Remember When Jay-Z Bamboozled N!ggas With The Kingdom Come Intro?

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No one in this thread could sell 10,000 records if they tried yet so easily they can critcize a man who conquered the cut throat record business on the Internet.
Put the camera on everyone in this thread for 19 years and lets nit pick at their life.

fukk outta here!
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Breh, Just Blaze had nikkas thinking KC was gonna break the universe off of Oh My God and Show Me What You Got....

Then i heard this bullshyt on the album


That's the specific song that I had good reaction from as opposed to everybody else :laugh:

Matter of fact sometimes I think i'm the only person that loves that song. And I know you hate that nikka but see if you can see the method in my madness here.

To me that shyt was fly as fukk and bouncy, he was flowing his ass off and giving some insight even if it's surface level...another thing is the versatility of the record. It sounded more like runway music than a rap song..which is ironic because that moment/album kinda signfied the point where the whole "i'm not a rapper" shyt stopped being just talk...

Another interesting thing to me is...the fact that HHID and this album didn't drop that far apart from each other, you go and listen to a song like "blunt ashes" from that album and then listen to this and you get a good glimpse of how Jay and Nas would take the same song topic/outline in completely two different directions...the ills of fame...one nikka sits in solitude with an erie backdrop almost telling ghost stories and the other is spitting from you from in front of the camera.

And I love both those songs but the contrast is amazing. Easily the best song Jay and Bey have not named on the run. I just don't think the people who grew up on Jay were ready for something that "hollywood" from him.
 

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Album ain't wack to me, I'd take it over American Gangster never understood the love for that album honestly.
 

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"Hey mista, pay-sixer
A-lister, you're in the midst of
the ride of your life but you gotta keep them hits up
Can't put your guard down, gotta keep them mitts up
Take a sip suh...
It's so intoxicating ain't it
try not to get jaded...hollywoods been good to ya
It's startin to feel like puss to ya..don't lie"

:stylin:

"You wanna be seen....male groupies
now you've become what you most despised
James Dean, John Belushi
blow ya whole life tryna live in the lights"

:stylin:


No other figure from Hip Hop has ever really reached that plateau...the only artist that is famous enough and dope enough to put it down like that besides Jay is Eminem, and Em is still ONLY famous largely because of rap. Jay will always be a rapper first but his brand is so much bigger than the bars at this point.

Album ain't wack to me, I'd take it over American Gangster never understood the love for that album honestly.

Def not wack but you on that shyt for taking it over AG. That's one of the last albums that has dropped that could get a legit front to back listen from me. I mean we don't even gotta talk about the lyrics, the production for the most part was pretty seamless on it's own. Then you have him going off on several tracks.

Main complaints people had for that album was that he was still rappin about dope and this his vocals weren't 1:1 with his older tracks which both sound like petty fukking critiques to me.
 
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