Smile 3rd verse one of the best verses in rap EVER
"My therapist said i relapsed I said prehaps I freudian slipped in European whips" is one of the hardest rap couplets ever
I MASTERED MY AESTHETICS, I KNOW YOU HEARD ME OFTEN WAX POETIC BOUT BEING BACK IN A LEXUS
Oh yall thought I was washed
Im at the cleaners
Laundering dirty money like the teamsters
"My therapist said i relapsed I said prehaps I freudian slipped in European whips" is one of the hardest rap couplets ever
The way he slid on that whole song is ridiculous
Hold the uzi vertical, let the thing smoke? Yall flirting with death, i'll be winking thru the scope?
F*** wrong with everybody is what you sayin but if everybody's crazy, you're the one that's insane
Smile 3rd verse one of the best verses in rap EVER
really a masterclass of lyricism
i come back to songs off this a ton
Marcy Me was my fave from the jump, title track still tears me up, and I've been listening to Bam a lot lately
Damn bro I can’t believe 2017 was 6 years ago
2017,2018,2019,2020, and 2021 are all blurs to me
wild how the most mature album of kanye's career was prolly his second one
808s?
Disagree but I'm not even talking about that here.
Jay is basically Andre 3000 status at this point while Nas is still out here hungry and feeding people with back to back quality albums.
Jay has never put out back to back quality albums in his whole career. After RD, he dropped Vol. 1. After Blueprint, he dropped Blueprint 2. After Black Album, he dropped Kingdom Come. After AG, he dropped Blueprint 3. After WTT, he dropped MCHG.
It would be very interesting to see Jay break his reputation for inconsistency by dropping another quality solo album like 4:44. It would be a great victory lap for him before he retires for real.
I’m a Jay-Z stand and I respect this post
Probably the most overrated album of all time considering how it completely remixed how Jay was perceived from the early 00s to present day.
But it is a decent album, I still don’t particularly enjoy Jay’s flow/cadence on a majority of songs on the album. It feels like he’s just trying to fit in a bunch of words. It’s like vomit.
classic album and if it's rlly his last one then it's the perfect way to go out. kill jay z, story of oj, smile, marcy me, legacy...some of my favourite hov songs ever
i think marcy me is one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time