You want fanfare? You want to be entertained?
I have to admit, other than a few choice schwacks and swats on Kingdom Come, last year really kinda felt like Jigga should have followed his self-heralded path of having “dropped the black album and then backed out”.
Cue the muse. Granted, “the muse” here is a Denzel film, but, hey, in a year when people are listening to Souljah Boy, anything that brings Jigga back to his full game, and here: though the beats aren’t cold and stoic like the pop-culture sponge may have expected, this is what we are, officially, calling a comeback in the best way.
Jay-Z ft Beanie Sigel: Ignorant Shit
One of the most powerful moments on the album other than the first real track “Pray”, Jigga jumps into the fray in a most dangerous way-taking on both the O’Reillys and the Souljah Boys of the world, offering a vulgar, curse-laden hook and the explanation that he’s just bringing “the ignorant shit you want”-status quo for those looking for nothing else. The end, though, when he declares that “scarface the movie did more than scarface the rapper for me” and actually pulls it OFF? It’s proof that Jay-Z can’t suck even when he wants to.
Gotta love anything that starts with Jay-Z letting Nas know, over the smooth-as-silk beat, that he has to let the whole track “breathe”. Jesus, this is as good as braggadocio gets, with Jigga’s bost that he has “watches he hasn’t seen in days”…
Yeah, this whole thing is a winner. More later. Holla atcha boy.
Maybe you could drop a few more dangling modifiers into your grade-school-level prose. Internets killed the editor star.
this music talks to me like dick cheney does
& i won’t miss either - ignorant shit indeed
is it bad that i love the first track but feel like everything jigga said in it was totally negated by the second?
in any case, the first track is fucking TIGHT.