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foodisfun
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anyone heard it yet?  im not a huge fan, but i wanna see what other people think.  guys on the local station that got it said it was off the hook, but i can't trust them because they wouldn't bad mouth HOV on the public radio.
Oct 25 2007 7:48PM
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skijunkiedtm
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didnt he retire? or is he back to put weezy in his place?
Oct 25 2007 7:49PM
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foodisfun
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well he pulled a michael jordan/roger clemens, and came out with kingdom come like 2 years ago or w/e, andi thought he was done after that, but i guess not.
Oct 25 2007 7:50PM
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406
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havent heard kingdom come yet but i heard it was a flop, but this is jayz we are talking about...... so i bet american gangster will be  illtacular
Oct 25 2007 9:14PM
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foodisfun
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aright well i downloaded some mixtape and i don't understand it.  what's the concept of a mixtape?  is it actually the album or just random stuff that might be put out?  there's like 30 tracks but it's weird.

Oct 25 2007 9:19PM
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406
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random shit
Oct 25 2007 9:25PM
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foodisfun
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yea i just listened to the whole thing and just deleted it all.  i'll just wait until the real thing comes on.
Oct 25 2007 9:35PM
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dr_phil
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His flow on the track is tight. Sounds more like the old Jay-Z on Reasonable Doubt (IMO).
Oct 25 2007 11:33PM
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406
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hell yeah reasonable doubt is best album ever made
Oct 25 2007 11:34PM
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dr_phil
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His best album ever made or The ??
Oct 25 2007 11:47PM
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406
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his best, but its one of the best

Oct 25 2007 11:49PM
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dr_phil
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I agree.
The Blueprint has some hella sick beats, but Jay-Z flow on it is kinda wack in my opinion.
Oct 25 2007 11:51PM
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406
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heart of the city(aintnolove) is a sickass beat, decent lyrics

but jayz was meh till i heard his old stuff (reasonable doubt)
and any jayz fans need to watch fade to black. shits crazy
Oct 25 2007 11:54PM
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dr_phil
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and the Jaz & Jay-Z times... that was sick, believe or not, he had a fast delivery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1thvEtGM5M
Oct 25 2007 11:58PM
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Pman13a
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hahaahah young hova
Oct 27 2007 12:18AM
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CDavis
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it going to be good
Oct 27 2007 10:40PM
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grizz
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at first i didnt like jay z cuz  nas is iller and they had "beef".  but upon further review jay z is good
Oct 28 2007 7:49AM
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Danger.
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i have the whole album, kind of disappointing.. for the most part his rhymes are where they've been lately, nothing too deep but overall solid minus the occasional weird line. as for the beats... its about 50/50 good and not so amazing. i wouldn't say any of them are bad by any means, but with all the hype he definitely could have chosen a better selection. what struck me as odd though was the collab with lil' wayne.. after everything going on with them the last thing i expected was for weezy to be on a jay-z album, but these days i guess anything can happen. at least the song sucked 
Oct 28 2007 8:33PM
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406
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damn howd you get that
Oct 28 2007 9:50PM
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Danger.
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i have connects haha. its actually missing 2 songs on the tracklist though so maybe that could fill my void
Oct 28 2007 9:59PM
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foodisfun
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  for some reason all the ones i checked out are missing the two tracks too, but i pretty much had the same feeling.  i never really liked jay z too much anyway, but i was hoping maybe this album would get me on his track a little bit more.  nothing too great though.

Oct 29 2007 12:29AM
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ECFS-Attitash
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the sample that the song is built off of makes the track.

blue bland was the shit...and still is.

Oct 29 2007 12:59AM
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Danger.
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are you sure? it just sounded like a bunch of 808 sounds with bad programming to me..
Oct 29 2007 10:48AM
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tBatt
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yeah, thats probably one of 10? songs ive heard from him, and the only one i like
Oct 29 2007 5:18PM
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ECFS-Attitash
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listen to the bobby bland version and you'll see that jay didn't do much to improve on an all time classic.
Oct 29 2007 5:40PM
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406
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listen to reasonable doubt and come talk to me
Oct 29 2007 11:23PM
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Danger.
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oh alright. i feel ashamed because i don't know that.. but yeah maybe not the best time to sample a song based on 808's
Oct 29 2007 11:59PM
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Danger.
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oh i love the beastie boys, i'm just tired of hearing 808's and i don't think the song really fits for jay-z. but nice vid, thanks for putting that up.
Oct 30 2007 1:55AM
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