will Jay-Z drop 1 more classic in 2013 and prove he's the King of NY or.........

[usmarin3]

Yeah I was wondering the same thing. I would love to hear a American Gangster type Jay less bragging and more introspection but not.like the introspection on WTT. Jay sounded out of place. I would like Jay to drop music on par with untitled, DR or LIG but I don't see it happening. Nas has been wearing the Crown for four years now

You niggas kill me with this KHUFFI MUSIC NONESENSE, Jay-z ain't a bean pie eating rapper, why is that so hard fo you niggas to get. The dude came from the streets, that's like saying why don't G RAP make a introspective album. It's like ya'll hold Jay-z to this double standard and use the backpack/conscious standard for rhetoric. Why can't Nas make entertaining music and club bangers, that's just not Nas lane. Accept Nas for what he brings and Jay for what he brings.

Jay-z been holding NY since Biggie died, say what you want about his albums or whatever, but the man has never had any lulls in his career like Nas. He has consistently burned up the summer when NY was going through it's drought.

 

[nyst8ofmin]

jay can just throw some bullshit out and niggas gunna class it GOAT and classic anyway so why debat it

exactly.

 

[A1000MILES]

USMarine can say all that shit bout "accept Jay for what he brings, he's a street dude"...But Rick Ross wack...Okay.

 

[usmarin3]

USMarine can say all that shit bout "accept Jay for what he brings, he's a street dude"...But Rick Ross wack...Okay.

Like i've always say, it's not about content to me, it's about your skillset deliverying that content (poetic tools, flow, delivery, songwriting). Ross is very fucking limited as a mc, he never switches his flow and his writing technique is repetitive as fuck. Say what you want about Jay, but he never uses the same flow twice and his writing style isn't predictable.

Ross is so damn reptitive, all he does is repeat shit three times at the end of his bars and throw in some luxury reference. Why do you think this dude gets washed on tracks when he gets with great rappers (Nas, Jay, 3000).

 

[DR. JEK]

Ill believe it when I hear it. Nigga ain't dropped a good album since 2003 and dunt got mad older so we'll see. Nothing he has dropped the last 3 or 4 years has given me any confidence

 

[Mr.LV]

In 2003-2006 when jay-z was "retired" he was still spitting some hot verses on other people songs shit was fun during that time period.

 

[A1000MILES]

Jay washed Ross on the "Hustlin" remix?...Jay washed Ross on "Free Mason"?...Naw...

 

[usmarin3]

i love how people just randomly dismiss AMERICAN GANGSTER, but want to act like LOST TAPES is an album.

 

Jigga has 6 classics

Blueprint,Vol 1,Dynasty,American Gangster,Wtt and Reasonable Doubt

Nasir has 1 classic and thats stillmatic

Jigga's legacy is etched in stone and he is the greatest rappa since biggie da Goat

I always wondered why niggas (especially in the reason) sleep on The Dynasty, that album was fire.....

Illmatic

It Was Written (if we givin RD late classic status why not)

Stillmatic

Lost Tapes>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all classics

Life is Good is still up for debate

 

[Mr.LV]

@usmarin3 you should know jay-z is upheld to ridiculous standards on these boards.

 

[CoolJoe]

Jay washed Ross on the "Hustlin" remix?...Jay washed Ross on "Free Mason"?...Naw...

Jay's verse on Free Mason is the best verse on Teflon Don, Ross rhymed well on the song too, but Jay spazzed out on that shit.

 

[DNB1]

This aint a real Jay-Z thread till Tomp shows up...

Jus sayin..

 

[usmarin3]

This aint a real Jay-Z thread till Tomp shows up...

Jus sayin..

lol you would think he would just save the time and say Fuck Jay-z instead of writing a book about it.

 

[jono]

When it comes to personal classics (meaning probably not accepted by everyone) Nas has bout 5 (Illmatic, It Was Written, Stillmatic, I Am and Hip Hop Is Dead). Jay-Z has 4 (Reasonable Doubt, The Life & Times of Sean Carter Vol. 1, The Blueprint, and American Gangster).

Life Is Good shows us that Nas is on a different level (creatively, lyrically & musically) and Jay-Z will have to drop 2 "classics" in order to keep up. BP3 was meh and WTT isn't a solo album. In a few years LIG will be classic status but Jay has time to catch up and drop some gems.

I won't say Jay can't do it but it doesn't look likely. I generally don't doubt Hov anymore. I doubted him when Kingdom Come came out (it grew on me) but American Gangster showed me he still had it off jump but I haven't seen such a gap between Jay and Nas before until Life Is Good came out.

You usually don't have to go back 5 years to find a truly awesome Jay-Z album but now you do and that's a tough spot to be in. But if anyone can do it is Hov but Nas is the reigning GOAT for bout 10 years in my opinion.

 

[The_Man]

Dont want to get involved with all the kay vs nas shit just here to tell you american gangster is a classic.

 

[DNB1]

This aint a real Jay-Z thread till Tomp shows up...

Jus sayin..

lol you would think he would just save the time and say Fuck Jay-z instead of writing a book about it.

lol, if you took all his posts he ever made, you got Decoded part II - The Hater Addition.

 

[blazn101]

I just want a good album from Jay, and his body of work proved he can do that.

 

[Already Home_17]

When it comes to personal classics (meaning probably not accepted by everyone) Nas has bout 5 (Illmatic, It Was Written, Stillmatic, I Am and Hip Hop Is Dead). Jay-Z has 4 (Reasonable Doubt, The Life & Times of Sean Carter Vol. 1, The Blueprint, and American Gangster).

you just combined two jay-z albums into one lol

in my lifetime, vol. 1

vol. 3....life and times of s.carter

 

[rong]

Why is it that Nas fans always need to use Jay as a way to measure Nas' success? I never hear people use Nas to measure Jay's success OTHER than Nas fans....It's like yall have to tear Jay down to lift Nas up...Its not like that on the other side

 

[rong]

Basically you can rate Nas based on Jays standards and you can't rate Jay based on Nas' standards..They are two Different artist so saying "Can Jay make a LIG album" and "Can Nas make a American Gangster album" is silly