The Jigga Man Shawn Carter aka JayZ Official Thread...

[weezyfgarbage]

Encore is a track not an album LOL

 

[usmarin3]

Encore is a track not an album LOL

Goes to show how much he knows. He probably meant vol 3

 

[Rubyy]

First of all I'd like to say hi as it's my first post. In my opinion we can easily call RD and BP1 classics as the influence and impact on the whole industry was huge. I'd call AG and BA classics, especially AG for its concept. Vol. 1 kicked asses also. That would be it for him. But as i'm his psycho fan, to me all his albums are classics. Cheers.

 

[bigpoppa1115]

he got 5.... thats pretty amazing to.... only pac has more cause everything pac ever did is a classic

Name the 5 albums.

 

[[Trillmatic]]

i like Jay-z but on sum real shit..prodigy had a line about Jay that said sumthin like "ya shit garbage and wears off too fast, we got that dope."
don't remember exactly how the lyric goes but thats exactly how i feel about Jays music.

 

[ItzGravitation]

i would say 4 at the least ad 5 at the most

 

[t. webb]

Why isn't AG a classic? It has all the qualities of a classic, what exactly is it missing?

 

[ItzGravitation]

most niggas will say AG was the best album of 07

maybe Graduation and The Cool were better but not many classics that year except from Jays and Ye

niggas wanted dude to fall off cuz of KC but dude bounced bacc

 

[hnic1978]

Blueprint, Reasonable Doubt, Hard Knock, and Black Album are classics hands down. U can argue In My Lifetime and American Gangster are classics also. With the rest being very good damn albums IMO

 

[ShadyTeam]

Just one classic Album with Reasonable Doubt

 

[ShencotheMC]

Reasonable Doubt, The Black Album, Blueprint, and arguably AG

 

[Treize117]

One classic...

Reasonable Doubt

Song for song it almost makes the Blueprint seem mediocre

 

[piffhuxtable]

Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint are his 5 mic classics. 5 mics = Classic with the exception of the last two albums to recieve it. Thats not up for debate. The impact of Bleuprint is similar to a Chronic or Doggystyle in terms of how it changed the sound. Black Album was near it, and Volume 1 and AG are very solid as well.

so its RD and BP. BP was undeniable the most influential albums of the last decade. Blueprint impact was 100x that of RD.

 

[L.P. Royal Flush]

Many may disagree but to me, but Jay-Z has some classic album

Reasonable Doubt

Blueprint

Black Album

Kingdom Come

American Gangster

 

[7thwardslim]

To me....i would say 1.... Vol 2.....man i thought Blueprint was classic....... i went brought that shit out the store for like 22 dollars.... this was around x-mas.....and i brought that dmx....its dark and hell is hot..... and man i was tryna ride and bang out to those cd's.......but they only had like 2-3 songs that really were tight songs to me....

I just knew that DMX was going to do it.....but no..... but songs just aint feel like 99.....i guess i had a walkman then.....but the Jay-Z was so much of a let down....

because when it came out i ran that shit for like 3-4 months straights.......but this time around.....joints i liked seemed so boring...... (Neva Change).... just horrible

Heart of the City......garbage.....(All I Need) that shit still blaze..... (Momma Love Me and Lyrical Exercise).... awesome...the Intro bananas.... everything else...

no replay.....

Vol 2...... go off top to bottom...crazy features

 

[Kwan Dai]

Jayz has 0 Classic albums. The closest he's come to an actual Hip Hop album is RD and it's nothing but a poor man's Illmatic/OBFCL/RTD. The rest of his albums are commercial Hip Pop subpar weed plates.

 

[Kwan Dai]

so whats a classic to u? Just curious....

Albums I would consider Classic.

Straight outta Compton

Illmatic

Adventures of Slick Rick

It takes a nation

36 chambers

Black Star

Doggy Style

 

[weezyfgarbage]

Production on RD? And then lack of realness in subsequent albums? (this is just what I'm speculating could be mentioned as a knock on Jay-Z's albums)

 

[Kwan Dai]

So whats Reasonable Doubt missing?

Everything!! Jayz took the same Prouction formula Nas did with Illmatic by using similar producers and sounds, he took the subject matter of OBFCL and mixed in the commercial appeal of RTD. Jayz was never original and has shown this since his debut album RD. He even bit the Name of a popular movie for it's title.

 

[Kwan Dai]

Production on RD? And then lack of realness in subsequent albums? (this is just what I'm speculating could be mentioned as a knock on Jay-Z's albums)

Someone Get's it.