Speaking with the Hip Hop Chronicle UK at the Fader Fort last month at Austin, TX’s South By Southwest music festival noted deejay and longtime Jay-Z engineer Young Guru dropped a few hints as to the state of two of Hip Hop’s most highly anticipated projects.
Speaking first about the Jay’s collaborative album with Kanye West, Watch the Throne, Young Guru offered some promising information, “Watch The Throne is almost done.” When pressed on why it had been delayed slightly he elaborated, saying, “’Ye’s records grow. If you listen to a Kanye record when if first starts it’s in one form. And he adds stuff, takes away stuff. He’s a real perfectionist. So that’s what he does, he grows his records. We’re in the process of just finalizing the album.”
Next, board manipulator spoke on Jay-Z Blueprint III follow up, revealing that Jigga has a theme in mind for the record but holding back further details. “Once we get done with [Watch the Throne] Jay’s gonna start another album which I can’t tell you the concept of yet. [But] it’s an incredible concept,” Young Guru said, “It’s in a different lane; it’s a different thing for him to do. When people see it they’re gonna be like, ‘Oh wow! He should have done that with, like, the first album!’ It’s incredible.”
I hope they really do a joint wit Nas too
Cosign….that April Fools joke was BRUTAL….
jay-z & nas should just do an album together eventually
Yup. All tracks with Nas & Jay on ’em have been dope as fuck, especially Black Republican.
jay-z and nas would probably never do a album together. I would rather see that long awaited AZ and Nas album.
9 times out of ten the album’s gonna be way different when it comes out. Always the same bs in the beginning
always down for a new Jay album…that new site he put up has some fresh kicks/clothes on it too, def worth checking out, little expensive but some classy stuff…
they need to drop that “Watch The Throne”…i dont even know what other albums are comin out this year to look out for, maybe the new Mobb Deep shit(or might cop some OLD Mobb Deep shit), maybe Detox (not holdin my breath tho)….
seriously tho, what other releases are coming up? Anyone know? always on the lookout for some new ish…
The Game
R.E.D ALbum and Az Doe or die 2
Jean Grae – Cake or Death
New Nas album… Slaughterhouse album, GZA Liquid Swords Part 2, Jay Electronica: Act II: Patents of Noblity (The Turn), J Cole Cole World, Supreme Clientele II and also Freddie Gibbs Baby-Faced Killa..
Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun-Monumental May 3
Naughty By Nature-Anthem Inc. May 17
De La Soul-Art Official Intelligence 3 June 21
MC Eiht-Which Way Iz West Summer
Redman-Muddy Waters 2 Fall
Their a lot of good albums that are supposed to come out this year but they don’t have a release date and most likely they will be pushed back or even scrapped.
Vakill – Armor Of God (!!!)
Apathy – Honkey Kong
Joe Budden – The Great Esacpe
Akir – The Plan
And tons of other dope stuff.
Also you should check R.E.K.S. from Reks which was released on March 8.
There’s no other hip hop artist in history with a catalogue like Jay-Z has — if Biggie or Pac survived, maybe they would have outdid him, but they unfortunately didn’t, making:
Jay-Z = GOAT
Camel Joe aka jay-z made a career out of stealing my lyrics. Um baby baby!
i luv all of his albums
and jay-z is the only rap artist to release albums with such catchy records
NAS
Jigga has two great albums and a couple of good ones, loads of artists have a similar or even better, catalogue such as Ghostface Killah, NaS, MF Doom, Pharoahe Monch etc. Difference is none of those artists have released as many awful albums as Jay and thats pretty bad considering Jay has always had the best producers to work with.
If this album is anything like Blueprint 3 it’s going to be a disappointment, he hasn’t made a good album since the original Blueprint. I guarantee it’s a pop album because all he cares about is making money.
after hearin the blueprint 3 and how good that album was
i can’t wait to hear his next album
he should do another great album like the black album
hova is one of the greatest
jay-z needs to start workin with more rap artists as a feature
he hasn’t been featured on a rap single in a long time probably since freeway’s what we do
what about Kanye’s Monster?
That’s why all these other niggas is wack they cant do an album without features. What happen to the days when niggas did and album by themselves. All these albums with other artist featured on every song is nothing but a compilation. WORD!
since when does jay wear his grandmothers glasses???
like whats up son? you need to fire yo stylist for that one
Concept album for Jay huh. I guess he is going to try his hand at something different other than talking about how much money he has. But I’m sure there will be plenty of that in there anyway.
Jay-z and a concept album???He always said the next album will be a concept album but we all know what happened after….Keep lyin to your fans Jay
What was american gangster dumb ass?
Concept album? Dude already recorded American Gangster.
hope the homie cole can shine first
Here we go with all the hate comments. Read blow SMH!
Jigga is apparently taking fashion cues from 60 year old Jewish men. Sam Rothstein style bitch! lame…
The last really great album from Jigga was The Black Album. Other than that, lots of dope tracks but nearly all of the albums weren’t consistent. American Gangster and Blueprint 3 were good but not great.
people sleep on that Kingdom Come album too, production-wise it was kinda weak(except the dre beats)but as far as lyrically and flow jay sounded superb and refreshed, it was like he picked up where he left off from the Black Album….
Blueprint 3 was classic,. dont get it twisted with all this BS out now, Wiz Khalifa n shit ,, watered down hiphop.
eet a dick…wiz is the reelist mc n da gayme. he smoak wead to. dat my ninja.
wiz the realest mc n da gayme?
you got the gay part right
Smoke your weed, son. Don’t worry, it won’t affect your writing ability.
christ u kids are retarded. if u listen to black and yellow sure whiz sucks ass but listen to kush and oj..10x the bp3 ur fucking retarded if u think thats a classic the worste jay z cd to ever drop..ever. i fuckin love jay z but that cd was awful. he should of called his first cd jay to z.
I am not in the habit of giving jay props but wiz aint on his level for sure. Wiz got hot beats and above average flows but he cant get jay hell no. To the post above: agree completely. BP3 J worst synthetic rap pop bullshit. Young forever? Are you kidding me? And you j stans say nas fell off… I cant listen to BP3 with a straight face… star is born? WOW
Are you niggas serious about Wiz Khalifa being dope? That guy is what you sit on the curb Sunday night for Monday morning, COLD GARBAGE! Above average flow? You niggas must be started listening to hip hop this year. I hate you young dumb muthafuckaz that too ignorant a lazy to listen to real hiphop. All you stupid young dudes want to do is dress gay, dance, and listen to this Cat In The Hat, Mother Goose, simple rhyming ass rappers.The shit that’s out right now is jingle music not hiphop. Hiphop is music for the less fortunate, who struggle everyday.Not for the suburbs.that’s why these niggas that’s out right now is wack, because they never really went through no struggle.
Take Wiz for what he is in today’s game… a rapper with smooth beats, no subject matter, average lyrics, and decent flow… those characteristics put him above many rappers today like it or not… trust me i am still stuck in 91 – 2001 so don’t tell me I don’t know my shit… but back to J… wonder what ‘concept’ he will try to use to conceal his style-jacking of GODSON… this bitch dressing like the kanye/cudi love child… LEAST ORIGINAL MC of the top ten [he was top 3 no question prior to retiring]
So which drug dealer will he write about on this “concept” album?
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Dear DX,
Stop recycling articles and posting them like they’re new. You ran this exact story with these exact quotes weeks ago. In fact, here is the link to said story: https://hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.14508/title.jay-z-kanye-wests-watch-the-throne-is-essentially-finished.
I love that you guys are up on the news but at least post something like this as an update (when you have new information to add) instead of posting it as a new story.
Common needs to drop an album this year seriously, other than that I’m waiting for the new Nas,Mobb Deep, and Ghostface Killah albums.