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F to the izz-ly, B to the izz-oy (The Blueprint)

 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:31 / 28.09.01
Anyone else heard the new Jay-Z album, The Blueprint (I seem to remember Flux going on about it)? Is it me, or is it a staggering return to form? He sounds hungry again. And he disses Nas and Mobb Deep viciously, and in the case of Nas, entirely accurately ("one dope album in ten years?").

Anyone know who the production is by?

[ 28-09-2001: Message edited by: Flyboy ]
 
 
Ronald Thomas Clontle
11:43 / 28.09.01
Oh man, don't even get me started on how much I love the new Jay-Z record... it's so incredibly solid. The production was split up between a few people, which is amazing considering how consistent the sound of the record is, save for the one song Eminem appears on and produced - that song sounds like an Eminem song which has somehow popped up on this otherwise soulful/motown-ish record which features no one else but Jay-Z on vocals.

Lucky for you, I've got the cd booklet right here with me...

it goes like this:

The Ruler's Back - Bink
Takeover - Kanye West
Izzo (HOVA) - Kanye West
Girls Girls Girls - Just Blaze
Jigga That Nigga - Poke & Tone
U Don't Know - Just Blaze
Hola' Hovito - Timbaland
Heart of The City (ain't no love) -Kanye West
Never Change - Kanye West
Song Cry - Just Blaze
All I Need - Bink
Renegade - Eminem
Blueprint (mama loved me) - Bink

I don't know who did the *amazing* remix of Girls Girls Girls at the very end of the cd, but it's probably my favorite track on the record, which is saying quite a bit.

I would have never guessed that one of the finest records I would buy this year would be by Jay-Z. If you told me that three months ago, I would have been incredibly skeptical.

I don't know how Jay-Z and David Byrne came out of nowhere and put out this year's best records, but they did...which is not to say I didn't like them already, but that their recent output had been so spotty to suggest that a solid record, much less a phenomenal one, would be extremely unlikely...

[ 28-09-2001: Message edited by: Flux = Rad ]
 
 
Cherry Bomb
15:55 / 28.09.01
But didn't Jay-Z release "I Just Wanna Love You (Give it to Me)" earlier this year? Or am I crazy?

Haven't heard the new album yet (am picking up back purchases from the summer at present) but I can't tell you how many times I've headed up the subway with

"When my babies in the system
Ain't no tellin'
Will I fuck 'em
Will I diss 'em
That's what they be yellin'..."


running through my head. I dunno. It makes me feel studly...
 
 
Ronald Thomas Clontle
16:57 / 28.09.01
quote:Originally posted by Cherry Bomb:
But didn't Jay-Z release "I Just Wanna Love You (Give it to Me)" earlier this year? Or am I crazy?


No, yr not crazy, Jay-Z is just very prolific. That's from the Dynasty (Roc La Familia) record that came out last year, which was less a Jay-Z record than a Roc-A-Fella ensemble record featuring Jay-Z. That song you mention is great, there's a few other good songs on there, but a lot of it is pretty weak, I'd say.
 
 
Cherry Bomb
13:18 / 19.10.01
I just gotta say, y'all don't know fun 'til you spend an hour so trying to teach a public school brit who has no clue what's on the charts and would be much happier listening to classical music how to say

"Fo shizzle
Wit' my nizzle
Used to dribble
Down in VA...


properly.

Fo' sheasy!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:08 / 19.10.01
quote:Originally posted by Flux = Rad:
I don't know who did the *amazing* remix of Girls Girls Girls at the very end of the cd, but it's probably my favorite track on the record, which is saying quite a bit.


This has been stuck in my head for the last few days. Especially the opening verse, which is so Wrong, and yet so good...

"Who you lovin, who you wanna be huggin, huh?
Who you with, who you wanna be fuckin?
Got this smarty art chick to whom I posed this question
I read a couple books to add to her soul's progression
To put this in layman's term, I gave her some knowledge
She gave me brains in return, she had to drop out of college
And all she does is homework, I give her in-house tutoring
In and out I'm movin through her student body union and
She call me professor, say daddy come and test her
So she could fail on purpose and repeat the semester
I'm like, at this rate ma you never graduate
She said, I aint no fool I make it up in summer school..."


Aesthetic/ethical conflict! Argh!

And isn't 'Hola Hovito' the best booty-shakin' track in ages? It makes me want to get drunk and do the bendy-legged pointy dance (you know the one - stand with your feet comfortably apart, bend your knees and waist as if you're sitting down on an invisible ledge, raise your arms to an angle slightly above horizontal, point index fingers - for best effect have a bottle in one hand and a smokable in the other - and then bounce).

Actually you can do this to many songs on this album. Although many of them are better suited to the "gesticulate wildly" dance, but if I tried to explain that I might end up sounding *silly*...

[ 19-10-2001: Message edited by: Flyboy ]
 
  
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