Pictures from Jay-Z's The Dynasty album release party back in 2000

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I respect that. Yeah, that "I know What Girls Like" joint was the only 1 on there I didn't like either. I didn't care for "Lucky Me" either.

I liked Lucky Me as it was Jay being reflective and open to the pitfalls of fame, etc

Y'all don't even know every day I'm living with stress
Got up out the streets you think a nikka could rest
Can't even enjoy myself at a party unless
I'm on the dance floor hot ass vest
You think I'm freakin' these chicks right?
I'try not to brush against they chest
You get a lawsuit for shyt like that, I feel trapped
Swear to everything when I leave this earth
It's gon' be on both feet, never knees in the dirt
You could try me fukka but when I squeeze it hurts, fine
We'll lose two lives, yours and mines
Gimme any amount of time don't let Ms. Carter grieve
At the funeral parlor drippin' tears on my sleeve
Told the judge didn't budge it was him or me
And I ain't trying to be hard but I'm guilty as charged
Put my mercy on this court and my faith in God
And pray hard none of my nephews wanna be stars, Lucky Me

You only know what you see,
You don't understand what it takes to be me.

I hate all girls with alterior motives
That's why I'm twenty plus years old, no sons no daughters
Hate putting my life in the hands of fake promoters
Hear the hate in my voice right? I hate that you noticed
nikkas wanna strip to the bone for shyt you own
Hate a nikka like that fagot, get your own
Hate that I can't roam the street without the clip and chrome
Knowing one day I'ma have to flip, c'mon
You know the shyt don't stop 'til the Crist don't pop
And you have to kill a nikka and your wrist don't lock
I'm trapped the whole worlds against me in fact,
It ain't no turning back. Bring It On
Hate the price of fame cause it cost too much
Can I live without y'all nikkas saying I floss too much?
Hate the way you make this hate flow all through us
Steady looking for flaws through us, Lucky Me

You only know what you see,
You don't understand what it takes to be me
You only know what you see,
(Since I was four years old, I been told, everything that glitters ain't gold)
You don't understand what it takes to be me
(And now that I've arrived
I see those truths unfold before my eyes in this world so cold)

nikka see you in the street, pretend to be friendly
But I know any type of success breeds envy
I know in the back of your mind your conjuring ways to hen me
Leave my friends in a circle pouring out Henny
But G's is heaven bound so how I'm goin' receive
Anything y'all pour to the ground next time throw it up
And ain't nothing changed so even in my afterlife I show it up
Don't grieve for me my art remains
Like a dart from the speaker to your heart
Spiritually through the portal now my words as a mortal
Plan to leave without a fight I plant a seed I give life
Though I can't see past the girls greed to call her wife
Next time your thinking heist better be precise
Cause I'm fully prepared. One of us is goin' leave here
I have no regrets even though I wanna see grow
My godsons Boogie, Sonny and Rimo
 
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Just finished revisiting the album; only song that sounds like completely wack is The ROC.
I still don't like the beat for Parking Lot Pimping and Soon You'll Understand
 

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I didn't even think much of this era of Hip Hop but shyt, I miss it now when I compare it to today's era. :wow:

Listening to The Dynasty album now and nobody in Hip Hop is spitting bars like this nowadays. Album not even a classic but it's better than this new shyt of today.
I love the album but dont consider it a jay z album.
 

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Is it really? :sas1:
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BLACKED :fiflaff:
 

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U telling me that if Ananda, Elise and Carmen were in the current era of chicks, they wouldn't be in nikkas top 5 right now?:gucci:

nikka please. :pachaha:


Show me some current broads today who look better than them in their prime. :martin:
5 star thread, but they weren't top 5 in their own era, breh. I can find celebrities today that look similar to them who aren't top 5 today.

Edit:
Matter fact, I might even argue that if you took them in their prime they wouldn't be top 5 compared to how some women from that era look right now:mjpls:
 
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