Hip Hop

As those who have been watching this blog may remember a few weeks ago I posted up the song Forever by Drake ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem. Well, today I found out that a new music video has been made for this song, so of course here it is. Enjoy the video!!

I just saw this, priceless.

Jay-Z speaking on his feelings about Kanye's rude interruption of Taylor Swift at the VMA's.

First off, I know that this album came out on Sept. 11 and I'm a little bit late in posting this. However I've been busy and just now had time to get to this review.

Now if you recall, in 2006 Jay made it apparent that he was going to retire with such songs as What More Can I Say? At this time he was receiving a lot of criticism on his Kingdom Come album which was making him uncomfortable and was taking the criticism to heart. He then took advantage of the opportunity opened up by the movie American Gangster to slide back into the game and once again got back into the studio to start recording.

This year of course he released the controversial song D.O.A. (Death of Autotune) attacking the growing trend in rap within the last few years. This song gathered a lot of attention through the hip hop world and basically let everyone know without a doubt, Hova is back with a vengeance. Let's rewind a little bit, on September 11, 2001 Jay-Z released his sixth studio album The Blueprint. Despite the release date of the cd coinciding with the devastating 9/11 attacks, the cd had phenomenal success selling 426,000 copies in the first week, marking Jay-Z's fourth consecutive album to reach number one on the Billboard 200. This album is without any doubt a classic.

The Blueprint 2 released in 2002 had less success than it's predecessor, but was still a pretty decent album. Now Jay-Z has followed those albums up with the Blueprint 3 making an album trilogy. I've listened to this album and Jay-Z is back on fire and ready to light a fire under the ass of the rest of the hip hop world. Drawing from rock influences the album has taken on new directions with production to Jay's previous albums. The first single garnering attention for this album was the song Run This Town. Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West, all do an amazing job on the beat which was also made by Kanye.

Now while I'm not going to give everyone a song by song breakdown, below you will find the song list along with credits to those deserving.


1 "What We Talkin' About" Kanye West, No I.D. Luke Steele 4:04 "Spirit" by Frederic Mercier
2 "Thank You" Kanye West, No I.D. 4:10 "Ele E Ela" by Marcos Valle
3 "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" No I.D. 4:15 samples "In the Space" by Janko Nilovic and Dave Sucky
4 "Run This Town" Kanye West, No I.D. Rihanna and Kanye West 4:28 "Someday in Athens" by The Four Levels of Existence.[38]
5 "Empire State of Mind" Shux, co-produced by Janet "Jnay" Sewell-Ulepic & Angela Hunte Alicia Keys 4:37 "Love on a Two-Way Street" by The Moments
6 "Real as It Gets" The Inkredibles Young Jeezy 4:13
7 "On to the Next One" Swizz Beatz Swizz Beatz 4:16 "D.A.N.C.E." by Justice
8 "Off That" Timbaland, Jermone "Jroc" Harmon Drake 4:07
9 "A Star Is Born" Kanye West, No I.D., additional production by Kenoe J. Cole 3:47 "Touch Me" by Mother Freedom Band
10 "Venus vs. Mars" Timbaland, Jermone "Jroc" Harmon Beyoncé 3:11
11 "Already Home" Kanye West, additional production by No I.D. and Jeff Bhasker Kid Cudi 4:30 "Mad Mad Ivy" by Gladdy's Allstars
12 "Hate" Kanye West Kanye West 2:32
13 "Reminder" Timbaland, Jerome "Jroc" Harmon 4:18
14 "So Ambitious" The Neptunes Pharrell 4:12 "Memory Lane" by Minnie Ripperton
15 "Young Forever" Kanye West Mr Hudson 4:16 "Forever Young" by Alphaville

I know that this isn't such a big thing but I thought it was kind of funny. It's just more discussion about the whole Kanye West rudely interrupting Taylor Swift when she was accepting her reward at the VMA's. This time it's our President Barack Obama calling Kanye West a jackass.

Kanye made a classic VMA awkward moment here.. What an idiotic move..

Just listened to this song last night. These guys all killed this song, another hit straight off the top. If I was gonna say I have favorites in this song I'd say Eminem and Drake did the best. This was a sick collaboration though, I hope to hear more tracks like this comin out.





Oh and one more thing to say, ppl please don't post your religious views about the illiminati, freemasons or anything like that. Your comments will be deleted, I don't care about your feelings about these organizations, I'm not going to change the music I support just because you disagree with it. In the description and everything it says that I'm going to keep up with hip hop music, this means Jay Z, Rihanna, Kanye West, Eminem, Drake and various others. Regardless of how "evil" you may believe they are. If you're so "christian" it's not your job to be the judge of these people anyway, if you believe you're "christian" leave the judgement to God and stay out of it. Thank you very much.

(The above statement may not apply to all, this is to certain people who felt like leaving comments I don't agree with on MY blog)

Just watched this video and I gotta say I was completely blown away. Jay Z, Rihanna and Kanye West killed it in this song!!! And the video was shot and choreographed very nicely as well. Not to mention how fine Rihanna is lookin. Lyrics were on point, the content was very nice, a great beat and the delivery from all three performers was wonderful. This song definitely has me looking forward to The Blueprint 3 which will be released on September 11 2009. Please keep up with any further news on the artist by visiting his website at www.jay-z.com