HIP HOP CLASSICS: Jay-Z - The Blueprint Album • Page 2

Nobody has to be fair.

 

Oh yeah. To this day I feel a just a tiny bit uneasy whenever I listen to a song by 50 because, you know, Muder Inc. for life.

 

Woah, really?? Which track?

 

Girls, Girls, Girls. The vocals that sound like Michael really are him and it's not a sample. He was there.

 

Damn. Q-Tip, Biz Markie and Michael Jackson doing backing vocals. Amazing.

 

Also Slick Rick (according to Wikipedia anyway, but I assume it’s true, too lazy to check the booklet), like Tip and Biz credited in the liner notes, and Chante Moore, like Michael uncredited. It's one hell of a song in that regard.

 

For me personally, the top five is Blueprint, Black Album, 4:44, Reasonable Doubt and Vol. 2.

Also, I got Kingdom Come when it was new by accident. I bought a used copy of Bobby by Bobby Brown for 2€ and when I opened it at home the Kingdom Come disc was in the case. I had listened two both in the store (remember that?) so I figured that is how it happened.

 

A classic. Think I like Black over Blue but still full of incredible songs.

Gonna go:
Black
Blue
RD
American Gangster
Vol 2 I guess

 

The thing with Jays album is he has some of the BEST singles in hip hop, but he surrounds them with a lot of average stuff on the albums.

 

To be fair that was the default for popular rappers for a long time. It wasn’t/isn’t an album genre. In that context Jay actually has quite a few albums that are good throughout.

 

While not his best, American Gangster is criminally underrated.

 

I think the blueprint is actually my favorite jay-z album. Gonna have to spin it today.

 

I never remember much about the Black Album. Apart from 99 Problems, I never remember the songs and i've listened to it a good 3 or 4 times at this point. Need to sit down and have a proper listen at some point.

 

You will go like “oh yeah I know this” at most songs lol

 

Looked at the track listing after I wrote that and said "oh yeah, Dirt Off Your Shoulder is on there too" haha

 

Reasonable Doubt is my favorite, but this is a close second.

Black Album and American Gangster are also amazing

 

The beat for U Don’t Know is so good and only gets better when M.O.P gets on it.

 

The Blueprint hands down is a Classic and one of my top 5 hip hop albums.

 

ah. He'll do ok.

 

YES. The U Don't Know remix is maybe the hardest song ever made

 

I never heard this album (aside from maybe a single or two here or there at a party in high school or a movie or something). Gonna spin this tomorrow.

Edit: I think I’ve listened to one Jay-Z album in my life and i was in fifth grade and it was the edited version from Wal-Mart. Rap / hip hop has never really been my thing, but Jay-Z has REALLY never been my thing. For some reason I just always forget about him and never got around to checking his discography out.

 

We should wait for wonder with simple fun

 

That’s deep

 

I think they're hitting on you

 

I waited for wonder with simple fun once. Didn’t get a whole lot else done.