American Gangster~Jay Z: An Appreciation Thread

[onetoughmiracle]

This album is a personal favorite of mine. It takes me back to my senior year in college. I use to blast this album like crazy.

 

[RandomNegro]

KC was a solid album for anybody not named Jay.

American Gangster felt like a more grown up Reasonable Doubt.

 

[BRIAN B.]

really ain't heard this album in full


I've downloaded it & few songs have come up in the shuffle


might sit down & give it an honest listen one of these days

 

[RozayTabernacle]

KC was a solid album for anybody not named Jay.

American Gangster felt like a more grown up Reasonable Doubt.

If I had to choose between Kingdom Come or Magna Carta Holy Grail, I think I'd take KC.

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

If I had to choose between Kingdom Come or Magna Carta Holy Grail, I think I'd take KC.

Why do you have to pick between 2 shit albums?

 

[Qawshun]

Don't want no smoke but.........he came outta retirement with this album....

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Remember it was a rush album too.

Now, everything rides on this Jay-Z album. Jay goes on a world tour and goes to Africa to do his Water for Life thing. He’s doing all this stuff and L.A. Reid is looking at me, like, ‘We need the Jay album by the end of the year,'” he says. “I’m like, ‘We’re not ready. I have some songs but it’s not done and he’s in Africa.’ They’re like ‘If this shit doesn’t come out, people are getting fired. I can’t pay my bills, this record has to come out at this time.’”

Guru insists that he tried to push back the album because Jay was overseas, but was instead sent to Taiwan to spur the recording of the album. Jay was tired from performing to massive arenas, which Guru says may be the culprit for the LP’s quality.

Gotta give him a lil leeway on this one

 

[BDP™️]

Classic album and probably one of his most underrated albums along with Vol 1

 

[God_Body]

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

Remember it was a rush album too.


Gotta give him a lil leeway on this one

Nah

Blueprint was recorded in 3 months.

 

[Natural Born Sinners]

Also the last time we heard Hov and Beans on a record

The first Jay album w no Ye production in a decade plus

Kanye didn't do "roc boys"? I always thought he produced that

 

[Natural Born Sinners]

Classic album and probably one of his most underrated albums along with Vol 1

I think this album underrated As fuck! Soon as I heard that Blue Magic joint, I knew this wasn't gon be no Kingdom Come. I remember none of my peoples had heard Blue Magic. I found it surfing Limewire or one of those sites, which is how I got most of my music back then

 

[Soul_Rattler]

This album might've been the last time I liked hearing a rapper rewind his own rap, mid verse just to compliment himself on the rap he just rapped

Survive the drought, I wish you well
Hold up... survive the drought? I wish you well?
How sick am I? I wish you health
I wish you wheels, I wish you wealth
I wish you insight so you can see for yourself

 

[Soul_Rattler]

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I'm still perplexed at how much play this got in nightclubs.

Great record, don't get me wrong. But it's not the type of song I'd expect to hear in 21+ bars where Gucci, Wayne, Ross, etc got everyone to the dance floor.

 

[dasmooth1]

In my top 5 Jay albums. Underrated because of the part of his career when it dropped
1. Reasonable Doubt
2. Blueprint
3. Black Album
4. Hard Knock Life vol 2
5. American Gangster