Jay-Z - 'Magna Carta Holy Grail'

[FyHunnit]

Jay kept it too safe on this album.

 

[Bcotton5]

I'm about to listen to this one last time and the gym and give my 48 hour thoughts.

buff niggas stand up I see @KillaCham and @PimpMVP

 

[S2J]

How does he want that lane when...

1. There was no single for this album...

2. The first thing you hear in this album is Justin Timberlake...

...Just stop, cuh...

Crown, fukwitme, Beach is better r all in clearly in that lane.

And La Familia, my goodness u can even tell thats his playful version of a chief keef song. B4 u say he from chi we clearly know where that style come from

 

[texasdaking88]

Some of u niggas have no idea what a southern beat is

 

[ohhhla]

As far as solo Jay-Z albums go...

God Tier (in no order)

Reasonable Doubt

The Blueprint

The Black Album

American Gangster

Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life

Magna Carta Holy Grail

Mid Tier (in no order)

Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter

In My Lifetime, Vol. 1

The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse

The Blueprint 3

Garbage Tier (in no order)

Kingdom Come

The Dynasty: Roc La Familia

That's a 3 hot albums every 10 years average.

Niggas "no-signing". I looked over my post again, I don't see no problems? Where did I go wrong?

put bp3 and and vol.1 down and bump dynasty up and your good.

vol.1 is a pretty forgettable album for most parts,aside from a couple of tracks ('you must love me','streets is watching' and a couple of others)who can say they still bump that on the regular with the rest of the catalogue?it was decent at the time and I wouldn't say its garbage but its his worst ageing album,a lot of it sounds really fucking corny now.

bp3 was just shit.first time I actually felt embarrassed for hov.he tried to be all things to all people and it didn't work.I don't know what kind of blueprint he thought he was setting up with that album but the shit should have been destroyed before it was ever built.

dynasty has some of his best work on it,there's no way it should be classed as garbage,'this can't be life' is a classic,just for faces verse alone.and 'i just want to love you' is arguably his best club track aside with 'big pimpin'.yeah there's some shit on there but the production is mostly nice.

the rest I pretty much agree with,aside from this.i usually let albums of this magnitude digest for a while to see how it holds up.i think within a catalogue this deep that's how every hip hop listener should evaluate albums.

The first 7 or so tracks on BP3 are pretty decent to great...then the album falls off a cliff completey (except for Already Home). I say mid-tier for a half and half album.

8 decent to great songs on an album outta 14 tracks = 53% listenable album = F grade

Bottom tier material

15

 

[CoolJoe]

How does he want that lane when...

1. There was no single for this album...

2. The first thing you hear in this album is Justin Timberlake...

...Just stop, cuh...

Crown, fukwitme, Beach is better r all in clearly in that lane.

And La Familia, my goodness u can even tell thats his playful version of a chief keef song. B4 u say he from chi we clearly know where that style come from

So, he's trying to merge into the dirty south lane by having 4 songs out of 16 being in that lane? Interesting.

 

[DarthRozay]

thread gone diamond

 

[killaguwop]

fuck these fools only southern beats are on the album is fuckwitmeyouknowigotit and the beat made by mike will made it

 

[eastbay510]

BP1

Black Album

RD

Vol. 2

The Dynasty

AG

Vol 1

MCHG

Vol. 3

BP2

KC

BP3

My ranking of Jay-Z albums. MCHG isn't that bad after my 2nd listen, a few duds but still a solid album with great production

 

[Bcotton5]

I'm about to listen to this one last time and the gym and give my 48 hour thoughts.

buff niggas stand up I see @KillaCham and @PimpMVP

dont forget me Cham

 

[usmarin3]

This album is easily Jays 4th best album

BP>RD>BA>MCHG>Vol 1 and so on.

 

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[ohhhla]

His fourth?

Really?

 

[usmarin3]

I see it's a bunch of ''why aren't there any NY sounding beats'' bitching up here, Boom Bap is fucking dead, get over it.

 

[ohhhla]

My nigga his fourth best?

It's that premature?

And to make it worse you put Vol. 1 and MCHG over AG.

NIGGA

 

[MontyM.Max]

This might be smartest album. The dichotomy of where he came from to the position he's in now has never been as apparent. He's also never articulated it as well and as entertainingly as he did. He tried to articulate it on Kc but it wasn't entertaining enough. He was more entertaining on bp3 but after the first half of the album he didn't articulate it well enough. Like I said he found a good balance on this album. As well as expressing the underlying theme of album that no matter how many millions u have ur still a nigga to white people and this is a time to shift the dynamics of power in our favor. But thats metaphysical shit that would take all day to get into.

His flow is choppy in the beginning of the album tho and he isnt quite the lyricist he was but its still more than serviceable and above average from that standpoint. He's becoming better at song structure as he gets older tho and that offsets some of the deficiencies in his lyrics and flow.

 

[Rubato Garcia]

Head of the fami-LEE! El papinooo

Been saying that shit all day

 

[KillaCham]

I'm about to listen to this one last time and the gym and give my 48 hour thoughts.

buff niggas stand up I see @KillaCham and @PimpMVP

I was hype to knock that Beach Is Better on the bench press....

......but my nigga why dat shit only lasted HALF A SET!?!??

 

[KillaCham]

Head of the famiLEE! El papinooo

Been saying that shit all day

You only like that song cause you Spanish lol

 

[Rubato Garcia]

Nah I'm 100% black. But I do favor Spanish as a language