Jay-Z "No Hook" Appreciation thread

[Tuling]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdKQ4Q20w_0[/ame]
This song is just.. my fave on American Gangster next to Blue Magic.
Perfect production. Sean C & LV really carried this album. And yeah

Hov did outstanding so many quotables, it coulda been a flawless track

BUT..

Please don't compare me to other rappers
Compare me to trappers, I'm more Frank Lucas than Ludacris
And Luda's my dude, I ain't trying to diss
Like Frank Lucas is cool, but I ain't trying to snitch


That was such a stupid thing to say.
I mean you're making an album partly based on his life, it was just disrespectful no excuses & I think he understands that now when Frank himself told him to watch his mouth lmao.

Other then that, a top 10 Jay-Z song in my book.

 

[DontEemTry]

My dude smoove shut DeHaven the fukk down.

I respect that coz he basically shytted on that clown on some made man shyt.

 

[intilectual recipricol]

Jiggaman killed the album separating himself from other weak niccaz

 

[jerzboy]

Played this song in the whip the other day. shyt is just too smooth. That flow is so sick

 

[CELL]

 

[45123]

American Gangster would be a classic if it had hits on there

 

[Harry B]

American Gangster would be a classic if it had hits on there

What?

RD wasn't a classic? Illmatic? Paid in Full?

 

[45123]

What?

RD wasn't a classic? Illmatic? Paid in Full?

Those are golden age albums. That was a different time. They are classic simply off the nostalgia and the influence it had. In this day, a classic album has to be popular to be influential. RD wasn't received that well when it first came out neither.

 

[Tuling]

American Gangster would be a classic if it had hits on there

and taken off Hello Brooklyn 2.0
one or two average tracks too, but yeah a great album is enough.

 

[blackslash]

Roc Boys and I Know wasnt hits?

 

[jdashmaj]

American Gangster is a classic album I actually like it more than Blueprint it's clearly J's most underrated album.

 

[45123]

Roc Boys and I Know wasnt hits?

I'm talking iconic, career-defining hits like 99 Problems, Dirt Off Your Shoulder, Izzo, or Empire State of Mind. I'm not saying in order for an album to be a classic you have to have those, but it would have been the slice of cake AG needed to make it less of a borderline classic and more of a certified classic.

 

[Gifted one]

Jay blacked out on AG, people say BP is classic, Jay was more lyrical on this than BP

 

[ManBearPig]

Jay-Z killed that whole album.

 

[Insensitive]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdKQ4Q20w_0
This song is just.. my fave on American Gangster next to Blue Magic.
Perfect production. Sean C & LV really carried this album. And yeah

Hov did outstanding so many quotables, it coulda been a flawless track

BUT..

Please don't compare me to other rappers
Compare me to trappers, I'm more Frank Lucas than Ludacris
And Luda's my dude, I ain't trying to diss
Like Frank Lucas is cool, but I ain't trying to snitch


That was such a stupid thing to say.
I mean you're making an album partly based on his life, it was just disrespectful no excuses & I think he understands that now when Frank himself told him to watch his mouth lmao.

Other then that, a top 10 Jay-Z song in my book.

I don't think it was stupid, it was the truth