You don't like American Gangster? That's one of his best albums. We just gonna have to disagree on that one.

That album would've been much better if Jay trimmed it down to the best 13-14 tracks from it.

100%

American Gangster slaps. Such a beautiful, cohesive project.

Def should have not been a double idk what they were thinking

Blueprint 1 if the stories are true part of the reason it was so great was because of how quick, focused & concised its process was & then they decide to do the exact opposite with part two

Blueprint 2
Blueprint 3
Kingdom Come

His bottom 3 imo & his only overall bad projects.

I always had soft spots for Oh My God and Beach Chair

I try to pretend that I'm different but in the end we're all the same

It seemed a lot worse than it actually was coming after one of the greatest rap albums of all time. Same thing happened with Vol 1 & Blueprint 2. Hip-hop fans think so black and white. Either an album is a classic or it’s trash. In reality it’s a solid Jay-Z project with a lot of gems.

Around this time his flow started getting clumsy (in comparison to Prime Hov) so this ended up being the 1st project where his timing was notably off so that made it seem really bad on first listen.

But even tho his flow wasn’t as on point as it once was it was still elite and the content was hella substantive. Tracks like “Lost Ones”, “Do You Wanna Ride”, “30 Something”, “Minority Report”, “Beach Chair”, etc all had interesting concepts and thought provoking content. It’s easily his 2nd most mature body of work right behind 4:44 which kinda makes it unique to his discog. The beats were solid too, very well produced album. That being said “Anything” is unforgivable. “Hollywood” isn’t as bad as some say but it’s easily the Carter’s worst collab. That hook on “Dig a Hole” is laughably bad.

If I had to score it give it a 7.0, maybe 7.5

I’m always pleasantly surprised when I revisit it. The fact that an album this good is bottom tier in his discog says a lot about how great he is tbh

It's the first Hov album I remember my dad playing in the whip so it has that hold on me but it's not one of his bests

one of his worst but has it's highlights. supposedly the original version got dropped in the ocean on a trip to the bahamas and he had to make a new album

Show me what you got is classic

having said that, id just rather do the Weezy version every single time.

I'd put Magna in his bottom 3 before Kingdom Come personally.

Oh My God and Kingdom Come are dope tracks. Beach Chair and Minority Report are classic.

Whaaat that would be crazy lol

So many bad and unnecessary songs on BP2. The highs are really high, and the lows are really low.

It’s forgettable. Anyone who says it’s a good album is trying to be a contrarian

Didn’t get round to it apart from the singles tbh

I think Magna is decent/mediocre but I dont think its mostly bad overall

I respect that tho, would be bottom 5 along with Dynasty imo. Two albums of his that I think are middle of the road.

Not a bad album but didn’t feel like a Jay album. Hard to explain.

BP3 a blassic f*** OP

KC is decent. A solid 6/10

MFs ain’t fans of hip-hop

The Vol trilogy are his worst 3 albums

Vol.1 and Vol.3 are amazing, what you talking about?

Vol.1 is really good minus the 1-2 forced radio singles.