Jay Z great Gatsby Soundtrack Is A FAilure. interesting article.

[Mike Otherz]

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/05/jay-zs_great_gatsby_failure.php

kris ex is an og in the rap writer game and deserving of respect, this aint elliot wilson or toure or dream hampton, this dude actually have the balls to criticse jay z in a major publication. maybe there is hope for hip hop criticism yet.

 

[Real]

Album sold did Nas numbers and sold 250k and the movie did about 50 milly the first week....how is that a failure?

 

[Mike Otherz]

Album sold did Nas numbers and sold 250k and the movie did about 50 milly the first week....how is that a failure?

its talking quality. quite franky, its just refreshing to see a prominent rap critic not just automatically jock jay.

 

[hustlemania]

its talking quality. quite franky, its just refreshing to see a prominent rap critic not just automatically jock jay.

what does a "prominent rap critic", know about the "quality" of a non-rap album..?

 

[SunZoo]

 

[Hammer]

heard the movie was

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Stopped reading when he said american gangster was underwhelming

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Stopped reading when he said american gangster was underwhelming

 

[Mike Otherz]

Stopped reading when he said american gangster was underwhelming

it was. one of jays worst albums.

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

it was. one of jays worst albums.

I could name 4 worse ones, easily.

Bp2
Kingdom come
Vol1
Vol2

Just my opinion tho. I loved AG minus the filler

 

[Harry B]

Bad article, seems like he got snuffed by Jay back in the days.
Too much "ad-hominem in regards to the art", too much talking about what Jay-z likes (how the fukk would he know that Jay-z like the soundtrack), too many opinions on what he should've done and could've done.

He also thinks Vol.3. is better than Reasonable Doubt so much for hiphop journalist, the album might've only had 1 hiphop song (out of 15 and 2 of 20 on the deluxe) so Idk what hiphop has to do with anything.


As far as the soundtrack and movie goes, Sountrack was 2.5 mics, maybe 3 on a good day. And movie was 3 mics.
In other words, very average. Everything this dude is talking about is .

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

heard the movie was

It looked spectacular but was just long and not engaging to me.

 

[dennis roadman]

Bad article

we know breh..we know

 

[Pool_Shark]

Sales wise it's a success

Taste is subjective so you can't really call it a failure. Right now it has a 63% on metacritic which is pretty good considering its a movie soundtrack. Is that normal for these types of albums?

 

[Rani]

this article is reaching. i thought the soundtrack fit well with the movie, it wasn't supposed to be some sort of revolutionary innovation in music anyway, it was a good OST to supplement baz luhrmann's film style + the movie