Comments on: Hating Season: Jay-Z

By: King Jerm

King Jerm — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:57:05 +0000

@ Mr. Jones..

thank you, thank you, thank you

I thought I was the only one that felt this way.

By: Mr. Jones

Mr. Jones — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:52:08 +0000

I love Hova’s music, but I agree the hip hop community goes at every song of his and acts like they’re all works of genius.

By: 916-ness

916-ness — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:51:55 +0000

i feel you on the whole issue Jerm, we do cut Jay a shit load of slack as of late. but lets not forget what he CAN do lyrically, i cut most of this up due to the commercialization of hip hop today (whether it be the hip hop marketing directed towards suburbia USA or Hollywood’s/ The South’s influence on the game or whatever…). i also agree (to a certain degree) about jigga getting the throne by default, but the way you word it sounds like he was undeserving of it! he was the best we had NEXT to Big and Pac. Its like having Jordan go down and LeBron stepping in, it wasn’t a bad substitute all in all! The way we give Jay passes is only out of respect for what he is to hiphop (even though he came stupid lazy on Luda’s “I Do It For HipHop” track, which was very dissappointing to me since thats my favorite cut on his album), but with this whole issue being debated it brings up a very interesting question to mind:

if we can agree that Jay’s tendency for dropping lazy 16’s izz due to the state of hiphop today, would we be having this same debate about hiphop’s late greats? Proof? ODB? what about Big L? or better yet…. 2Pac? Biggie?
would they have succumbed to today’s lowered lyrical standards?
hmm… we can only wonder

By: Boricua

Boricua — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:05:42 +0000

hov has picked up that deadly consistency again w/ “american gangster”…………….i hop ein my heart that he comes hard w/ that blueprint 3…………..he def gained ppl’s interest w/ american gangster again………………..o n i dont think jas is the best rapper rite now jus because he hasnt had the best album recently……………but he def has the most potentioal to take tht title than all these other lame rappers……………bp3 bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Chew

Chew — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:47:15 +0000

@ Forch

I know, why do you rappers (Jay-Z mostly, but whatever) want to appeal to the British? I mean, i know raps good, but seriously, the musics not very “sophisticated” (For like a fancy event or something, idk) and really having any seriousness in London, where the music is all crappy classical, and light rock.

And yes, Jay is very smart. I mean, he doesn’t put out a lot of mixtapes (althoguh there was a remix mixtape, and that was pretty good “Reasonable Gangster” (Remix album of American Grangsta, nice stuff) I mean, look at him. I get giddy everytime I see a Jay-Z mixtape (I mean a quality one, like Brooklyn Gangster or “Reasonable Gangster” to name a few) Seriously.

By: Forch Fabalon

Forch Fabalon — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:08:56 +0000

Yo, I get your point totally bout Jay getting these I am hollyer than thou passes on these songs, but the man is SMART, he doesn’t put out a lot of material so when it does come out, its loved, rather than 30 mixtapes and blaming the wackness on it being a mixtape, that’s always bothered me bout mixtape rappers.

I think B has helped with his success, as Berry Gordy aka (Jamie Foxx in Dreamgirls), he needed that fly honey on your arm. Especially when your looks are a little challenged and you not the Ebony man of the month type.

I think the whole ive got to appeal to the people in London thing is getting old, Now everybody on that kick, if I was those popper speaking guys, I would run with that and start putting out all independent work. The song is nothing but Jockin Jay-Z 2, but at least its better.

By: Chew

Chew — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:43:48 +0000

@Jerm

Lucky Me? How can that be the worst, when you have atrocious songs like “I Know What Girls Like” and that Sunshine song. “Lucky Me” wasn’t half bad. Weirdly, its Weezys favorite song as I read in a magazine.

By: King Jerm

King Jerm — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:30:08 +0000

@ Chew

that song was doomed from the beat drop. Terrible production, bubblegum lyrics, and a terrible hook. What else could go wrong? Vol 1 had to be Jay’s worst album. Bottom line. He has too many “pop” songs on there. Lucky Me is by far his worst song of all time. IMO.

By: Chew

Chew — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:36:06 +0000

@ Anonymous

Ok, so “I Know What Girls Like” is a bad song, i know, but you have to admit, Jay’s first verse isn’t a bad one, and actually the songs pretty good, until Lil’ Kim comes in, and then screws it all up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:09:08 +0000

Wow this is a heated discussion, I knew this would get a lot of attention. I like Jay-Z too, and some people call me a Jay-Z hater but I’m not. Sometimes I feel other people spit just as good as him such as Sauce Money at the time, he was spitting some dope shit. Nas is good. Jay-Z made good songs, and bad songs especially that “I Know What Girls Like” and that is the worst song Jay has ever made, what made him get Puffy and Lil Kim. He must been smoking really hard or something for him to go along with that beat and put it on his album “In My Lifetime Vol 1″. Overall Jay-Z is nice, he been in the game longer than a lot of people, and he had mad success too. I honestly do feel Jigga is overrated like a muthafucka though. I can’t front, that new joint is hard and “Mr. Carter” he was definitely spitting on that joint. I have mixed feelings about Jay-Z at times. I do feel Biggie would have over him if was still alive, and if Tupac was alive I don’t think Jay-Z would be as big but then again who knows, his talent probably would have prevailed some.