Jay-Z reached his peak 10+ years ago on The Blueprint...right?

[Ronald]

Jay aint a conscious rapper... nobody want's to hear some truly deep shyt from him.

powerful posting

 

[Absolut da poet ®]

everything after has been mediocre or has had little to no replay value.


BP2 and 2.1 were straight trash

Black Album is the most overrated album since Reasonable Doubt...and wasn't even the most talked about album of 2003

Kingdom Come was an album about how " at 37, i've finally grown up and i dont do shyt teens and 20 somethings do "

American Gangster was the " Denzel took the role that was made for me, so i'm going to make an album about how i saw the movie before everyone else did"

BP3 is self explanatory...


Watch The Throne was ass, and nothing more than a swag album that wasn't even that good at that.

Let's assume EVERYTHING ^ you say is correct.

So ?

you could also say similar things about Rakim, Krs One, Busta Rhymes, Scarface, Ice Cube, Redman, Ghostface, Method Man, G.Rap, B.D.K., DMX and pretty much every rapper that came out between '88 - '98

The fact that you single out Jay-Z is actually an honor to him because most of the other guys who came out before him, the same time as him, or slightly after aren't making any music that you can scrutinize to the degree that you do his music.

You obviously believe he is special enough to deserve his own thread AGAIN.
As if this hasn't been done 100,000,000,000,000 times in the last MONTH alone.

If you don't like him. Stop listening to his fukkin music.

You guys *ugh*


you're not even worth insulting... ya son yourself with these threads.

smh.

 

[bertyr]

nas hasnt peaked yet

didnt mean it as a slight just sayin illmatic is the peak thing he did. Considering it's a goat album that's fine

 

[Brock Landers]

If you said American Gangster I'd have agreed, it was before he truly became the hipster-band-name-dropping-white-celebrity-dikkriding-skinny-jeans-at-45-wearing abomination that he is today

 

[Miggs]

Yep,he peaked with the blueprint and its been a steady decline since...i dont have none of his music from past the blueprint on my ipod or phone its all pre 2001...

 

[Bolzmark]

Not another "Jay-Z aint so great because..."

 

[Loose]

He been since the black album which I heard had ghostwriters

 

[spliz]

it had a couple stand out tracks but very overrated and did not even come close to the hype, sorry.

I fukk wit Black Album more than Blueprint from a rhyme standpoint...his rhymes was WAY sharper on Black Album to me...

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Most of his best songs have conscious lyrics in it. Did you really listen to 22 Twos?

Jay isn't a conscious rapper tho, jay is a slick rapper who's great when it comes to flashy/hustler/player rhymes.... when he strays from those type of rhymes, it always comes across as forced.


we'd all at jay trying to drop an album like Untitled.

 

[Gifted one]

Most of his best songs have conscious lyrics in it. Did you really listen to 22 Twos?

 

[TheDarceKnight]

justify my thug is one of the corniest songs i've ever heard from a legend

And to think Jay took off Ignorant shyt for Justify My Thug?



True story

 

[TheDarceKnight]

mr president, theres drugs in our residence
tell me what you want me to do. come break bread wit us
mr governor, I swear theres a cover up
every other corner theres a liquor store. fuk us up




whats corny about it? the beat? I dont understand yall. must be 90s babies

The verses are fire, but the hook is ehh, and the beat is average as hell by DJ Quik standards.

9th Wonder's version is fantastic

 

[TheDarceKnight]

He been since the black album which I heard had ghostwriters

My man 9th Wonder watched him "write" Threat. There is footage on and off the Fade to Black movie of Jay doing his writing process. The only case of writing help I know of is Kanye had the Lucifer song written for himself, and Jay took the cadence of the "Gotta get my soul right...." part as well as the "Murder capital where we murder for capital" part.

One of the Directors of Photography for that movie got to see almost every song written and recorded and will tell you Jay did it. Those are his words absolutely.

 

[CapFromMCU]

that black album is the last jay-z album i actually listened to from beginning to end and i don't understand how yall liked that. i see cats online praising it, i thought that sh!t was pure trash. not even aiiight, thought that ish was weak. . then again I think "Volume 1" is fire and that sh!t got sh!tted on by everybody.

 

[Gravity]

Posters take themselves and their opinions waaay too seriously. It's really a sign of insecurity.