Only yt link I could find.
To me this is the beginning of Jay's desperate attempts to be looked at as a progressive hip hop artist - someone who embraced eclectic sounds from other genres and was part of the avant garde art scene. Since then he's showed up at Grizzly Bear shows, did cringe inducing performance art with Marina Abramovic in further attempts at legit artistic credit. But problem is Jay-z isn't Kanye. You can say what you like about 'Ye but he jumps feet first into his leftfield pursuits - it's all or nothing. With Jay he dips his feet into the water but you're never convinced he belongs in this world and neither is he seemingly. It's posing - brought on by probably a mix of boredom and insecurity.
The problem is this shyt wasn't very good. Bringing in another artist fraud in Chris Martin doesn't help. The beat comes across as something that would be left in the cutting floor in one of Thom Yorke's solo albums, the concept is half baked and Hov sounds completely out of his comfortzone on production like this. It's indulgent, self-aware pseudo-artistic masturbation. I can't say I'm a fan of Kingdom Come as a whole however tracks like The Prelude and the title track show Hov's comfortzone- and when he does this tracks he's undeniably great but when he steps out of this it inevitably results in awkward ass songs like Beach Chair.
To me this is the beginning of Jay's desperate attempts to be looked at as a progressive hip hop artist - someone who embraced eclectic sounds from other genres and was part of the avant garde art scene. Since then he's showed up at Grizzly Bear shows, did cringe inducing performance art with Marina Abramovic in further attempts at legit artistic credit. But problem is Jay-z isn't Kanye. You can say what you like about 'Ye but he jumps feet first into his leftfield pursuits - it's all or nothing. With Jay he dips his feet into the water but you're never convinced he belongs in this world and neither is he seemingly. It's posing - brought on by probably a mix of boredom and insecurity.
The problem is this shyt wasn't very good. Bringing in another artist fraud in Chris Martin doesn't help. The beat comes across as something that would be left in the cutting floor in one of Thom Yorke's solo albums, the concept is half baked and Hov sounds completely out of his comfortzone on production like this. It's indulgent, self-aware pseudo-artistic masturbation. I can't say I'm a fan of Kingdom Come as a whole however tracks like The Prelude and the title track show Hov's comfortzone- and when he does this tracks he's undeniably great but when he steps out of this it inevitably results in awkward ass songs like Beach Chair.
I think it's a great beat
