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pxrea
I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!
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syphibliss
This album is literally Jay-Z's top-5. How can someone don't like it? Almost every track is a masterpiece
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WilsonFanderman
Production is top-tier but lyrically Jay can do a lot better. Not top 5 but overhated
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GhostHaunted
Блин, а мне нравится продакшн этого альбома. Тимбо - мастер своего дела. Про тексты песен ничего не скажу, но минусовки охуенные.
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SimonePerrota
The whole thing sounds rushed - a little embarrassing considering the title... I think Jay's lifestyle is shaping his music a little too much. He hasn't ruthlessly chopped and changed his production teams over the years, in his defence, but he has an amusing fixation with being trendy... Ironic, because he raps about his life more convincingly than other rappers yet, from what we DO HEAR, there's a dearth in depth there, which signifies a certain emptiness...
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GaboBenitez
Haven't heard a rap record in my entire life. But somehow this one got me. Enjoying it!
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SimonePerrota
I'd echo that minus the hooks (Holy Grail's is overblown and hackneyed and the least said about the hook the better). MCHG sits at the bottom of Jay's catalogue alongside Kingdom Come and The Blueprint 3. Oftentimes it's a combination of the worst aspects of the two... insincere attempts at grandiosity and expired braggadocio...
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TheSuperCrasher
And ... American Gangster remains his best LP since The Black Album. MCHG has great beats and amazing hooks (just listen to Holy Grail & Oceans), but the lyrics are mostly whack, especially for Hov's standards.
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FairestNoun
Hi everyone, can you please listen to my cover of Holy Grail (feat. Justin Timberlake) by Jay Z? Thank you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyxfHTtVK2I
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DickBigems
lol there's no way this compares to American Gangster. And Blueprint 3 has more individually memorable songs like "Empire State of Mind" and "D.O.A.".
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SimonePerrota
Magna Carta is a bit like a more insincere, bloated (and that's saying something) version of Nas' Life Is Good. Jay-Z's soul-searching and retrospective musings come off as insincere and his ego is a straight-up hindrance... At least Kanye at his worst has conviction! Jay seems to trudge along with minimum effort these days - as if his nonchalance and sly ease is artistically valid because it somewhat mirrors his luxurious life... The production here is generally strong and some of the beats are (refreshingly) toned down - presumably so as to shift prime emphasis on Jay. It's a shame he's barely there flow-wise... There are certain cadences/flows that just sound off when placed in a particular environment - especially when repeated time and time again... Someone needs to tell Jay to refrain from copying his younger peers. I think everyone knows that if Jay and Kanye had put more thought into the song-writing aspects of their respective '13 albums, they would be considerably stronger…
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