OfTheCross
Veteran
Tremendous song
8? Nah you stanning wild hard
He said
"i say this cause people can make a substantive claim that either of these albums are their favorite."
Which is a good point since it's all subjective
G*O*A*T - The Official Jay-Z Thread
- Thread starter OfTheCross
- Start date
He said
"i say this cause people can make a substantive claim that either of these albums are their favorite."
Which is a good point since it's all subjective
OfTheCross
Veteran
This is gonna be the fight of the year brehs
Can't wait
Gotta be something big in the works.
Mike Otherz
All Star
Mike Otherz
All Star
Boolean
APIDTA
my boy in 3rd-4th grade use to fukk his middle finger up whenever we palyed
just here drop off my monthly "
" for the thread
I'm hoping for a deluxe reissue with instrumentals, remixes and unreleased demos/songs. But does Dame have to sign off on it?
He owns the masters along with Jay and Biggs so I'm thinking he would. Would be nice though. I think a big concert in NY, or maybe a small tour might be more feasible.
I'm just hoping there is shyt in the vault. Jay was in another dimension on the mic on that album. He's up there with anybody on the mic off that album alone.
I'm hoping he doesn't do something corny like trying to get trap producers to remix the album
OfTheCross
Veteran
I'm just hoping there is shyt in the vault. Jay was in another dimension on the mic on that album. He's up there with anybody on the mic off that album alone.
I'm hoping he doesn't do something corny like trying to get trap producers to remix the album
Lol.
I was actually wanting some remixes.
Not some Trap shyt, but with some current young talent. Like I want cameos on every song type shyt.
Jay's third verse on Empire State Of Mind is pretty dope
"Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
Or they could step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is
Lined with casualties, who sip to life casually
Then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple, Eve
Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style
Anna Wintour gets cold, in Vogue with your skin out
City of sin, it's a pity on a whim
Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
Mommy took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
Hail Mary to the city, you're a virgin
And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end
Came here for school, graduated to the high life
Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
MDMA got you feelin' like a champion
The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien"
"Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
Or they could step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is
Lined with casualties, who sip to life casually
Then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple, Eve
Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style
Anna Wintour gets cold, in Vogue with your skin out
City of sin, it's a pity on a whim
Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
Mommy took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
Hail Mary to the city, you're a virgin
And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end
Came here for school, graduated to the high life
Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
MDMA got you feelin' like a champion
The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien"
OfTheCross
Veteran
Off the top of my head I can't think of a single where Jay really compromised his lyrics and tried to go pop. That's probably one of the reasons dude has so much respect in the game.
OfTheCross
Veteran
Is there any legend that gets more ignorant hate than Jay Z?
It's funny whenever I see these backpacker or purist haters bash him and then they come to find out artists like Kendrick and Schoolboy Q have him as their favorite.
Like El-P dealing with his fans.
"LP: It always killed me, in my career, that one of the questions that I would get asked, one of the things that would get thrown at me, especially in the late-90s to the early 2000s—people would use Jay-Z as a weapon to throw at me to start a conversation. They thought my reaction to "Jay-Z" and what he represented was anger or was disrespect. Because people would interpret the things that I would say, and blow it out of proportion and make it like this sort of heartless super-philosophy, which it wasn't. So people would ask me about Jay-Z almost snarkily, in some weird classist, almost-racist way: like "Oh—that stupid Jay-Z shyt!" And I would be like, "Yo, actually Jay-Z was a huge influence on me and my rapping.
That was a twisted perception of my music meaning something other than it did. My music was just my music. Once you make music, you have almost no control over it anymore. And if you're making anything that means anything, you're going to divide people. You're going to make people fall on one side or the other. It reminds me of how Public Enemy drew in a giant audience of college-educated, smart, cool white kids who eventually all became writers because of Public Enemy. It appealed to their rebelliousness and their intellect, but they literally haven't liked a rap record since Nation of Millions."
"El-P: At the time I was writing it I was getting sick of the monster it had become. I felt that people took our attitude and ran with it and distorted it. It's like you say one thing and it comes back to you as a completely different belief. A lot of people would come up to us and be like, "Yeah, I hate Jay-Z, too." I don't hate Jay-Z, I think he's dope. I was listening to Jay-Z before you even knew who Jay-Z was, when he was with Jaz and the originators back in '88"
Like I've talked to people who praised Big Pun and Big L as the definition of hip hop but wouldn't even admit that Jay Z or Kendrick or J Cole were hip hop, shyt's ridiculous.
shyt like this.
Jay-Z: Most Overrated Rappers of All Time | TheTopTens.com
It's funny whenever I see these backpacker or purist haters bash him and then they come to find out artists like Kendrick and Schoolboy Q have him as their favorite.
Like El-P dealing with his fans.
"LP: It always killed me, in my career, that one of the questions that I would get asked, one of the things that would get thrown at me, especially in the late-90s to the early 2000s—people would use Jay-Z as a weapon to throw at me to start a conversation. They thought my reaction to "Jay-Z" and what he represented was anger or was disrespect. Because people would interpret the things that I would say, and blow it out of proportion and make it like this sort of heartless super-philosophy, which it wasn't. So people would ask me about Jay-Z almost snarkily, in some weird classist, almost-racist way: like "Oh—that stupid Jay-Z shyt!" And I would be like, "Yo, actually Jay-Z was a huge influence on me and my rapping.
That was a twisted perception of my music meaning something other than it did. My music was just my music. Once you make music, you have almost no control over it anymore. And if you're making anything that means anything, you're going to divide people. You're going to make people fall on one side or the other. It reminds me of how Public Enemy drew in a giant audience of college-educated, smart, cool white kids who eventually all became writers because of Public Enemy. It appealed to their rebelliousness and their intellect, but they literally haven't liked a rap record since Nation of Millions."
"El-P: At the time I was writing it I was getting sick of the monster it had become. I felt that people took our attitude and ran with it and distorted it. It's like you say one thing and it comes back to you as a completely different belief. A lot of people would come up to us and be like, "Yeah, I hate Jay-Z, too." I don't hate Jay-Z, I think he's dope. I was listening to Jay-Z before you even knew who Jay-Z was, when he was with Jaz and the originators back in '88"
Like I've talked to people who praised Big Pun and Big L as the definition of hip hop but wouldn't even admit that Jay Z or Kendrick or J Cole were hip hop, shyt's ridiculous.
shyt like this.
Jay-Z: Most Overrated Rappers of All Time | TheTopTens.com