for Jay.

He was making trendy pop rap albums that aged like milk. Even Watch The Throne is somewhat of a mixed bag despite being the best project he had in that era. The tour was better than the album.

He was heavy on the "Euro Hov" hipster/artsy vibe. He also was getting influenced by Kanye a lot during that era. Blueprint 3 was supposed to sound like Graduation and Magna Carta was supposed to sound like MBDTF. Of course, both albums were worse versions of them.

4:44 literally saved Jay's legacy. Prior to 4:44, he was becoming the "one hot album every 10 year average" rapper that he accused Nas of being on Takeover.

Nothing about MCHG was trendy. It defintitely sounds nothing like MBDTF. Jay made MCHG because Beyonce was working on her self-titled album. Every producer and artist featured on the album was at Jungle Studios working on her album giving Jay access to them. At the time Nas was at the same studio working on the follow up to Life Is Good. If anything, Jay was getting their leftovers.

 

[TheRtist]

it was performance art.