Jay-Z - American Gangster Turns 10 Years Old Today

[i ro ny]

great album.

another reason why Hov is the GOAT.

 

[southsil4lil]

"I'm on her bra strap she's on my dick/aint nothing wrong with that that's my biiiiiitch"

 

[Broddie]

"I'm on her bra strap she's on my dick/aint nothing wrong with that that's my biiiiiitch"

Great party song. Smooth muthafucka. Can't believe Puff did that.

 

[genocidecutter]

Overrated

 

[Broddie]

This was Puffy's redemption for fucking up Vol. 1

 

[BedStuy]

Jay's last classic album

 

[BedStuy]

Hold up let me move my bowels..... I'll shit on you niggas

 

[bck145]

Really solid album

Not a classic tho

Bought this and cassidy album the same day and drove to an interview a few hours away

 

[dalyricalbandit]

Look... mind state of a gangster from the 40's

Meets the business mind of Motown's Berry Gordy

Turned crack rock into a chain of 40/40's

Sorry my jewelry’s so gaudy

Slid into the party with my new pair of Mauris

America, meet the gangster Shawn Corey

Hey young world, wanna hear a story?

Close your eyes and you can pretend you're me

So mean and vicious

I catch myself rappin this everynow and then

 

[Juttythe3rd]

Survive the drought, I wish you well!

 

[Fly society513]

Look... mind state of a gangster from the 40's

Meets the business mind of Motown's Berry Gordy

Turned crack rock into a chain of 40/40's

Sorry my jewelry’s so gaudy

Slid into the party with my new pair of Mauris

America, meet the gangster Shawn Corey

Hey young world, wanna hear a story?

Close your eyes and you can pretend you're me

So mean and vicious

I catch myself rappin this everynow and then

Same here. They're usually the first lyrics I go to when someone says spit some Jay at work

 

[usmarin3]

Let ya hair down baby, I just hit a score

Pick any place on the planet, pick a shore

Take what the Forbes figure, then figure more

Cause they forgot to account what I did with the raw

Pick a time, lets pick apart some stores

Pick a weekend for freaking for figure fours

I figure frauds never hit a lick before

So they don't know the feeling when them things get across

Put ya hand out the window, feel the force

Feel the Porsche, hit the frost

Ice cold, jewels got no flaws

Drop got no top, you on the top floor

Pink Rosay, think OJ

I get away with murder when I sling yay

Niggas got less steps then Britney

That means it ain't stepped on, dig me?

The way he was rhyming on this verse with the multi's.

 

[LcnsdbyROYALTY]

My favorite album from Hov

 

[Thereal_ba]

Edit

 

[Thereal_ba]

This album is better than black album

Ag a classic but you can't be serious.

 

[THE_R_]

DOPE ALBUM. I LIKED PUFF'S CINEMATIC LIFE AFTER DEATH APPROACH TO THE ALBUM. LYRICS WERE ON-POINT.

BUT THERE'S QUITE A FEW DUDS ON THIS & SONGS I WOULD NEVER PLAY IN 2017. I REVISITED THIS JOINT RECENTLY & I DIDN'T ENJOY THIS AS MUCH AS I DID 10 YEARS AGO.

OVERALL...ITS STILL A SOLID 4.0/5.0

 

[detcatinva]

Falling is too cold

Godfather, Goodfellas, Scarface, Casino

You seen what that last run did to De Niro

And he can't beat the odds, can't cheat the cards

Can't blow to hard, life's a deck of cards

Now you tumblin', it's humblin', you fallin', you mumblin'

Under your breath like you knew this day was comin', fallin'

Now let's pray that arm candy

That you left your ex for stay down and come in handy

'Cause come January it gets cold

When the letters start to slow, when your commissary's low

And lawyers screams appeal only thinkin' about a bill

And your chances are nil damn gravity's ill

 

[5 Grand]

The sample comes in @ 0:30

 

[detcatinva]

This album is better than black album

Ag a classic but you can't be serious.

Very serious.

Dirt off your shoulder

Threat

Moment if Clarity

99 Problems

Justify my Thug

All sings i can't listen to on the black album anymore

 

[Lou Cypher]

Great album and was refreshing AF since his previous release was Kingdom Come.

But then he went and did Blueprint 3 and Watch the Throne...

But then he came back with 4:44!

I wonder what he'll do next.