JAY-Z ~ 4:44 (Discussion Thread)

[mobbinfms]

Now...

I don't like MCHG, but after recently re-listening to it, it's not awful. Very low on the Hov totem pole, but there are songs that work throughout the project.

But obviously I'm hoping that if this is real that it's much much better.

Magna Carter was Awful

 

[mobbinfms]

Nah lol. shyt is not better than life is good. Not even close. And jay is in my top 5 and one of my favs but I gotta call it like I see it

Talk it like I be it.

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

New Jay z album on August 17th

MCHG was released on July 4, 2013

4 years and 44 days later is August 17, 2017

Just in time for Made In America. Hopefully we don't have to wait that long

 

[Uncle Phil 36]

Still pissed we never got a full Beach is Better

 

[Cracked]

Their daughter Blu Ivy is a pun on Jay's favorite color (Blue) and IV (4)

Idk about that part

 

[steadyrighteous]

But see the "only online" shyt is null and void to me because that presupposes we run in the same circles. For example: Among my circle of friends, 36 chambers isn't a classic. Why? Because most of them haven't heard it or when they did, it just didn't work for them. Now to the hip hop world in general, it is. To the music world in general, it is. But to my circle of friends? Nah. That doesn't mean its not dope or not a classic or even near classic. The world is bigger than our circle

That's absolutely fair.

I just know how I feel about the album. It's not one of those "I tried it once, didn't get it" joints. I've listened to it several times. I've tried goin' in cold, first thing I've listened to all day, I've tried warming up to it by listening to a whole playlist of Nas' discog in chronological order.

Every, single, time I play that album I'm just waiting for it to be over lol

I can't explain it better than I've tried in this thread

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

Only track I like is Somewhere in America.

Can't fukk with NOTHING else.

You didn't like Oceans?

 

[BK The Great]

when Magna Carta dropped i enjoyed it still some songs get played whenever it pops up so i'm interested.

 

[mobbinfms]

It's literally one of the most overrated albums on the internet ever. Only online is it near classic and Nas 4th best album. I said it before and I'll say it again, people were just happy to hear Nas rap over listenable beats again. A lot of good songs and perhaps 3 or 4 great ones. But albums that people malign like Hip Hop is Dead are probably better. I don't get it at all. Like I won't skip it if it comes on but I don't see how with a discography like Nas' this is what people are hanging their hats on. Maybe there are just a lot of older Nas fans online.

4.5 mics. May be a classic. Time will tell. Album just flows perfectly.
Summer on Smash though

 

[mobbinfms]

Hip Hop is Dead is good but it hasn't aged as well for me. Life Is Good, 5 years later, still rocks. I think the truly only dead period of Das' career is I am and Nastradamus. I am because he was all over the place and seemingly didn't know who he was or what he was doing, Nastradamus because it's just average as hell but after that, everything else works to one degree or another

Nastradamus is terrible. I listened to it today.
I Am is unbelievably uneven.

 

[zayk35]

Don't get the excitement. His last couple of albums were bad. Just face it we're never getting Reasonable Doubt/Blueprint/Black Album Jay-Z. It's not going to happen. He's too grown and uninspired.

Plus he's damn near 50 what could he possibly rap about at this stage...we know his life pretty much

 

[GeeEffKay]

Hopefully he gives us something real to digest and not just empty material shyt that we all forget once the summer's over.
The last Hov project that meant something to me was American Gangster, 10 years ago.

Yep completely agree

 

[New Username]

Checkin for Jay in 2017

but you're in this thread

 

[Cloud McFly]

but you're in this thread

Exactly


How hard is it to not listen when released, and ignore everything about it if you're not interested

 

[Bathing Ape]

Why do people act like Jay isnt a big deal in any year?