Jay Z..just quickly...

[bez]

Boss reckon hes cool!

[xz]

jay-z has been fuckin wack for years, reasonable doubt being the only exception (classic.)

[ImmortalOne]

jay-z has been fuckin wack for years, reasonable doubt being the only exception (classic.)

And I didnt even like THAT album. Alot of people label that album classic, but I dont see whats so great about it.

[West Coast Veteran]

i used to hate him...now i can tolerate and respect him...he is a very talented MC but i just don't dig most of his shit...Reasonable Doubt was nice and i like tracks here on there from the rest of his albums...The Blueprint sounds dope and it might be the second Jigga album i buy...there are NO GUEST APPEARANCES! amazing! it hasn't been done for a long ass time!

[ZILLA THA GOODFELLA]

A long time? Well since march, cause Bizzy Bone didn't have any guest appearences either on his latest album. Dats wat made it so tight.
The blueprint could be allright.

[West Coast Veteran]

i thought Bizzy did have guest appearances?

i never heard the album but i DLed a song that i thought was from The Gift with other MC's on it...i guess it wasn't from that album...

[ImmortalOne]

The Gift had NO guest appearances. That is one of the most slept on albums this year, Bizzy is the only Bone member to drop to nice solo albums so far. We'll see if Krayzie follows suite....

[RivieraIII]

The Blueprint sounds dope and it might be the second Jigga album i buy...there are NO GUEST APPEARANCES! amazing! it hasn't been done for a long ass time!

WHERE did u see that?

[Doggystylin]

its not a EAST WEST thing for me. i just dont feel him  that much. i might like a few of his songs here and there but, im not a big fan

[Nosak]

he talk shit a little bit to much fo me, n he's in L.A for the video of "hi to tha hizzo" look like snoop will be part of tha video  :




LOS ANGELES — Call him Mayor Jigga.

Surrounded by scantily clad "secret service" babes and avid supporters, Jay-Z campaigned in the streets of downtown Los Angeles Tuesday during the video shoot for "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)," the first single from his forthcoming album, The Blueprint.

"I'm already mayor of the streets, and I'm up for re-election," Jay-Z said during a break, adding that the "election" is on September 18, the day of the album's release. "It's cosmic," he marveled.

Though Jay-Z's role in the video didn't require much of a wardrobe change — he wore a blue jersey outfit emblazoned with "Sprewell" and the number 8 — it did mean retiring some of the gluttonous behavior captured in his previous videos.

"How many times can we be on an island with pretty girls spraying champagne?" said Damon Dash, co-founder of Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records label. "You gotta grow up sometime."

Standing on a giant float bearing Roc-A-Fella's logo, with his "campaign adviser" Dash and "secret service" girls at his side, Jay-Z hyped up his supporters, who carried placards and wore T-shirts with the message "Jay-Z The Blueprint 09-18-01."

His "guards" took their task seriously. "We have to make sure he doesn't get assassinated," said Kim Chillous, who complemented her microscopic black uniform with retro pink glasses. "It's a big job protectin' Mayor Jay-Z."

While it might seem more fitting for the Brooklyn-raised MC to shoot the clip on a New York street, Jay-Z said it's all about getting the job done with the least hassle.

"In New York I go outside and it's like, so many people, so much love there," he said. "Not to say there ain't no love over here — there's definitely love. But if I go out to that block in New York, there's gonna be 500,000 people out there, so it's tough for me to shoot out there."

Fortunately, said Cypress Hill leader B-Real, who dropped by the set for a visit, "he found one of our streets that looks like a New York street."

"Izzo" features a party beat and hook, but its lyrics are relatively serious — the "mayor" vents about the pitfalls of being a leader and proclaims his innocence in his real-life assault case (see "Jay-Z Trial Date Moved Again"). Jay-Z tells listeners to take his tales of ghetto life not as a guide for living, but as a lesson on what to avoid. "You're acting like I told you to sell drugs," he raps. "No, I told you that so hopefully you won't have to go through that."

"I'm not gonna sugar-coat it," Jay-Z said of "Izzo," which samples the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back." "I'm gonna give it to you the way it came out the ghetto, the way I'm supposed to. And it's up to you to decipher it. If I'm talking about a situation and ... give you the results of what happened, I'm not glorifying it. I'm just telling you what happened. I'm reportin' it. It's like holding a newscaster responsible for reportin' the news."

Jay-Z said The Blueprint is "more soulful" than his previous work, because of its personal lyrics and the fact that it's more of a one-man show than before. Unlike last year's The Dynasty — Roc la Familia 2000, which gave generous time to developing Roc-A-Fella artists, the new album features no guest appearances. This was less a conscious decision, Jay-Z said, than the result of a sudden burst of creativity during which he recorded nine songs in two weeks.

"The Blueprint is a makeup of what I seen and what my life is and what made me the way I am," he said. "It's about me — it's more so about my thoughts and my opinions, and I wanted to just go at this on my own. Once I did those first nine songs, there was no chance to bring anyone else in. I [thought], 'I might as well just finish it myself.' "

Jay-Z said he'll mount a theater tour after the album is released to "get the kinks out" before undertaking a larger-scale outing.

"People gotta definitely look out for that — them tickets are gonna be sold out quick," he said.

—Teri vanHorn

[I TO DA GEEZY]

YEA YEA.......IM WIT YA RIVIERAIII.....
THA SHIT YOU SAID BOUT JIGGAZ RHYMEZ ON "THA DYNASTY" BEIN" THA CLOSEST TO RESONABLE DOUBT....IZ EXACTLY HOW I FEEL IT.....EVEN THA BEATZ SOMEHOW REMIND ME OF JIGGAZ DEBUT.....
ANYWAYZ...JIGGA IZ MOST DEF. ONE OF THA BEST
AND HE IZ IN MY TOP 5...OF THA DOPEST MCZ EVER....
AND BOUT THA EAST\WEST SHIT DAT ALL OF YALL WAZ SPITTTIN ......I THINK DAT BOTH COASTZ GOT TIGHT MCZ....THA REASON WHY I LIKE THA WEST BETTER IZ ONLY CAUZE OF THA WESTCOAST BEATZ......AND DIS DOESNT MAKE ME LIKE JIGGAZ SHIT ANY LESS....

[Don Jacob]

I dont like him AT ALL. Sorry, but thats just how a mothafucka feel. I think he's the most shallow, materialistic, egotistical thing to ever grace hip hop. God I cant stand him. You can talk all you want about how great you think Reasonable Doubt is, I aint buying it [literally and the otherway]. He is exactly the thing hip hop doesnt need. And me hating him has nothing to do with his sales, cuz my fav MC ever, Pac [rip], RIPS him a new asshole when it comes to sales. I just dont like his style, nor do I like his subject matter.

wow me and hellrazor actually agree on somthing...lol

[Don Jacob]

and y'all still hate on the east...i just had to point that out..

peace

if i hate on the east than what do you call what they do to the west....


and if i hate on the east pleeeeez explain to me why i just bought 3 eastcoast cd's today??

[I TO DA GEEZY]

YO BIGJAKE...YOU ACTUALY ONCE CLAIMED TO RESPECT PUFFY.....AND NOW YOU"Z SAYIN JIGGA IZ SHALOW.........DON GET YA DAWG.....

....AND BESIDEZ.....BIGEZ SHIT ON "LIIFE AFTER"....WAZ ALSO MOSTLY BRAGIN AND SHIT AND MANY OF YALL THINK IT WAZ A CLASIC TOO.......
AND TO REMIND YOU AGAIN.....WHO CAREZ BOUT THA TOPICZ OF THA TRACKZ......I ONLY CARE BOUT HOW THA RAPPA DELIVERZ IT..(LYRICAL STRUCTURE...FO THA 10000000 TIME)....AND JIGGA DOES AN EXSELENT JOB DELLIVERIN...

[Don Jacob]

yeah i respect puffy cuz he's an EXCELLENT business man and has ran his lable buetifully i might not like alot of what comes out of it but i respect the stuff he does...


the last time i checked biggy was 10 x the MC jay-z ever will be, jay-z is a lazy ass mother fucker just rides on whatever is popular get timbo to hit him up with a hot beats and mummbles through it with his whack ass partner in crime memphis bleek....seriously vol 1 was an ok effort, vol 2 was horrible, vol 3 was even worse and that roc la familia was just a producer album....he just got producers to make his album while he showed up and freestyled a bunch of songs...and added bleak and beans to fill it out...jay-z hasn't really spit a hot verse since 97', his metaphors are predictable, his disses are weak, his rhyme structure is way too clicheish, and just throws out shit that'll sell...he's capable of much more than this...i ain't supporting his lazy efforts simple as that