Yet another inevitable new Jay-Z album: MAGNA CARTA HOLY GRAIL out july 4 on samsung galaxy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B--ZARCwSIE&feature=player_embedded

During game five of the NBA Finals, Jay-Z aired a commercial announcing that on July 4, he'll release a new album. It's called Magna Carta Holy Grail, and if the commercial's cameos are to be believed, it'll feature collaborations from Pharrell, Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, and Rick Rubin. Check out the commercial below.

The album will be released via an app on Samsung Galaxy phones. The app will be available via Google Play on June 24.

hope it's a concept album about aliens placing secret artifacts to give us clues about our true genesis

@DVSblast

My entire album if i was Jay would be bout being in the illuminati & fulla made up secrets. "WE LOOOVE ORANGE JUICE CUZ ITS EVIL"

proud of ilm that this thread wasn't started for a good 12 hours after it was announced

we need a Rolling New Jay-Z Albums Into The Shitbin Thread

i'd rather jay spent his efforts convincing his wife to get around to releasing mrs. carta or w/e instead.

we need a Rolling New Jay-Z Albums Into The Shitbin Thread

― ramona & yeezus (some dude), Monday, June 17, 2013 3:36 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

How about that Rick Rubin sleeping on a couch (I mean concentrating) in that Samsung ad.

you lazy for this one Rick

Samsung paid $5 apiece for the albums, according to a person familiar with the matter. It wasn’t immediately clear if Nielsen SoundScan will count Samsung’s purchases in its sales tallies.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/06/16/samsung-to-give-away-1-million-copies-of-jay-zs-new-album/

i'd rather jay spent his efforts convincing his wife to get around to releasing mrs. carta or w/e instead.

this DOES make me vaguely hopeful b has a trick up her sleeve rather than the fiasco her campaign has so far been tbh

more like magna farta holey fail

^ gets it

It'll still get a 700-post thread and #40 in the year-end poll

lmao @ rick rubin

you lazy for this one Rick

― Number None, Monday, June 17, 2013 8:50 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haaa

ok i get the generation gap with jay-z and kanye fans but what i don't get is how anyone whose introduction to jay-z was the black album or later actually rates him as a relevant legend. surely it's like kids who first heard of madonna via her '00s work, to them she's just this weird old lady who old people like.

title of this bothers me SO MUCH

is this silver age jay or bronze age jay i've lost track

i like the beats in the trailer

I'm sure it will be the best beats money can buy and the best rhymes smooth sailing can write

I wish he would transition into being the rap steely dan. In fact I wish he would rap "I'm the rap Steely Dan."

yes

Or maybe he could turn Steely Dan into a verb.

ok i get the generation gap with jay-z and kanye fans...

Given what comes next, not entirely sure that you do.

I do like the beats in the ad. Reminds me of that great bit in Fade to Black when Rubin gives him the Fugazi sample to rap over.

And another shout out for

you lazy for this one Rick
― Number None, Monday, June 17, 2013 4:50 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Amazing

we need a Rolling New Jay-Z Albums Into The Shitbin Thread

― ramona & yeezus (some dude), Monday, June 17, 2013 10:36 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that was a pretty excellent comment

great work all around zinging a washed-up record producer and a 60-year-old rapper

with parkinsons

Michael Jay Fox

swizz beats in that ersatz-verité video just looks like "what should i be pretending to do right now?"

Or maybe he could turn Steely Dan into a verb.

― MarkoP, Monday, June 17, 2013 5:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm stealin like dan/play stadiums in japan

great work all around zinging a washed-up record producer and a 60-year-old rapper

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, June 17, 2013 10:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

seriously dudes—these guys obviously just wanted to lay low and craft a humble, personal album for a core group of fans, leave em alone

Jay-Z's Pink Moon.

i'm actually kind of excited about the inevitable new mellow nylon-string guitar jams record 60 year old jay will put out

haha xp

Does anyone even care?

i'll care when there's an album to listen to, at least a little

yeah i sort of can't not care at what my once-favorite rapper does next even if i fully expect it to be boring

it is not weird to just be thinking of the record itself as a kind of minor, passive catalyst for interesting, absorbing. state-of-the-union rap discussion, i think. like not watching zero dark thirty or django but appreciating that it dragged some writers into sharing their broader thoughts

30 hours to pre-cover:
Magna Carta Holy Grail Tracklist:
01. Picasso Baby
02. Heaven
03. Versus
04. Tom Ford
05. Beach Is Better
06. FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt
07. Oceans (feat. Frank Ocean)
08. F.U.T.W.
09. Part II (On The Run) (feat. Beyoncé)
10. BBC (feat. Nas, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell, Timbaland, and Swizz Beats)
11. La Familia
12. Jay-Z Blue
13. Nickles & Dimes
14. Holy Grail (feat. Justin Timberlake)
15. Open Letter

http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/07/rick-rubin-was-not-involved-in-jay-zs-magna-carta-holy-grail/

09. Part II (On The Run) (feat. Beyoncé)

lol is this implying "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" Part II? my excitement is so stoked!

been loling at "Oceans (feat. Frank Ocean)" for days

with just a tracklist, i think you could pump out a fairly credible review of this already

one cool aspect of this whole cell-phone-company-corporate-synergy-record-release-rollout-smashup thing is

what does F.U.T.W. stand for

Nasses (feat. Nas)

FUCK UP THE WORLD

also BIG BLACK COCK

Gunplay feat. Gunplay is the obvious antecedent here

I have no idea what the fuck this is supposed to mean.

me neither

Or the next line. BTW is it NYer style to write out "six hundred and seventy-five thousand" or is that just his annoying tic.

Guys BRB, I have an American "Oh Christ" feeling that makes me want to sit down, and I need to relieve it.

i didn't realise how much jay-z removing his hyphen would annoy me until i began seeing style guides complying

i'm american and i feel like sitting down a lot

I don't know what "truly" is doing in that sentence

i didn't realise how much jay-z removing his hyphen would annoy me until i began seeing style guides complying

― lex pretend

won't believe it until I pick up my next edition of the AP Stylebook.

also i think this is entirely the wrong album to be going in on casual music consumers for

I also dispute the notion that any one of J's pre-retirement albums deserves "terrible" hurled at it

I have no idea what the fuck this is supposed to mean.

opening paragraph of the sfj blog describes a kind of american "saudade" that's more akin to the helplessness felt when the trayvon martin verdict came through

why he links it to feeling disappointed in jay is beyond me

I have no idea what the fuck this is supposed to mean.

you would have to read the piece but it basically means "the helpless disappointment you feel when you hear the George Zimmerman verdict." (xpost)

the dynasty is good

also calls The Dynasty: Roc La Familia Jay Z’s "one truly terrible pre-retirement album."

i yelled about this yesterday bc i feel like blueprint 2 is worse and neither record is at all terrible

how on earth is helpless disappointment in the workings of the state particularly american

what does being "in danger of proximate harm" mean? Can't you only be "proximately" harmed BY something?

The Dynasty > The Black Album

guys guys guys guys come here and talk about GOOD jay-z records with me here:

JAY-Z ILM TRACKS POLL RESULTS - WORD TO THE HYPHEN IN MY NAME

i'm sorry i never got round to voting :( i think it must have coincided with wimbledon or a deadline or the heatwave or both, didn't find the time :(

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTpQS14zu3Pq5EneaFjw0YZTZxlhzbTKZdv_C3Oa0aQpbQmyFNr3w
"Magna Carta Holy Christ. Geez..."

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/auremar/auremar1201/auremar120103842/11843827-grumpy-man-sitting-on-the-floor.jpg
"Oh Christ"

The Dynasty > The Black Album

― some dude, Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:22 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Dynasty > The Black Album

― some dude, Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:22 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Hooks on Phoenix worked for me (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:30 AM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how on earth is helpless disappointment in the workings of the state particularly american

― lex pretend, Wednesday, July 31, 2013 12:21 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

americans think they are the best at everything, even the best at being the worst

that picasso baby performance art thing was more choreographed/constructed than bey's halftime show

but jayz can feel good that he thinks making an apple ad w celebs is a perf art piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMG2oNqBy-Y

tbh this was much more likeable and less terrible than I thought it would be

The video definitely improves the song.

the jerry saltz description was so unwittingly embarrassing, but the final result is just like a big stylish love fest

Jarmusch looking especially swaggy I must say

something about the video makes me feel v. uncomfortable.

is this his "liberian girl"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ugBcfT3eqM

http://vimeo.com/71732467

lol

Al is your Jay/JT thing up?

yah http://blogs.citypaper.com/noise/index.php/2013/08/live-review-jay-z-and-justin-timberlake/

"tom ford" despite the goofy title is a pretty amazing conceptual track that's built around samples from a single man, sort of reminds me of jay on "this can't be life" in its hard realism but describing a very different lifestyle.

― dylannn, Wednesday, July 3, 2013 1:21 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol remember this shit? i heard fuckwithuuknowigotit or whatever today and LOLed.

has any 'big deal' album ever faded so quickly from collective memory?

what about the album by "the carters" lol

i can remember the big singles from mchg, but can't even remember the name of that one migos song that they tried to push on us from that album

I'm in Heaven
Yachting

I keep forgetting this album ever happened

Jay probably feels the same way.

It reminds me (a little) of a movie podcast I subscribe to where they just pretend that Indiana Jones 4 never came out.

I still hear the title track on the radio tho. So it did extend his pop presence into the 2010s.

There was a little thing called Watch the Throne in 2011 I guess.

Really, tips? Wow. I envy you. Here's it's "Big Pimpin'" all the time.

I’m very tempted to create an Everything Is Love vs MCHG poll, but that would mean people would need to revisit these records.

There was a little thing called Watch the Throne in 2011 I guess.

lol speaking of something Jay's probably not eager to talk about at the moment.

And yeah, I think "Holy Grail" is actually still the Jay-Z track I hear most on our local hip-hop/R&B station. "Big Pimpin'" and the like mostly show up during the "oldies" lunch hour, but "Holy Grail" gets play in the normal rotation.