BEYONCÉ v JAY-Z

jay-z with oen millisecond of thought

voted beyonce, jay-z is ugly

on that criteria, should be a beyonce landslide.

yeah but what about in 10 years

^likes old dudes

new poll in 10 years, to verify the 9.6 year results.

Beyoncé.

bey-z

beyoncé, oddly easily

remember destiny's child

j.... i have issues with beyonce

i mean i have issues with jay too but beyonce i feel never lives up to the hype

(maybe i expect too much)

beyonce is still making good music, and jay-z is a complete embarassment now. so beyonce

jay-z is not ugly,but Beyonce has all that.

voted beyonce but what the fuck was i thinking tbh

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musically, Beyonce wins in the now simply cuz "Blueprint 3" is an automatic forfeit.

that's not even jay-z's worst album

i haven't heard Kingdom Come......

kingdom come, american gangster & bp3 are a troika of bad old man rap

I liked American Gangster. a hell of a lot more than I liked BP3 (which I really didn't, at all).

I'll throw a punch in this fight again. American Gangster is tied with The Blueprint as my favorite Jay-Z record.

damn 10 years flew by fast

that's not even jay-z's worst album

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:15 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o come on yes it is

the hype surrounding "american gangster" is one of the all time label-driven dupe jobs in rap -- it's not like jay-z forgot how to rap with KC, remembered how to rap with AG, and then forgot how to rap again with BP3 -- people were just desperate to believe that jay wasn't awful and they lapped up the dumb story behind AG & chose to ignore that the rapping & songs are horrible (altho the production is alright)

kingdom come is worse -- at least you could argue that bp3 has good production

there are three good joints on AG -- "roc boys", the genuinely good jay-z single of the three albums, "ignorant shit", which was what, 6 years old or something by the time AG was released and "success" on which he nas totally has the best verse

kingdom come has a few good tracks imo - "prelude," "trouble," "lost ones" and the title track

oh and "oh my god" one of my fave just blaze beats

you could scrape out a listenable album out of the 3 albums

fwiw, I heard zero of the hype surrounding American Gangster and hadn't even read a review of it before buying it - I wasn't even sure what the opinion was on it, but mostly bought it cuz at the time I was really just getting into Jay-Z, and I liked it a lot.

yeah, i mean, i'm not saying that every individual that likes it was brainwashed or something, just that the press at large was

the hype surrounding "american gangster" is one of the all time label-driven dupe jobs in rap

Uh, maybe? All I know is that I heard it the first time, thought DAMN JAY SOUNDS ON POINT AGAIN AND THIS PRODUCTION IS HOT and I still think that three years later whenever I put it on (which is probably once every six weeks or so).

xpost I tend to think besides the bad lyrics on BP3, the lame and repetitive flow is what really makes it boring. both "Run This Town" and "Empire State of Mind" have essentially the same rhythmic backdrop ffs.

xxpost regarding press, well, I think a lot of that was going on during BP3 too. I read pretty cheery (if not calling it 'awesome') reviews of the album before getting BP3 on drop date and after 3 listens I couldn't find more than a track I liked. and taht's sad because most rap albums I can find at least 3.

i think "on to the next one" is pretty great -- i love the "buy my old albums" line cuz it actually recaptures the old jay-z sneer without the pandering get off my lawnisms of "death of autotune" (word to makeitpop) or the general boardroom emptiness of "run this town"

Death to Autotune annoyed me about as much as Pantera annoyed me when they released the "Great Southern Trendkill" album. simple retort: if you don't like it, wait 4-5 years, eventually something else will replace it.

um so was the last Beyonce album any good

yeah

it's fucking awful

well, the first disc is -- the last disc has some joints

it's fucking awful but at least has "Single Ladies" to show for it

http://www.jamiedole.com/gifs/EyeRoll.gif

^_^

personally I prefer albums with more than one good song on them

take it to the challops thread, rev

Kingdom Come is terrible and i am no fan of American Gangster but i really gotta say BP3 is the worst ever imo, dude hit rock bottom and kept digging.

i mean if you argue it at least has good production, i don't even know what beats you would point to.

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blowjob

just puttin that out there

and the total number of votes adds up to... 69! my god

yeah he does have some big lips but i'm not that into it

kinda ugly

Now Jay-Z vs. Sam Cassell in Ugly-Off

sam cassell

like sam i cassell

"Ego" is also awesome.

is that the one where she sings about her penis?

"i love his big penis"

a lot of my friends don't like ho rap because they don't like hearing women rap about their vaginas the way male rappers talk about their penises (well...), which never bothered me, but talking abt yr boyfriends penis via really obvious euphemism is maybe where i draw the line.

ego is the only good song on that album

she talks about her boyfriend's penis, then talks about her own