OfTheCross
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I wanted to post Streets is Talking but that shyt is no where on the internet...
This shyt raw too, tho
G*O*A*T - The Official Jay-Z Thread
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I wanted to post Streets is Talking but that shyt is no where on the internet...
This shyt raw too, tho
TheDarceKnight
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Man...I got a few.
1. After being home sick as a dog in October 2000, mom dukes bringing that Dynasty album home for me to enjoy while laid up. #Mymommalovesme
2. First time hearing Reasonable Doubt. One of the few albums I remember everything that happened in that moment.
3. Same with Blueprint. I remember riding to lunch at school in my buddy's car and Heart of the City came on. One of the people in the car was big into Swizz and keyboard beats, and he had a look of
when the chorus came on, like he had 2nd hand embarrassment and said "Lol what is this guys?"..."Shut up you soulless fool. This is 
"
4. When 9th Wonder did Threat and heard Lucifer, Encore, December 4th, Allure, and a couple more Black Album joints and came back down to NC, he wouldn't play us the beat but he was rapping some of the lyrics. "Ya'll are garages for bullets, please don't make me park it in your upper level. Valet a couple strays from the .38 special, god bless you."
Best rapper on the planet at that time. The flow on the album was 
5. Hearing the live version of Takeover from a shytty audio from Summer Jam and then happy to finally hear it in CDQ on Blueprint.
6. Losing it when I realized Ignorant shyt would finally be out in CDQ when I read the AG tracklist.
7. Feeling real sad when I thought he was legitimately gone after TBA and then hearing that beautiful Just Blaze beat on Dear Summer and hearing Jay flow like water for what I thought might be the last time..."Like all good things, we must come to an end. Please show the same love to my friends...dear summer."
8. Finding out that my favorite song on TBA (P.S.A.) was made AFTER the album was already turned in for mastering and Just Blaze and Jay had to record it real quick and weren't even able to change all the artwork in time. Just makes it that much more epic of a song.
9. Not totally a Jay memory, but Kanye West in 2002 wanted to sign my Blueprint CD so that he could circle the tracks he produced in the liner notes to make sure it was known all he did. So he literally circled Takeover, Izzo, Heart of the City, and Never Change in the booklet and wrote "KW" besides each one, and THEN since the Girls Girls Girls Remix wasn't listed he wrote that shyt out too, then circled it, and wrote his initials beside it also.
10. Just in general smiling when people think Jay is Big Pimpin and Money Cash Hoes. They didn't listen to D'Evils, Soon You'll Understand, You Must Love Me, Regrets, Dead Presidents, Never Change, This Can't Be Life, Song Cry, Lost Ones, Allure, or a dozen others. "They say I only talk about jewels. Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?"
1. After being home sick as a dog in October 2000, mom dukes bringing that Dynasty album home for me to enjoy while laid up. #Mymommalovesme
2. First time hearing Reasonable Doubt. One of the few albums I remember everything that happened in that moment.
3. Same with Blueprint. I remember riding to lunch at school in my buddy's car and Heart of the City came on. One of the people in the car was big into Swizz and keyboard beats, and he had a look of
when the chorus came on, like he had 2nd hand embarrassment and said "Lol what is this guys?"..."Shut up you soulless fool. This is "4. When 9th Wonder did Threat and heard Lucifer, Encore, December 4th, Allure, and a couple more Black Album joints and came back down to NC, he wouldn't play us the beat but he was rapping some of the lyrics. "Ya'll are garages for bullets, please don't make me park it in your upper level. Valet a couple strays from the .38 special, god bless you."
Best rapper on the planet at that time. The flow on the album was 5. Hearing the live version of Takeover from a shytty audio from Summer Jam and then happy to finally hear it in CDQ on Blueprint.
6. Losing it when I realized Ignorant shyt would finally be out in CDQ when I read the AG tracklist.
7. Feeling real sad when I thought he was legitimately gone after TBA and then hearing that beautiful Just Blaze beat on Dear Summer and hearing Jay flow like water for what I thought might be the last time..."Like all good things, we must come to an end. Please show the same love to my friends...dear summer."
8. Finding out that my favorite song on TBA (P.S.A.) was made AFTER the album was already turned in for mastering and Just Blaze and Jay had to record it real quick and weren't even able to change all the artwork in time. Just makes it that much more epic of a song.
9. Not totally a Jay memory, but Kanye West in 2002 wanted to sign my Blueprint CD so that he could circle the tracks he produced in the liner notes to make sure it was known all he did. So he literally circled Takeover, Izzo, Heart of the City, and Never Change in the booklet and wrote "KW" besides each one, and THEN since the Girls Girls Girls Remix wasn't listed he wrote that shyt out too, then circled it, and wrote his initials beside it also.
10. Just in general smiling when people think Jay is Big Pimpin and Money Cash Hoes. They didn't listen to D'Evils, Soon You'll Understand, You Must Love Me, Regrets, Dead Presidents, Never Change, This Can't Be Life, Song Cry, Lost Ones, Allure, or a dozen others. "They say I only talk about jewels. Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?"
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HustlerOfVirginiA
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Mike Otherz
All Star
man, jay was my favorite rapper ever for a minute. the celebrity jay of the last couple of years makes it hard sometimes cause some of his overt love of white people and celebrity is a little cringe inducing. i mean, getting beat up in elevators and dancing n art galleries with a bunch of pretentious cacs is not how GOATS suppose to move brehs. but when jay was in his prime, there was no ones music i looked forward to more or enjoyed more. just the perfect balance of wisdom, fun, entertainment, songwriting, humor, flows, beat selection, storytelling, insight, effortlessness etc. jay was the anti dumb smart nikka or smart dumb nikka or whatever teh formulation is. its like you may not agree with his reasoning, but you know it was something he had though through and whos elife experiences had corroberated his world view.
plus jays voice is very special. that lightness and quaver it carries was not something that was prevalent at the time i ont think. i could be wrong maybe you can correct me on this. but that lightness gives vulnerability to his songs i think. on dead presidents 2 when he in the hospital with his boy that been shot up damn, i dint thnk another rapper could have conveyed it like that. its wasnt abstracyt, it was dead real in that moment and brought you closer i think.
plus jays voice is very special. that lightness and quaver it carries was not something that was prevalent at the time i ont think. i could be wrong maybe you can correct me on this. but that lightness gives vulnerability to his songs i think. on dead presidents 2 when he in the hospital with his boy that been shot up damn, i dint thnk another rapper could have conveyed it like that. its wasnt abstracyt, it was dead real in that moment and brought you closer i think.
Mike Otherz
All Star
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I enjoyed BP2 as much as any rap album in 2002. was shocked at the bad reviews. i gues it just wasnt hovs time. some of his best pure rhyming is on that album. the intro to disc 2.
old lady dont blow my high, especially when you dont know my life? jay is the best phraser of lyrics in the history of rap. thats why the comparison to sinatra are legit cause beyond money power and influence, those cats could phrase their lyrics and words like no one else. they dont just say the lyric, they act it out vocally to let you feel the emotion.
Side note : Blueprint 2 is unfairly hated on, trim it down to 16/17 songs an you got a great album
I enjoyed BP2 as much as any rap album in 2002. was shocked at the bad reviews. i gues it just wasnt hovs time. some of his best pure rhyming is on that album. the intro to disc 2.
old lady dont blow my high, especially when you dont know my life? jay is the best phraser of lyrics in the history of rap. thats why the comparison to sinatra are legit cause beyond money power and influence, those cats could phrase their lyrics and words like no one else. they dont just say the lyric, they act it out vocally to let you feel the emotion.
TheDarceKnight
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Yeah man. BP2 was just too bloated, but his best flows are on BP2 and TBA. Another problem I think was when the did the BP2.1 they didn't actually get all the best songs on one album. If you really take the best 10-12 songs off those 2 discs, it's a great album.
OfTheCross
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TheDarceKnight
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Ever since the Tidal shyt, Jay pulled almost all of his songs off Youtube if they don't have a music video to go with it. You can find a couple here and there but it's not easy.
I just use mp3freex.
Literally everything is there including that.
TheDarceKnight
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you just made my month!
havoc
Superstar
My nikka Hov poured his soul on this track.
I really felt this song because I was going through same problems with my dad.Jay-Z doesn't get nearly the respect he does for his lyricism. I can go back and listen to his albums to catch something that went over my head. The Blueprint is the first thing I splurged on with my first paycheck from my first real job. 
Memories
Memories"Yo, when I meet ya, I heat ya down
When I greet ya, meet ya with pound
Not the handshake, but the kind that make ya demand a wake
The kind that put land over your face
I pop ya, let doctors stitch ya
I-N-F-R-A, will not miss ya
I move light, like my shoes too tight
Leave nikkas confused from the day to the night
At night, see the light, when the pistol's sparkin
Daytime it gets dark when that pistol barkin
I keep cash 'case cops arrest me
'case kids kidnap me, kids could get back me
You shall repent 'fore you spend a red cent
If not, you somebody up close to sin
Thou shalt not fukk with raw me, or he
Face a thousand deaths from Mr. Shawn Correy
Carter, rap harder like I'm part of a cult
Like Cuban cigar maker 'cept I'm hard to smoke
And y'all choke motherfukkers"
When I greet ya, meet ya with pound
Not the handshake, but the kind that make ya demand a wake
The kind that put land over your face
I pop ya, let doctors stitch ya
I-N-F-R-A, will not miss ya
I move light, like my shoes too tight
Leave nikkas confused from the day to the night
At night, see the light, when the pistol's sparkin
Daytime it gets dark when that pistol barkin
I keep cash 'case cops arrest me
'case kids kidnap me, kids could get back me
You shall repent 'fore you spend a red cent
If not, you somebody up close to sin
Thou shalt not fukk with raw me, or he
Face a thousand deaths from Mr. Shawn Correy
Carter, rap harder like I'm part of a cult
Like Cuban cigar maker 'cept I'm hard to smoke
And y'all choke motherfukkers"
Mike Otherz
All Star
jay coastin on this beat
im borderline too much for the mortal mind
every time you ought to rewind, find theres more to find
jays versatility with the flows, and as natural as that versatility sounds, puts him above 99% of rappers. i mean, rap is music as much as it is lyrics and delivery. cats gotta show they can be musical with their flows and cadences to be elite. listen to this new generation of depressed rappers, same flow same monotone every joint.
That's my GOAT
that RD20 next year about to make these haters sick
that RD20 next year about to make these haters sick