ya’ll who disagree that this track is dope is foolish the big homie said OBAMA SAID CHILL YOU GONE GET ME IMPEACH YOU DON’T NEED THIS SHIT ANYWAY CHILL WITH ME ON THE BEACH THOSE BARS RIGHT THERE WAS ENOUGH…….CAN HE LIVE LOL DANG
When I say it then you see, it ain’t only in the music Basquiats, Warhols serving as my muses..(Welcome to Havana Smoking cubanos with Castro in cabanas).. (Green card for the Cuban links
Y’all sit back and enjoy the light show)..(I’m in Cuba, I love Cubans) Fool can’t catch up!
I done turned Havana to Atlanta
White guayabera shirts and bandanas
Every time you think they got me I switch the plan up
Bulletproof this, radio scanners
Ballin til they ban us
You gettin too much bread, they tryna jam you
Boy from the hood but got White House clearance
Sorry yall, I dont agree with yall appearance
Politicians never did shit for me
Except lie to me, distort history
Wanna give me jail time and a fine
Fine, let me commit a real crime
I might buy a kilo for Chief Keef
Out of spite, I just might flood these streets
Hear the freedom in my speech
Got an onion from Universal, read it and weep
Couldve bought the Nets to Brooklyn for free
Except I made millions off it, you fuckin dweeb
I still own the building, Im still keeping my seat
Yall buy that bullshit, youd better keep your receipt
Obama said chill, you gonna get me impeached
But you dont need this shit anyway
Chill with me on the beach
We almost want to start a revolution
You know whenever Im threatened, I start shooting, bark
Catch a body, head to Houston
Im in Cuba, I love Cubans
This time and this talk is so confusing
When its from China, the very mic that Im using
Idiot wind, the Bob Dylan of rap music [*missinfo: is this right? What does idiot wind mean?*…Update: an answer from our friend Simon at Rolling Stone: “‘Idiot Wind’ is an amazing Dylan song. Original ether. Jay’s next line is a reference to the lyrics too. Love this!” Thank you for the context, Simon!]
Youre an idiot baby, you should become a student
Oh, you gonna learn today
Where the fuck have you been
The worlds under new management
The new role model, fuck this Zoolander shit.
wow Jay awfully defensive maybe if i was hiding my homosexuality AND the fact the Beyonce had a surrogate mother birth “their” kid i’d be defensive too
some of you people are idiots, makes no sense, to talk this much mess on a board that none of these artists are even paying attention to, invest that negative energy into doing something positive people, you will be much happier.
jay z is trash now listen to reasonable doubt then listen to this pathetic excuse for a rap song. Timbo made a wack beat and swizz on the chorus was just awfull.
Lil Wayne destroyed Jay-Z’s carrer in 2011. Jay-Z became broke cause of Tha Carter series. Weezy’s amazing muzik resurrected Old Scool Hip Hop. Jay-Z cant even sell 100k wit shit likie diz. J Cole and Jay are broke ass niggaz. dey wish dey were Birdman or Lil Wayne. YMCMB makin da most money. swag
Birdwoman and Little little Wayne could never have Jay-Z money. When they invest their money and possibly do something other than music, then maybe yea
COSIGN!!! JAY Z HAS FALLEN OFF HARD SINCE AT LEAST 2003!!! YMCMB RUNS THE RAP GAME!!! YMCMB HAS AT LEAST 50 MEMBERS AND ROC NATION A TINY FRACTION OF THAT!!! YMCMB IS TRUE HIPHOP!
I’m almost 100% sure that all the Jay-Z hate comes from but hurt people that live outside the tri-state. No matter how many artist you guys bring into the game, no matter how many radio spins they get, Jay will be on top until he decides to dip. Wayne didn’t become very successful in his music career until he start swagging like Jay-Z and Dipset and that’s a fact!!! For the people that say all Jay does is brag look at your favorite rapper…for the most part the rap game has turned into a bunch of people bragging. Atleast Jay brags about things he actually has and have done and is doing currently. Most the rappers that boast don’t have the net worth of Blue Ivy lol let alone Jay.
What the hell is everybody listening to ? this sounds like a throwaway track. This wouldn’t even make Kingdom Come’s bonus tracks … I feel like people are just dying for any Jay-Z single.
his voice/flow is just slow and boring now. THis isnt hating dog..I fuckin loved everything hov did pre American Gangster. Hes still good for a good verse every now and then, but mostly I get bored and annoyed. Its also annoying when people go ga-ga for his new shit when I know its nothing special
I swear, thats the dumbest comment in 20 years…On the real, you are just here to incite trouble. Who in the world would say something like that??? YOU! You dont even belong in this genre. Man, I swear I wish Hip Hop, just stayed in the inner city, when it was pure and BETTTER. Now all these losers who dont belong, hide at home, putting up some stupid ass blogs…These inflitrators done messed up a genuine genre….
the song is good everybody saying hov fell of but is like busta said when youre a older cat in the game u dont need to use crazy metaphors to say some simple shit to prove yourself you already lived too long for all that
WTF you talking about? He used a crap ton of metaphors!!! He just didn’t use the played out similes that lil wayne uses. Plus he was trying to get straight to the point. Obviously this isnt a radio record or a change the game record or the video would have dropped with it. He’s pretty much just lettin everyone know who still runs this shit and deaded the criticism.
1)This guy still talks about “owning” the Barclays Center as if he owns more than 1% of it. Jay is a total clown for exagerating his net worth.
2)Jay has never committed a crime. He is very clear in this song that he has not committed a “real” crime yet. That’s what I’ve been telling you idiots.
3)Jay-Z doesn’t care about anyone, including our first black president. Jay only cares about himself. Even Obama had to learn that the hard way. Obama is right to distance himself from this Camel.
I usually don’t respond but dude your just an idiot or can’t hear,
1.) That 1% he is rumored to own is the Nets team, not the building they play in, I’m sure he owns well over 1% of the barclays center
2.)Besides the fact selling drugs is illegal and a crime. In 1999 he was arrested for stabbing record exec Laance Rivera
3.) your just a hater!!!
4.) im going to take a guess and say your favorite rapper is soulja boy
I’m making $86 an hour working from home. I was shocked when my neighbor told me she was averaging $95 but I see how it works now. I feel so much freedom now that I’m my own boss. This is what I do, wow55.com
Do you really think he gives a fuck if you PEASANTS like his music or not .
You are not the target market you all broke and downloading music for free trojan files or not it’s FREE
niggas that dont like this is just hating..its a track about his life and banged it. some of yall just wack and like them retarded southern rappers cuz u can understand anythin a nigga say intelligent. step ya vocab up suckas
Yup. Jigga may not float your boat but skills are skills.
Talkin bout poppin Molly got old here ’bout 10 years ago
-some o’yez took a while to catch up, but Jays still killin it 🙂
I like the song. It knocks and I’m actually surprised at the production. Swizzy went way left field. He is maturing. But while I do like the song, content wise, Jigga needs to start reassessing. He name drops a lot. He should listen to Game before recording. I know rap, especially if we’re talking 90s rappers is all about showing off so listeners who dream of big houses and big cars and wanna live the life would feel you, but Jigga in my opinion is at the point where he should not name drop. Don’t care if its Buffet or Obama or a 100 million dollar car. He no longer needs to act like the project kid that made it. He’s been made it, if I can make my English teacher cringe.
nah, between swizzs boring ass hook, the annoying “yah yah yah yah” in the background and just a few good lines from jay, this is no way even a 4 let alone a 5. 3 for its mediocracy. should be a 1 for having three legends in the room and putting out this bullshit.
4/5 because this guy rarely makes music anymore, but his old ass can do it better then a lot of niggas out there. stop comparing 96 Jay to 2013 Jay your wasting your time.
Damn, Hov. Why’d you gotta so this to these young boys? Did he say Obama said “You gon’ getme impeached, you don’t need this shit anyways, chill with me on the beach?”
Kinda ironic HAHAULOSER is judging other people for posting ” dumb ignorant comments ” the last time I checked ” having millions of dollar ” doesn’t measure his talent as an emcee. It’s how you market yourself that helps make those millions. You wanna throw in Birdman and Diddy on that convo since they got mad bread too? HOV is dope, the song was cool but you need to hop off his scrotum.
look at u clowns saying this is trash because he’s not talking about “pippin pussy or some corny ass shit like fuckin somebody’s girl. yall need to get real
“would have brought the nets to brooklyn for free, except I made millions off it you fucking dweeb”- Dissing Cornell West for saying Jay owns 15% of 1% of the nets…lol
always bragin about superficial shit ..ya content is not good know more Jay..and this song is not great or that good comin from Timbo and super wack ass swisss cheese…hahahaha!
LMAO THE PRESIDENCY JUST RELEASED A MESSAGE SAYING THAT OBAMA NEVER SPOKE TO JAY-Z ABOUT THE INCIDENT. JAY LOOKING DUMB FOR THESE WACK ASS STORIES HE MAKES UP.
Not called power. Any mid to high profile rapper could say ‘yer i smoked a joint with obama when he was in my town’ and the white house would release a statement dismissing claims.
And The Black Album & American Gangster were made after *The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse*
Also Empire State Of Mind, D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune), La La La (Excuse Me Miss Again), Niggas in Paris, The Joy, Run This Town, Why I Love You, On To The Next One, Kingdom Come (Song), Brooklyn Go Hard & Otis were made after The Blueprint 2
And his verses on Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix), So Appalled, What We Do, Beware of the Boys (Remix), Swagga Like Us, Hell Yeah, Go Crazy (Remix), My President Is Black (Remix) & Crazy In Love were made after The Blueprint 2
1. Made In America feat. Beyonce (Produced by Just Blaze)
2. Stand Up (Produced by Swizz Beatz)
3. All the Way (Produced by Timbaland, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
4. Oh Yeah feat. Justin Timberlake (Produced by Timbaland, co. Justin Timberlake, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
5. Good Times (Produced by Hit-Boy, co. Kanye West, add. Mike Dean)
6. Blue Notes feat. Lonnie Liston Smith (Produced by Kanye West, co. No I.D.)
7. Life Is a Movie (Produced by S1, co. Caleb)
8. Fresh for Life (Produced by Swizz Beatz)
9. That’s My Word (Produced by Timbaland, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
10. Heaven feat. Miguel (Produced by Hit-Boy)
11. Guilty Pleasures (Produced by Timbaland, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
12. Upper Echelon feat. Kanye West & Pharrell (Produced by The Neptunes, co. Kanye West)
13. Clap Yo Hands feat. Pharrell (Produced by The Neptunes)
14. Made In America (Reprise) (Produced by No I.D.)
You gotta be a fool to think this is trash!! Pay attention to the lyrics….and nobody actually thinks Jay is God because he calls himself Hov. It’s basically just another rap moniker, damn. Hip hop started going downhill when people began to take it literally.
1. One Saint (produced by Kanye West)
2. You All Know (feat. Swizz Beatz) produced by Swizz Beatz)
3. Skyline (feat. Rihanna) (produced by Timbaland)
4. Free Spirit (produced by Hudson Mohawke; co-produced by Kanye West)
5. We Fly Away (feat. Lady Gaga and Kanye West) (produced by Kanye West; co-produced by Hudson Mohawke)
6. Big Beats (feat. Timbaland) (produced by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz)
7. Switch Flick (produced by Swizz Beatz)
8. American Graffiti (feat. Nas) (produced by Kanye West; co-produced by Hit-Boy)
9. Church (feat. J.Cole) (produced by Swizz Beatz)
10. Interlude (produced by Timbaland)
11. Rich Nigga (feat. Hit-Boy) (produced by Hit-Boy; co-produced by Kanye West and Lifted)
12. So Good (produced by Lifted)
13. History Boys (feat. Kanye West) (produced by Kanye West)
14. Say Nothing (produced by Swizz Beatz)
15. Roses (feat. Beyonce) (produced by No I.D.)
16. Shout (feat. Justin Timberlake) (produced by Hudson Mohawke)
17. Hail Hova! (produced by Kanye West)
Deluxe Edition
18. American Dreamer (produced by No I.D.)
19. Suites Presidential (produced by Kanye West)
20. A1 (feat. Rick Ross and Ma$e) (produced by Timbaland)
So when Nas raps about material shit it’s good, fresh, original, and ok. But when Jay does it he’s wack. Nas stans (a.k.a. Backpackers) need to stop being hypocrites. Jay has been wack since the Black Album but he’s not as bad as Nas stans say he is. Life is Good was a decent album with trash production and songs about bullshit (The Don, Nasty, Summer on Smash, & The Black Bond) but nobody hates? And don’t say “it’s because he raps good” Nas doesn’t say anything special or original he just uses big words which you backpackers don’t even know what they mean or understand them.
Nas using big words is a common misconception, people always say that like he’s Canibus and writing his rhymes with a dictionary in hand. Look up his lyrics and try to find these big words you’re referring too. That’s not a knock on Nas either, he’s not dumbing anything down, but at the same time you don’t need a PhD to understand him.
^^^^^
Nas is free to rap about material shit because, unlike Jay, HE ALMOST CONSTANTLY TAKES CREATIVE RISKS. Distant Relatives was entirely a concept album, so was Untitled for the most part, IWW has some of the most creative concept tracks of any record, Streets Disciple as well. Shit, how many mainstream rappers could make songs like ‘I can’ or ‘Daughters’ and not get panned for outright corniness? Certainly not Jay LOL
Your assessment of LIG exposes your lack of credibility at the outset. Trash beats? Seriously? Almost every beat on that album was tight… the incessant ‘Nas can’t pick beats’ criticism is becoming increasingly outplayed by morons like you… songs about Bullshit? LIG had the Illmatic boom bap style with Locomotive and Black Bond, the personal tracks like Daughters, Cherry Wine, Bye Baby, the hood tales with Queens Story, Wheres the Love, Stay, and Reach Out, and the swag tracks like You Don’t Understand, Nasty, SOS, and the Don… very diverse subject matter all around
JAY GETS FLAK ABOUT RAPPING ABOUT MATERIAL SHIT BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN DOING IT CONSTANTLY SINCE 96… has he even had one concept track in his entire career that was worth something? LOL
Stop presuming that other listeners can’t comprehend Nas lyrics just because you can’t… his shit is very understandable
LIG had awful beats. It had good lyrics but was brought down by the basic, pop sounding, shitty ass beats. A few tracks (Loco-Motive, No Introduction, and Nasty) have good beats but the rest are subpar and awful.
Absolutely ridiculous… queens story, you wouldn’t understand, stay, reach out, wheres the love, bye baby, daughters all had wack beats? Back when, accident murderers had wack beats? POP sounding? Let me guess NO ID, buckwild, 40 are all shitty producers too right?
LIG got pretty much universal praise for both the lyricism and the production, so while you are entitled to your grossly off-point opinion, you are demonstrating that your opinion should be accorded very little, if any, weight
Life is Good had some of the best beats I’ve heard as a rap fan (Loco-Motive, No Introduction, Accident Murderers, The Don, Where’s The Love, Nasty), and, for the most part, excellent vocals. The only flaw with it really was the track where Nas raps 2 decent verses and then Miguel starts mumbling out of nowhere.
Also, the album had him rapping over CHOPIN. Creative risk if there ever was one…
Jay-Z’s never really had a bad album though (unlike Nas), so they’re really neck and neck in my mind, and The Blueprint 3 was a solid album – although it had more flaws than Life is Good (the tracks at the end were dull, Pharrell was unnecessary, and Drake’s voice grates) – and so was Watch the Throne.
Seven: this rule is so underrated
“Keep your family and business completely seperated
Money and blood don’t mix like two dicks and no bitch
Find yourself in serious shit”
Biggie
Jay-z shouldn’t talk about is connection with the president in this way.
Biggie quote doesn’t apply to Jay-Z’s quote regarding Obama. Obama isn’t his family, nor does he have anything to do with his business. You my friend, are reaching.
Biggie was talking about the crack game. How does Jay and President Obama have anything to do with that. Pure idiot states is all you dropped, good job dude.
upto I looked at the check 4 $6649, I have faith that my neighbours mother woz like actualie erning money parttime on their laptop.. there aunt had bean doing this 4 only 10 months and as of now cleared the loans on their house and bourt a new Audi Quattro. go to…….. ZOO80 om
dude listen to black star or the roots… this lyric is so shallow.. how are people obsessed with it? “reachin past the star status that you grabbin at, my battle rap throws ur ass back to ur natural habitat” … from hater players by black star…. like cmon man get some real shit in ur head before u get any more brainwashed
Kanye produced so many dope Jay songs…
Takeover, Izzo, Heart of the City, Bonnie & Clyde, Encore, Lucifer, Brooklyn Go Hard…
better than Encore, the song he closes out every show to?
no
In this constant debate about Jay-Z being the best ever I read things like “Nas will destroy Jay-Z” or “Eminem got a better flow than Jay”
Those are OPINIONS.
When will you fools learn that you can’t win a debate with OPINIONS. Every rapper has a different style based on where they are from, the time period in which they were most successful, and their unique personality. We all can go on for days about our personal preferences but in a debate criteria like this is completely IRRELEVANT and automatically BIASED.
The only way to win a debate is with cold hard FACTS. And the fact of the matter is that, when you weigh all of the tangible criteria (Sales, Critical Acclaim, Consistency, Longevity, and Impact) Jay-Z makes the strongest case for the G.O.A.T.
Eminem has sold nearly twice as much as Jay-Z, and he is Jay’s equal when it comes to longevity and impact. But Em lacks the consistency or critical acclaim that Jay-Z has (Im not talkin cult/fanboy classics, Im talkin CERTIFIED classics. XXL/Rolling Stone/Source approved) Eminem is VERY close though.
Nas has enjoyed more critical acclaim and more overall respect in the hip-hop community through the years. And he’s definitely equal to Jay with longevity and impact. But he hasn’t been no where near as much of a consistent presence in hip-hop as Jay has. And he is obviously lacking in the sales department.
Lil Wayne just may be the most consistent rapper of all time. He’s no slouch when it comes to longevity and impact either. His glaring flaw? In his 12 year career Lil Wayne has yet to drop a truly critically acclaimed classic album (and it can be done in this climate. just look at kanye’s discography). Also, contrary to popular beleif, Wayne lacks in the sales department. Sure, Tha Carter III and IV are blockbuster albums, but his OVERALL sales of 10 mil US pale in comparison to Jay-Z’s 31 mil.
2pac is a touchy subject. When it comes to impact, pac takes the cake. No other rapper touched the world like 2pac did. He, like Em, has also sold more than Jay and he was very consistent in his time. Sadly, 2pac passed before his time which allowed Jay-Z to surpass him in longevity and critical acclaim.
LL Cool J was the prototype for what a G.O.A.T. could be. He has enjoyed the most longevity, and he was fairly consistent, but his sales, acclaim and overall impact are no where near the likes of 2pac, Eminem, and ofcourse Jay-Z.
Biggie, Rakim, Common, Snoop, the list goes on. All of these MC’s are great but none of them have the total G.O.A.T. package like Jay-Z does.
Jay-Z is the 3rd highest selling rapper of all time, and the richest. He’s one of the most acclaimed (perhaps only rivaled by his boy Kanye). He dropped multi-platinum albums YEARLY from 96′-03′, and he is still going strong today. He’s been in the game since 88′. He’s impacted hip-hop in countless ways from starting one of the 1st successful MC-owned record labels, to being the 1st non-athlete with a signature shoe, to surpassing the likes of Elvis with #1 albums.
Jay-Z is without question the Greatest MC Of All Time. Period. You don’t have to listen to him everyday (Im currently on my Kendrick wave). You don’t even have to like him. But for goodness sake, RESPECT THE FACTS.
Ive seen you post this months ago, every fucking jay z song you fucking faaagggg dude. Hes stolen lines from just aout every rapper out there. Pac dissed him over and over and he never even responded cause he knew what would happen. Jayz is not, nor will he ever be the best. There is a reason why everyone says “ethered” instead of “taken over”
Coming from a Wayne fan..great article and all true ..I also think JayZ is the greatest of all time,then Eminem,Tupac,Nas and Lil Wayne … Biggie had two good albums but he died .So we can’t tell if he would’ve fell off after that or not ..I don’t think he should be in the top 5 greatest ever..Tupac was a beast but Eminem flows better .Nas has longevity and content .Wayne started at 8 till present and has the most tracks out.Jay passed him the torch,he ruled 05 to 09 and his punch lines were crazy . Many young cats today say he inspired them e.g Kendrick,Asap,Drake,2chainz,Meek,Ace,Big sean and many more .
You have just frightened the shit out of me! A DX blogger whom not only sound educated, but also state his thoughts clearly while strengthening your comments supported by facts! I did not believe this was possible. Not on this website at least. I can smile today. Thank You bruh!
because you didnt mention mos def, talib kweli, black thought, or big L, it is plain to see that you are a media fed, mainstreamer. get educated dude, listen to those guys to see real lyricism.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), 30 billion songs were illegally downloaded between 2004 and 2009. Even with sites like iTunes and Rhapsody offering legal downloads, peer-to-peer file sharing still exists. Illegally downloading music has had a significant impact on the music industry resulting in a loss of profits and jobs, and changing how music is delivered to the masses.
so? these motherfuckers make millions on music they shit out with no thought. fuck them for tryin to squeeze pennies out. music is music. performance is the money maker these days and nothing anybody does will change that.
All of the negative people under this are either —
1. Wack rappers
2. Never wrote a GOOD song and recorded it
3. Just negative/pessimistic/depressed people who hate life and work shitty part time day jobs and jack off on their days off and sit on blogs all day
4. All of the above.
1. 2Pac (No one had the emotion, the catalogue, impact, different subject matters than tupac)
2. Jay-Z (“Overall” the better Rapper here. He bought that whole swagger into the game…)
3. Eminem (Better rapper than Jay-Z no doubt, but overall I think Hov was more dynamic)
4. Kanye West (Best hip hop “artist” ever PERIOD! All his albums are classic except 808)
5. Lil Wayne (Best deliverer in the genres history. In Wayne’s case I pretend he died in 08)
6. Biggie (Only 2 albums. No doubt the best flow in any rapper i’ve heard but people rank him higher due to nostalgia more than anything)
7. Nas (Illmatic…)
8. Andre (Different, cool, crazy… to sum it up he is your rappers favourite rapper)
9. Lupe (Oh man… Kick Push, Kick Push COASTTT…)
10. Drake/Kendrick (Only time will tell, it might be a little early but they already on my list…)
dude… this list is the list of someone who doesnt know hip hop other than what the media feeds them. mos def, talib kweli, black thought from the roots, big L, big pun,hahaha i mean seriously man ur list is utter bullshi,,u forgot so many. lil wayne? drake? kendrick? kanye west? HAHA get serious man.. ur list is the radio top 10, not the real motherfucker top 10. get educated
John he might not be used to that generation of hiphop. I agree on the kanye west thing but he would be way lower on that list. As for biggie his abiility to do storytelling rap while painting vivid pictures was amazing. But I agree his list is a lil off.
So the people criticizing this list, are informing me that a list that consist of Eminem, Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie, Kanye West and 3Stacks on it is wack? You all sound ignorant. Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Big L you cant even compare them to these artist. Jay, EM, B.i.g, Kanye and Nas instucted the way for rappers!!! Please inform me on a area where Big L, Mos Def and Talib are inferior to any of the artist I mentioned… Because all of them are exceedingly talented, more advanced, and has a better genaral aptitude than all 3 of them. Yall sound like deluded ignoramuses
Kanye is no GOAT MC. However he is the greatest rap recording artist. Every album his made was hot including 808s.
That said, Wayne and Kanye are not GOAT b/c the GOAT is your MC skill.
1.Jay
2.Nas
3.Tupac
4.Biggie
5.Em
Those are the top five you can argue about what order they are in but they are the top five.
To all the people criticising me for MY LIST y’all are dumb. I agree with Anonymous ^ on a more general note those are the 5 GOAT list. I made a list based on my preference on what I truly belive based on my own tastes to be the best to do it. I heard bigl, mod, talib,big pun etc… But these artists are no where near any of the above. Some people just like to list them because they want to sound wise by stating the non obvious but you can’t compare mod with jay-z. Reasonable doubt would put mod def career to shame including that blackstar album. Jay-z even having to dumb down his lyrics to a wider audience made better stuff than mos def. Mos def and talib IMO mad that “conscious rap” for no reason, their topis were random and very inaccurate and many times you just felt they were trying to sound smarter than they actually were… but then again all the dumb n**** on the streets felt that was dope.. lol To summarise you can’t argue with my top 10 all of them are proven ARTISTS.
that said
1)pac – for the same reasons you had
2)eminem
3) jayz
4)nas
5)biggy
..kdots coming up too with a new more on par records to GKMC..hell be there
thank you..I feel like Niggas just hating on Wayne. Wayne doesn’t get the credit he deserves. like it or not I think he is among the greatest to ever do it .Biggie had just 2 albums and he on the list. Wayne ruled hiphop 05-09 .nobody could touch him.Jay passed him the torch and Em said he was jealous of Wayne.KRS,Kanye and Busta all said Wayne is the greatest .Wayne changed the game and influenced most of this young cats out now. Y’all know Wayne is up there but y’all mofokas scared niggas gon bash on y’all if y’all include his name in the list.
Simply put, Jay-Z rhymes about current events as they play out. If you’re looking for early Jay then you’re wishing for a star. I respect any artist that can express themselves about real life situations articulately. Not many can do it.
I done turned Havana to AtlAnnotateanta
Guayabera shirts and bandanas
Every time you think they got me I switch the plan up
Bulletproof this, radio scanners
Ballin’ ’til they ban us
You gettin’ too much bread, they try to jam you
Boy from the hood but got White House clearance
Sorry y’all, I don’t agree with y’all appearance
Politicians never did shit for me
Except lie to me, distort history
Wanna give me jail time and a fine
Fine, let me commit a real crime
I might buy a kilo for Chief Keef
Out of spite, I just might flood these streets
Hear the freedom in my speech
Got an onion from Universal, read it and weep
Would’ve brought the Nets to Brooklyn for free
Except I made millions off it, you fuckin’ dweeb
I still own the building, I’m still keeping my seat
Y’all buy that bullshit, you’d better keep y’all receipt
Obama said “chill, you gonna get me impeached”
But you don’t need this shit anyway
Chill with me on the beach
what ya’ll don’t fuckin get is that Jigga is addressing heads of state while your bitchmade favorite rapper is addressing other bitchmade rappers. Birds of a feather motherfucker!!!
DAMN YOUNG MONEY GETS SHIT ON AGAIN. JAY Z AIN’T ADDRESSSING OUR BITCHASSES, HE’S ADDRESSING THE PRESIDENT. WE ON A BITCHASS LEVEL RIGHT NOW. LIKE BASEMENT LEVEL SHIT. BASIC SHIT.
Nearly every bar has substance, no filler, no throwaway’s. Every Jay z song references some global, domestic, current or historical event. People say he only bragging but look at the context behind what you perceived as bragging, is he speaking the truth.
THE ONLY WAY NON POLITICALLY INVOLVED AMERICANS COULD GO THROUGH CUBA IS OF HUMANITARIAN REASONS. WHICH MEANS JAY-Z ENCOURAGES COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM. IM NOTHING AGAINST THAT TYPE OF REFORM. WHAT IM AGAINST IS JAY RAPPING ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY HE GOT AND HOW RICHER HE IS COMPARED TO THE OTHER NIGGA..AND THEN THE NIGGA HAS THE AUDACITY TO SYMPATHIZE WITH CUBANS?! FUCC OUTTA HERE..JUST LIKE WHEN HE DECIDED TO SELL (WHICH MEAN GETTING MONEY OUT OF IT) OCCUPY T SHIRTS FOR ONE THE BIGGEST SOCIALIST MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK HISTORY….YALL CALLING DRAKE FAKE CUZ HE TRYNNA BE HARD AND GANGSTER ..LMFAO JUST LOOK AT YOUR IDOL FIRST U DUMBASS NIGGAS..HE MAY BE ON THE FORBES LIST BUT SEAN CARTER IS THE BIGGEST HYPOCRIT IN THE GAME YALL CANT DENY THAT
Wait, aren’t you the same cap writing slash Weezy dick riding, or in my opinion, Blind-Weezy-Extremist?
How the fuck does Jay-Z encourage socialism or communism when his rise was obviously due to our democratic capitalist society? See it’s this stupid shit that kills me. Is he Illuminati or a Socialist? The two don’t mix well people.
Secondly, don’t be such an obvious hypocrite. How are you going to love YMCMB then hold Jay-Z accountable for, “RAPPING ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY HE GOT AND HOW RICHER HE IS COMPARED TO THE OTHER NIGGA”. Hmmm…. Sounds like some Young Money shit to me! Hence the fucking name, “Young Money!”
Finally, your sounding extremely conservative for this site. I respect the conservative view, just not the extremist. There are too many conflicting points in your “post” to come on hear kicking that wack shit to these kids. Occupy Wall Street was not a “Socialist Movement”. To a conservative extremist it was, but that’s just due to the propaganda you were obviously fed.
LMAO…. This ain’t Fidel’s Cold War Cuba. You don’t even know what socialism is. And I doubt you know anything about New York’s history. Stop acting like a bitch and saying stupid things. GET AN EDUCATION. You sound like an ignorant.
news channels trying to make it seem like hes dissing brooklyn, shit pisses me off when they assume and dont bother to analyze the lyrics. and why the fuck does it matter if he does sell his stake of ownership, at the end of the day he still contributed to bringing the barclays center to brooklyn. im no dickrider, im just watching the news and hearing them pitch him to be some asshole whos dissin brooklyn meanwhile if you listened to that “fucking dweeb” lyric he’s aiming at his critics. hiphop will always be misunderstood
actually thats a pretty solid list. Funny you say that, cause you have it completely backwards. Eminem is actually the one who is overrated due to social influence. dont get me wrong, hes skilled and belongs, but trash singles like my name is, real slim, without me always held his albums back from classic status (not to mention some of those terrible hooks). plus he was always played on rock stations, which no other hip hop artist in those times ever had. if i had a nickel for every person i met that bought an Em album and didnt even listen to hip hop. not a bad thing, but thats why hes so overrated. 2pac and BIG dropped classic albums during their brief careers, and deserve their spot.
What about Lil Wayne? YES Lil Wayne… People act like he wasn’t your favourite rapper at some point or as if he didn’t dominate the rap game for 2-3 years… Yes he fell off, but so have all of the above on this list. We don’t have to wait for him to die to start understanding what Lil WAYNE has truly done to the game. I’m not a Wayne groupie or a fan, but I just can’t understand why people can’t recognise what he has done. Surely since 2008 90% of his songs are Pop radio garbage. But we can’t act like Eminems Relapse or even all Tupacs songs were like Dear Mama… I don’t know just felt I had to say this.
Eminem is not #1, if you take into consideration the shit he’s put out past mosh, it’s terrible poppy trash, and don’t argue the growth of him as an artist to a human, it’s trash. He used to be infuckingcredible, now he’s subpar, dynamic, but subpar.
thank you Maine,it seems like you just read my mind and wrote it down. Wayne doesn’t get the credit he deserves. like it or not I think he is among the greatest to ever do it .Biggie had just 2 albums and he on the list. Wayne ruled hiphop 05-09 .nobody could touch him.Jay passed him the torch and Em said he was jealous of Wayne.KRS,Kanye and Busta all said Wayne is the greatest .Wayne changed the game and influenced most of this young cats out now. Y’all know Wayne is up there but y’all mofokas scared niggas gon bash on y’all if y’all include his name in the list.
He say’s he’s from the hood and has clearance from the white house meaning he is allowed to go the white house and lames start reaching thinking he meant the white house gave him clearance to go to cuba… LMAO… HAHAHAHA… How fucking dumb can you be? This shit got me ROTFC on how all the corny ass conspiracy theorists and Jay-Z haters are reaching… LMAO
Only Jay could tell the President of the United States to fuck his duties and job as commandor and chief and hang out on the beach. lol That shit is big…
Turn Havana to Atlanta- Think Tupac. Think Firing back at Cops/Feds in Atlanta
Gyuarabera Shirts and bandanas- Think Castro/Cubavera linens/type of shirt you see Cubaneras wear. Bandanas keeping it still hood, Tupac style. When he was in court with the linen shirt for shooting cop, leaving he answered every question THUG LIFE…
Clearance sorry don’t agree with your appearance, politician aint done shit for me…referring to the Rubio/Right Wing criticism.
Out of Spite I might buy a Kilo for Chief Keef- Think Chief age 17-17k for a Ki, then Peep the Flow…I thought he said GP initially-General Principle…he gives it away when he changes the flow.
Whenever I feel threatened I start shooting- Truth, shot his older brother as a teenager. Threatened by the attacks on the wife/kid…so he is firing back.
Got an Onion from Universal, read it and weep- Think New RocNation Distribution/Publishing deal…MEGA.
Almost wanna start a revolution, catch a body and head to Houston- Think NAS- NY State of Mind, Time to start a REVOLUTION, catch a body and head to HOUSTON, but HOUSTON is a Airforce term for home…or safe house, OR in this case CUBA, meaning the US can’t come there and get him, political asylum.
I’m in Cuba, I love Cubans- Think the people, and cigars…not the gov’t
Communist shit confusing-Think every fucking thing is made is China…but the reason for the EMBARGO in Cuba is b/c they are a communist country.
Idiot Wind- Think Bob Dylan song when he addresses his critics
You’re an idiot Baby- Stacey Dash, essentially tells her she should pay attention more…or become a student of how he gets down.
Great Breakdown homie. I like honest opinions, not emotional banter, these people are nuts on this blog. I guess wwhen your the king, people will always throw rocks at thhe throne.
I dunno, I don’t listen to Jay Z to learn anything. I know from the past what Jay Z I like and what Jay Z I don’t. I found this track pretty boring, I wouldn’t listen to it again. Despite the lyrics, he didn’t do his delivery any justice on this track.
Jay Z is and has always been da king of hip hop…ask Nas, he don’t want it with Hov. But I swear this nas stans be acting like they dnt know who is sitting on da throne!!
-One of the most successful in the game
-He can’t rap about committing drive by’s and whippin’ soda; he’s rich
-Makes music for the masses now to make money, he’s not going to conform to some hip hop heads that smoke weed all day
-He doesn’t need to be nice, he’s Jay-Z
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yo hold up, homie. talking reckless about the g.o.a.t. when jay is quoting the g.o.a.t lines. nas>jay musically. jay>nas money-wise.no debate needed.just the truth. oh and i like them both.
not true… Jay z does own space inside the arena…in fact he owns quite a few stores in there… he owns the company that does the marketing for the Nets and the arena.. know the facts son.. Nas said oochie wally ..how lyrical..come on son dweeb is a term…no it a word..by itself it isn’t lyrical..keep it in context idiot…add it with the other words to see the lyricism..easy
lol, niggas love to hate. no one is fussing over him saying dweeb, when you getting “bread” they try to “jam”, the onion read it and weep line.. those shits are double entendres, wordplay..i know you dont get it.. but its hard to form complex rhymes thats why its lyrical..faggot
Dude is mad nice, you can’t even front. And you gotta respect it, because it would be easy for him to never pick up a mic again and still be easily rich for the rest of his life. But he loves the art. He puts out little mixtape shit like this, and doesn’t give a fuck what his rich business colleagues think about it. It’s still for the niggas that just appreciate dope hip-hop, and leave all that tabloid shit for the bitches and the analysts to talk about. Not to sound like I’m clamouring over this nigga, but the only way to put it is that he’s a hood legend. How can you come from the hood and see what he’s done with his life and not be proud of him. He’s the real American Dream. You dudes tryin’ to shit on his name are really missing the point, and even worse, just underappreciating a lethal MC.
Say that twice, dudes act like he ain’t body M.C’s. for 10 straight summers. He switched up styles to fake out the biters, made stars outta nobodies, trend setter (“Crisp Jeans and a button up”)-“Sweet”, “Ace Of Spade”…dudes just like to hate for hates sake. Do your research, dude murked many while going Plat every time out.
I can relate to the haters cuz I think Jay is a fake ass mufucka but no one can deny this nigga is dope. Even when he had his shit with Nas and he told niggas he left condoms on the baby seat, God’s Son was STILL saying “I hate him but this nigga can rap”.
To y’all who say WAYNE isn’t top 10 EVER listen to these songs and come back here to see if you have the same opinion:
-La La
-Carter II Fly In Fly Out
-Make It Rain
-Make Way
-I’m a D Boy
-Im Me
-We Don’t
-You Aint Know
-Hustler Musik
-Hit Him Up
1. He has ghost writers writings most of his shit.
2. He fake as hell. (Oh ima hot boy, ,oh now ima dope boy, oh now ima blood, oh now ima rcoker, oh now ima skater). fuck outta here…
3. He a closet homo.
4. He kisses another man and calls him daddy even tho they are not related.
5. He sold out by going pop.
Wayne is the best wack rapper. Real talk. he is better than every garbage rapper. I give him that….
the fact that you choose bits of “tracks” to point out that he is your top 10 instead of actual content (lets jus call them mixtapes/albums) shows how young and stupid you are, but don’t let my words put you down jus look in the mirror , realize your mistake and accept the fact that you like lil wayne and he is your favorite rapper but remember he isn’t in anybodys top 10 except YOURS…….MORON
I cannot believe people still talking about jay z vs nas. They are on the same tier of lyrical ability but not to say you shouldn’t choose a favorite MC you just look dumb talking about it still
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why do people dick ride Jay Z so much? This shit is not even that good. Jay Z got lyrics, but no substance, or delivery. His music doesn’t flow he just says it.
I wouldn’t say dick riding, I would say that Jay been out since 95 and gave an album every year til ’03. No one ever got tired of him because he gave consistent hot shit. However, now that he is gone from the scene and isnt producing music yearly, its like now people are starting to respect his craft and are missing the flow. So when Jay comes out its an event. His whole marketing plan is different than a newer younger artist cause Jay is a brand now. Lyrically, this song was dope and its gonna bang out in the club and plus, if you decipher the song, the way his is telling people to kiss my ass without even saying it.
Calling me a kid? Really when you can’t even spell explain. Get out of here man! I wasn’t saying Jay was never good. I was saying his music doesn’t flow. He may have a new marketing plan good for him. I still like listening to songs that flow. You calling me a kid when you probably listen to Wayne, Wiz, and Tyga. You probably don’t know shit on music, probably haven’t even listened to Jay Z before this song, shut the fuck up queer.
Dear Mr.Z
So when I heard of your visit, I thought to myself, Jay Z seems like a smart, thoughtful guy. He doesn’t realize what he’s walking into. He probably just thinks Cuba is a chic place to relax with the family. He probably just doesn’t know the things I know.
He likely doesn’t know that the Cuban tourism industry is run by the Cuban military, so when he spends money at an officially sanctioned hotel, or restaurant, he is directly funding the oppressors of the Cuban people.
He doesn’t know that most Cubans have poor access to independent news sources, the internet, books, and food.
He doesn’t know that Cuba has two health systems, one for the well-connected, and one for everyone else.
He doesn’t know that before Castro, the Cuban peso traded one-to-one with the dollar, and that since then, the Castros have raided the nation’s coffers and introduced widespread poverty to a once prosperous nation.
He doesn’t know that my ancestors fought to free Cuba from Spain, and to set up a democracy to ensure that they would always be free.
He doesn’t know that in spite of those dreams, my mother and her family fled for their lives from this regime way back in 1960, as did *two million* other Cubans.
He doesn’t know about the thousands of people executed by firing squads led by sexy t-shirt icon Che Guevara.
He doesn’t know about the dissidents, artists, and librarians that currently rot in Cuba’s prisons, and the thousands more who live in fear.
He doesn’t know about Orlando Zapata Tamayo, an Afro-Cuban dissident who died in a Cuban prison in 2010 after an 80-day hunger strike.
He doesn’t know that a U.S. Citizen, Alan Gross, is currently serving a 15-year sentence in a Cuban prison for providing phones and computers to the members of the Cuban Jewish community. He doesn’t know that all attempts by our government and private citizens to secure his release have been scoffed at.
He has likely forgotten about all those who have died in the Florida Straits, trying to float on makeshift boats to freedom.
He doesn’t know that contrary to popular understanding, Amnesty International reports that repression of dissidents in Cuba is actually on the rise.
He doesn’t know that when an international music luminary shows up in Cuba, his presence is unwittingly used as propaganda to support the regime.
He doesn’t know that artists in Cuba, with whom he was supposedly having a cultural exchange, serve under the close supervision of the government, and don’t enjoy the freedom to defiantly name check the President, call out a few senators, threaten to buy a kilo of cocaine just to spite the government, or suggest that they will follow up their purchase with a shooting spree, as rapped about in “Open Letter.”
He doesn’t know that just because our country applies a different, some say hypocritical policy to China, it doesn’t make either regime any less oppressive, or any more acceptable.
He doesn’t know that when people say “I’ve got to visit Cuba before it gets ruined,” I think to myself, “It’s already ruined. And by the way, ruined by what? freedom of speech? walls that don’t crumble? shoes? Do you mean ruin Cuba? Or ruin your fashionable vacation in Cuba?”
He doesn’t know that when I really start to think about all this, I get so mad I can’t sleep.
He doesn’t know that when he’s wearing that hat, smoking that coveted contraband cigar, he looks like a dupe.
He doesn’t know how much good he could be doing in Cuba, for Cubans, instead. Bearing witness, supporting artistic freedom, listening.
He doesn’t realize that as someone privileged to be born in a free society, one in which someone could come from nothing and become a celebrated music, sports, fashion, business and political mogul, it’s not only his good luck to be able to bring to light the needs of the less fortunate, it’s his obligation.
But then, Jay-Z, I heard your new song, and paid attention to the lyrics.
I heard you bragging about your “White House clearance.”
I heard you talk about how much you enjoy Cuban cigars.
And I heard you tell the President I voted for, “You don’t need this shit anyway, chill with me on the beach.”
You reject the responsibility to speak up for an oppressed people, even while you take up your own cause with gusto.
Then I figured it out.
You actually know all of this stuff, you just don’t care.
That’s not just being a bad citizen, or a bad neighbor.
It’s being a bad artist.
It’s Nihilism with a beat.
Cuba was only free for about 8 years, in which the prosperity you speak of was minimal, then it was ran by a dictator batista and then came Castro. In war people flea because they don’t want to die, simple. look at the any conflict that has ever occured, i can’t be bothered to answer it all .. put your emotions aside..
Its a man on holiday with his wife. done. Tune is Fire btw
damn nigga… i read every word of that shit… you special cuban nigga… you touched ma heart…anytime u want to watch the heat throw a ridiculous beating to my knicks.. its on me..
I feel you but Jay Z’s lack of artistic virtue does not necessarily make prior existing problems worse, in fact, it is more than likely that Jay Z is a symptom of the iniquities that existed prior to his vacation in Cuba. In all realness your post is an example of the absolute minimum that one could do in order to be the opposite of what you criticized Jay Z for (the aesthetic of your post waxes Vonnegut). Obviously you’re not expected to be the one who breathes new life into the Cuban revolution, but you should definitely not look to Jay Z for it either. You wrote your post and you did well by your people. Thanks for taking the time to write all that out and keep fighting for the cause.
and you are being too fucking complex with a damn song! all that energy u put in ur comment could have went to good use but u are wasting it on jay z… who is really the dumb ass
when u are not getting paid for this!!!!
in my opinion, Biggie should be nowhere near the top10 all time list. he’s a legend, but vastly overrated due to his death (same with pac). they weren’t as skilled as the guys I mentioned above (my opinion).
your talking impact, and you say pac shouldn’t have made the list?? NO ONE made a bigger impact in rap music than pac.. nobody.. and to leave em off the list?? skills? (10, one of the most proficient spitters ever), impact? (9 when he dropped his first two albums the entire rap game took notice) lyrics (10, his lyrics and wordplay are top 5 all time, ask ANY MC).. rino (no impact on the game, although he could spit), doom (same), and cannibus (he made an impact but he still aint on pac or ems level.. em shitted on him during the beef).. word is bond
^anon, we cant really say if big and pac were all time legends b/c they died early. the mc’s i listed (IMO) are the top10 best of all time. Em is too inconsistent to be on that list (3 shit albums), Big rapped simplistic shit but had a dope ass flow to make up 4 that.
even with pac dying early, NO ONE made a bigger impact on the game.. NOBODY.. he was in like 5 blockbuster movies, and dropped like 4 classic albums before he died.. even if your saying that he only got hyped up b/c he died (which undeniably he did get a big boost) he was STILL made the biggest impact of any rap artist.. ever.. if you wanna discount impact, you should take it off your list of criteria..
lol, nevermind, you said em was inconsistent.. cannibus wasn’t?? doom wasn’t?? rino wasn’t?? gtfoh.. em’s skills, lyrics and impact shitted all over those three combined.. sorry about the semi-hostile tone of this last comment, but get real man.. you shouldn’t be calling your list the top 10 goats of all time.. it should be your top 10 fav MCs of all time.. because 99/100 peeps you ask would agree that pac, big, and em, would make the goat list over rino, doom, and cannibus..
can never understand hiphop fans infatuation with rappers that are real and about that lifewho the fuck cares if he was really a thug or not? Ur not hangin out with himthe real question is CAN HE RAP?? HOW IS HIS MUSIC?? U dont get a pass cuz your REALLY a criminal. Fuck that. I could careless about what you do in your personal time. I just want to get to some good music when I buy your album thats it. Only in hip hop do we say yea, his music sucks but hes REAL so I like him
Jay z is such a fucking sell out. blueprint 3 was the nail in the coffin, this nigga would drop a collabo album with beiber if it kept him hot. i never seen a nigga hold on like this. writing articles for bullshit rolling stone, a publication that has tried to destroy hip hop on several occasions. not only is jay begging for acceptance, his music is shit now. dumb bitch nigga. self praise is no praise at all. a king doesnt crown himself, a king is crowned by the people, Wayne is the king
props to nas recognizing a true legend. Jay-z is the best emcee ever. PERIOD! name another rapper that has lasted as long as him and still selling records… everybody looks at jay and says he sold out because he doesnt talk about the same stuff he did back in the reasonable doubt era or even the blueprint era. hes passed that, hes 40 years old and surrounded by money, yet he still recognizes that his words have an impact, you think watch the throne was all about money? did you even listen to murder to excellence? did you even listen to new day?
I agree that jay is ARGUABLY the best mc ever (he makes a good case, but its not a forgone conclusion), but em dropped his debut (not counting infinite) in 99, 3 years after jay, and is still selling mad records.. the only reason em aint considered to be running the game right now is because he doesn’t want to.. if he came out and did publicity, public apperances, and dropped an album each year for the next 2/3 years, he would be right up there.. like I said, jay has a case, but don’t discredit em
nas sold records this past year and he has been in the game since ’91, longer than jay z, jay z obviously sold more, but Nas refused to do the commercial thing and is really made a career based on his taste. both have very respectable legacy’s
sd- how am I an idiot?? please explain, because each and every single point I made is valid.. the only thing you could say is “your an idiot”.. lmao.. silly kid, go eat a dick..
I respect you if you just don’t like his music. But some people call him a sellout?
why is it that so many blacks will only celebrate you as long as you dont get too much success? I’ll tell you. because those of us who think that way are the REAL enemy. you allow someone to program the idea in your head that blacks can’t be but so successful before they are considered a sell-out. it’s like a tax bracket. you good until you pass a certain success level. then you are a sell-out. Yall don’t even realize that this is a slave mentality.
I’ve never seen a white person call Eminem a sellout lol
WHO gives a finuck…Neither one of them dudes are paying my rent so why sit here taking inventory on them. Just make good music like Jay did with this song and keep it moving. Nas is king lyrically but Jay has friends in high places which allows him to stay relevant. The guy wants to make his billion dollars…Nas just wants to put out music that inspires this hip hop culture…there isn’t anything wrong with any of them.
most of those are correct except for the black republician collabo. that was mutual. i agree that jay admires nas and vice versa. and Def Jam wasn’t Jay-Z’s label. LA Reid signed Nas to Def Jam. You know LA Reid and Nas are friends? Jay-Z ushered Nas into the label as introducing the public that Nas joined Def Jam. that’s the sole reason he had that I Declare War concert Power 105 thrown. this is fact. there’s proof of that. LA Reid was the label head. Jay-Z served as president. and for LA to sign Nas is utmost respect. Nas always wanted to be on Def Jam in the first place. Damn I’m suprised u cats didn’t know this stuff
u never see jay fans shitting on nas in every jay z post.. its always the other way round. jay fans got nothing to prove because jay is already highly regarded. opn the other hand i cant even enjoy a new nas song on this site without reading some nas fuckboy saying some sideways shit about jay because nas gets somewhat over looked and they dont think jay deserves all the love her gets.
i think nas dickriders are just insecure about nas’ place in hip hop and the fact that jay, his rival, is more esteemed and celebrated by pop culture. so they are constantly talking down on jay on every blog to make nas look better. nas already top 5 DOA, yet his groupies despise jay’s success to the point where they become bigger haters of jay than they are fans of nas himself.
^^^You guys are partly right, but thats not quite the whole story. Most Nas fans really like Jay and would not attempt to deny Jay’s incredible success story and his overall contribution to hip hop in general, classic albums included. But you are lying to yourself if you can’t admit Jay’s very noticeable slide from his Black Album days to his current musical output. I mean he really hasn’t had an album close to classic since Black Album, and yes I know AG was solid but it is a bit overrated. Kingdom Come sucked outright, BP3 was some pop bullshit that really didn’t suit Jay, and Watch the Throne, though it had its nice moments, was not overall a solid album. And he has also had some fairly weak features (Three Kings, Monster, run this town, do it for hip hop, bitch dont kill my vibe, suit and tie, etc.).
The same cannot be said for Nas, and Nas fans take offense to Jay fans acting like he still runs it when honestly LIG is better than any album Jay has put out in nearly ten years, although it is also one of Nas best in his last 3-4 CDs as well. Nas has had some ridiculous features in the past eighteen months also.
I would like to see Jay put out another classic but I am not sure he is capable. His flow isn’t as good as it used to be, the double entendres don’t have the bite that they used to, and he seems more prone to suspectly corny ad-libs and accents than he used to be. Maybe his next album will prove otherwise, but I am not holding my breath.
Jay prob still top five, definitely top ten without a question
this is fire for what it was intended for… the critics started shitting on him, and in two days he dropped a track that shitted all over each and everyone of the peeps hatin on his trip to cuba…
Jay Z wouldn’t be here today if Biggie was still alive. While Pac and Biggie were doin there thing in the 90’s, Nas was right there with them with a classic album to back him. Jay was more like a sidekick. Nas solidified his spot in the game while the greats were here, Jay “solidified” his spot in the game after Biggie died, along with all the rhymes Jay Z stole from Biggie. There are only a couple of real kings in the game, and just because your bank account is overweight doesn’t make you a legend in the game. Jay doesn’t set trends, he just follows what’s hot.
jay was super cool with biggie, so it was only a matter of time before he got on, even if biggie wouoldnt have died… jay was just breaking into the game with reasonable doubt (dropped summer of 96) when pac and big died… its funny how yall try anything to discredit jay, when it was clear from the jump that dude had skills…
Silly kids trying to rewrite history. First of all jay released a classic album with reasonable doubt. Biggie and jay were tight. They were suppose to record an album together.
The commission was the name of the group containing members lil cease, Charli Baltimore and rumoured a young Camron.
So before you act like jay was a nothing rapper back then remember he was tight with biggie who the biggest rapper in the game. He was also close to signing big l before he died so who knows how big or small he would have or could have been.
Jay z and big pun dissed each other on records. Jayo felony and jay z were dissing each other as well. So jay wasn’t some small time sidekick.
not necessarily. jay and big weren’t really that tight. jay wanted big’s spot at the time and i agree with the nas comparison. nas been solidifed his spot on his debut verse and the classic known as illmatic. jay-z’s reasonable doubt wasn’t thought of as a classic until years later(i agree it was a clssic whne i heard it. not better than illmatic but damn good for a debut. that’s 90’s hip hop for you) and what’s pop culture? jay-z is recognized for all the side hustles he has done. his business ethic. nas never been that type for that (even though he has been known to invest in stuff) jay came in the game to make a spot and get every dollar he can get which is cool
Nas also tried to get Jay-Z on the Daughters remix and he declined, so it works both ways. And working with AZ( music video, really?), Frank Ocean and Jay Electronica is completely irrelevant. They were already established; Frank Ocean was doing his thing with Odd Future.
Nas did not try to get Jay on the remix for that. You’re making things up. And Frank Ocean and Jay E were NOT KNOWN at the time. You probably are 13 and weren’t listening to hiphop when Nas first co-signed them
To all of those saying songs weak just arent listening to HOVA and that beats sick i mean y’all gone learn today..this is what Jay-z old flow sounds like with updated subjects
great song from jay. haven’t heard jay rap like this in a while. he needs to do this more. as for this nas/jay-z debate. there will never be a conclusion to it cuz it shouldn’t be stressed. they represent two sides of hip hop. nas is the lyrical concept trendsetter and jay-z represents the american dream in hip hop. they both have a sopt and will always have a leagcy in the game. name me two mc’s that still have that longevity like them (not even em nor 50. sorry) nas and jay are the most consistent in their sides of the spectrum
I really dont know when people lost their ability to judge good music vs bad. I guess the only way to prove to you people that the new stuff sucks is by goign back in a few years from now, and asking would you listen to A. a black album song, or B. this song here. I dont even think its close. This is not “vintage jay,” and this certainly isnt a good beat. It makes for a very average song, just like most of jay-zs stuff after kingdom come. Its not hating, just being a realist. in 5 year years I know damn well that none of you will be like oooh shiit I cant wait to pop in that BluePrint 3 shit. Youll be popping in Blueprint, Reasonable Doubt, ImL, and Black album
^^^You guys are partly right, but thats not quite the whole story. Most Nas fans really like Jay and would not attempt to deny Jay’s incredible success story and his overall contribution to hip hop in general, classic albums included. But you are lying to yourself if you can’t admit Jay’s very noticeable slide from his Black Album days to his current musical output. I mean he really hasn’t had an album close to classic since Black Album, and yes I know AG was solid but it is a bit overrated. Kingdom Come sucked outright, BP3 was some pop bullshit that really didn’t suit Jay, and Watch the Throne, though it had its nice moments, was not overall a solid album. And he has also had some fairly weak features (Three Kings, Monster, run this town, do it for hip hop, bitch dont kill my vibe, suit and tie, etc.).
Couldnt agree more with this. People do need to just stop. The way to judge his new shit is in a few years will you ever listen to it over Black Album shit or before. I dont think theres anyway that anyone could enjoy the new shit more than that stuff. The quality of his rhyming, flows, and beats he had made for stuff that this new stuff aint even close to.
Port of Miami: 8.5/10
Trilla: 9/10
Deeper Than Rap: 8/10
Albert Anastasia EP: 10/10
Teflon Don: 10/10
Ashes To Ashes: 7.5/10
Rich Forever: 10/10
God Forgives, I Dont: 9/10
Black Bar Mitzvah: 7/10
Different error… Ross been out for awhile and the noise he madw was limited because everyone still understood real rap.. By the way, everytime they are on a song together who is the better rapper???
“had a spark when you start but now you just garbage…fell from top ten to not be mentioned at all…” HA HA HA HA!!!LMAO! This pretty much sums Nas’s carrer, dude was never the same after this line.
Disc 1
1. All for the Love (Produced by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
2. If You Know feat. Jay-Z (Produced by Just Blaze)
3. Where I’ve Been (Produced by Jake One)
4. Thank God (Produced by Kanye West, co. Mike Dean)
5. The Way Life Is feat. Kelly Rowland (Produced by Tricky Stewart, co. The-Dream)
6. Put Your Hands Up (Produced by The Neptunes)
7. Glory feat. Nas (Produced by No I.D.)
8. Twilight feat. B.o.B (Produced by B.o.B)
9. The Truth feat. Kanye West (Produced by Kanye West, co. Mike Dean)
10. Walk Like a Soldier (Produced by Just Blaze)
11. Stop (Produced by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
12. Pop It (Produced by The Neptunes)
13. Good Times feat. Rihanna (Produced by Kanye West, co. No I.D., co. Mike Dean)
14. He Who Wears the Crown (Produced by Tricky Stewart, co. The-Dream)
Disc 2
1. Blood Pressure feat. Iggy Azalea (Produced by DJ Toomp)
2. Run for Cover (Produced by Mike WiLL Made It)
3. I Don’t Care (Produced by Mike Dean)
4. You Know Why (Produced by DJ Toomp)
5. Everywhere I Go (Produced by Big K.R.I.T.)
6. Crazy Girl feat. Ciara (Produced by DJ Toomp)
7. All Night feat. Lil Wayne & Swizz Beatz (Produced by Swizz Beatz)
8. Whatever feat. Jazze Pha (Produced by Mike Dean, co. Jazze Pha)
9. Ain’t No Way feat. Young Jeezy (Produced by DJ Toomp)
10. If I Should Die feat. Scarface (Produced by Mike Dean)
11. Blackout feat. Trae tha Truth (Produced by DJ Toomp)
12. Blunt Object (Produced by Mike Dean)
13. My Enemies (Produced by Big K.R.I.T.)
14. Some South Shit (Produced by Drumma Boy)
LOL you are in gay love with Drake yet you can’t even name his song correctly. It’s 5am in Toronto. Nice try kid. Now go sit in the corner. Drake will never be Jay.
An opinion that I agree with. Life is Good is tragically incredible. Any Hip Hop head without hubris but enough sensibility to pick and choose what is dope and invaluable has that album.
I feel so honored to fuck your bitch. All of my hardwork and dedication has paid off. Fucking your bitch has been a dream of mine for many years, and i would like to thank those who have helped me along the way. First and foremost i would like to thank god for giving me this opportunity. Next i would like to thank my parents. I want to thank my dog Nelson, for always there for me. I would also like to thank my pet tadpole for surviving against all odds for over a week. Next i would like to thank the squirrel that lives in my backyard for climbing trees because that gives me inspiration that i need to get through the day. I also want to thank Corey Nelson for giving me someone to beat in Mario Party. This is a special moment in my life and i would like to thank any of my unmentioned friends and family that have helped me along the way. This moment will be a moment that i will never forget. I just remembered a few other people i would like to thank; facebook, the fish i caught in the third grade, my light in my room bc i wouldnt be able to see the keyboard without it, the internet for letting me go on facebook, my house because without it i would be homeless, and last but not least i would like to thank all the people out there that actually took time out of their day to read this. I cannot stress how much of a big deal to me this is. I have been trying fuck yo bitch in the cutch for years, but that has not been possible until this amazing day. Hopefully my good luck will continue, but this is undoubtedly a rare occasion. If you asked me how i did this, i would say, you can achieve anything u set your mind on. To all the kids out there reading this, i would like to tell them to follow their dreams. Fucking your bitch is amazing, thank you everyone.
your a bitch made, sucka ass, garbage producing fake ass MC.. you are what is wrong with this country, and I hope you “accidently” shoot yourself in the dome.. twice..
It’s mind-boggling the heart wants it, the mind rejects it
Fuck the past, let’s put the present in perspective
That’s my lady, she would never back-stab or cross me
Stand butt-naked in the storm, sippin’ the frosty
Force me to choose, I’mma follow my heart
She was there from the beginning, but I tore ’em apart
No more Delucas, straight Killa Bee on the swarm
And when it’s time to get big, she put her game face on
PLLLLLEAAAAASE HOOOOOOV … PLLLLLEASE…… .
Shut up, this track is hot, we don’t need you to go crying for attention, I don’t think Hov is your hearing your calling .
1. BlaspHemous (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
2. Ice Cream BitcH (Produced by Mike WiLL Made It, co. Marz)
3. Oxymoron (Produced by Pharrell Williams)
4. DeatHsadvocate (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
5. Druggys wit Hoes Pt, Trois feat. Ab-Soul (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
6. Eat feat. Danny Brown (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
7. Talk My sHit (Produced by The Alchemist)
8. Yay Yay (Produced by Boi-1da, co. The Maven Boys)
9. Attitude feat. Kendrick Lamar (Produced by Pharrell Williams)
10. Grooveline Pt. 2 feat. A$AP Rocky (Produced by Mike WiLL Made It, co. Marz)
11. Ridin’ HigH (Produced by The Alchemist)
12. Killing Spree feat. Action Bronson (Produced by The Alchemist)
13. Fallen Soldiers feat. Jhene Aiko (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
14. Bang Bang feat. Ab-Soul, Jay Rock & Kendrick Lamar [Black Hippy] (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
15. Gangsta (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
I actually am not a accountant, I gotta come clean. I’m 14 and live in my grandparents house (my mom gave me up cause she was a crack-head and never met my dad). I do this trolling thing because it makes me feel like I matter to SOMEONE at least ! Now that the jokes over, I just want to apologize for being such an troll and all my fake opinions…please don’t be too mad, this site is all I have …
all i can say is i cant wait for Magna Carta Holy Grail.. and apparently the first single is produced by Swizz Beatz and it already leaked>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW8qFJItRwo
wow! this is superwack
this track is wack!!!!!
crazy hov talk dat talk
This shit is DOPE! Fuck yall bitches saying this is wack!
hov wit that fire!
Jay is still one of the best, better than half these other rappers
tru dat
Jay the legend
lovin’ the 1st verse.
Actually a pretty nice track, but we all know niggas on this site will rate it low just cause it’s Jay-Z.
Ppl love Jay-Z though. If it were someone like Wayne or Ross, then yeah you’re right.
Hovito is Back!
This sounds like it could have been on the Blueprint …thats a bad thing. Get with the times Timbo..
Jay did his thing.
your stupid
GTFOH… Go listen to Mike Will mAde it and his wack ass beats!!
Timbo sound never go out of style!
it clearly says, “Produced by Swizz Beatz”.
You fail, my friend.
LMAO!!! This track could never be anywhere near Blueprint.
Ok. This makes up for the last 2 projects which felt half-assed. Some great songs on BP3 & WTT, but mostly fillers. This got me amped up again.
Trying to capitalize on his cuba press
He doesn’t have to capitalize on anything. He’s trying to set the record straight
straight fire…by the way. its produced by Timbaland and co-produced by Swizz Beatz. get your shit together HHDX!
“I’m in Cuba I love Cubans.”
Hovito bby! Haters go hang!
super fucking wack. I fucking hate Timbaland AND Swizz Beats
ya’ll who disagree that this track is dope is foolish the big homie said OBAMA SAID CHILL YOU GONE GET ME IMPEACH YOU DON’T NEED THIS SHIT ANYWAY CHILL WITH ME ON THE BEACH THOSE BARS RIGHT THERE WAS ENOUGH…….CAN HE LIVE LOL DANG
NICE…!!!!!
yeah jay is back
fire!!
DOPE TRACK. HOWEVER, KENDRICK LAMAR IS THE NEW GOD MC. BIRDMAN IS THE GREATEST MUSIC MOGUL WHO EVER LIVED.
Nah. Berry Gordy is the greatest music mogul of all time.
On point. One of Swizz’s better recent attempts at production too. I know Timmy probably hand a hand in it but dope nonetheless
Good Stuff
The God MC is Back
He never left
wow
Why couldn’t Swizz give Nas this instead of ruining Life Is Good
Catch a body, head to Houston…Still sucking Nasir’s dick
ya’ll already know, who does it better… Mr H to the OVA
When I say it then you see, it ain’t only in the music Basquiats, Warhols serving as my muses..(Welcome to Havana Smoking cubanos with Castro in cabanas).. (Green card for the Cuban links
Y’all sit back and enjoy the light show)..(I’m in Cuba, I love Cubans) Fool can’t catch up!
If you don’t give this track 5 stars you must never have learned to count that high!#YallLearnToday
1 Star Negro!!! GARBAGE!!!
he thinks higher of hisself than what he really is. Just a man, thats all.
wtf is this shit
Nice…It’s been a while
fuck jay z Illuminati bitch nigga
I done turned Havana to Atlanta
White guayabera shirts and bandanas
Every time you think they got me I switch the plan up
Bulletproof this, radio scanners
Ballin til they ban us
You gettin too much bread, they tryna jam you
Boy from the hood but got White House clearance
Sorry yall, I dont agree with yall appearance
Politicians never did shit for me
Except lie to me, distort history
Wanna give me jail time and a fine
Fine, let me commit a real crime
I might buy a kilo for Chief Keef
Out of spite, I just might flood these streets
Hear the freedom in my speech
Got an onion from Universal, read it and weep
Couldve bought the Nets to Brooklyn for free
Except I made millions off it, you fuckin dweeb
I still own the building, Im still keeping my seat
Yall buy that bullshit, youd better keep your receipt
Obama said chill, you gonna get me impeached
But you dont need this shit anyway
Chill with me on the beach
We almost want to start a revolution
You know whenever Im threatened, I start shooting, bark
Catch a body, head to Houston
Im in Cuba, I love Cubans
This time and this talk is so confusing
When its from China, the very mic that Im using
Idiot wind, the Bob Dylan of rap music [*missinfo: is this right? What does idiot wind mean?*…Update: an answer from our friend Simon at Rolling Stone: “‘Idiot Wind’ is an amazing Dylan song. Original ether. Jay’s next line is a reference to the lyrics too. Love this!” Thank you for the context, Simon!]
Youre an idiot baby, you should become a student
Oh, you gonna learn today
Where the fuck have you been
The worlds under new management
The new role model, fuck this Zoolander shit.
Thanks dude.
*this communist talk is so confusing
Obviously, people hating on this, are intellectual inepts. Shit is going over your heads. Only the real can relate. Follow ME.
wack as fuck old washed up rapper and old washed up producer as a combo doesn’t work.
go back to listening to waynes latest trash album
i hate when faggots say this just because i dont like a wack song that automatically means i like lil wayne? fuck outta here.
The Lord has spoken.
Amen
featuring fucking timbaland… swizz beatz… 45 year old gay fake nets ‘owner’….
yeah malcolm, martin and marvin gaye died for this bullshit!!!
zero point zero
wow Jay awfully defensive maybe if i was hiding my homosexuality AND the fact the Beyonce had a surrogate mother birth “their” kid i’d be defensive too
some of you people are idiots, makes no sense, to talk this much mess on a board that none of these artists are even paying attention to, invest that negative energy into doing something positive people, you will be much happier.
I HEARD THAT JAY Z, KAYNE WEST, TIMBALAND, ALL HAD A THREESOME!!
Nah. That was Wayne, Birdman and Mack Maine.
LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES
Q: How much of Barclay’s Arena in Brooklyn does Jay own?
Hint: rhymes with meatball hero.
jay z is trash now listen to reasonable doubt then listen to this pathetic excuse for a rap song. Timbo made a wack beat and swizz on the chorus was just awfull.
5
He mad and he made his haters mad. Win/win.
Killed it
so on point, he is so mad . gonna watch out fools. dont be in his way.
here we go with that money talk again
It’s okay
HAHAHA….MURDERED!!!
Jay own the brooklyn arena
not the team!
are you fucking retarded? Jay doesn’t own DICK in Brooklyn– tho’ he plays with it from time to time.
HOVVVV!!!
Dope Shit!
How is this shit hot ? sounds outdated and over produced.
you stay listening to your overproduced pop music
sheaaaa
Lil Wayne destroyed Jay-Z’s carrer in 2011. Jay-Z became broke cause of Tha Carter series. Weezy’s amazing muzik resurrected Old Scool Hip Hop. Jay-Z cant even sell 100k wit shit likie diz. J Cole and Jay are broke ass niggaz. dey wish dey were Birdman or Lil Wayne. YMCMB makin da most money. swag
you realize waynes net worth is like 80 mil and jays is like 450 right? lets just keep uneducated niggas like you off the comments page k?
chief keef runs the rap game lil wayne and ymcmb are washed up garbage on the verge of falling off
Birdwoman and Little little Wayne could never have Jay-Z money. When they invest their money and possibly do something other than music, then maybe yea
^^^ Why do you faggots always respond to this troll seriously ? learn how to read sarcasm.
COSIGN!!! JAY Z HAS FALLEN OFF HARD SINCE AT LEAST 2003!!! YMCMB RUNS THE RAP GAME!!! YMCMB HAS AT LEAST 50 MEMBERS AND ROC NATION A TINY FRACTION OF THAT!!! YMCMB IS TRUE HIPHOP!
Jay-z(1 man) is greater then all of ymcmb combined.
Like come on man, 50 members? then thats at least 45 men who straight trash on the mic.
why people even respond to these trolls is beyond me.. its actually more annoyig than the troll post itself
Wayne is trash & will never be on Hov’s level. Much less Eminem.
NOTHING SPECIAL
4
Look at all you haters. Jay-Z is the man and there is no one man better alive. Go and revise your music. 5/5 – Classic Jay Sh*t!
these niggas look like highschoolers in this picture.
Hot Shit
Lmao hatin azz niggas Hov still wrecking shit he’s like 20+ years in right? And they say it’s a young mans game. Naw bra
nah its a mental game the older the better young cats can only rap about bitches and cars
Killed them
LETS ALL BE HONEST THIS IS NOTHING GREAT AT ALL
EVERYTHING SHOULDNT BE GREAT OR TRASH ITS GOOD
cosign anon 2
I’m almost 100% sure that all the Jay-Z hate comes from but hurt people that live outside the tri-state. No matter how many artist you guys bring into the game, no matter how many radio spins they get, Jay will be on top until he decides to dip. Wayne didn’t become very successful in his music career until he start swagging like Jay-Z and Dipset and that’s a fact!!! For the people that say all Jay does is brag look at your favorite rapper…for the most part the rap game has turned into a bunch of people bragging. Atleast Jay brags about things he actually has and have done and is doing currently. Most the rappers that boast don’t have the net worth of Blue Ivy lol let alone Jay.
ok dickrider
FACT!
“The game is ours, we’ll never foul out/ Ya’ll just better hope we gracefully bow out” – Jay-Z “Do It Again (Put Your Hands Up)”
What the hell is everybody listening to ? this sounds like a throwaway track. This wouldn’t even make Kingdom Come’s bonus tracks … I feel like people are just dying for any Jay-Z single.
sounds like a camel
it’s not whack but it’s far away from the stuff that nas drops today
Might buy a kilo for Cheif Keef lol
Lame
The idiot wind, the Bob Dylan of rap music.
his voice/flow is just slow and boring now. THis isnt hating dog..I fuckin loved everything hov did pre American Gangster. Hes still good for a good verse every now and then, but mostly I get bored and annoyed. Its also annoying when people go ga-ga for his new shit when I know its nothing special
Fuck Off Retard
Jerry if you get bored and annoyed when he raps then stop listening to his music . Simples
comparing old jay to new jay is waste of your time.
uhuhuhu
2 Chainz is way better than jay z
shoot yourself
LMFAO! ! ! You’re a waste of DNA
I swear, thats the dumbest comment in 20 years…On the real, you are just here to incite trouble. Who in the world would say something like that??? YOU! You dont even belong in this genre. Man, I swear I wish Hip Hop, just stayed in the inner city, when it was pure and BETTTER. Now all these losers who dont belong, hide at home, putting up some stupid ass blogs…These inflitrators done messed up a genuine genre….
He trolling
the song is good everybody saying hov fell of but is like busta said when youre a older cat in the game u dont need to use crazy metaphors to say some simple shit to prove yourself you already lived too long for all that
This when jay acts like a half way crook!!
Hov keeps runnin this shit.
Solid track, nothing special
nothing special????????????? he just dissed to snake ass politicians….
WTF you talking about? He used a crap ton of metaphors!!! He just didn’t use the played out similes that lil wayne uses. Plus he was trying to get straight to the point. Obviously this isnt a radio record or a change the game record or the video would have dropped with it. He’s pretty much just lettin everyone know who still runs this shit and deaded the criticism.
FUNNY
hov killin it. i liked the beat, slow and not crazy. where was timbaland on the track though? wasnt that swizz?
Classic
this nigga better keep chief keefs name out his illuminati mouth before chief bust a cap on this bitch ass camel
Jay hasn’t been good since Vol. 3 … if you wanna get technical, he really hasnt been nice since Reasonable Doubt.
He birthed an entire wack generation of rappers who get on a track and rap about unimportant shit in a braggadocios way.
What happened to tracks like “Hardknock Life” or “Anything” ? …now we get trash like Niggas In Paris.
you need to go listen to american gangster.. conceptually his best album every, lyrically top 2-3
best album ever**
American Gangster is a classic ..Only certain people will really understand that album
You need to listen to The Blueprint and The Black Album.
Here is what we have learned from this song:
1)This guy still talks about “owning” the Barclays Center as if he owns more than 1% of it. Jay is a total clown for exagerating his net worth.
2)Jay has never committed a crime. He is very clear in this song that he has not committed a “real” crime yet. That’s what I’ve been telling you idiots.
3)Jay-Z doesn’t care about anyone, including our first black president. Jay only cares about himself. Even Obama had to learn that the hard way. Obama is right to distance himself from this Camel.
4)Lyrically, Jay has fallen off.
truth fuck jay z and beyonce both are a bunch arrogant money hungry lame peices of trash that fell off.
I usually don’t respond but dude your just an idiot or can’t hear,
1.) That 1% he is rumored to own is the Nets team, not the building they play in, I’m sure he owns well over 1% of the barclays center
2.)Besides the fact selling drugs is illegal and a crime. In 1999 he was arrested for stabbing record exec Laance Rivera
3.) your just a hater!!!
4.) im going to take a guess and say your favorite rapper is soulja boy
@ Dental-wash critiquing another mans pocket YOU FUNNY
most overrated rapper of all fuckin time
most overrated commentor of all time….get a clue….sucka
let this shit knock
jigga man had to come correct and tell the world there is more to my trip to Cuba i got white house clearance cocksucker.
http://bigteespot.spreadshirt.com/
bbbbRRRRRAAAAAPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!
HOV THE GREASTEST LISTEN TO THE WORDS
if you actually listen to his words instead of dickriding you would see he is far from being the greatest.
5/5 easily
I’m making $86 an hour working from home. I was shocked when my neighbor told me she was averaging $95 but I see how it works now. I feel so much freedom now that I’m my own boss. This is what I do, wow55.com
this track is offical. jayz always nice that first verse was fire
and its not supposed 2 be a banger or nothing ..just listen its called open letter, bec its a letter not a track for club play or u can swag to.
if u can vibe with sum real shit, sit down
if you cant vibe*
definately not voting for rubio, come 2016….thats my WORD!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you really think he gives a fuck if you PEASANTS like his music or not .
You are not the target market you all broke and downloading music for free trojan files or not it’s FREE
JU ALRDY! haha
niggas that dont like this is just hating..its a track about his life and banged it. some of yall just wack and like them retarded southern rappers cuz u can understand anythin a nigga say intelligent. step ya vocab up suckas
Very nice… Glad HOV did this. Classic!
this joint is dope. hes got some fresh topics to rap about about now. hov about to hit us with some fire
You’ve got to be a worthless human being to call another grown man HOV. Do you clowns even know what that name is abbreviated for ? smh lol
Jay has been brainwashing his fans to call him God since the 90’s. They’re all brainwashed.
deep thoughts we have
Glad you guys got that off your chests
yall lil dudes would love this if jay was poppin mollys and sippin syrup
Can’t wait to hear the other shit he recorded last night. This is dope.
Jay Z went to Cuba to chill with Pac.. lol
LOL
Might grow on me but wat i hear it isn’t all that.Jayz has to step it up lyrically.
ok your turn? then STFU fake ass crtic spit something
Look my albums coming.Jayz should put a mixtape out freestyling over the hottest beats.O my bad he can’t freestyle lol but Jayz ok but not know Nas.
might grow on you like fucking herpes.
TRU STORY
this sh*t bang,y’all gon learn today!!
Jay put that work in you lil niggas need to read a book.
yeah, because Shawn Carter is so well read himself… dude couldn’t pick Frederick Douglass from W.E.B. DuBois in a lineup and you’re talking books…
WHO ^^^
Yup. Jigga may not float your boat but skills are skills.
Talkin bout poppin Molly got old here ’bout 10 years ago
-some o’yez took a while to catch up, but Jays still killin it 🙂
VIVA CUBA.
nice, bounce
If You Thought This Was Wack You Should Continue Listening To MMG Or Some Other Anchor Of 21st Century Hip Hop
WERD!
you probably buy rocawear, sit down
^^^^^ AND YOU PROABABLY SUCK DICK FOR SOME TRUKFIT
I Bet I Do Still Buy Roca Wear But Only For Bum Ass Niggas Like You
Q: How much of Barclay’s area does Jay “own” again?
I think we can count it in coins without getting lost.
Swizz and Timbaland on the same track… WOW!!!!!
what? you act as if jay can’t afford more, he blows 350K in the club
This gets a five from me
2013 year of the hip hop owners! Proud of hip hop right now.
Hook weak
Hovito!!
I like the song. It knocks and I’m actually surprised at the production. Swizzy went way left field. He is maturing. But while I do like the song, content wise, Jigga needs to start reassessing. He name drops a lot. He should listen to Game before recording. I know rap, especially if we’re talking 90s rappers is all about showing off so listeners who dream of big houses and big cars and wanna live the life would feel you, but Jigga in my opinion is at the point where he should not name drop. Don’t care if its Buffet or Obama or a 100 million dollar car. He no longer needs to act like the project kid that made it. He’s been made it, if I can make my English teacher cringe.
nah, between swizzs boring ass hook, the annoying “yah yah yah yah” in the background and just a few good lines from jay, this is no way even a 4 let alone a 5. 3 for its mediocracy. should be a 1 for having three legends in the room and putting out this bullshit.
Damn you had to work hard and dig deep to find something hate on did’nt ya? LMAO
deadass hahaha
Its a decent joint ,better than most joints Hov put out in the last couple`O years…hatin ain’t gon get you anywhere CUZ!!!!
theres no hate here, Im a Jay fan in general. Thats straight up honesty. Prove me wrong.
I’m not trolling, Jay-z might be the most boring rapper now. He’s a complete bore fest. I honestly think he needs to stop.
yawn
Not bad, not bad at all…
He needs to hang it up. Lyrically there’s so much better out there. Trash
This is weak as hell. Totally surprised to see a 4 rating. Wait, no Im not I take that back. Song is wack though. Next.
this is what the three of these guys came up with? trash
your the same guy who wrote the last 4 posts..you must have nothing to do today
kill yourself idiot
++
4/5 because this guy rarely makes music anymore, but his old ass can do it better then a lot of niggas out there. stop comparing 96 Jay to 2013 Jay your wasting your time.
rarely? watch the throne?
you tight pant wearing big shoe motherfuckers fall back
Damn, Hov. Why’d you gotta so this to these young boys? Did he say Obama said “You gon’ getme impeached, you don’t need this shit anyways, chill with me on the beach?”
Hello? CPS…?
mofo be rockin lil sis pants lil bro hoodie with some big ass ugly kicks and think that shit fly go listen to tyga
This monotone crap sounds so boring… this nigga has no lyrics and no energy.
Should have really retired after the Black Album.
Yep and that’s why he’s got millions of dollars and you’re posting dumb ignorant comments from your mom’s basement..
Kinda ironic HAHAULOSER is judging other people for posting ” dumb ignorant comments ” the last time I checked ” having millions of dollar ” doesn’t measure his talent as an emcee. It’s how you market yourself that helps make those millions. You wanna throw in Birdman and Diddy on that convo since they got mad bread too? HOV is dope, the song was cool but you need to hop off his scrotum.
look at u clowns saying this is trash because he’s not talking about “pippin pussy or some corny ass shit like fuckin somebody’s girl. yall need to get real
“You getting too much BREAD they try to JAM ya!”
PREACH
Put the mic down Walk away. Please
please you tight jean wearing bitch can you do better?
“would have brought the nets to brooklyn for free, except I made millions off it you fucking dweeb”- Dissing Cornell West for saying Jay owns 15% of 1% of the nets…lol
always bragin about superficial shit ..ya content is not good know more Jay..and this song is not great or that good comin from Timbo and super wack ass swisss cheese…hahahaha!
bragin / ya / know / comin / swisss
*bragging* *your* *no* *coming* *swiss*
Spanky Jo Jo doesn’t listen to music he just skims through it.
Well beats the BP3 tracks, pretty nice.
LMAO THE PRESIDENCY JUST RELEASED A MESSAGE SAYING THAT OBAMA NEVER SPOKE TO JAY-Z ABOUT THE INCIDENT. JAY LOOKING DUMB FOR THESE WACK ASS STORIES HE MAKES UP.
fools talk
Jay-z just forced the president of the united states to make a public statement about him, that’s called power you dummy
YOU BELIVE WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAYS..YOUR STUPID THATS PART OF THE JOB…LIE AND DECIVE..dummy
Not called power. Any mid to high profile rapper could say ‘yer i smoked a joint with obama when he was in my town’ and the white house would release a statement dismissing claims.
“this communist talk is so confusing, when its from china the very mic that im using”. Real talk
Jay never disapoint. . Nigga got da game locked.. open letter is a banger
hard, hov always kills errting
just awfull jay completely lost it after blue pring 2
blue pring 2?
And The Black Album & American Gangster were made after *The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse*
Also Empire State Of Mind, D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune), La La La (Excuse Me Miss Again), Niggas in Paris, The Joy, Run This Town, Why I Love You, On To The Next One, Kingdom Come (Song), Brooklyn Go Hard & Otis were made after The Blueprint 2
And his verses on Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix), So Appalled, What We Do, Beware of the Boys (Remix), Swagga Like Us, Hell Yeah, Go Crazy (Remix), My President Is Black (Remix) & Crazy In Love were made after The Blueprint 2
Jay takin’ shots.
#DOPE
1. Made In America feat. Beyonce (Produced by Just Blaze)
2. Stand Up (Produced by Swizz Beatz)
3. All the Way (Produced by Timbaland, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
4. Oh Yeah feat. Justin Timberlake (Produced by Timbaland, co. Justin Timberlake, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
5. Good Times (Produced by Hit-Boy, co. Kanye West, add. Mike Dean)
6. Blue Notes feat. Lonnie Liston Smith (Produced by Kanye West, co. No I.D.)
7. Life Is a Movie (Produced by S1, co. Caleb)
8. Fresh for Life (Produced by Swizz Beatz)
9. That’s My Word (Produced by Timbaland, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
10. Heaven feat. Miguel (Produced by Hit-Boy)
11. Guilty Pleasures (Produced by Timbaland, co. Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon)
12. Upper Echelon feat. Kanye West & Pharrell (Produced by The Neptunes, co. Kanye West)
13. Clap Yo Hands feat. Pharrell (Produced by The Neptunes)
14. Made In America (Reprise) (Produced by No I.D.)
The king is back bow down bitches… That shit is firrrrre y’all knw that G.o.a.t. Hov
I LOVE RAP MUSIC
is that list a direct leak from his new upcoming album??
Dope as fuck, back on some original blueprint sound
revolutionary rap
You gotta be a fool to think this is trash!! Pay attention to the lyrics….and nobody actually thinks Jay is God because he calls himself Hov. It’s basically just another rap moniker, damn. Hip hop started going downhill when people began to take it literally.
I wish more rappers would rime like this…Nas is already there..and killer mike. dem niggas aint scared of revolution
1. One Saint (produced by Kanye West)
2. You All Know (feat. Swizz Beatz) produced by Swizz Beatz)
3. Skyline (feat. Rihanna) (produced by Timbaland)
4. Free Spirit (produced by Hudson Mohawke; co-produced by Kanye West)
5. We Fly Away (feat. Lady Gaga and Kanye West) (produced by Kanye West; co-produced by Hudson Mohawke)
6. Big Beats (feat. Timbaland) (produced by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz)
7. Switch Flick (produced by Swizz Beatz)
8. American Graffiti (feat. Nas) (produced by Kanye West; co-produced by Hit-Boy)
9. Church (feat. J.Cole) (produced by Swizz Beatz)
10. Interlude (produced by Timbaland)
11. Rich Nigga (feat. Hit-Boy) (produced by Hit-Boy; co-produced by Kanye West and Lifted)
12. So Good (produced by Lifted)
13. History Boys (feat. Kanye West) (produced by Kanye West)
14. Say Nothing (produced by Swizz Beatz)
15. Roses (feat. Beyonce) (produced by No I.D.)
16. Shout (feat. Justin Timberlake) (produced by Hudson Mohawke)
17. Hail Hova! (produced by Kanye West)
Deluxe Edition
18. American Dreamer (produced by No I.D.)
19. Suites Presidential (produced by Kanye West)
20. A1 (feat. Rick Ross and Ma$e) (produced by Timbaland)
Lol okay.
the last track A1 would be fucking amazing. Ma$e??!?!
LMAO… shits & giggles man.
I thought Jay and Ma$e had beef since ’97…
So when Nas raps about material shit it’s good, fresh, original, and ok. But when Jay does it he’s wack. Nas stans (a.k.a. Backpackers) need to stop being hypocrites. Jay has been wack since the Black Album but he’s not as bad as Nas stans say he is. Life is Good was a decent album with trash production and songs about bullshit (The Don, Nasty, Summer on Smash, & The Black Bond) but nobody hates? And don’t say “it’s because he raps good” Nas doesn’t say anything special or original he just uses big words which you backpackers don’t even know what they mean or understand them.
Nas using big words is a common misconception, people always say that like he’s Canibus and writing his rhymes with a dictionary in hand. Look up his lyrics and try to find these big words you’re referring too. That’s not a knock on Nas either, he’s not dumbing anything down, but at the same time you don’t need a PhD to understand him.
^^^^^
Nas is free to rap about material shit because, unlike Jay, HE ALMOST CONSTANTLY TAKES CREATIVE RISKS. Distant Relatives was entirely a concept album, so was Untitled for the most part, IWW has some of the most creative concept tracks of any record, Streets Disciple as well. Shit, how many mainstream rappers could make songs like ‘I can’ or ‘Daughters’ and not get panned for outright corniness? Certainly not Jay LOL
Your assessment of LIG exposes your lack of credibility at the outset. Trash beats? Seriously? Almost every beat on that album was tight… the incessant ‘Nas can’t pick beats’ criticism is becoming increasingly outplayed by morons like you… songs about Bullshit? LIG had the Illmatic boom bap style with Locomotive and Black Bond, the personal tracks like Daughters, Cherry Wine, Bye Baby, the hood tales with Queens Story, Wheres the Love, Stay, and Reach Out, and the swag tracks like You Don’t Understand, Nasty, SOS, and the Don… very diverse subject matter all around
JAY GETS FLAK ABOUT RAPPING ABOUT MATERIAL SHIT BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN DOING IT CONSTANTLY SINCE 96… has he even had one concept track in his entire career that was worth something? LOL
Stop presuming that other listeners can’t comprehend Nas lyrics just because you can’t… his shit is very understandable
LIG had awful beats. It had good lyrics but was brought down by the basic, pop sounding, shitty ass beats. A few tracks (Loco-Motive, No Introduction, and Nasty) have good beats but the rest are subpar and awful.
RRRRIGGHT
Absolutely ridiculous… queens story, you wouldn’t understand, stay, reach out, wheres the love, bye baby, daughters all had wack beats? Back when, accident murderers had wack beats? POP sounding? Let me guess NO ID, buckwild, 40 are all shitty producers too right?
LIG got pretty much universal praise for both the lyricism and the production, so while you are entitled to your grossly off-point opinion, you are demonstrating that your opinion should be accorded very little, if any, weight
Talking shit period.
40 is wack, though.
Life is Good had some of the best beats I’ve heard as a rap fan (Loco-Motive, No Introduction, Accident Murderers, The Don, Where’s The Love, Nasty), and, for the most part, excellent vocals. The only flaw with it really was the track where Nas raps 2 decent verses and then Miguel starts mumbling out of nowhere.
Also, the album had him rapping over CHOPIN. Creative risk if there ever was one…
Jay-Z’s never really had a bad album though (unlike Nas), so they’re really neck and neck in my mind, and The Blueprint 3 was a solid album – although it had more flaws than Life is Good (the tracks at the end were dull, Pharrell was unnecessary, and Drake’s voice grates) – and so was Watch the Throne.
They’re Giggs and Scholes, not Messi and Ronaldo.
5.
Dope. Got elements of the old Hov peppered all over the track.
but wheres timb?
Hov snapped on this .He back like he never left.”Outta spite i might flood these streets”
dope
Yeah you think he lost it? You better listen again.
He’s back.
Seems like Hov stans like you say this whenever he drops a random new solo song…Nigga been riding this particular wave since WTT, you’re reaching.
Seven: this rule is so underrated
“Keep your family and business completely seperated
Money and blood don’t mix like two dicks and no bitch
Find yourself in serious shit”
Biggie
Jay-z shouldn’t talk about is connection with the president in this way.
Holla from Paris oui oui.
Biggie quote doesn’t apply to Jay-Z’s quote regarding Obama. Obama isn’t his family, nor does he have anything to do with his business. You my friend, are reaching.
Biggie was talking about the crack game. How does Jay and President Obama have anything to do with that. Pure idiot states is all you dropped, good job dude.
dumbass youngns think this is wack…your pops needs to slap you if you know him
upto I looked at the check 4 $6649, I have faith that my neighbours mother woz like actualie erning money parttime on their laptop.. there aunt had bean doing this 4 only 10 months and as of now cleared the loans on their house and bourt a new Audi Quattro. go to…….. ZOO80 om
ya’ll fucked up again. It’s featuring Swizz Beatz and produced by Timbaland
I can name 10 mc’s better then his overrated ass
go.
^^Right. Dumb shit
garbage
Beautiful. 5/5
Illuminati references
Love to hear Jay talk his shit! I rather hear this ANY DAY rather than that bullshit he make with Kanye.
wack ass joint wack ass beat
this is dope!!
This nigga is an ass-hole. He thinks he has problems ? fuck outta here.
He will always be a swag rapper.
Yawn is this song over yet..ZZZZ sleeping
Jew-Z
ja rule would have bodied this track
ja rule > tupac & biggie
this reminds me of the dope shit that use to drop 10 years ago, before these nerds were wearing skinny jeans
I still own the building, I’m still keeping my seat/ Y’all buy that bullshit, you’d better keep y’all receipt”
Jay KILLED it. This isn’t “Blueprint 3” Jay no more. This is “Black Album” Jay.
They got it backwards it was produced by timberland and features Swiss beats
Who are the clowns saying this sounds like old Jay ????
GO LISTEN TO OLD JAY. NIGGA HAD BASE IN HIS VOICE WITH A PACING FLOW. THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE SOUNDS LIKE EVERYTHING AFTER BLUEPRINT 2.
”Obama said “chill, you gonna get me impeached”
But you don’t need this shit anyway
Chill with me on the beach”
THIS NIGGGA IS ICCCEEE COLD.. BEST RAPPER ALIVE NO DOUBT.
dude listen to black star or the roots… this lyric is so shallow.. how are people obsessed with it? “reachin past the star status that you grabbin at, my battle rap throws ur ass back to ur natural habitat” … from hater players by black star…. like cmon man get some real shit in ur head before u get any more brainwashed
its damn cold man. real niggas still ride with hov
better than any wayne, ross, or kanye song!
Kanye produced so many dope Jay songs…
Takeover, Izzo, Heart of the City, Bonnie & Clyde, Encore, Lucifer, Brooklyn Go Hard…
better than Encore, the song he closes out every show to?
no
Time to end this G.O.A.T. foolishness.
In this constant debate about Jay-Z being the best ever I read things like “Nas will destroy Jay-Z” or “Eminem got a better flow than Jay”
Those are OPINIONS.
When will you fools learn that you can’t win a debate with OPINIONS. Every rapper has a different style based on where they are from, the time period in which they were most successful, and their unique personality. We all can go on for days about our personal preferences but in a debate criteria like this is completely IRRELEVANT and automatically BIASED.
The only way to win a debate is with cold hard FACTS. And the fact of the matter is that, when you weigh all of the tangible criteria (Sales, Critical Acclaim, Consistency, Longevity, and Impact) Jay-Z makes the strongest case for the G.O.A.T.
Eminem has sold nearly twice as much as Jay-Z, and he is Jay’s equal when it comes to longevity and impact. But Em lacks the consistency or critical acclaim that Jay-Z has (Im not talkin cult/fanboy classics, Im talkin CERTIFIED classics. XXL/Rolling Stone/Source approved) Eminem is VERY close though.
Nas has enjoyed more critical acclaim and more overall respect in the hip-hop community through the years. And he’s definitely equal to Jay with longevity and impact. But he hasn’t been no where near as much of a consistent presence in hip-hop as Jay has. And he is obviously lacking in the sales department.
Lil Wayne just may be the most consistent rapper of all time. He’s no slouch when it comes to longevity and impact either. His glaring flaw? In his 12 year career Lil Wayne has yet to drop a truly critically acclaimed classic album (and it can be done in this climate. just look at kanye’s discography). Also, contrary to popular beleif, Wayne lacks in the sales department. Sure, Tha Carter III and IV are blockbuster albums, but his OVERALL sales of 10 mil US pale in comparison to Jay-Z’s 31 mil.
2pac is a touchy subject. When it comes to impact, pac takes the cake. No other rapper touched the world like 2pac did. He, like Em, has also sold more than Jay and he was very consistent in his time. Sadly, 2pac passed before his time which allowed Jay-Z to surpass him in longevity and critical acclaim.
LL Cool J was the prototype for what a G.O.A.T. could be. He has enjoyed the most longevity, and he was fairly consistent, but his sales, acclaim and overall impact are no where near the likes of 2pac, Eminem, and ofcourse Jay-Z.
Biggie, Rakim, Common, Snoop, the list goes on. All of these MC’s are great but none of them have the total G.O.A.T. package like Jay-Z does.
Jay-Z is the 3rd highest selling rapper of all time, and the richest. He’s one of the most acclaimed (perhaps only rivaled by his boy Kanye). He dropped multi-platinum albums YEARLY from 96′-03′, and he is still going strong today. He’s been in the game since 88′. He’s impacted hip-hop in countless ways from starting one of the 1st successful MC-owned record labels, to being the 1st non-athlete with a signature shoe, to surpassing the likes of Elvis with #1 albums.
Jay-Z is without question the Greatest MC Of All Time. Period. You don’t have to listen to him everyday (Im currently on my Kendrick wave). You don’t even have to like him. But for goodness sake, RESPECT THE FACTS.
Ive seen you post this months ago, every fucking jay z song you fucking faaagggg dude. Hes stolen lines from just aout every rapper out there. Pac dissed him over and over and he never even responded cause he knew what would happen. Jayz is not, nor will he ever be the best. There is a reason why everyone says “ethered” instead of “taken over”
Coming from a Wayne fan..great article and all true ..I also think JayZ is the greatest of all time,then Eminem,Tupac,Nas and Lil Wayne … Biggie had two good albums but he died .So we can’t tell if he would’ve fell off after that or not ..I don’t think he should be in the top 5 greatest ever..Tupac was a beast but Eminem flows better .Nas has longevity and content .Wayne started at 8 till present and has the most tracks out.Jay passed him the torch,he ruled 05 to 09 and his punch lines were crazy . Many young cats today say he inspired them e.g Kendrick,Asap,Drake,2chainz,Meek,Ace,Big sean and many more .
You have just frightened the shit out of me! A DX blogger whom not only sound educated, but also state his thoughts clearly while strengthening your comments supported by facts! I did not believe this was possible. Not on this website at least. I can smile today. Thank You bruh!
because you didnt mention mos def, talib kweli, black thought, or big L, it is plain to see that you are a media fed, mainstreamer. get educated dude, listen to those guys to see real lyricism.
no need to respond to pac, east coast had no love for him. weak mc…
All of you niggas, especially the OP and Tahir, are fucking idiots.
can’t argue with FACTS…great break down..
Everything you say about Wayne is BULLSHIT!!
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According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), 30 billion songs were illegally downloaded between 2004 and 2009. Even with sites like iTunes and Rhapsody offering legal downloads, peer-to-peer file sharing still exists. Illegally downloading music has had a significant impact on the music industry resulting in a loss of profits and jobs, and changing how music is delivered to the masses.
so? these motherfuckers make millions on music they shit out with no thought. fuck them for tryin to squeeze pennies out. music is music. performance is the money maker these days and nothing anybody does will change that.
ff
Should have known this shit was going to be horrible right after I saw Alicia Keys husband doing the beat.
2 stars…Jay’s flow is so annoying these days and the beat is just basic.
Your comment is basic! Seriously, your critique is paralleled.
It’s tight, niggas gonna hate cuz it’s Jay.
The World is under a new management… little children its Hava.
All of the negative people under this are either —
1. Wack rappers
2. Never wrote a GOOD song and recorded it
3. Just negative/pessimistic/depressed people who hate life and work shitty part time day jobs and jack off on their days off and sit on blogs all day
4. All of the above.
Or people with an opinion.
my name is brandon and I do not know what hiphop is but I like it.
This is str8 fire, if your going to hate DONT POST
Jay-Z GOAT Period !!
Dopeness
This is my opinion on the GOAT list:
1. 2Pac (No one had the emotion, the catalogue, impact, different subject matters than tupac)
2. Jay-Z (“Overall” the better Rapper here. He bought that whole swagger into the game…)
3. Eminem (Better rapper than Jay-Z no doubt, but overall I think Hov was more dynamic)
4. Kanye West (Best hip hop “artist” ever PERIOD! All his albums are classic except 808)
5. Lil Wayne (Best deliverer in the genres history. In Wayne’s case I pretend he died in 08)
6. Biggie (Only 2 albums. No doubt the best flow in any rapper i’ve heard but people rank him higher due to nostalgia more than anything)
7. Nas (Illmatic…)
8. Andre (Different, cool, crazy… to sum it up he is your rappers favourite rapper)
9. Lupe (Oh man… Kick Push, Kick Push COASTTT…)
10. Drake/Kendrick (Only time will tell, it might be a little early but they already on my list…)
dude… this list is the list of someone who doesnt know hip hop other than what the media feeds them. mos def, talib kweli, black thought from the roots, big L, big pun,hahaha i mean seriously man ur list is utter bullshi,,u forgot so many. lil wayne? drake? kendrick? kanye west? HAHA get serious man.. ur list is the radio top 10, not the real motherfucker top 10. get educated
thats a good list, i like it
How you gon leave Cole out man!!
John he might not be used to that generation of hiphop. I agree on the kanye west thing but he would be way lower on that list. As for biggie his abiility to do storytelling rap while painting vivid pictures was amazing. But I agree his list is a lil off.
you list lost is the meaning of my user name LOL wow not a lcue about hiphop this is not even close to a GOAT list..
consensus rap sucks.
NAs
Ghost
Kool G
JayZ
Raewkon
Scarface
So the people criticizing this list, are informing me that a list that consist of Eminem, Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie, Kanye West and 3Stacks on it is wack? You all sound ignorant. Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Big L you cant even compare them to these artist. Jay, EM, B.i.g, Kanye and Nas instucted the way for rappers!!! Please inform me on a area where Big L, Mos Def and Talib are inferior to any of the artist I mentioned… Because all of them are exceedingly talented, more advanced, and has a better genaral aptitude than all 3 of them. Yall sound like deluded ignoramuses
Kanye is no GOAT MC. However he is the greatest rap recording artist. Every album his made was hot including 808s.
That said, Wayne and Kanye are not GOAT b/c the GOAT is your MC skill.
1.Jay
2.Nas
3.Tupac
4.Biggie
5.Em
Those are the top five you can argue about what order they are in but they are the top five.
To all the people criticising me for MY LIST y’all are dumb. I agree with Anonymous ^ on a more general note those are the 5 GOAT list. I made a list based on my preference on what I truly belive based on my own tastes to be the best to do it. I heard bigl, mod, talib,big pun etc… But these artists are no where near any of the above. Some people just like to list them because they want to sound wise by stating the non obvious but you can’t compare mod with jay-z. Reasonable doubt would put mod def career to shame including that blackstar album. Jay-z even having to dumb down his lyrics to a wider audience made better stuff than mos def. Mos def and talib IMO mad that “conscious rap” for no reason, their topis were random and very inaccurate and many times you just felt they were trying to sound smarter than they actually were… but then again all the dumb n**** on the streets felt that was dope.. lol To summarise you can’t argue with my top 10 all of them are proven ARTISTS.
To y’all who say WAYNE isn’t top 10 EVER listen to these songs and come back here to see if you have the same opinion:
La La, Carter II Fly In Fly Out, Make It Rain, Make Way, I’m a D Boy, Im Me, We Don’t, You Aint Know, Hustler Musik, Hit Him Up.
good list. kdot and drake might be the next 2 greats..my moneys on kdot..his storytellin is second 2 none
that said
1)pac – for the same reasons you had
2)eminem
3) jayz
4)nas
5)biggy
..kdots coming up too with a new more on par records to GKMC..hell be there
thank you..I feel like Niggas just hating on Wayne. Wayne doesn’t get the credit he deserves. like it or not I think he is among the greatest to ever do it .Biggie had just 2 albums and he on the list. Wayne ruled hiphop 05-09 .nobody could touch him.Jay passed him the torch and Em said he was jealous of Wayne.KRS,Kanye and Busta all said Wayne is the greatest .Wayne changed the game and influenced most of this young cats out now. Y’all know Wayne is up there but y’all mofokas scared niggas gon bash on y’all if y’all include his name in the list.
Da worst list ever!
@Tahie, everything you said is BULLSHIT!!
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED ??? ARE. YOU. NOT. ENTERTAINED ?.
CRACK!!!!
Simply put, Jay-Z rhymes about current events as they play out. If you’re looking for early Jay then you’re wishing for a star. I respect any artist that can express themselves about real life situations articulately. Not many can do it.
he always has…
do you fools listen to music or jus….
Jay-Z is the embodiment of truth.
This is too vicious.
Ya’ll gon learn todayyyy
I done turned Havana to AtlAnnotateanta
Guayabera shirts and bandanas
Every time you think they got me I switch the plan up
Bulletproof this, radio scanners
Ballin’ ’til they ban us
You gettin’ too much bread, they try to jam you
Boy from the hood but got White House clearance
Sorry y’all, I don’t agree with y’all appearance
Politicians never did shit for me
Except lie to me, distort history
Wanna give me jail time and a fine
Fine, let me commit a real crime
I might buy a kilo for Chief Keef
Out of spite, I just might flood these streets
Hear the freedom in my speech
Got an onion from Universal, read it and weep
Would’ve brought the Nets to Brooklyn for free
Except I made millions off it, you fuckin’ dweeb
I still own the building, I’m still keeping my seat
Y’all buy that bullshit, you’d better keep y’all receipt
Obama said “chill, you gonna get me impeached”
But you don’t need this shit anyway
Chill with me on the beach
He said buy a kilo for gp not chief keef….dummy
Judging by the comments, most people DIDNT LEARN TODAY. JIGGA. GOAT.
just read FORBES
Jay-Z stays winning
what ya’ll don’t fuckin get is that Jigga is addressing heads of state while your bitchmade favorite rapper is addressing other bitchmade rappers. Birds of a feather motherfucker!!!
DAMN YOUNG MONEY GETS SHIT ON AGAIN. JAY Z AIN’T ADDRESSSING OUR BITCHASSES, HE’S ADDRESSING THE PRESIDENT. WE ON A BITCHASS LEVEL RIGHT NOW. LIKE BASEMENT LEVEL SHIT. BASIC SHIT.
Dope beat! Lil sumin different finally
Nearly every bar has substance, no filler, no throwaway’s. Every Jay z song references some global, domestic, current or historical event. People say he only bragging but look at the context behind what you perceived as bragging, is he speaking the truth.
this is the Jay i like. Where has he been.
THE ONLY WAY NON POLITICALLY INVOLVED AMERICANS COULD GO THROUGH CUBA IS OF HUMANITARIAN REASONS. WHICH MEANS JAY-Z ENCOURAGES COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM. IM NOTHING AGAINST THAT TYPE OF REFORM. WHAT IM AGAINST IS JAY RAPPING ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY HE GOT AND HOW RICHER HE IS COMPARED TO THE OTHER NIGGA..AND THEN THE NIGGA HAS THE AUDACITY TO SYMPATHIZE WITH CUBANS?! FUCC OUTTA HERE..JUST LIKE WHEN HE DECIDED TO SELL (WHICH MEAN GETTING MONEY OUT OF IT) OCCUPY T SHIRTS FOR ONE THE BIGGEST SOCIALIST MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK HISTORY….YALL CALLING DRAKE FAKE CUZ HE TRYNNA BE HARD AND GANGSTER ..LMFAO JUST LOOK AT YOUR IDOL FIRST U DUMBASS NIGGAS..HE MAY BE ON THE FORBES LIST BUT SEAN CARTER IS THE BIGGEST HYPOCRIT IN THE GAME YALL CANT DENY THAT
Wait, aren’t you the same cap writing slash Weezy dick riding, or in my opinion, Blind-Weezy-Extremist?
How the fuck does Jay-Z encourage socialism or communism when his rise was obviously due to our democratic capitalist society? See it’s this stupid shit that kills me. Is he Illuminati or a Socialist? The two don’t mix well people.
Secondly, don’t be such an obvious hypocrite. How are you going to love YMCMB then hold Jay-Z accountable for, “RAPPING ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY HE GOT AND HOW RICHER HE IS COMPARED TO THE OTHER NIGGA”. Hmmm…. Sounds like some Young Money shit to me! Hence the fucking name, “Young Money!”
Finally, your sounding extremely conservative for this site. I respect the conservative view, just not the extremist. There are too many conflicting points in your “post” to come on hear kicking that wack shit to these kids. Occupy Wall Street was not a “Socialist Movement”. To a conservative extremist it was, but that’s just due to the propaganda you were obviously fed.
LMAO…. This ain’t Fidel’s Cold War Cuba. You don’t even know what socialism is. And I doubt you know anything about New York’s history. Stop acting like a bitch and saying stupid things. GET AN EDUCATION. You sound like an ignorant.
news channels trying to make it seem like hes dissing brooklyn, shit pisses me off when they assume and dont bother to analyze the lyrics. and why the fuck does it matter if he does sell his stake of ownership, at the end of the day he still contributed to bringing the barclays center to brooklyn. im no dickrider, im just watching the news and hearing them pitch him to be some asshole whos dissin brooklyn meanwhile if you listened to that “fucking dweeb” lyric he’s aiming at his critics. hiphop will always be misunderstood
My top 10
1. Jay-Z
2. Tupac
3. Eminem
4. Nas
5. BIG
6. Scarface
7. Rakim
8. Black Thought
9. Common
10. Ice Cube
EMINEM is #1. Tupac and Biggie are overrated as far as musical ability. They’re famous as a result of their social influence.
actually thats a pretty solid list. Funny you say that, cause you have it completely backwards. Eminem is actually the one who is overrated due to social influence. dont get me wrong, hes skilled and belongs, but trash singles like my name is, real slim, without me always held his albums back from classic status (not to mention some of those terrible hooks). plus he was always played on rock stations, which no other hip hop artist in those times ever had. if i had a nickel for every person i met that bought an Em album and didnt even listen to hip hop. not a bad thing, but thats why hes so overrated. 2pac and BIG dropped classic albums during their brief careers, and deserve their spot.
What about Lil Wayne? YES Lil Wayne… People act like he wasn’t your favourite rapper at some point or as if he didn’t dominate the rap game for 2-3 years… Yes he fell off, but so have all of the above on this list. We don’t have to wait for him to die to start understanding what Lil WAYNE has truly done to the game. I’m not a Wayne groupie or a fan, but I just can’t understand why people can’t recognise what he has done. Surely since 2008 90% of his songs are Pop radio garbage. But we can’t act like Eminems Relapse or even all Tupacs songs were like Dear Mama… I don’t know just felt I had to say this.
1.Nas
2.Pac
3.Ghostface
4.Mos Def
5.Scarface
6.Common
7.Black Thought
8.MF Doom
9.RaeKwon The Chef
10.Lupe Fiasco
I second “black thought”!
Eminem is not #1, if you take into consideration the shit he’s put out past mosh, it’s terrible poppy trash, and don’t argue the growth of him as an artist to a human, it’s trash. He used to be infuckingcredible, now he’s subpar, dynamic, but subpar.
thank you Maine,it seems like you just read my mind and wrote it down. Wayne doesn’t get the credit he deserves. like it or not I think he is among the greatest to ever do it .Biggie had just 2 albums and he on the list. Wayne ruled hiphop 05-09 .nobody could touch him.Jay passed him the torch and Em said he was jealous of Wayne.KRS,Kanye and Busta all said Wayne is the greatest .Wayne changed the game and influenced most of this young cats out now. Y’all know Wayne is up there but y’all mofokas scared niggas gon bash on y’all if y’all include his name in the list.
Both Maine and Tahir are fucking idiots. Everything those niggas said is abumch of bullshit lies.
Fire.
No matter what you think, no one can deny that Jigga came hard on this one.
you know why they went to cuba right? they’re doing songs with tupac the nigga lives out there
Hahahaha, If that was true that would be the biggest fraud in History… TUPAC BACK! LMAO
He say’s he’s from the hood and has clearance from the white house meaning he is allowed to go the white house and lames start reaching thinking he meant the white house gave him clearance to go to cuba… LMAO… HAHAHAHA… How fucking dumb can you be? This shit got me ROTFC on how all the corny ass conspiracy theorists and Jay-Z haters are reaching… LMAO
i know. big jay fan….. but not phuckin with this right now
what you except @anon- their prob cheif keef and southern rap fans (aka dumb as shit)..
After some research this is the critically acclaimed GOAT list by “Hip Hop HEADS”
1. 2Pac/Biggie
2. Jay-Z/Eminem
3. Nas
4. Rakim
5. Run DMC
6. KRS-ONE/LL Cool J
7. Big Daddy Kane
8. Kool G Rap
9. Scarface/Big L
10. Ice Cube/Eazy-E
Honorable Mentions: WU-Tang Clan, Andre 3000, Snoop Dogg, Common, Mos Def
My only argument is number two Jay-z hands down!!
lol how is andre 3000 not at least #2, do you listen to rhymes?
2pac my ass
yeah something like that! finally a good list on hhdx..id slide biggy down below eminem and jayz tho and id prob leave of eazy e, cube and scarface
good list but Eazy E?????????
Nigga never wrote a rhyme is his life
dont forget Slick Rick
Usually don’t comment on the favorite list drama but this is a solid list, I agree 100%.
shit cray
Ki
361 People have never been to Cuba !
Yal gon’ learn today!!
Only Jay could tell the President of the United States to fuck his duties and job as commandor and chief and hang out on the beach. lol That shit is big…
Nice this is what i miss definitely better then that suit and tie shit!
Turn Havana to Atlanta- Think Tupac. Think Firing back at Cops/Feds in Atlanta
Gyuarabera Shirts and bandanas- Think Castro/Cubavera linens/type of shirt you see Cubaneras wear. Bandanas keeping it still hood, Tupac style. When he was in court with the linen shirt for shooting cop, leaving he answered every question THUG LIFE…
Clearance sorry don’t agree with your appearance, politician aint done shit for me…referring to the Rubio/Right Wing criticism.
Out of Spite I might buy a Kilo for Chief Keef- Think Chief age 17-17k for a Ki, then Peep the Flow…I thought he said GP initially-General Principle…he gives it away when he changes the flow.
Whenever I feel threatened I start shooting- Truth, shot his older brother as a teenager. Threatened by the attacks on the wife/kid…so he is firing back.
Got an Onion from Universal, read it and weep- Think New RocNation Distribution/Publishing deal…MEGA.
Almost wanna start a revolution, catch a body and head to Houston- Think NAS- NY State of Mind, Time to start a REVOLUTION, catch a body and head to HOUSTON, but HOUSTON is a Airforce term for home…or safe house, OR in this case CUBA, meaning the US can’t come there and get him, political asylum.
I’m in Cuba, I love Cubans- Think the people, and cigars…not the gov’t
Communist shit confusing-Think every fucking thing is made is China…but the reason for the EMBARGO in Cuba is b/c they are a communist country.
Idiot Wind- Think Bob Dylan song when he addresses his critics
You’re an idiot Baby- Stacey Dash, essentially tells her she should pay attention more…or become a student of how he gets down.
Zoolander- Think the Movie.
Shout to Swizz for the hook…
Great Breakdown homie. I like honest opinions, not emotional banter, these people are nuts on this blog. I guess wwhen your the king, people will always throw rocks at thhe throne.
HOV true black brother. Yawl can eat a dick on that illuminati shit.
we got scanners scanners scannerssss
lol at Gchat notification sound at the end. illuminati
Hov ain’t scared.
Don’t fuck with a mogul who can Rap, ya little bish politician (AKA professional ass kisser / bullshitter). Jay put the smack down on yo’ bitch-ass
The Jay Z haters will NEVER win. LOL! BET yawl buy his new album.
Well said
Awesome job JAY
Lupe is like, “Damn I tried saying all kinds of crazy shit and not a fuck was given. Jay Z and LL Cool J sonned me.”
lol…
I dunno, I don’t listen to Jay Z to learn anything. I know from the past what Jay Z I like and what Jay Z I don’t. I found this track pretty boring, I wouldn’t listen to it again. Despite the lyrics, he didn’t do his delivery any justice on this track.
How is Redman left off everybody’s list?? Your list is TRASH without Funk Doc Tha Spot
they to young playa
100,000 TRUTH!!! Doc too raw for these lames…
Its Funk Docta Spock dickhead
fuck the politics get at them hov
Nice
the illuminati do not support track
Dope!!!
Uh oh Jay z popping! Shit I wonder if he going to get checked by the elite for this one!
Jay Z is and has always been da king of hip hop…ask Nas, he don’t want it with Hov. But I swear this nas stans be acting like they dnt know who is sitting on da throne!!
What throne are you lookin’ at because I’m lookin’ at New York & I see Nas.. fuck outta here
Jay-Z:
– only cares about himself
– only raps about money these days.
– only makes poprap music nowadays
– is fucking arogant. Why? Aint cool to be nice?
You only hate while trying to scrounge for $15.00 to put in your empty azz gas tank. Loser.
Jay-Z
-One of the most successful in the game
-He can’t rap about committing drive by’s and whippin’ soda; he’s rich
-Makes music for the masses now to make money, he’s not going to conform to some hip hop heads that smoke weed all day
-He doesn’t need to be nice, he’s Jay-Z
–
That Ni… is real!
Barack Obama Admits He Visited Cuba With Jay-Z
http://www.ogregister.org/1/post/2013/04/barack-obama-admits-he-visited-cuba-with-jay-z.html
OKAY, This Knocks!!! Vintage JAY BACK!
Jay-Z > Nas. I put money on that.
cosign
Cosign#2
neither nicer than the other stop comparing. this shit old
Hov is still the God. 5/5
yo hold up, homie. talking reckless about the g.o.a.t. when jay is quoting the g.o.a.t lines. nas>jay musically. jay>nas money-wise.no debate needed.just the truth. oh and i like them both.
musically “real” and “truth” are subjective.
I love Nas – to me he is my fav
But Jay… He lives what he raps, i.e the stuff he raps about he is actually doing…
It’s his truth.
Nas started getting more truthful circa GODSON album – and Jay circa Black Album
Both are legends musically but only one is business god….
HOVA
oooh he said ‘dweeb’– how lyrical!!
too bad he owns ZERO POINT ZERO percent of Barclay’s Arena.
but being all bitch ass about might make some white nerds think otherwise, ok.
not true… Jay z does own space inside the arena…in fact he owns quite a few stores in there… he owns the company that does the marketing for the Nets and the arena.. know the facts son.. Nas said oochie wally ..how lyrical..come on son dweeb is a term…no it a word..by itself it isn’t lyrical..keep it in context idiot…add it with the other words to see the lyricism..easy
lol, niggas love to hate. no one is fussing over him saying dweeb, when you getting “bread” they try to “jam”, the onion read it and weep line.. those shits are double entendres, wordplay..i know you dont get it.. but its hard to form complex rhymes thats why its lyrical..faggot
Regardless of what he owns, this dude is worth over 300 million nigga so hate on that while taking the bus to work today HAHA
this shit good. but why are the camel warriors mentioning nas here?? leave the goat’s name out of your mouths please!!
Grow up.
camel warriors hahaha lmao
Wasnt all that..ya gotta calm down. Too hype over anything Jay puts out Smh.
Exactly
check me out.. bringin back that smooth underground feel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwc8nYM6a-0
You decent. Like the rap name, stick wit that and keep rhymin’
Dude is mad nice, you can’t even front. And you gotta respect it, because it would be easy for him to never pick up a mic again and still be easily rich for the rest of his life. But he loves the art. He puts out little mixtape shit like this, and doesn’t give a fuck what his rich business colleagues think about it. It’s still for the niggas that just appreciate dope hip-hop, and leave all that tabloid shit for the bitches and the analysts to talk about. Not to sound like I’m clamouring over this nigga, but the only way to put it is that he’s a hood legend. How can you come from the hood and see what he’s done with his life and not be proud of him. He’s the real American Dream. You dudes tryin’ to shit on his name are really missing the point, and even worse, just underappreciating a lethal MC.
Exactly.
Ain’T THAT The TRUTH!!!
Say that twice, dudes act like he ain’t body M.C’s. for 10 straight summers. He switched up styles to fake out the biters, made stars outta nobodies, trend setter (“Crisp Jeans and a button up”)-“Sweet”, “Ace Of Spade”…dudes just like to hate for hates sake. Do your research, dude murked many while going Plat every time out.
Lethal??? GTFOH!! He’s just phoning it in these days…you may now release yourself from his johnson…
preach man!
I think some of you are hired to hate on Jay Z. There’s no way in hell you’re a hip-hop head and not see that Hov is nice.
Thank u!!!
THE TAKE OVER, THE BREAKS OVER, GOD MC- JAY HOVA
A DISGRACE – The world is under a new management –
I can relate to the haters cuz I think Jay is a fake ass mufucka but no one can deny this nigga is dope. Even when he had his shit with Nas and he told niggas he left condoms on the baby seat, God’s Son was STILL saying “I hate him but this nigga can rap”.
I love Nas….
But Jay Won
I love Jay & Nas…..
But Nas Won
Come on man he gots no flow this guy doesnt make music he makes rhymes. BTW i believe im realler then u homie!
listen to “so appalled” , “die and be hero, or live long enough to yourself become the villain”
“The NEW role model fuck the Zoolander shit.” In other words we ain’t going for that good old boys imagery.
To y’all who say WAYNE isn’t top 10 EVER listen to these songs and come back here to see if you have the same opinion:
-La La
-Carter II Fly In Fly Out
-Make It Rain
-Make Way
-I’m a D Boy
-Im Me
-We Don’t
-You Aint Know
-Hustler Musik
-Hit Him Up
listened to it , and he’s still in my top 10 worst rappers ever lol
you forgot ‘lil wayne – tie my hands’. classic!
5 reasons why lil wayne is wack
1. He has ghost writers writings most of his shit.
2. He fake as hell. (Oh ima hot boy, ,oh now ima dope boy, oh now ima blood, oh now ima rcoker, oh now ima skater). fuck outta here…
3. He a closet homo.
4. He kisses another man and calls him daddy even tho they are not related.
5. He sold out by going pop.
Wayne is the best wack rapper. Real talk. he is better than every garbage rapper. I give him that….
the fact that you choose bits of “tracks” to point out that he is your top 10 instead of actual content (lets jus call them mixtapes/albums) shows how young and stupid you are, but don’t let my words put you down jus look in the mirror , realize your mistake and accept the fact that you like lil wayne and he is your favorite rapper but remember he isn’t in anybodys top 10 except YOURS…….MORON
Damn Jay whyyyyyyyyyy you have to do them like this ..why oh why ..straight nutsssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Open Letter
50 > jay z
He delivers, as always
Nice!!!
I cannot believe people still talking about jay z vs nas. They are on the same tier of lyrical ability but not to say you shouldn’t choose a favorite MC you just look dumb talking about it still
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i can understand that your the ” bottom of the barrel scumbag” trying to sucker ppl out of money but dam scam ppl right and post an actual scam link and dont ever try to fit in with the world by trying to add spanish words.
why do people dick ride Jay Z so much? This shit is not even that good. Jay Z got lyrics, but no substance, or delivery. His music doesn’t flow he just says it.
I wouldn’t say dick riding, I would say that Jay been out since 95 and gave an album every year til ’03. No one ever got tired of him because he gave consistent hot shit. However, now that he is gone from the scene and isnt producing music yearly, its like now people are starting to respect his craft and are missing the flow. So when Jay comes out its an event. His whole marketing plan is different than a newer younger artist cause Jay is a brand now. Lyrically, this song was dope and its gonna bang out in the club and plus, if you decipher the song, the way his is telling people to kiss my ass without even saying it.
YO IB, it’s no use to try to exlain that to whiny ass kids that’ll never understand growth of artist and longevity of skills.
he really does have a whole different marketing plan
Calling me a kid? Really when you can’t even spell explain. Get out of here man! I wasn’t saying Jay was never good. I was saying his music doesn’t flow. He may have a new marketing plan good for him. I still like listening to songs that flow. You calling me a kid when you probably listen to Wayne, Wiz, and Tyga. You probably don’t know shit on music, probably haven’t even listened to Jay Z before this song, shut the fuck up queer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITho3CCKkc
Q: Why does Shawn feel the need to LIE LIE LIE LIE about his non-existant “ownership” of the Barclay’s arena?
Sure, he has a lot of money but he ain’t got that– he ain’t got ** ANY ** of it, in fact.
Defensive shystie motherfucker.
you is def. a female for worrying bout someone elses pockets than your own
god forbid a rapper exaggerate.. lmao.. with that said, jay is STILL running the game.. next
THIS SHIT IS CORNY..AND WHY IS THIS NUH’S CLOTHES SO TIGHT ALL OF THE SUDDEN???
Dear Mr.Z
So when I heard of your visit, I thought to myself, Jay Z seems like a smart, thoughtful guy. He doesn’t realize what he’s walking into. He probably just thinks Cuba is a chic place to relax with the family. He probably just doesn’t know the things I know.
He likely doesn’t know that the Cuban tourism industry is run by the Cuban military, so when he spends money at an officially sanctioned hotel, or restaurant, he is directly funding the oppressors of the Cuban people.
He doesn’t know that most Cubans have poor access to independent news sources, the internet, books, and food.
He doesn’t know that Cuba has two health systems, one for the well-connected, and one for everyone else.
He doesn’t know that before Castro, the Cuban peso traded one-to-one with the dollar, and that since then, the Castros have raided the nation’s coffers and introduced widespread poverty to a once prosperous nation.
He doesn’t know that my ancestors fought to free Cuba from Spain, and to set up a democracy to ensure that they would always be free.
He doesn’t know that in spite of those dreams, my mother and her family fled for their lives from this regime way back in 1960, as did *two million* other Cubans.
He doesn’t know about the thousands of people executed by firing squads led by sexy t-shirt icon Che Guevara.
He doesn’t know about the dissidents, artists, and librarians that currently rot in Cuba’s prisons, and the thousands more who live in fear.
He doesn’t know about Orlando Zapata Tamayo, an Afro-Cuban dissident who died in a Cuban prison in 2010 after an 80-day hunger strike.
He doesn’t know that a U.S. Citizen, Alan Gross, is currently serving a 15-year sentence in a Cuban prison for providing phones and computers to the members of the Cuban Jewish community. He doesn’t know that all attempts by our government and private citizens to secure his release have been scoffed at.
He has likely forgotten about all those who have died in the Florida Straits, trying to float on makeshift boats to freedom.
He doesn’t know that contrary to popular understanding, Amnesty International reports that repression of dissidents in Cuba is actually on the rise.
He doesn’t know that when an international music luminary shows up in Cuba, his presence is unwittingly used as propaganda to support the regime.
He doesn’t know that artists in Cuba, with whom he was supposedly having a cultural exchange, serve under the close supervision of the government, and don’t enjoy the freedom to defiantly name check the President, call out a few senators, threaten to buy a kilo of cocaine just to spite the government, or suggest that they will follow up their purchase with a shooting spree, as rapped about in “Open Letter.”
He doesn’t know that just because our country applies a different, some say hypocritical policy to China, it doesn’t make either regime any less oppressive, or any more acceptable.
He doesn’t know that when people say “I’ve got to visit Cuba before it gets ruined,” I think to myself, “It’s already ruined. And by the way, ruined by what? freedom of speech? walls that don’t crumble? shoes? Do you mean ruin Cuba? Or ruin your fashionable vacation in Cuba?”
He doesn’t know that when I really start to think about all this, I get so mad I can’t sleep.
He doesn’t know that when he’s wearing that hat, smoking that coveted contraband cigar, he looks like a dupe.
He doesn’t know how much good he could be doing in Cuba, for Cubans, instead. Bearing witness, supporting artistic freedom, listening.
He doesn’t realize that as someone privileged to be born in a free society, one in which someone could come from nothing and become a celebrated music, sports, fashion, business and political mogul, it’s not only his good luck to be able to bring to light the needs of the less fortunate, it’s his obligation.
But then, Jay-Z, I heard your new song, and paid attention to the lyrics.
I heard you bragging about your “White House clearance.”
I heard you talk about how much you enjoy Cuban cigars.
And I heard you tell the President I voted for, “You don’t need this shit anyway, chill with me on the beach.”
You reject the responsibility to speak up for an oppressed people, even while you take up your own cause with gusto.
Then I figured it out.
You actually know all of this stuff, you just don’t care.
That’s not just being a bad citizen, or a bad neighbor.
It’s being a bad artist.
It’s Nihilism with a beat.
Cuban Refuge
Cuba was only free for about 8 years, in which the prosperity you speak of was minimal, then it was ran by a dictator batista and then came Castro. In war people flea because they don’t want to die, simple. look at the any conflict that has ever occured, i can’t be bothered to answer it all .. put your emotions aside..
Its a man on holiday with his wife. done. Tune is Fire btw
let me get you some tissues fucking flame, you writing shit like this on a hip-hop website….do i need to say more lol
LOL DIDNT READ 1 WORD OF THE ABOVE COMMENTS, BUT FUCK CUBA, gtfoh with that essay its HIPHOPDX not 60 minutes!! lollolololo
damn nigga… i read every word of that shit… you special cuban nigga… you touched ma heart…anytime u want to watch the heat throw a ridiculous beating to my knicks.. its on me..
jay “jigga man hov knowles the 3rd” z
I feel you but Jay Z’s lack of artistic virtue does not necessarily make prior existing problems worse, in fact, it is more than likely that Jay Z is a symptom of the iniquities that existed prior to his vacation in Cuba. In all realness your post is an example of the absolute minimum that one could do in order to be the opposite of what you criticized Jay Z for (the aesthetic of your post waxes Vonnegut). Obviously you’re not expected to be the one who breathes new life into the Cuban revolution, but you should definitely not look to Jay Z for it either. You wrote your post and you did well by your people. Thanks for taking the time to write all that out and keep fighting for the cause.
and you are being too fucking complex with a damn song! all that energy u put in ur comment could have went to good use but u are wasting it on jay z… who is really the dumb ass
when u are not getting paid for this!!!!
faggots cant even create theyre own shit, your nice little “letter” is plagiarized.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/phil-lord-jay-z-cuba_n_3069831.html
Yo this is dope but this guy Rick Fouche has been droppin mixtapes every single week!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmIQzM6tLAs
rick, you aiight, but keep up the promo and grinding.. 10,000 hours makes you perfect..
Yeah I have been hearing about Rick Fouche. That Aint Nobody video is so sick!!!!!!!!
Yeah Jay-Z is god. But the young dudes Cudi, Big Sean, Rick Fouche, Kendrick will be legends too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmIQzM6tLAs
lol.. big seana legend?? hes aiight, but nowhere near legend status.. matter of fact, the only dude on your list who has a shot is k dot
Who the hell is Rick Fouche?
“WHO DA FUCK IS RENEE ZELLWEDGA!!!!!”
To answer your question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmIQzM6tLAs
Dope …unlike kanye, hov still killing it
kanye makes you think that, but sooner or later you have a new song of his on repeat
Fire!!!
fire
imagiine a new jay-z album filled with content like this
he will make us all feel stupid for doubting him for a second lol
word.. all he needs is a lil motivation, and its all over for the haters…
This is the all time top 10 GOAT list based on skills, impact, lyrics, etc ( in no order). feel free to comment
Rakim
Nas
Jay Z
Ice Cube
Scarface
Kool G rap
MF doom
canibus (late 90’s-2003)
K rino
Big Daddy Kane
DOOM is sick but he shouldn’t be there and who the fuck is K Rino? Replace them with Pac and Biggie and your list is somewhat credible.
in my opinion, Biggie should be nowhere near the top10 all time list. he’s a legend, but vastly overrated due to his death (same with pac). they weren’t as skilled as the guys I mentioned above (my opinion).
your talking impact, and you say pac shouldn’t have made the list?? NO ONE made a bigger impact in rap music than pac.. nobody.. and to leave em off the list?? skills? (10, one of the most proficient spitters ever), impact? (9 when he dropped his first two albums the entire rap game took notice) lyrics (10, his lyrics and wordplay are top 5 all time, ask ANY MC).. rino (no impact on the game, although he could spit), doom (same), and cannibus (he made an impact but he still aint on pac or ems level.. em shitted on him during the beef).. word is bond
^anon, we cant really say if big and pac were all time legends b/c they died early. the mc’s i listed (IMO) are the top10 best of all time. Em is too inconsistent to be on that list (3 shit albums), Big rapped simplistic shit but had a dope ass flow to make up 4 that.
i like this list…Oh you bloggers are Pussy lol
even with pac dying early, NO ONE made a bigger impact on the game.. NOBODY.. he was in like 5 blockbuster movies, and dropped like 4 classic albums before he died.. even if your saying that he only got hyped up b/c he died (which undeniably he did get a big boost) he was STILL made the biggest impact of any rap artist.. ever.. if you wanna discount impact, you should take it off your list of criteria..
oh, and why no reply about my point about em being left off the list?? 😉 or nothing about my points on rino, doom, or cannibus??
lol, nevermind, you said em was inconsistent.. cannibus wasn’t?? doom wasn’t?? rino wasn’t?? gtfoh.. em’s skills, lyrics and impact shitted all over those three combined.. sorry about the semi-hostile tone of this last comment, but get real man.. you shouldn’t be calling your list the top 10 goats of all time.. it should be your top 10 fav MCs of all time.. because 99/100 peeps you ask would agree that pac, big, and em, would make the goat list over rino, doom, and cannibus..
Yasiin Bey over K rino and Em over cannibus be real doe
can never understand hiphop fans infatuation with rappers that are real and about that lifewho the fuck cares if he was really a thug or not? Ur not hangin out with himthe real question is CAN HE RAP?? HOW IS HIS MUSIC?? U dont get a pass cuz your REALLY a criminal. Fuck that. I could careless about what you do in your personal time. I just want to get to some good music when I buy your album thats it. Only in hip hop do we say yea, his music sucks but hes REAL so I like him
the funny part is jay’s music is and always has been “real”.. he has always rapped about his life, just as he blew up, he had new shit to rap about..
Jay z is such a fucking sell out. blueprint 3 was the nail in the coffin, this nigga would drop a collabo album with beiber if it kept him hot. i never seen a nigga hold on like this. writing articles for bullshit rolling stone, a publication that has tried to destroy hip hop on several occasions. not only is jay begging for acceptance, his music is shit now. dumb bitch nigga. self praise is no praise at all. a king doesnt crown himself, a king is crowned by the people, Wayne is the king
props to nas recognizing a true legend. Jay-z is the best emcee ever. PERIOD! name another rapper that has lasted as long as him and still selling records… everybody looks at jay and says he sold out because he doesnt talk about the same stuff he did back in the reasonable doubt era or even the blueprint era. hes passed that, hes 40 years old and surrounded by money, yet he still recognizes that his words have an impact, you think watch the throne was all about money? did you even listen to murder to excellence? did you even listen to new day?
I agree that jay is ARGUABLY the best mc ever (he makes a good case, but its not a forgone conclusion), but em dropped his debut (not counting infinite) in 99, 3 years after jay, and is still selling mad records.. the only reason em aint considered to be running the game right now is because he doesn’t want to.. if he came out and did publicity, public apperances, and dropped an album each year for the next 2/3 years, he would be right up there.. like I said, jay has a case, but don’t discredit em
u guys are idiots and know nothing about hip hop
Eminem
nas sold records this past year and he has been in the game since ’91, longer than jay z, jay z obviously sold more, but Nas refused to do the commercial thing and is really made a career based on his taste. both have very respectable legacy’s
sd- how am I an idiot?? please explain, because each and every single point I made is valid.. the only thing you could say is “your an idiot”.. lmao.. silly kid, go eat a dick..
My question is why do people hate JayZ?
I respect you if you just don’t like his music. But some people call him a sellout?
why is it that so many blacks will only celebrate you as long as you dont get too much success? I’ll tell you. because those of us who think that way are the REAL enemy. you allow someone to program the idea in your head that blacks can’t be but so successful before they are considered a sell-out. it’s like a tax bracket. you good until you pass a certain success level. then you are a sell-out. Yall don’t even realize that this is a slave mentality.
I’ve never seen a white person call Eminem a sellout lol
Jay is a Nas stan.
1. Jay-Z begged Nas and AZ to be on “Bring It On” song off the Reasonable Doubt album. But Nas turned it down.
2. Jay-Z begged Nas to be on Dead Presidents so Nas turned him down so he sampled him.
3. Jay-Z sampled Nas voice AGAIN on Crack Game/Rap Game or whatever the fuck.
4. Jay-Z used to rap like the fu-schnickens but tried to switch his shit up when he heard Illmatic
5. The fact that Jay even knew Nas’ child’s mother is stalker-ish
6. Jay-Z said “Who’s the best MC, Jay-Z, Biggie and NAS” before the beef
7. Jay-Z admitted to listening to ALL of Nas albums in Takeover
8. Jay-Z randomly showed up at the recording of “Black Republican” and put himself on that track (No, it wasn’t a planned collab)
9. Jay-Z had AZ in the video for Dead Presidents
10. Jay-Z started working with people like Frank Ocean and Jay Electronica after NAS shouted them out and worked with them first
11. Jay-Z tried to get Nas on the Empire State song AND REMIX but Nas refused both
12. Jay-Z invited Nas to perform at the Carnegie Hall show recently
I could go on forever…Because Jay has been on Nas’ dick forever. This is why Nas called him a “STAN
And you are obviously a Nas Stan as well, homeboy. Who fucking cares?
lol, that is honestly jay z hating. Nas is probably better, but this is jay z’s track not nas’
True I guess your right. That’s why jay signed Nas to his label. And Nas agreed.
WHO gives a finuck…Neither one of them dudes are paying my rent so why sit here taking inventory on them. Just make good music like Jay did with this song and keep it moving. Nas is king lyrically but Jay has friends in high places which allows him to stay relevant. The guy wants to make his billion dollars…Nas just wants to put out music that inspires this hip hop culture…there isn’t anything wrong with any of them.
most of those are correct except for the black republician collabo. that was mutual. i agree that jay admires nas and vice versa. and Def Jam wasn’t Jay-Z’s label. LA Reid signed Nas to Def Jam. You know LA Reid and Nas are friends? Jay-Z ushered Nas into the label as introducing the public that Nas joined Def Jam. that’s the sole reason he had that I Declare War concert Power 105 thrown. this is fact. there’s proof of that. LA Reid was the label head. Jay-Z served as president. and for LA to sign Nas is utmost respect. Nas always wanted to be on Def Jam in the first place. Damn I’m suprised u cats didn’t know this stuff
u never see jay fans shitting on nas in every jay z post.. its always the other way round. jay fans got nothing to prove because jay is already highly regarded. opn the other hand i cant even enjoy a new nas song on this site without reading some nas fuckboy saying some sideways shit about jay because nas gets somewhat over looked and they dont think jay deserves all the love her gets.
i think nas dickriders are just insecure about nas’ place in hip hop and the fact that jay, his rival, is more esteemed and celebrated by pop culture. so they are constantly talking down on jay on every blog to make nas look better. nas already top 5 DOA, yet his groupies despise jay’s success to the point where they become bigger haters of jay than they are fans of nas himself.
this about sums it up
^^^You guys are partly right, but thats not quite the whole story. Most Nas fans really like Jay and would not attempt to deny Jay’s incredible success story and his overall contribution to hip hop in general, classic albums included. But you are lying to yourself if you can’t admit Jay’s very noticeable slide from his Black Album days to his current musical output. I mean he really hasn’t had an album close to classic since Black Album, and yes I know AG was solid but it is a bit overrated. Kingdom Come sucked outright, BP3 was some pop bullshit that really didn’t suit Jay, and Watch the Throne, though it had its nice moments, was not overall a solid album. And he has also had some fairly weak features (Three Kings, Monster, run this town, do it for hip hop, bitch dont kill my vibe, suit and tie, etc.).
The same cannot be said for Nas, and Nas fans take offense to Jay fans acting like he still runs it when honestly LIG is better than any album Jay has put out in nearly ten years, although it is also one of Nas best in his last 3-4 CDs as well. Nas has had some ridiculous features in the past eighteen months also.
I would like to see Jay put out another classic but I am not sure he is capable. His flow isn’t as good as it used to be, the double entendres don’t have the bite that they used to, and he seems more prone to suspectly corny ad-libs and accents than he used to be. Maybe his next album will prove otherwise, but I am not holding my breath.
Jay prob still top five, definitely top ten without a question
Your assessment is spot-on.
This is ok. Not all what people are making it out to be tho
this is fire for what it was intended for… the critics started shitting on him, and in two days he dropped a track that shitted all over each and everyone of the peeps hatin on his trip to cuba…
Jay Z wouldn’t be here today if Biggie was still alive. While Pac and Biggie were doin there thing in the 90’s, Nas was right there with them with a classic album to back him. Jay was more like a sidekick. Nas solidified his spot in the game while the greats were here, Jay “solidified” his spot in the game after Biggie died, along with all the rhymes Jay Z stole from Biggie. There are only a couple of real kings in the game, and just because your bank account is overweight doesn’t make you a legend in the game. Jay doesn’t set trends, he just follows what’s hot.
jay was super cool with biggie, so it was only a matter of time before he got on, even if biggie wouoldnt have died… jay was just breaking into the game with reasonable doubt (dropped summer of 96) when pac and big died… its funny how yall try anything to discredit jay, when it was clear from the jump that dude had skills…
Silly kids trying to rewrite history. First of all jay released a classic album with reasonable doubt. Biggie and jay were tight. They were suppose to record an album together.
The commission was the name of the group containing members lil cease, Charli Baltimore and rumoured a young Camron.
So before you act like jay was a nothing rapper back then remember he was tight with biggie who the biggest rapper in the game. He was also close to signing big l before he died so who knows how big or small he would have or could have been.
Jay z and big pun dissed each other on records. Jayo felony and jay z were dissing each other as well. So jay wasn’t some small time sidekick.
not necessarily. jay and big weren’t really that tight. jay wanted big’s spot at the time and i agree with the nas comparison. nas been solidifed his spot on his debut verse and the classic known as illmatic. jay-z’s reasonable doubt wasn’t thought of as a classic until years later(i agree it was a clssic whne i heard it. not better than illmatic but damn good for a debut. that’s 90’s hip hop for you) and what’s pop culture? jay-z is recognized for all the side hustles he has done. his business ethic. nas never been that type for that (even though he has been known to invest in stuff) jay came in the game to make a spot and get every dollar he can get which is cool
It’s weird then that everytime something Jay-Z gets posted the comment section is filled with talk about who is the greatest rapper of all time…
jay shitted on them haters… hate all you want, but you cannot deny that dude runs the game, and has for the past 7 years..
awesome.
jay is a boss with a boss swag on this one.
the use of the word swag completely voids anyhting you say.
ether.
Straight banging
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugRgKqQ3x4M
dope shit from hov
FUCK ME , THIS NIGGA JUST KILLIN IT
We call that fire where I am from!
YOGA FLAME!!
hey that was a tremendous performance of timbaland!
Jay is a Nas stan.
1. Jay-Z begged Nas and AZ to be on “Bring It On” song off the Reasonable Doubt album. But Nas turned it down.
2. Jay-Z begged Nas to be on Dead Presidents so Nas turned him down so he sampled him.
3. Jay-Z sampled Nas voice AGAIN on Crack Game/Rap Game or whatever the fuck.
4. Jay-Z used to rap like the fu-schnickens but tried to switch his shit up when he heard Illmatic
5. The fact that Jay even knew Nas’ child’s mother is stalker-ish
6. Jay-Z said “Who’s the best MC, Jay-Z, Biggie and NAS” before the beef
7. Jay-Z admitted to listening to ALL of Nas albums in Takeover
8. Jay-Z randomly showed up at the recording of “Black Republican” and put himself on that track (No, it wasn’t a planned collab)
9. Jay-Z had AZ in the video for Dead Presidents
10. Jay-Z started working with people like Frank Ocean and Jay Electronica after NAS shouted them out and worked with them first
11. Jay-Z tried to get Nas on the Empire State song AND REMIX but Nas refused both
12. Jay-Z invited Nas to perform at the Carnegie Hall show recently
I could go on forever…Because Jay has been on Nas’ dick forever. This is why Nas called him a “STAN”
Sounds like somebody else is on Nas’ dick too…just saying. Can’t blame you though…he’s one of the best in the game.
Nas also tried to get Jay-Z on the Daughters remix and he declined, so it works both ways. And working with AZ( music video, really?), Frank Ocean and Jay Electronica is completely irrelevant. They were already established; Frank Ocean was doing his thing with Odd Future.
Didn’t you just post this on the DJ Premier post… I guess you’re the Nas “stan” and Hov “hater” it’s 2013, motherfucker MOVE ON!
Nas did not try to get Jay on the remix for that. You’re making things up. And Frank Ocean and Jay E were NOT KNOWN at the time. You probably are 13 and weren’t listening to hiphop when Nas first co-signed them
http://www.vibe.com/article/nas-talks-life-good-wanting-eminem-and-jay-z-daughters-remix
who’s the liar now, motherfucker?
Fire!
To all of those saying songs weak just arent listening to HOVA and that beats sick i mean y’all gone learn today..this is what Jay-z old flow sounds like with updated subjects
Dam! Str8 fire. Disgusting.
5 that is all
great song from jay. haven’t heard jay rap like this in a while. he needs to do this more. as for this nas/jay-z debate. there will never be a conclusion to it cuz it shouldn’t be stressed. they represent two sides of hip hop. nas is the lyrical concept trendsetter and jay-z represents the american dream in hip hop. they both have a sopt and will always have a leagcy in the game. name me two mc’s that still have that longevity like them (not even em nor 50. sorry) nas and jay are the most consistent in their sides of the spectrum
I really dont know when people lost their ability to judge good music vs bad. I guess the only way to prove to you people that the new stuff sucks is by goign back in a few years from now, and asking would you listen to A. a black album song, or B. this song here. I dont even think its close. This is not “vintage jay,” and this certainly isnt a good beat. It makes for a very average song, just like most of jay-zs stuff after kingdom come. Its not hating, just being a realist. in 5 year years I know damn well that none of you will be like oooh shiit I cant wait to pop in that BluePrint 3 shit. Youll be popping in Blueprint, Reasonable Doubt, ImL, and Black album
^^^You guys are partly right, but thats not quite the whole story. Most Nas fans really like Jay and would not attempt to deny Jay’s incredible success story and his overall contribution to hip hop in general, classic albums included. But you are lying to yourself if you can’t admit Jay’s very noticeable slide from his Black Album days to his current musical output. I mean he really hasn’t had an album close to classic since Black Album, and yes I know AG was solid but it is a bit overrated. Kingdom Come sucked outright, BP3 was some pop bullshit that really didn’t suit Jay, and Watch the Throne, though it had its nice moments, was not overall a solid album. And he has also had some fairly weak features (Three Kings, Monster, run this town, do it for hip hop, bitch dont kill my vibe, suit and tie, etc.).
Couldnt agree more with this. People do need to just stop. The way to judge his new shit is in a few years will you ever listen to it over Black Album shit or before. I dont think theres anyway that anyone could enjoy the new shit more than that stuff. The quality of his rhyming, flows, and beats he had made for stuff that this new stuff aint even close to.
co-sign
Rick Ross Projects
Port of Miami: 8.5/10
Trilla: 9/10
Deeper Than Rap: 8/10
Albert Anastasia EP: 10/10
Teflon Don: 10/10
Ashes To Ashes: 7.5/10
Rich Forever: 10/10
God Forgives, I Dont: 9/10
Black Bar Mitzvah: 7/10
Jay Z has ONE album over 8/10 (RD)
Bawse!!!!!!!!
all 3/10 if his lucky
+1 Anonymous
Different error… Ross been out for awhile and the noise he madw was limited because everyone still understood real rap.. By the way, everytime they are on a song together who is the better rapper???
Finally this nigga dropped some real shit…Fuck Khanye West, He been messin with your mind and puttin you into that fag shit… JIGGA!
“had a spark when you start but now you just garbage…fell from top ten to not be mentioned at all…” HA HA HA HA!!!LMAO! This pretty much sums Nas’s carrer, dude was never the same after this line.
Stop trying to start Nas & Jay fans bitching at each other.
I say the same thing about Jay…dude has put out 5 straight weed plates and only RD, BP, and Black Album are great albums
Disc 1
1. All for the Love (Produced by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
2. If You Know feat. Jay-Z (Produced by Just Blaze)
3. Where I’ve Been (Produced by Jake One)
4. Thank God (Produced by Kanye West, co. Mike Dean)
5. The Way Life Is feat. Kelly Rowland (Produced by Tricky Stewart, co. The-Dream)
6. Put Your Hands Up (Produced by The Neptunes)
7. Glory feat. Nas (Produced by No I.D.)
8. Twilight feat. B.o.B (Produced by B.o.B)
9. The Truth feat. Kanye West (Produced by Kanye West, co. Mike Dean)
10. Walk Like a Soldier (Produced by Just Blaze)
11. Stop (Produced by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
12. Pop It (Produced by The Neptunes)
13. Good Times feat. Rihanna (Produced by Kanye West, co. No I.D., co. Mike Dean)
14. He Who Wears the Crown (Produced by Tricky Stewart, co. The-Dream)
Disc 2
1. Blood Pressure feat. Iggy Azalea (Produced by DJ Toomp)
2. Run for Cover (Produced by Mike WiLL Made It)
3. I Don’t Care (Produced by Mike Dean)
4. You Know Why (Produced by DJ Toomp)
5. Everywhere I Go (Produced by Big K.R.I.T.)
6. Crazy Girl feat. Ciara (Produced by DJ Toomp)
7. All Night feat. Lil Wayne & Swizz Beatz (Produced by Swizz Beatz)
8. Whatever feat. Jazze Pha (Produced by Mike Dean, co. Jazze Pha)
9. Ain’t No Way feat. Young Jeezy (Produced by DJ Toomp)
10. If I Should Die feat. Scarface (Produced by Mike Dean)
11. Blackout feat. Trae tha Truth (Produced by DJ Toomp)
12. Blunt Object (Produced by Mike Dean)
13. My Enemies (Produced by Big K.R.I.T.)
14. Some South Shit (Produced by Drumma Boy)
Man, Die with that track listing crap!
Just shitted on all the critics yappen they mouth. CRACK
Hott
Dope!
drake is better than jay z 9 am in toronto is way better than this peice of garbage song jay z fell off hes trash
kids probably 12 years old ^
defiantly 12 or younger
Still wetting his bed.
LOL you are in gay love with Drake yet you can’t even name his song correctly. It’s 5am in Toronto. Nice try kid. Now go sit in the corner. Drake will never be Jay.
are you joking man JAY Z way more Better than Drake slow RnB shitsss
You should switch to Taylor swift … bitch please dont insult hip hop by saying so
Or Gay.
Why he did that
CHECK OUT MY BOYS BRUH! THEY THE HOTTEST IN CALI RIGHT NOW
M.i.C.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhhSknzeCYk
Baeza: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdcrgnmrvc
they better than you
Dis shyt pretty dope soundz like classic jay z
Tops
This nigga said “I’ll buy a kilo for chief keef, out of spite I just might flood these streets”. HAHAHA that line was hard.
FUCKING ILL.
Man, all those niggas are legend in the studio, but someone tell them to hit the fuckin’ gym.
Erm, why you looking at them like that dude? Dr sus has diagnosed you as SUS. :/
hahahahaha i was dieing on that dr. sus shit ha!
Classic beat
Bow Down Bitches
i listen to this every day.. God this nicca Hov is the all time…..?
Nasty>Open Letter
Any verse off life is good>Open Letter
your opinion
An opinion that I agree with. Life is Good is tragically incredible. Any Hip Hop head without hubris but enough sensibility to pick and choose what is dope and invaluable has that album.
Great example of why nas stans are the worst.
STR8 FIRE!!!!!!! Feels good to have the vets still. Hip hop will be in a casket wen the vets quit
Crazy record. Jay demolishes it. Can’t wait for made in America. It will compete with ”Redemption”for sure.
THIS IS THE REAL TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE (NO ORDER)
RAKIM
HOVA
NAS
SCARFACE
ICE CUBE
wrong……
Nas
Pac
Rakim
Scarface
Black Thought
not Bad of a list
eminem
nas
hov
biggie
thats all folks. sorry pac fans
wrong…
Lil B
Soulja Boy
Chief Keef
Future
Riff Raff
gotta love the great white north
DX you guys got it wrong. It’s Jay-z featuring swizz beatz prod. by timbaland
lyrically, Hov doesnt have an album that can top Teflon Don or GFID
Bawse!!!!!!
HA HA HA you must write for Death Comedy Jam with jokes like that
Reasonable doubt bitch nigga…
Hov still doing it…watch this kid he looking at signing…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr-t2okXzu4
I feel so honored to fuck your bitch. All of my hardwork and dedication has paid off. Fucking your bitch has been a dream of mine for many years, and i would like to thank those who have helped me along the way. First and foremost i would like to thank god for giving me this opportunity. Next i would like to thank my parents. I want to thank my dog Nelson, for always there for me. I would also like to thank my pet tadpole for surviving against all odds for over a week. Next i would like to thank the squirrel that lives in my backyard for climbing trees because that gives me inspiration that i need to get through the day. I also want to thank Corey Nelson for giving me someone to beat in Mario Party. This is a special moment in my life and i would like to thank any of my unmentioned friends and family that have helped me along the way. This moment will be a moment that i will never forget. I just remembered a few other people i would like to thank; facebook, the fish i caught in the third grade, my light in my room bc i wouldnt be able to see the keyboard without it, the internet for letting me go on facebook, my house because without it i would be homeless, and last but not least i would like to thank all the people out there that actually took time out of their day to read this. I cannot stress how much of a big deal to me this is. I have been trying fuck yo bitch in the cutch for years, but that has not been possible until this amazing day. Hopefully my good luck will continue, but this is undoubtedly a rare occasion. If you asked me how i did this, i would say, you can achieve anything u set your mind on. To all the kids out there reading this, i would like to tell them to follow their dreams. Fucking your bitch is amazing, thank you everyone.
your a bitch made, sucka ass, garbage producing fake ass MC.. you are what is wrong with this country, and I hope you “accidently” shoot yourself in the dome.. twice..
This clown could fart on wax and his chavala fans would still be screaming “shit is fire”, “shit is hard” etc etc.
nigga go and eat a bag of crickets you super corny b!
“catch a body/ head for houston”
Thats a Nas reference
Good
Hey guys I have confession to make I like to be fist fucked by nazi midgets.
you getting to much money they try to jam you>>hot!!
1. ja rule
2. ja rule
3. ja rule
4. ja rule
5. ja rule
It’s mind-boggling the heart wants it, the mind rejects it
Fuck the past, let’s put the present in perspective
That’s my lady, she would never back-stab or cross me
Stand butt-naked in the storm, sippin’ the frosty
Force me to choose, I’mma follow my heart
She was there from the beginning, but I tore ’em apart
No more Delucas, straight Killa Bee on the swarm
And when it’s time to get big, she put her game face on
Scarface need a verse on this…
so does ja rule
Questlove is a porch-monkey. fACt
Nobody looks happy in that picture.
money is not funny bitch
This song is just ok didnt make me want down load or want to hear it again you just cant throw crap together and expect it to blow Jay Z
Hottest single, most discussed single. Are you sure he cant?
Hova pls we need your new album… can’t stand this lil niccaz saying shit and i hear your shit in all they do, just like drake’s 5am in toronto.. dem
PLLLLLEAAAAASE HOOOOOOV … PLLLLLEASE…… .
Shut up, this track is hot, we don’t need you to go crying for attention, I don’t think Hov is your hearing your calling .
mad rapper… its alright ok geezz, nicca\z be tripin when you call HOV
Eeek, “I got 99 Problems and now Jay-Z is one of them”
But that, “It’s a Hip Hop reference” was dope, sly. …
lets face it, Hova doesnt have an album (since 2003) that can lyrically fuck with Carter2 or Da Drought 3
THIS IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE
You’ve lost it bud.
Smokey the bear have 2 bear witness
@ dental floss boy you white boys are so funny
have you lost your fucking mind?!?!?!
YMCMA
it was aight. better than any wayne song though.
thats why im fucking beyonce and yall still fucking around with hood rats and basic bitches nah nah nah nah nah
I play this shit everyday
https://soundcloud.com/kalijo88/not-promised
jay z is more complete that nas. jay z is god emcee yesssssss. 10/10
rakim is the god mc
no human can be a GOD fuck nigga
As always, HOV comes with it but ends up getting overrated. Top 15 MC all time but not top 15 right now.
boring … rappers need to get more technical
http://www.reverbnation.com/johnyroyale
Still not on art of rap…..
It ain’t hard to say how much I hate this shit…
1. BlaspHemous (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
2. Ice Cream BitcH (Produced by Mike WiLL Made It, co. Marz)
3. Oxymoron (Produced by Pharrell Williams)
4. DeatHsadvocate (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
5. Druggys wit Hoes Pt, Trois feat. Ab-Soul (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
6. Eat feat. Danny Brown (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
7. Talk My sHit (Produced by The Alchemist)
8. Yay Yay (Produced by Boi-1da, co. The Maven Boys)
9. Attitude feat. Kendrick Lamar (Produced by Pharrell Williams)
10. Grooveline Pt. 2 feat. A$AP Rocky (Produced by Mike WiLL Made It, co. Marz)
11. Ridin’ HigH (Produced by The Alchemist)
12. Killing Spree feat. Action Bronson (Produced by The Alchemist)
13. Fallen Soldiers feat. Jhene Aiko (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
14. Bang Bang feat. Ab-Soul, Jay Rock & Kendrick Lamar [Black Hippy] (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
15. Gangsta (Produced by Digi+Phonics)
Jay is about to sign this chick…check her out…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sscu4WOGY84
CANT FRONT THIS BEAT IS HOT
Y’All Gon Learn Today!
I actually am not a accountant, I gotta come clean. I’m 14 and live in my grandparents house (my mom gave me up cause she was a crack-head and never met my dad). I do this trolling thing because it makes me feel like I matter to SOMEONE at least ! Now that the jokes over, I just want to apologize for being such an troll and all my fake opinions…please don’t be too mad, this site is all I have …
Jayz is dope but Nasir is the dopest!
this song is dope!
all i can say is i cant wait for Magna Carta Holy Grail.. and apparently the first single is produced by Swizz Beatz and it already leaked>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW8qFJItRwo
i dunno sounds real to me..
slick beat 5/5
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE YOU MAN TREVON MARTIN REST IN PEASE LIL BRO WE LOVE YOU2012 /2013.;’=-0[]POLOTICZ BLK……………….
I give it 5
Hardest I’ve heard Jay spit in a long min