Skips: DOA (Death of Auto-Tune), Venus vs Mars, Hate, Young Forever Pick and choose.īest: Thank You, Empire State of Mind, Real As It Gets, Off That, Already Home, Reminder Still, there’s some genuine fire in the tank here (‘Real As It Gets’, ‘Off That’, ‘Already Home’) and it did give us the eternal ‘Empire State of Mind’.
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While the aged synths are one thing, the awkward and laughable shut downs at contemporary trends which sees Jay in full Boomer mode (the petty and cringe worthy ‘DOA’ for one) and some just downright bad tracks with poor rapping (‘Venus vs Mars’, ‘Young Forever’) are enough thing. The Blueprint 3, which came well after he’d established himself as a GOAT, lands almost entirely on Jay. Vol 3 was trying to build on Jay’s legacy while scoring some chart hits. Kingdom Come had expectations and a record label stacked against it. Most of the issues with the previous two albums can’t really all be blamed on Jay. Skips: Things That U Do, It’s Hot (Some Like It Hot), S. But what’s bad? Good lord.īest tracks: So Ghetto, Hova Interlude, Big Pimpin’, Watch Me, Come and Get Me Still, Vol 3 isn’t bad, it’s mainly just forgettable though there are the occasional bursts of brilliance we’ve come to expect from Jay and even some pretty bizarre shit too for good measure. But the album that followed is weak, all over the place and severely lacking the momentum that that single brought. While it may have gone to No 1, continued to cement Jay as a dominant force in the game and bagged him another crossover hit with the brilliant ‘Big Pimpin’. If Vol 2 was a great step in the right direction, Vol 3 was a sharp reversal straight into a brick wall. The drop off from Vol 2 to this is pretty bizarre. Skips: Show ‘Em What You Got, Anyways, Hollywood, Trouble Coming after ‘Black Album’, it’s obvious this wasn’t going to be a world shattering masterpiece, but that doesn’t excuse some of the shoddiness here.īest tracks: The Prelude, Kingdom Come, Lost One, Do U Wanna Ride? For every touching piece like ‘I Made It’, there’s word vomit like ‘Trouble’. For every subtle and restrained track like ‘Minority Report’, there’s an overblown worn out mess like ‘Oh My God’. For every smooth Dre joint, there’s a generic by the numbers Just Blaze track (no diss against him but this isn’t his finest hour). It’s obvious Jay wasn’t really fully ready to reclaim his seat on the throne, as Kingdom Come is pretty poor cruddy. When it inevitably happened, Jay was worn out from touring and the album was hastily thrown out the door to ensure Def Jam didn’t have to start laying people off. His premature retirement, while a huge spectacle left hopes of a comeback sky high.
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