got damn 
trying to hit that high note
trying to hit that high note 
What was Jay thinking with the hook on "My 1st Song"?
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MouseTeeth
All Star
one of the best on the black album
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We're really gonna hate on one of the best songs on a classic album...if we're talking struggle singing, never forget this exists ...
Edit:
We're really gonna hate on one of the best songs on a classic album...if we're talking struggle singing, never forget this exists ...
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Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
Those struggle high notes. nikka was mad off key. Jay be having some of the dumbest hooks ever for a legend. Oh behave!
That's what happens when you surrounded by yes-men
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
Imagine the studio sessions for BP2...
Young Guru: Eh I don't know about the Austin Powers shyt, man. nikkas might not fukk with it.
Jay Z: Uh um well I think it'll be funny...like, like I'mma say it like "Oh Behave!"...like with emphasis. The dualities and everything.
YG: I don't know man. It may come off a bit silly and too comical.
Jay Z: Um Austin Powers is a hit movie franchise. I already got the streets. It's like I gotta open myself up to the mainstream. I want to get into making movies one day. You saw The Streets is Watching. I'm like the black Martin Scorsese.
YG: Why did you say you brought the flutes though? There isn't a single flute in the whole song.
JZ: Um there isn't? I thought I heard flutes.
YG: No, there's some drums, a bassline, a piano loop, and a sample of a lady singing.
JZ: Oh ok. You know I never heard a flute before. I grew up in the projects. We didn't have a budget for music class.
YG: I feel you.
JZ: I had nothing. My pops left us. I had to start selling drugs at an early age. It was very vulgar.
YG: Yeah. It's fukked up out there man. Let's focus on--
JZ: I had holes in my shoes. Girls called me ugly. They wouldn't even respond when I tried to talk to them.
YG: I know man. I know--
JZ: No you don't. And people still hate me. Why don't they love me Guru? I held them down 6 summers.
YG: You did man. You're the best that ever did it.
JZ: At least you recognize it. I don't understood how all 7 billion people on the planet don't. Maybe they'll love me when I fade to black.
YG: They will. Anyway, you got some nice shots on at Nas there, but I can't help but think people think you come off a bit whiny and sour on it, you know what I'm saying?
JZ: Um, uh no. I destroyed Nas. He's a nobody to me. Ever since he didn't return my 5th voicemail he's been dead to me.
DJ Mart-Kos
All Star
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
SpacelySprockets
Veteran
that song is fire:drizzywtf:
JuvenileHell
Veteran
Don't remind me
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
He didn't say it wasn't. It's just Jay trying hit high note fortes on the hook that's comical.
I give the singing a pass because the song is FIRE and the nostalgia of thinking that this could very well be the FINAL Jigga outro still has a hold of me
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
You actually believed he was retiring?
i love this song but jay was struggling with them high notes 
Eh
I was younger then and him retiring to run Def Jam seemed like a pretty big deal back then. I mean who needs to rap when your running one of the most successful labels of all time?Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
Even on Jay Z's good songs there's always corny dikkriding fakkit moments.i love this song but jay was struggling with them high notes
Like him biting Prince bars from fukking Adore...
"You can have all my clothes, smash up my ride, maybe not the ride"
"This one's with the stew with the fame with the fortune, maybe not the fortune"
