If u think about what this albums purpose is and the sound at the time, its a watered down swizz beats and timbaland take on trap music. But it doesnt have any of the elements that make trap music good, so it just feels empty and lacking in identity

Refresh my memory, what was the album’s purpose?

Its supposed to be jayz adapting to the modern era

Stop all that cap we going home

It's near or at the bottom of the discog for sure but it's overhated just like Kingdom Come

Great production but jay sounded like he was forced into the booth

crazy how the best song on the album sounds like an American Gangster leftover

Holy Grail intro you think it’s going to be some alt, dark version of WTT highlighting the dark side of fame with the production and lyrical content then it falls off a cliff and he sounds like he’s getting his ass kicked on Picasso Baby and never fully recovers

I like FWMYKIGI

Are you inferring that, or did he say this?

lol what does this even mean?

like he didnt wanna be there, lazy

I mean it’s facts, the album was made in like 2 weeks as a throwaway tryna get out of Beyonce’s way. Dream was literally pulled from his Beyonce sessions for her self titled to throw finishing throwing MCHG together in that short time

The abscence of evidence is not evidence of abscence

Lmao

This beat is so ass to me

Do we have a source for this?

I’ve never heard this

this my favorite jay z album im ngl, niggas dont like it cause hov went all the way modern, i will say tho some of it didnt age well.
dawg shoulda called up lex luger, chop or southside for at least one joint. "crown" is a fake ass young chop type beat

'i party wit weirdos, yeah hov, yeah hov!'

I heard That line a few weeks ago bumping this and thought it was funny considering the puff s*** lol but i get why he said it

Definitely wish we got more “modern” hov albums in the 2010’s

Holy Grail - average song
Picasso Baby - | i like it, second half is hard
Tom Ford - decent
FWMYKIGI - it's decent
Oceans - it's alright
FUTW - it's alright
Somewhereinamerica - decent, beat is good, miley lyric is heavily dated & cringe now unfortunately
Crown - good track
Heaven - nice track, he is spitting
Versus - fun lil interlude
Part II - always hated this one
Beach Is Better - fun lil interlude too
BBC - top 3 on the album, fun, one of the better Jay & Nas collabs
Jay-Z Blue - best song on the album
La Familia - kinda average, misses the mark even though you can see where it was aiming
Nickels and Dimes - top 3 on the album, very good

Album had massive promo & because it missed the mark that made the backlash even worse imo
Nigga dropped the promo during the finals for Lebron's 2nd ring, eyes were glued to the screen

BP3 is overhated (BP3 is at least a 7/10, the glossy production throws folks off imo) whereas this joint is in the lower half of his discog

Bro...If 2Chainz or Ross made Tom Ford back then, they would be clowned to oblivion and called washed up lol.

50 Cent would have a field day lol.

The intro is so bad but I like that album.

Probably the only Jay album I was actually hyped about lol the rollout was crazy