Ranking Jay-Z albums...

[abake6]

How would you rank Hov's 12 albums (WTT included) best to worst?

Respect (most of) yalls opinions, so i'm curious.


Mine looks something like this:

Reasonable Doubt
Black Album
Blueprint
American Gangster
WTT
Vol 3
Blueprint 2
Vol 2
Dynasty
Vol 1
Blueprint 3
Kingdom Come

 

[jaguar paw]

why is volume 3 ranked so high on your list?

And I thought we all agreed Kingdom Come never happened.

 

[abake6]

why is volume 3 ranked so high on your list?

And I thought we all agreed Kingdom Come never happened.

ehhhh....it could be knocked below Blueprint 2 in all honesty.

 

[45123]

1. Reasonable Doubt
2. The Black Album
3. The Blueprint
4. American Gangster
5. Watch The Throne
6. Dynasty
7. Vol. 2
8. Vol. 1
9. Vol. 3
10. Blueprint 3
11. Kingdom Come
12. Blueprint 2

 

[abake6]

1. Reasonable Doubt
2. The Black Album
3. The Blueprint
4. American Gangster
5. Vol. 2
6. Watch The Throne
7. Dynasty
8. Vol. 1
9. Vol. 3
10. Blueprint 3
11. Kingdom Come
12. Blueprint 2

Blueprint 2 last tho?

 

[45123]

Blueprint 2 last tho?

i liked bp3 and KC better
now if it was blueprint 2.1 it might be a different story

might

 

[iamstr8fire]

How would you rank Hov's 12 albums (WTT included) best to worst?

Respect (most of) yalls opinions, so i'm curious.


Mine looks something like this:

Reasonable Doubt
Black Album
Blueprint
American Gangster
WTT
Vol 3
Blueprint 2
Vol 2
Dynasty
Vol 1
Blueprint 3
Kingdom Come

Can't really disagree with this, but I would flip Blueprint and Black Album.

 

[blackslash]

Seriously WDF had ppl ranking RD over BP and TBA?

Imo BP and TBA blow RD out of the water

 

[Ray Jesus]

I don't like his music like that. I like certain songs but I'm not trying to listen to that many jay-z albums

 

[abake6]

The lyricism, cohesiveness, and overall ambiance of that album is amazing. Beats are incredible. It's hard to point out a flaw on Reasonable Doubt, imo.

Also, some days i honestly think American Gangster could contend for the 2 or 3 spot. It got slept on because people were still mad at him about Kingdom Come. People had thought he fell off, so they were already convinced the album wasn't gonna be a classic Hov album.

 

[The Antagonist]

1. Reasonable Doubt
2. The Blueprint
3. The Black Album
4. American Gangster
5. The Dynasty: Roc La Familia
6. Watch The Throne
7. Blueprint 2
8. Volume 3
9. Vol. 1
10. Vol. 2
11. Kingdom Come
12. Blueprint 3

Vol. 1 and 2. may be unfairly low cause they're the ones I've listened to the least.

 

[DStyles]

Ready to nikkas

From a personal favorite perspective, I rank them as followed:

1. Kingdom Come - My favorite Shawn Carter album, yes Shawn Carter because it was a Shawn Carter album
2. Reasonable Doubt
3. Blueprint
4. Vol. 2
5. American Gangster
6. TBA
7. BP3
8. BP2
9. Vol. 1
10. Dynasty
11. Vol 3

 

[blackslash]

Ready to nikkas

From a personal favorite perspective, I rank them as followed:

1. Kingdom Come - My favorite Shawn Carter album, yes Shawn Carter because it was a Shawn Carter album
2. Reasonable Doubt
3. Blueprint
4. Vol. 2
5. American Gangster
6. TBA
7. BP3
8. BP2
9. Vol. 1
10. Dynasty
11. Vol 3

 

[DStyles]

Many nikkas overlook that album because all it took was one nikka to say the album sucked and the rest followed like soldiers. I'm not saying it's a classic but it's one of Jay's well crafted album. From beat selection to the lyric content. This was more of a Shawn Carter album rather than a Jay-Z album, after all he wanted to release it with his gov't name but Def Jam was like

Only song that gets a skip from me is Anything.

 

[abake6]

1. Kingdom Come - My favorite Shawn Carter album, yes Shawn Carter because it was a Shawn Carter album

to each his own, but wow. Never heard that before.