Numero001 Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 lol... The beat change on Kiss Kiss >>>>>>> Love that sh*t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Kane Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 The 'Blame It' side-shuffle is sick still, buss that in the club on the regs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Gekko Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 The times have a pretty accurate review of this:http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...icle6829430.ece Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3Carter, the unstoppable boast machine strikes again. This is no great milestone, but far from the predicted disasterIn 2001, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter released The Blueprint, a critical and commercial smash that set a standard that the Brooklyn-born rap mogul has struggled to match ever since. In the intervening years he has announced his retirement, come back bigger than ever, served as the president of Def Jam records, married Beyoncé, formed a mutual fan club with Barack Obama, and turned Noel Gallagher into a national joke by triumphantly headlining Glastonbury. Does he have anything left to prove?Judging by the third chapter in the Blueprint series, yes — quite a lot. Launching Carter’s lucrative new label partnership with the concert promotions giant Live Nation, his eleventh studio album needs to make a big splash. Largely produced by Kanye West, as was the original, and packed with A-list guests including Rihanna and Alicia Keys, its 15 sprawling tracks methodically cover the waterfront from old-school hardcore hip-hop to indie electro-pop crossover.Significantly, Carter turns 40 in December. Unlike the rock scene, hip-hop tends to treat its elder statesmen more like boxers than artists. Hungry young rivals are always hovering ringside, eager to dethrone the champ. It’s a brutal business. Which may explain why the rap superstar fills far too much of this album with defensive proclamations that he is still relevant, still innovative, still large and in charge.On What We Talkin’ About he modestly takes credit for being “part of the reason the President’s black”, which is funny and possibly even true. But the boastful Timbaland-produced bombast of Reminder sounds more like a corporate sales report: “Ten No 1 albums in a row, who better than me?” Carter booms. “Only the Beatles, nobody ahead of me . . .”There is further hollow, humourless self-aggrandisement in On to the Next One, Off That, Already Home, So Ambitious and more, with Carter repeatedly stressing his forward-thinking genius while trashing would-be challengers. By now, he is protesting far too much. Show, don’t tell.All the same, there are still three or four killer cuts here. With its deliberately ramshackle jazz beats and shrill horns, D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune) slams the ubiquitous studio software that turns vocals into shiny, synthetic ear candy. A fanciful complaint, especially on an album featuring the arch Auto-Tune addict Kanye West, but the track still has an attractively ragged energy. The orchestral rap ballad Empire State of Mind is also a heartfelt love letter to New York City, with Carter playing the hip-hop Sinatra over a luscious Alicia Keys chorus.The Blueprint 3 is not the game-changing milestone it aims to be, but nor is it the flat-out disaster some US reviewers have claimed. Obama’s favourite rapper spends far too long demanding our respect rather than earning it. But when he finally makes the effort, nobody beats Jay-Z for presidential swagger.(Roc Nation) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilliam Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 On To The Next One is the most banging beat evar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numero001 Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Albums better than I thought it'd be. Have to listen again coz my mind wanted to hear something else last night.A Star is Born is my fave. J. Cole did me proud. Like Venus vs. Mars and couple others but gonna listen againI'm sure hes chatting the same thing about hes rich, everyone hates him but he doesnt care etc.Still think the same thing. I really havent got into this like the way everyone goes on. Its good but its not the triumphant return everyones talking about.+ Thank You to the list of "I like" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afroman Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 WOW...that is f*cked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neeko Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Albums better than I thought it'd be. Have to listen again coz my mind wanted to hear something else last night.A Star is Born is my fave. J. Cole did me proud. Like Venus vs. Mars and couple others but gonna listen againI'm sure hes chatting the same thing about hes rich, everyone hates him but he doesnt care etc.mostlyalbum is 6 / 10 imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numero001 Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 No one watch the concert last night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichYung Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Need a download link.Empire state & Already home performed live>>> Powerful sh*t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Kane Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 No one watch the concert last night?Didn't even know it was f*ck*ng on.Infinitely pissed. Surely this can be downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichYung Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 http://www.ddotomen.com/2009/09/11/jay-z-a...e-performances/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Gekko Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Heads up for everyone, Jay Z is on Jonathon Ross again next week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Kane Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Empire State Of Mind is large live.PMSL @ the Alicia Keys clone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numero001 Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 No one watch the concert last night?Didn't even know it was f*ck*ng on.Infinitely pissed. Surely this can be downloaded. http://www.missinfo.tv/index.php/the-jay-z...t-msg-just-wow/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRIPEZ Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 feeling it ... apart from drake track & pharrell ruins so ambitious.J.cole's verse >>>>>>>>>>>am i the only 1 that thinks star is born sounds like a polyphonic ringtone?empire state of mind is probably deserves special mention Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Gekko Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Am i the only one who doesnt rate On To The Next One?Everyone mentions it, see people droppin lines and sh*t out of it on facebook, blabbin about it in their status' and what not..i personally think its sh*t, the beat is awful aswell it just sounds flat and boring which is quite a shock considering who made it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamilyTree Posted September 14, 2009 Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 Am i the only one who doesnt rate On To The Next One?Everyone mentions it, see people droppin lines and sh*t out of it on facebook, blabbin about it in their status' and what not..i personally think its sh*t, the beat is awful aswell it just sounds flat and boring which is quite a shock considering who made iti hate itandi hate the beat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WAVESURFER Posted September 14, 2009 Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 Am i the only one who doesnt rate On To The Next One?Everyone mentions it, see people droppin lines and sh*t out of it on facebook, blabbin about it in their status' and what not..i personally think its sh*t, the beat is awful aswell it just sounds flat and boring which is quite a shock considering who made iti hate itandi hate the beatC/SThat is a truly terrible song, and I'm usually a big Swizz Beats fan.Pitchfork review of the album: Jay-ZThe Blueprint 3[Atlantic / Roc Nation; 2009]4.5 Who's been responsible for The Blueprint 3's biggest PR boost thus far: Kanye West or Rihanna? Timbaland or Drake? Um, LeBron James? According to our RSS, the answer would appear to be Ed Droste. Now, a few years ago, a YouTube of Jay-Z swaying lazily to "Ready, Able" might've been a "gotcha" moment worthy of the Summer Jam Screen, but in 2009, the buzz it's generated is either a huge breakthrough for the hip-hop/indie conversation or a sign that seeing Jigga in the same room as Grizzly Bear is more exciting than hearing him on the same song as any of the all-stars that populate The Blueprint 3: After all, The Blueprint 3 is so certainly Jay-Z's weakest solo album, you'll be tempted to wonder if Kingdom Come was somehow underrated.While "30 Something" and "Beach Chair" might stand as some of the most smug hip-hop ever committed to tape, they at least came from a real place, which illustrated the "curse" Jay so often speaks of: Nearly all of his LP's are concept albums about the state of his career, but in the 21st century, he's needed some sort of external boost to make it work, whether it's announcing his dominance of New York, his retirement, or the ability to play fast and loose with Frank Lucas' biography. Maybe it's just the timing, but like any recent MTV VMA's, Blueprint 3 generates its event-ness from a stubborn belief in its own ability to be an event. As such, most of it finds Jay-Z dealing in contradictory impulses-- to remind listeners of his unparalleled success in the rap game, but just as often, imploring everyone to stop thinking about his unparalleled success and get on some ill-defined "next sh*t."Honest question-- did Kanye West pull an inside job on Big Brother here? I mean, he gets all the good lines on "Run This Town" and getting Jay to follow his punchdrunk, slouchy flow on "Hate" has to be the result of some bar bet. But it isn't a matter of Kanye fronting him bad beats as much as a state of mind, the sort of maniacal need for approval that often humanizes Kanye but just makes Jay-Z sound insecure and whiny (see: most of The Blueprint 2). "Niggas want my old sh*t/ Buy my old album," he sneers in "On to the Next One" over a hyperactive Swizz Beatz track that indicates Jay's not the only one trying to sum up his entire career within the span of four minutes. But "Thank You", "Reminder", and "So Ambitious" all go to great lengths to reiterate accomplishments that we've heard dozens of time, but without naming names, they ultimately feel toothless considering his detractors in 2009's rap game are almost incapable of being taken seriously.But even as Jay attempts to flow futuristic on self-explanatory tracks like "Off That", "Already Home", and "A Star Is Born", he never allows any sort of torch-passing moments-- without the credits, you'd almost completely forget actual Future of Rap guys like J. Cole, Kid Cudi, and Drake even made it to the studio. The last of which is numbingly non-committal salutation to the past 10 years of hip-hop royalty with all the insight of an Encarta entry-- yeah, Eminem was a white guy and he still got respect. Those were the times, right?We can wrangle with the moral implications of Jay-Z making a track like "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" when the very next song on Blueprint 3 has Rihanna (to say nothing of whoever's on the hook for "Reminder"), but the singles actually gain a sort of halo effect for their familiarity, or at least giving Jay some sort of topical construct. Elsewhere, there's just such a weird vibe-- Jay-Z still sounds like himself, but for someone whose lyrics become the lingua franca of the hip-hop community for months after any of his releases, he goes vast stretches of time without saying anything remotely memorable. He's in Kingdom Come autopilot here, "get me out of these 16 bars" clock-punching intermittently spiked with chuckle-worthy rich rapper rhetoric ("nowadays I eat quail/ I'll probably never see jail"), pulled-from-People namedrops ("no I'm not a Jonas," plus a Bernie Madoff reference that we won't get into), and a "downward dog" coke rap that even Clipse might think twice about.Even stranger is how it invokes the title of the original Blueprint (not to mention an aborted attempt to opportunistically recall its release date), but bears no sonic resemblance to it at all. Timbaland clearly wasn't bringing his A-game here ("Reminder" and the dumbfounding "Venus vs. Mars" are phoned-in from his uninspired mid-decade valley), but the other big names, even Kanye, follow suit with the most middling futurism 2004 had to offer, or the kind of Vegas schmaltz that make all those Sinatra at the opera lines uncomfortably trenchant-- the piledriver hooks of "Run This Town" and "Empire State of Mind" are content to annoy their way to ubiquity, but the cheesed-out synths of "So Ambitious" clearly demonstrates the difference between "ft. Pharrell" and "produced by the Neptunes."I guess we should've brought up "Young Forever" earlier, and the answer to your question is "Alphaville, not Rod Stewart," and done completely straight-faced by Mr. Hudson. So menopausal and trite that it makes "Beach Chair" sound like "Streets Is Watching", Jay-Z rounds out Blueprint 3 with a gaggle of self-help bromides-- "just a picture perfect day that lasts a whole lifetime/ And it never ends because all we have to do is hit rewind." It's only passable as next-level reverse psychology, inspiring a demand of another Jay-Z album in spite of how godawful Blueprint 3 is, just as long as "Young Forever" isn't the last song we hear from him.But in the end, Jay-Z's probably right about his claim this year that hip-hop could learn a thing or two from indie rock, even if he's purposefully vague about what that actually means. Should rappers start booking studio time with, like, Nico Muhly? Well, there's always Late Registration. Talk a good game about making "experimental albums," like Jay's doing already? 808s & Heartbreak. Is Jay-Z really the kind of guy who should be telling rappers to think differently about building a fanbase when his only mixtape was created to sell a shoe? Because from its roster of producers and guest spots to its elaborate marketing, Blueprint 3 is the kind of stuck-on-stupid, event-driven money pit that proves while Jay-Z's at a point where he's got no one to answer to but himself, he's still capable of an entire hour of failing to take his own advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tirunih Posted September 14, 2009 Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 Currently bumpin out 'thank you'he took it bk 10yrs with this track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numero001 Posted September 14, 2009 Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 Am i the only one who doesnt rate On To The Next One?Everyone mentions it, see people droppin lines and sh*t out of it on facebook, blabbin about it in their status' and what not..i personally think its sh*t, the beat is awful aswell it just sounds flat and boring which is quite a shock considering who made iti hate itandi hate the beatOn a real, I think Jay's goes in but the beat is a stinker. Swizzy failed horribly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tirunih Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 jeezy's opening verse is actually emotional... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Triple XXX Posted September 20, 2009 Report Share Posted September 20, 2009 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles.shtmlempire state of mind made it to number 15Jay has some next followin coz ive only ever heard this song oncehe's at number 35 again with some nexx tune Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Q Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 sick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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