African Peasant
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You had a pretty good troll job goin til thisBP is before Chris came along. You wasn’t there
RIP Dave Courtney: UK Gangster Jay Z Stole the Blueprint Album Cover From
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You had a pretty good troll job goin til this
Jigga Man, B. Sige to M-Easy (What up, fam?)
Oschino and Sparks and Freeweezy (Holla)
Mickey, Mallory, Chris, and Neef, hey
-All I need off of the Blueprint
Also...
[Beans] 1-900-Hustler, Sigel, holla at your boy
[Chris] Whassup Sig? This Chris out the Young Gunz dog
[Beans] Whattup?
[Chris] I'm ready to smash these nikkas in the rap game
The nikkas takin too long with that advance money and shyt
[Beans] Yeah
[Chris] Talkin 'bout chill, chill don't pay the bills
[Beans] Yeah I feel that
[Chris] I know you well connected dog
Let me holla at somebody real
[Beans] Aight look, I got the perfect person for you, hold on
Bleek, line two
-off of 1900 hustler, a album that came out in 2000
Now here's the meat and potatoes of it all:
-2000 around the time Jay started to adapt to the Philly flow as before, dude was rapping like this:
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
People gotta stop hating on Hov so much.
Most Hip Hop covers are inspired by other photos, artwork or covers. He's spoken on where he got it from many times. His success doesn't make him except from doing what literally every other artist does. If The Blueprint dropped on Def Jux and sold 15,000 copies, nobody would care. Jean Grae and 9th took 4 different covers from Hip Hop classics and used them for the Jeanius cover and people thought it was so "creative". Most Hip Hop classics have artwork pulled from other sources. Jay does it, and it's "stealing".
The hate is so blatant now. It's corny.
Most Hip Hop covers are inspired by other photos, artwork or covers. He's spoken on where he got it from many times. His success doesn't make him except from doing what literally every other artist does. If The Blueprint dropped on Def Jux and sold 15,000 copies, nobody would care. Jean Grae and 9th took 4 different covers from Hip Hop classics and used them for the Jeanius cover and people thought it was so "creative". Most Hip Hop classics have artwork pulled from other sources. Jay does it, and it's "stealing".
The hate is so blatant now. It's corny.
Terrible comparison. Dave was not a snitch
This isn't hate, its facts. You Jay Z dikk riders gotta stop this mindless caping whenever he isn't getting worshipped
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
It's facts that he "stole" an album cover he gave credit to the original source for?
So everyone that's done it in the past 40+ years of Hip Hop covers is "stealing" too? LOL!!
Someone is a d*ck rider for calling out bullsh*t and not joining in on the hate? Y'all dudes is crazy on here.
Rappers get called out for stealing all the time. Don't see you with your cape on for everyone elseIt's facts that he "stole" an album cover he gave credit to the original source for?
So everyone that's done it in the past 40+ years of Hip Hop covers is "stealing" too? LOL!!
Someone is a d*ck rider for calling out bullsh*t and not joining in on the hate? Y'all dudes is crazy on here.
@Blessed Koala
To clarify, I meant Young Chris’ whisper flow is what came after BP. The young Chris influence that people would later hear—-which is 100% valid——is not present on BP. At ALL.
The chronology:
-Rocafella freestyles- January 2001 (not 2000)
-BP- September 2001, Izzo and summer jam were in the summer, so album likely recorded spring 2001. No Chris influence
-Best of both worlds- March 2002. I mention this bc it was well after BP yet jay still didn’t sound like Chris. Jay didn’t sound like Chris until….
-Murda Marcyville (Originally known as SOUTH PHILLY nikkaZ, which implies Jay was fully aware of what he was doin)- Summer 2002
-Also keep in mind jay went off this summer with Addicted to the game, early this morning, people talkin, featured on Guess who’s back., don’t you know, Europe freestyle…. Still doesn’t ‘sound like Chris’.
-Then we’re flooded with official Chris music:
State property album- May 2002
Dream Team/Paid in Full soundtrack- October 2002
-Blueprint 2- November 2002. I still don’t hear the Chris influence but Jay does ‘fall off’ flow wise. Jay features Young Chris by himself. Jay rarely featured 1 artist by himself on his albums at this time. He clearly fw Chris heavy.
-State Prop Vol 2- August 2003.
-Tough Luv/ Better love single run- Feb 2004.
^^ Peak level Young Chris
-Jay with his most Chris sounding song It’s On- 2004
Bottom line Jay stealing/borrowing/being influenced by Chris whatever you wanna call it came after BP, and wasn’t used consistently until YEARS later
To clarify, I meant Young Chris’ whisper flow is what came after BP. The young Chris influence that people would later hear—-which is 100% valid——is not present on BP. At ALL.
The chronology:
-Rocafella freestyles- January 2001 (not 2000)
-BP- September 2001, Izzo and summer jam were in the summer, so album likely recorded spring 2001. No Chris influence
-Best of both worlds- March 2002. I mention this bc it was well after BP yet jay still didn’t sound like Chris. Jay didn’t sound like Chris until….
-Murda Marcyville (Originally known as SOUTH PHILLY nikkaZ, which implies Jay was fully aware of what he was doin)- Summer 2002
-Also keep in mind jay went off this summer with Addicted to the game, early this morning, people talkin, featured on Guess who’s back., don’t you know, Europe freestyle…. Still doesn’t ‘sound like Chris’.
-Then we’re flooded with official Chris music:
State property album- May 2002
Dream Team/Paid in Full soundtrack- October 2002
-Blueprint 2- November 2002. I still don’t hear the Chris influence but Jay does ‘fall off’ flow wise. Jay features Young Chris by himself. Jay rarely featured 1 artist by himself on his albums at this time. He clearly fw Chris heavy.
-State Prop Vol 2- August 2003.
-Tough Luv/ Better love single run- Feb 2004.
^^ Peak level Young Chris
-Jay with his most Chris sounding song It’s On- 2004
Bottom line Jay stealing/borrowing/being influenced by Chris whatever you wanna call it came after BP, and wasn’t used consistently until YEARS later
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Something wrong wit emIt's facts that he "stole" an album cover he gave credit to the original source for?
So everyone that's done it in the past 40+ years of Hip Hop covers is "stealing" too? LOL!!
Someone is a d*ck rider for calling out bullsh*t and not joining in on the hate? Y'all dudes is crazy on here.
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
Hate on, bro.
Don’t let anyone stop you from expressing all that envy. Keep putting that work in.
Eastside Get The Money
Veteran
Stole that man’s photo to make an album about e pills and durags smh 
So I hate Jay Z cause I stated a fact lolHate on, bro.
Don’t let anyone stop you from expressing all that envy. Keep putting that work in.
dikk riders
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
Do y'all uncultured doofuses know how many rap album covers have been lifted from other pictures?
This is not a cape, jay def shoulda credited dude (if he didn’t)
But fellas…..biting in hip hop?!? Y’all gotta do better. The whole genre is built off sampling
Edit: @FunkDoc1112
exactly smh
But fellas…..biting in hip hop?!? Y’all gotta do better. The whole genre is built off sampling
Edit: @FunkDoc1112
exactly smh