Name hit records that saved a bad album cycle

[JNew]

Vol 3 was a disappointment commercially

Jay commercial peak was wayyyy back in 1998

Maybe after 2012 wtt but even then he he was still relevant putting up numbers.


But ti’s what ever you liked saved the whole paper trail album.

And ross’s big meech song saved his album Teflon don and his career. He basically embraced the 50 beef and doubled down on being a fake gangster.

 

[Controversy]

My boy

JAY-Z – Anything

“Anything” is a Jay-Z single found on Beanie Sigel’s 2000 album The Truth. It was also was included as a bonus track on the European version of Jay-Z’s Vol. 3… Life and Times of S

genius.com

“Anything” is a Jay-Z single found on Beanie Sigel’s 2000 album The Truth. It was also was included as a bonus track on the European version of Jay-Z’s Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter. Similar to the use of the Annie sample in “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)”, Anything samples “I’d Do Anything” from the British musical Oliver!.

I only looked this up for you...I bought both albums in real time

I don't know what's hard to understand...the song was apart of the Vol 3 leak & was a bonus track

The song was then put on Sig's album so that it would generate more sales

Keep in mind, Is That Yo Chick was apart of the Vol3 leak, and then Jigga gave it to Bleek...this was clearly formulaic

Anything dropped before Do It Again for the record...on the radio, and the video

It's a Jigga song that had a video released in 99, before the Vol 3 album dropped, but the song flopped

Sig didn't have any commercial singles with legs on his first album...he had that song with Eve and the Jigga flop single was a good look for a new artist

Why did Jigga repurpose The Dynasty and rushed to put it out?

The Philly nikkas saved Jigga's career

I'm a hip hop historian...Gangsta rap started in Philly & Philly nikkas made the Roc the hottest rap label...these are the facts

 

[Controversy]

That song is the only reason Beans first album went gold though

Jay-Z admitted to Angie Martinez in a 2009 interview on the BET program Food for Thought that he hoped the song would be a success like "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" due to their similarities but was surprised when it wasn't, even saying "I dropped the record and then nothing".

 

[Piff Huxtable]

This Volume 3 discussion is stupid when there are like 100 albums that fit the criteria better

back on topic:
Beautiful - Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$
Slow Motion - Juve The Great

 

[Sad Bunny]

Off topic but ESOM is on my top 3 list of songs I never want to hear again the rest of my life.

I walked the Brooklyn bridge in July and they played it nonstop. Terrible.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

I walked the Brooklyn bridge in July and they played it nonstop. Terrible.

Breh every fukking a team plays at Madison Square or a night game in the meadowlands that fukking song is played non stop every promotion. I've hated this corny ass song since it originally came out

 

[Sad Bunny]

Breh every fukking a team plays at Madison Square or a night game in the meadowlands that fukking song is played non stop every promotion. I've hated this corny ass song since it originally came out

Terrible song.

 

[Rasille]

Ridin Dirty by Chamillionaire

 

[Cladyclad]

who we be saved the Great Depression from being a complete bomb. one of Dmx gifts is making a song that should not have been a hit. Who we be saved that album commercially

 

[JustCKing]

Shouldn’t that all be considered “BP3”

It is. That album had two different rollouts. The first one failed because all three singles flopped. "Swagger Like Us" was supposed to be on that album too even though it is a T.I. song, it was going to be on both the 2008 version of BP3 and T.I.'s Paper Trail. Jay scrapped the 2008 version of BP3 though.

Really, that part of Jay Z's career is hardly mentioned. "Ain't I" started the hype of BP3. That song was supposed to be on Timbaland's first installment of Shock Value, but Jay didn't finish his parts. That started the petty beef between him and Timbaland. That song was originally called "Your Favorite". Jay finished the song, but Tim's album was already turned in. The song leaked, but it had Clue yelling over it screaming "Blueprint 3". Jay asked "what are you doing, nobody's supposed to know about that". Then the song leaked in high quality without Clue. Timbaland teased producing all of that album. Jay responded by saying "whoever gave him 10 hot joints between Kanye and Tim or whoever would be producing the album". Ultimately, Kanye ended up helming the album and Timbaland was supposed to do 5 joints. Only three made it. "Rumors" featuring Keri Hilson was axed as was "Ghetto Techo", which Tim was going to keep for Shock Value 2. All five Timbo joints leaked before the album, which reignited the beef.

 

[dfresh]

Singles saved fabolous entire career. His discography is terrible.

 

[JustCKing]

How does an album need ”saving” that did more the first week than the previous album with singles that werent nearly as big

It gave Vol. 3 legs because the other singles flopped. There were other songs on the album that were getting burn that he didn't even release as singles like "So Ghetto", which he performed on TRL that got a huge response. Then there's "It's Hot" that got a huge response at The Tunnel.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Jack Harlow -First class

Jack dropped an awful second album when he was one of the most anticipated rappers at the time.

Even his Drake feature is mocked for how bad he performed on it

First class was garbage amd didn't male any sense. Waste of a sample for a great pop song too smh


Jack Harlow lucky the label was pumping him hard at the time bc he fell the fukk off immediately

 

[RennisDeynolds]

My boy

JAY-Z – Anything

“Anything” is a Jay-Z single found on Beanie Sigel’s 2000 album The Truth. It was also was included as a bonus track on the European version of Jay-Z’s Vol. 3… Life and Times of S

genius.com

“Anything” is a Jay-Z single found on Beanie Sigel’s 2000 album The Truth. It was also was included as a bonus track on the European version of Jay-Z’s Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter. Similar to the use of the Annie sample in “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)”, Anything samples “I’d Do Anything” from the British musical Oliver!.

I only looked this up for you...I bought both albums in real time

The whole "debacle" with Vol 3 was the Un stabbing bc the Euro/international version leaked early and Jay blamed him


So they reworked the track listing for the US release

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Maybe after 2012 wtt but even then he he was still relevant putting up numbers.


But ti’s what ever you liked saved the whole paper trail album.

And ross’s big meech song saved his album Teflon don and his career. He basically embraced the 50 beef and doubled down on being a fake gangster.

What are you on Paper Trail was full of hits