Reactions when 'Change Clothes' first leaked....

[re'up]

I am a few weeks late, but I remember 10 years ago when I first heard 'Change Clothes', it leaked sometime in mid October, I liked it, because it was Jay's new single, and Neptunes were reigning over music at the time, but I was also like what the fukk is this bullshyt? Jay was talking about this legendary album, 12 tracks, 12 producers, no promo, no single, no packaging, and he comes in with this bouncy ass, ridiculous single, granted he had some nice bars on there...

but, still Pharrell straight crooning on the hook and that shamelessly happy beat....it was a disappointment. Kinda like the 'dualities' of 'Magna Carta'.

To add to it, I think by that time 'PSA' & 'What More Can I Say' had leaked on Flex, so everyone was kinda caught off guard by that 'Change Clothes', when that high ass beat dropped lol....I was expecting some well crafted, intricate Neptunes beat and a track about Jay's legacy or some shyt, not jeans and no panties...SO NECESSARY

 

[Hypris]

It's the type of song that should be on a B-list movie soundtrack, not Jay-Z's "final album".

 

[DaveyDave]

i was

 

[Big Mel]

I'm a fan of ths song.

 

[re'up]

'Back it on up like a UHaul truck....and run and tell them ducks you heard Hoveys new shyt' get the fukk of here Jay....

'Do I look like a lame....who wouldn't understand a broad with a mean shoe game' foreshadows of the stumbles on some of 'Kingdom Come' more questionable tracks, regarding women's fashion...

 

[JXNZ]

I WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD AT FIRST, BUT AS TIME WENT ON IT GREW ON ME...AND ITS STILL DOPE TODAY...THAT BEAT AND SONG WAS JUST AHEAD OF ITS TIME....

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

 

[Non Sequitur]

 

[Canada Goose]

50 Cent/G Unit music overshadowed this song.... I remember the original Encore song, Dirt of off of your shoulders and 99 problems being much more popular...


This might have been the wackest song on the whole TBA, it certainty was the wackest single.

 

[Ziggiy]

 

[tybo]

i HATED this song more than any song jay ever made other than Bonnie and Clyde

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

it was a good mixtape, but black rose was probably my fav track
he's coming out with church clothes pt 2 as well

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

It came out at the end of 03 because I remember when gunits "I wanna get to know you" dropped in jan of 04 and straight crushed the radio when it dropped.

 

[re'up]

You know thats a valid point Hiphopfan, this was one of the first times Jay was coming out, and while there was heavy anticipation and expectations, it was the beginning of newer/younger artists beginning to crowd Jay at the top, tho none of them have had the longevity he had, 'Stunt 101' and 'Gangsta shyt' from 'Beg For Mercy may have gotten slightly more plays and attention, around this time, as G-Unit craze was reaching a fever pitch..

Re: The Black Album, I still want to know just what the fukk they were thinking with 'Justify My Thug'....

 

[itsyoung!!]

Song was

Then I went to school and everyone was talkin about how they was feelin it

literally had ya boy at school...