Jay-Z
Countdown to Kingdom Come

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B.I. Vs Friendship:
Jay-Z speaks on differences with former partner Damon Dash and the perception that he’s not a real businessman.

XXL: What’s goin’ on with Roc-A-Wear?

Jay-Z: The first thing I did when I got over to Roc-A-Wear was to free up the designers. Free ‘em up. Make ‘em do what you want, you know—you like that? You guys think that’s cool? Let’s do that, you know, ask the room one time, hey…I mean, I just started being in the ads. Going since ’99, I wasn’t in no ads for five years, know what I’m sayin’? That speaks to the clothing. The clothing is good. Anything I align myself with, I try, and I would love for it to be an extension of myself.

XXL: But in terms of Roc-A-Wear, it always appeared that Dame was more involved than you were. Like it was more his passion than yours.

Jay-Z: Yeah, Dame was a negotiator and he loved the process of dealing with it day-to-day. You know, but my uh, my fingerprint was—is still all on Roc-A-Wear, you know what I’m sayin’? I mean, from the shit that I wear to getting to them to you know, do they fashion pirate shit sometimes. “Oh this is crazy, make this—put this over here.” Dame dealt—I mean, even with Roc-A-Fella, you know, he dealt with the more day-to-day thing. I dealt with the overall pace, the tone, like everything that happened in that company, don’t believe that it happened without me knowing. And at the end when something—when it starts happening without my input, I put a stop to it. You know what I’m sayin’?

XXL: Your look is saying a lot more than you are right now…

Jay-Z: It really conveys the seriousness of what I’m saying. I speak in a lot of fragmented sentences, I try to get my point across with how serious I am.

XXL: [Laughs]

Jay-Z: I wish the people could see… [Both laugh]

XXL: Do you feel like with Dame’s over the top personality and that dynamic y’all created, it’s almost like you didn’t get your just due as a businessman…

Jay-Z: Right.

XXL: Until you separated yourself out of that triangle in some ways.

Jay-Z: Right, right, but I didn’t mind that. I had no problems with that. But I ain’t have no problems with it as long as it works. As long as it works. We all play our position, that’s what you do. You know, you deal with it day-to-day, and the minutia of the whole shit, I’m cool with that. I’m cool with that. But don’t think that you know, like I had—I was just not…

XXL: Chilling. Hanging in the studio.

Jay-Z: Yeah, fuckin’ smokin’ blunts somewhere. Not knowing what’s going on. Wait, “Oh shit I got a check! I got a fuckin’ check!” You know what I’m sayin’?

XXL: I think one of the most unfortunate things was the messiness of the break-up. With Roc artists feeling like they had to choose sides.

Jay-Z: Yeah that was a part of it, yeah that part, nobody wants that, you know what I’m sayin’? Nobody wants that. It’s just the way it is. That’s just like…it just had to be that way. How else could it have been? It couldn’t have been no other way.

XXL: Have you found your peace with the decision you made?

Jay-Z: At the end of the day when I look around and I know I’m on the side of right or what I believe is right in my heart… Sometimes you think you’re doing right, but you’re not. But what you believe to be right in your heart that’s your truths. Then certain things happen, that go even further then that, and you know you was right. The way people carry themselves after, it’s like “Wow.” I wouldn’t have did that. [Laughs] A true friend wouldn’t have done that.

Look for the full story in the December 2006 issue, on stands now!

Go to the next page for more behind-the-scenes at the making of Kingdom Come.

  • dumdum

    tsrif

  • the one

    2

  • http://myspace.com/starchild10 $tarchild

    first!!!!

  • dumdum

    u bytttttches!!!!!!!

  • http://myspace.com/starchild10 $tarchild

    damn!!! 3rd
    “I run the streets, the streets don’t run we”
    subliminal 2 Dip-Shit
    Roc 4 Life

  • Enlightened

    I don’t know about y’all, but rushing to get it done…trying to complete shit while you’re on a world tour at the last minute…the first 2 singles… Don’t sound too promising to me.

  • the one

    I also heard Kingdom come and that shit sucks too. I heard 3 songs that I hope are not on that fuckin album. If so, all we have Is N.A.S to resurect Hip Hop.

  • Germ

    Are those the curtains from his office? “Uggh!” (c) Pusha T.

  • 40calKissjr

    HOW MANY OF YALL REALLY THOUGHT JIGGA HAD DONE HIS LAST ALBUM?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

    CAN U SAY PUBLICITY STUNT? COME ON DUMMIES. YALL NO HE JUST WANTED TO SEE A REACTION FROM EVERYONE. HE KNEW HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD DO ANOTHER ALBUM. WHAT MORE CAN I SAY? WELL I DONT WANNA HEAR MIKE JORDAN IN ANY MORE OF HIS LYRICS. I MEAN MIKE TOOK WHAT HE WANTED. JIGGA WAS JUST ALL THE GAME HAD WHEN B.I.G. DIED. I MEAN BAD BOY WAS SUPPOSE TO STILL BE THE SHIT, BUT PUFF WANTED TO BE A FUCKIN ARTIST MORE THAN RUN THE LABEL THE WAY IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE RAN. HE HAD THE BEST NIGGAS OUT IN THE LOX. THEM NIGGAS WONT ABOUT NO FUCKIN SHINY SUITS AND DANCING AROUND AND ALL DAT SHIT. HIM AND MASE WAS ENUFF SO HAVIN THEM HARD NIGGAS WOULDVE JUST MADE THE LABEL MORE VERSATILE. THE INDUSTRY WANTED THAT SHIT AT THE TIME. LOOK HOW CASH MONEY AND NO LIMIT BLEW THE FUCK UP WIT ALL DAT HARD SHIT. IF HE CUD START ALL OVER WIT DAT SHIT I BET PUFF WOULDVE DONE THAT SHIT A DIFFERENT WAY. NAH FUCK DAT! IF B.I.G. WAS STILL ALIVE DAT SHIT WOULDNT HAVE WENT DOWN LIKE DAT. ANYBODY WHO THINK DIFFERENT FUCK’EM AND SUCK A DICK WIT CUM ON THE TIP OF IT.
    JIGGA DAT NIGGA BUT TROOF BE TOLD, HE HAD NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO DO WAT HE DID. HE ROLLED WIT DA GREATEST TO EVER DO IT (B.I.G.) AND HE DIED SO IT REALLY WONT NOTHING LEFT BUT HIM. AND O YEA IF YALL AINT HEARD THE CD WIT CAM AIRING DAT NIGGA OUT AS FAR AS ALL THE SHIT HE DONE BIT FROM YALL NEED TO FIND IT. JIGGA ESTABLISHED ALREADY SO IT AINT GONNA HURT SHIT BUT DID A GOOD AS JOB OF KEEPIN DAT SHIT TRILL AND LETTING NIGGAS NO HOW FAR HOV WENT BACK AS FAR AS TAKING OTHER NIGGAS SHIT. I MEAN NAS ASKED HIM HOW MANY RHYMES GON COME OUT HIS FAT LIPS BUT DAMN I AINT NO HE TOOK DAT MUCH FROM BIG AND EVERYBODY ELSE. POINT BLANK HOV STILL DAT NIGGA

  • Mr. Nucca

    That cam shit was garbage!!! That shit was for the dummies. If you’re a real hip-hop fan you knew where those lines came from. Anyone that was shocked by that shit doesn’t know their history and need to go to some research. It wasn’t “jackin” it was paying homage to the greats of hip-hop.

    Bad Boy & The (war)LOX?!?! Niggas cry about wearing shinny suits and shit and then go jump on tracks with JLO and Paris Hilton, c’mon dude. Just be real and say that you want to roll with your own crew and fuck puff, but don’t go on radio and cry because you have a shitty contract.

    95 % percent of dudes careers don’t last more then 4yrs, to stay relevant in hip-hop is damn near impossible. This music shit works in cycles like sports, what goes up must come down, but respect must be shown to consistency and integrity.

  • DOCTORS ADVOCATE NOV 14

    Ok, ok, ok…so I heard Jay-Z’s single, “Show Me What You Got,” off his new album Kingdom Come late last week and I got to be honest, I expected more. I listened to it again and again to see if the track would grow on me. It didn’t. I didn’t get that same feeling I got when I heard the leak of, “What More Can I Say” off 2003′s Black Album. That record was emphatic, especially with lines like, “Excluding nobody / Look what I embody / The soul of a hustler / I really ran the streets.” No one could argue with it. But this single, “Show Me What You Got,” doesn’t move me. First of all, it sounds like Hov is almost freestyling on it. Even though the Just Blaze beat is pretty tight, it’s lazy compared to the PSA record he had on the Black Album. Listen, I know I’m going to get all kinds of emails from Hov fans complaining to me and telling me I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I raise the bar real high for anything Jay-Z puts out. I heard the title track, “Kingdom Come,” and I’m more pleased with that. By no means am I suggesting Hov doesn’t have it any more because that would be ludicrous. At the same time, though, for Flex and Mr. Cee (who I frequently refer to as my favorite DJ in the world) to blast this joint for 10 minutes straight on Hot 97 is unwarranted. Yes, Hov is back and it’s a huge deal, but that song is not his best work. I know for a fact the album is going to bring more heat, so I hope Hov is just playing with us at this time. Yea, that’s it. …

  • haha

    yeah,i have like 3 different versions of PSA and they were all tight.anyway its good that the album is not yet finished because of the bootleggers.I just dont understand why labels give some people albums before they come out just so reviews can be done before it hits the stores,thats what listening sessions are for.btw i love the song kingdom come so much!just cant get enough it.

  • Fred D

    Yea man not feelin the New HOV Joints, he better get Nas on a track Or Call 9th and Quick to Hepl out Stat!! wheres Kanye at!???

  • The DJ Formerly Known as N-CREDIBLE

    this is what was told to J,”…the buzz is that they aint feelin your singles, and the bulk of the album got leaked…(in his head he like shit it was supposed to go down like this, i gotta make manuvers to redirect things)”

    now we have this remark that the album isnt done….ok Casanova…whatever dude….

    My advice trash the album…deflate your head…humble yourself…put your ear to the street…then get in the booth

  • The DJ Formerly Known as N-CREDIBLE

    i hope this guy proves me wrong because i want good music…its just not lookin on the up and up right now for you J

  • The DJ Formerly Known as N-CREDIBLE

    Jay-Z Says:

    I wouldn’t say real musical, ’cause I wouldn’t want to give people the wrong idea. Late Registration, to me, sounds like a big album. But you still had “Crack Music” and you know, you still had the raw…I just need two stripped-down joints just to round it out…
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    Are you saying the album is commercial

  • The DJ Formerly Known as N-CREDIBLE

    Sounds like a guy who isn’t to sure of himself

  • Enlightened

    I honestly think the dude is scared to do a track with Nas on his on album for fear of being made to look inferior. That’s why there’s no guest appearances.

    In my opinion, Beanie stole the show on every song he was on on the Dynasty album. If you don’t agree – tell me is it a coincidence that Beans basically never appeared on another Jay-Z album after that?

    I could be wrong though. I’m not the biggest Jay-Z fan though so somebody correct me if I’m wrong. How many more guest appearances did Beanie Sigel make on a Jay-Z album after Dynasty?

  • The Originator

    What all the anticipation for the album will suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • REAL SPIT

    FUCK JAY-Z

  • I TYPE IN CAPS BITCH

    SHIT FINNA BE PIFF

    CA STAND UP

    RAPPERS STAND DOWN!

  • kobe show

    that new jay single is bad
    not in a good way…. the song is terrible i still cant understand why jay shot a video for such a wack ass joint

    * shakes head in disappointment *

  • South Ambassador“

    When you get a Jay-Z album do you ever listen to the singles? No! He always dumbs down for the masses, why must yall count a dude out that has been here 10 summers! Get 4real

  • Prince Of The South

    I knew they were putting Jay on the cover. Now that Hov back we’ll get a break from all the interscope covers, like this year, only three. Jay comming back. It’s sad NY is in such a bad state that he’s got to risk ruining his legacy to make you all relevant. Like Jay said on the Black album, the rap game isn’t anything without me. This year only one rap album has gone platinum, TI. All NY has had since Jay left was 50. Maybe between the two of them they can bring you back. Both are multiplatinum selling artists and both have two Hip Hop legends under them (Nas Def Jam/Sony AND LL Cool J G-unit/ Def Jam). Jay back and he taking the industry back over. November 21 he’s going to be back on top and there’s going to be a few rappers taken down too (DipSet, Game, and Snoop)

  • massive

    the first 2 tracks are hard, this nigga came back wit 2 tracks that sound better
    then anything on the radio or in rap right now. don’t hate cause he ain’t stay retire. im from ca and im sick of all dis dirty south abc hook having joints that have been airing all over the radio and in the clubs, no disrespect. the south got luda and outkast, cali got the game and snoop, the chi got kanye and common, the d got eminem and slum village(dilla r.i.p.), ny got papoose and jay z. cam is nowhere near the king of ny, juelz is hotter than cam and he on def jam:)

  • young_fane

    HOV IS BACK!!!!!!!!! SHOW ME WHAT U GOT WASNT REALLY ALL DAT…..THAT KINGDOM COME JOINT WAS HOT DOE!!!!! I’VE BEEN WAITIN FOR MY NIGGA HOV TO GET OFF DAT BOO BOO AND SHIT ON THESE NIGGAZ!!!!!! AND 1 LAST THING……..EVEN WITH ALL THESE NEW “LEANIN AND ROCKIN” AS RAPPERS IN DA GAME…….HIP HOP WILL NEVER DIE……NIGGAZ LIKE HOV, COMMON, KANYE WEST (EVEN DOE HE HOMO LOW KEY), WILL ALWAYS HOLD DAT ASPECT DOWN…..BUT AS A MCEE…..I KNOW…IT’S 2006….ITS A NEW DAY…..RAP HAS EVOVLED TO WHAT IT IS 2 DAY…..THEM NIGGAZ MADE IT COOL 4 YOUNG BLACK MEN TO GET UP OUT DA HOOD AND ACTUALLY GET A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY, AND LEAVE THE STREETS ALONE….MAKIN ALOT OF NIGGAZ FUTURE’S BRIGHTER……SO EVEN DOE RAP IS WHAT IT IS 2 DAY…..IT’S STILL A BLESSING……NIGGAZ ACTUALLY HAVE A CHANCE NOW! PS.S.S.S.S LOL……ANYBODY LOOKIN 4 DAT HOT MID WEST SHIT……THATS ME……PROFANE.S.FLAMES…….THE FUTURE!!!!!!!!WWW.MYSPACE.COM/PROFANE_S_FLAMES OR PROFANE_S_FLAMES@YAHOO.COM FOR FREE MIXTAPE!!!!!!!!!!!100

  • REAL TALK

    IF U SAY U INT FEELIN “SHOW ME WHAT U GOT”, DATS KOOL..BUT WHOEVA INT FEELIN KINGDOME COME NEEDS 2 OPEN UP DERE EARS..JAY ALBUM IS GON B FIYAH

  • FlowAboveAverage

    Where the fuck is the Nas singles and shit?

  • Deal

    I dont think this track is goin to be on the album. I think it was just leaked for promo, because on the track he says ” y’all get 2 months…” he couldnt have that on the original album

  • haha

    @enlightened
    do u honestly feel/think that beanie outshined jay on ‘this cant be life’ or its just that u never really liked jay-z in the first place?btw even memph bleek and YG’s appeared only once a jay after the dynasty ie BP2.1 guest RAP feature on the blueprint.

  • haha

    do u honestly feel/think that beanie outshined jay on ‘this cant be life’ or its just that u never really liked jay-z in the first place?btw even memph bleek and YG’s appeared only once a jay after the dynasty ie BP2.1 guest RAP feature on the blueprint.

  • OG Frank

    i thought he retired…

  • OG Frank

    He’s not what he used to be anyway…

  • Uncle Murda

    Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton:
    “I was reading a lot of bullshit online—fake track lists, features and producers we don’t even know…I don’t know what’s gonna make it until I actually master it. There’s no rapper features on here. The only other feature on here, in terms of vocalists, is Beyoncé.”

    THAT MEANS NO NAS!!!

  • hutch

    Jay Z is garbage!! king of new york fuck that shit he aint fit 2 lace big poopas boots

  • Babyboy

    i am gonna wait on dat 1

  • http://www.camronistrash.com vS

    “Just the sound of his voice is a hit…” ~Jay-Z

  • inphamusstreets

    i wonder if he is going to come back on lucy diamonds for what she said in xxl?

  • crizzle

    Wow…hate is worldwide epidemic.

    Let Jay, or anyone else for that fact, do his thing. For some of you spouting off about how Kingdom Come/Jay is lame, you’ll be the first in line to cop it….just so you can turn around and bash it.

    Get a hustle…and a life.

  • BatmanLeo1

    jay-z dick riders are everywhere!

  • http://aftermathmusic.com Matt

    God I love all the haters. Like I ain’t no Jay-z dickrider, but have respect for a man that had Hip-Hop on his shoulders from 01-02. You huys just don’t know hiphop so I can see why your all thinking what you are.

  • Doc Flav

    Beans did outshine J on This Cant Be Life, REAL TALK. Damage control is in full effect, a few bad reviews on the first tracks, now the album not finished. Save all these side storys and fluff articles and release the record, all this extra promo-media mess looks weak.

  • H-MAN

    NO

  • H-MAN

    Hollywood payz tha billz, not muzik, just a hobbie…actin ova rappin…A ova R

  • MC 50

    All this hype for Jay is bullshit. There’s dudes that have gone three years without an album but didn’t get this much hype just because they didn’t call it a retirement. Retirement doesn’t mean being on everyone else’s songs while you’re “retired”. I lost a lot of respect for Jay. Y’all shoulda given the cover to Nas. He is and always has been better that Jay and Jay knows it that’s why he signed him.

  • H-MAN

    Jay-z’s album will B huge cauze itz Jay-z…I dont think tha first single will even end up on Kingdom Come…hez just fishin…Hez a lion trowin tha sheep a little raw meat 2 eat so 2 speak…tha hype…let it bubble, then hez gonna blow…hez very savy…I hear Blaze iz buzy producin Hollywood shit 2…Holla

  • haha

    JAY-Z>……….(insert favorite rapppe dead/alive).keep on hating dumb fucks,that wont change shit!jigga is the shit even when he rhymes in third person,HOVA the god …..!HOVEMBER!!!

  • 40calKissjr

    Mr. Nucca aint dat much paying homage in the world nigga. If you wanna talk about being a tru hip-hop fan whose beat was dey spittin on wit dat j-lo shit. u cant compare jumpin on a track wit somebody to somebody tryna make u out as an artist some dat u really aint. LOX…………..aint nobody fuckin wit dem. real talk. u just sound like die-hard jigga fan to da def and its no big deal but if shit aint rite it aint right. d-block my niggas and shit but everything and everysong dey got i cant say i approve all of it. u prob think every song jigga he ever came out wit is hot. even when he rhymed like a fu-shicken or watever the fuck dem niggas were. and if its like dat i no ETHER hurt you to your soul when u heard it. get off jigga’s dick nigga. i guess u really thought jigga was done making albums since you commented on just about everything except dat. fuckin dummie. dats yo boi so u shouldve known better. and u mustve felt me when i said he shouldve did what he has done since B.I.G. died. get a life nigga

  • REAL SPIT

    real talk change ur name and get off my dick. FUCK JAY-Z HOW MANY OF B.I.G’S RAPS IS GOIN COME OUT UR FAT LIPS.

  • REAL SPIT

    OH YEAH JAY-Z THAT’S A BITCH MOVE DROPPIN UR WACK ASS CD ON THE SAME DAY AS THE BIG BOSS SNOOP DOGG, I THOUGHT U WERE OUT THE GAME WIT UR BUTTON UPS AND UR BITCH U EAT OUT EVERDAY, SHE GOT U IN THE SKIRT NIGGA, PUSH UR CD BACK WE ALL NO U NEED TO WIT THAT FAKE ASS “SHOW ME WHAT U GOT” BITCH PLEASE NO WONDER DAME DASH AINT FUCKIN WIT U NO MORE “U GOTTA LOVE IT” HAHAH MAKE SHURE ALL YALL REAL NIGGAS GO GET “BLUE CARPET TREATMENT” THERE’S A DRE AND SNOOP TRIBUTE TO 2PAC. FUCK KINGDUM CUM

  • young_fane

    THAT BITCH RAWER THEN ANY BITCH U EVER TOUCHED FAM……..GET REAL…..HOV DAT NIGGA!!!!!!!!!!

  • fcukisthis?

    Yo son, I just seen Jay-Z in Durban, South Africa! The best concert I’ve ever been to. The love he got kind of threw him off. He didn’t expect the audience to recite his lyrics word for word like that. Bleek was on stage with him the whole time – that fuckin’ bracelet! – and the crowd was shoutin’ him out.

  • Founder

    Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton:
    “Where they’re at now in Africa, nobody’s email is working.”

    WTF!!!

    Hey we got 3G, broadband c’mon. I see this was posted on Friday, 13th. Jay-Z was still in South Africa. I’m using yahoo, aol etc. Play streamin video and audio. IM is popular here and he was breaking? Shit, maybe they went to a wack internet cafe. It’s possible that “Young Guru” is lying.

  • Mr. Nucca

    40calKissjr

    Ain’t nobody fucking with the LOX???? On what level?? As a group?? (Clipse) As a movement?? (Dipset) I know it ain’t record sales. C’mon nigga be serious, i don’t even have a problem with kiss and them other niggas but you have to face the facts.
    You missed the whole point, I wasn’t comin at you, that shit was for the dumb niggas that jump on here talking about real hip-hop and couldn’t name the founders of def jam. You gotta respect hov for the way he worked the system, a system that swallows most of these rap niggas up. He is one of the few artists that can make a commercial record and still make a song for the streets, it’s about diversity and versatility, but still knowing your lane. I used the lox because that was an example that people could recognize. Half these niggas ain’t never heard of the fu-shickens or any other rapper before 1994, they just don’t know or care about that shit. I’m one of the few ppl that actually pays attention when ppl talk, when jay-z “retired” he always said he just wanted to take a break after pushin’ out album after album for all those years. But he still milked that retirement shit because he’s a great showman. Niggas have had that ether conversation too many fuckin times on these posts so I’m not even gonna get into that again. All I’m saying is you have to respect his gangsta and the way he worked the system, ain’t no nigga ever do it like that.

  • Crazy J

    You know what. I finally realized what’s killing hip-hop. It isn’t the south or snap music. It’s the internet. It’s the only place where a bunch of angry niggas with no lives can get together and critique shit. The only place where guys like you can get together and bitch about who’s a whack rapper when none of you niggas have the talent to be in their position. All you do is talk a lot of shit and do nothing about it. You try to bully people into buying your perspective of rap. It’s retarded. When I was a kid, I would go out and pick up and album after saving up enough money and take it home and listen to it. If I liked it, I liked it, if I didn’t I just put it in my cd folder and went back to business. If someone asked me about it, I’d say it wasn’t that great. I wouldn’t blow up and try to sound like I knew what I was talking about. I don’t know what it takes to make a hit album and neither to most of you. If you did, you’d be out grinding instead of bitching on an online website for a magazine. Face it, you’re killing hip-hop with this retarded shit. It needs to stop.

    PS: Don’t ever try to knock another man’s dreams. You niggas wish you were in his shoes. The same goes for any other rapper out there doing his thing. You don’t have to like the nigga, but you can respect the fact that he’s trying. Hell, most of these niggas are nothing like they appear to be in videos. Don’t mix fantasy with reality. Grow up, go outside, and live your lives. If you love music then go love music. If you hate where hip-hop is, then go listen to some old joints and reflect. But if you have nothing better to do than sit and bitch about other niggas work, then you need to just shut the fuck up because half of you will never make an album and none of you will ever be a figure in rap. No hate, but it’s true. I can say that because even years from now, most of you will still be online, bitching about 50′s sixth album or Jay coming out of retirement again to promote his new album “I Promise This Is The Last Album: Part 2″.

    Get a life. Get a job. Get some ass. But for the love of God, get the fuck off of this site and do something.

    Crazy J

    Hip-Hop ain’t dead. It’s On Life Support. Please Don’t Pull The Plug.

  • http://xxl.com Gutta Aka paper boy

    JAY-Z… Theres more!!! Nigga needs to shut the fuck down! He doesnt know when he wanna quit. Where the fuck is nas’s shit kid. He got nas and don’t know what the fuck to do wit him. Well imma say this as quick as possible, Jay-z is a biggie dick riding, Dam dash theifin, Biting not writng mutha fucka. Jump off his nuts ,dick heads!!!!!!!!

  • 40calKissjr

    I feel u kid but like i said nobody fuckin wit D-Block. Clipse, dem my dudes. im from VA, but lyrically, they cant fuck wit da LOX. Dip Set, they so fuckin inconsistent its pathetic. I mean u hear some hot shit from them and the next shit u hear is like “where the fuck is that shit coming from” it aint a group in da game dats got mo respect in the streets or industry as the LOX. its these bullshittin as labels out here thats fuckin wit niggas money and shit. album sales, trends and all dat shit i could care less about cuz my nigga AZ aint sold nowhere near as many albums as he should have, but he in the top 5 right now as far as niggas still in the game. it aint too many niggas out hear that can fuck wit’em. ino hip-hop is more than just bobbing yo head being able to play the shit in the club. the internet aint killed hip-hop neither. its tha youngstas out here. i aint talking about the group from back in the day neither. they buying all this water-down shit so thats wat the labels want. radio killing dis shit too. u can be hot cuz yo shit all over the airwaves and on tv because its the demand of what the people want but u can still be garbage. niggas nowadays need that special flavor whateva it may be cuz while they talking bout them being a rapper, they really cant rap. hot beats have just destroyed raw lyricism to tha fullest. my man Big Daddy Kane said that shit back in 01. yea dats when my nigga KISS said “YALL USE BEATS FOR HELP, WE HELP THE BEATS”
    Hov my nigga. I aint neva had any problems wit da nigga other than him making lil comparisons between him and B.I.G. i just said it was nothing for him to blow up the way he did because when BIGGIE died it wont a nigga in the game with his caliber who controlled his on destiny the way Hov had it

  • jon-jon 23

    Jay Z is accomplished and rich and I aint mad at him. I won’t buy his album because I don’t think he’s that great of a rapper–just a great businessman. If you pay stations to play your shit a hundred times a day and have good marketing then you should have some success. That’s a form of brainwashing. I do however, support what he represents which in my opinion is a black man with a respectable amount of intelligence, pride, and discipline. I liked the way he shitted on Frederic Rouzaud and his Cristal piss-punch: Give our race some respect or sell that shit to your own kind.

  • DJ Lucky Luke

    DJ Lucky Luke produced and engineered 6 tracks on the album…

  • b-4real

    newmovement record out of kansas look out bitches. new projects due next spring. we have some hot spitters here in da midwest. holla at me if u wanna get in the projects corbo_24@yahoo.com

  • 11kap

    I hope Jay-Z hasn’t gotten soft. “Reasonable Doubt” is still his best record to me, but I still wish the brother continued success. BK STAND UP!!

  • Babyboy

    Reasonable doubt is not a record, is an album dum azz, and all his albums r classic material, aprt from does collisions and bullshit like dat, real slip is a fuckin hater

  • LANDIGGY

    go vote in nov

  • http://xxlmag.com Big Scrap Locc

    Fucc It! he’s already rich right?

  • 11kap

    Albums and records are the same thing. Why did whoever come out of left field trying to correct someone? go drink some milk or something, young.

  • http://myspace.com/legacyhiphop Belize

    Wow no NAS cover..money talks huh?

  • http://XXL SOUFSIDEGATOR

    I THINK THA VIDEO IZ AH CHEAP SHOT @ DAME…. SHOW ME WHAT U GOT…. IZ WHAT HE SAID, WHILE SHOW’N U WHAT HE’S GOT….. JAY-Z, U’S AH LAME…. P.S. I’LL RATHER COP DAT DIDDY…. YA DIG…???

  • http://www.myspace.com/rene_daniel WI$EGUY 213

    IS JAY-Z TRYING,OR JABBING AT GAME? WITH THE BEAT THAT JAY-Z USED IS A RASSKASS INTRODUCTION TO ”RASSKASS’S” ALBUM (RASSASINATION) I KNOW JAY Z DID HIS HOMEWORK AND DID THAT!!!…BECAUSE JAY IS GUNNUNG ONCE AGAIN FOR THE#1 SPOT…I SEE IT!! JAY DONT WANT NO ONE TO GET THAT FERIA IF HE CAN HELP IT. JAY WANTS GAME’S 6 MILLION IN SALES

  • 11KAP

    I DON’T KNOW WHAT TYPE OF PACT JAY SIGNED WITH, BUT IT IS PRETTY OBVIOUS. BUDWEISER SELLING JAY-Z MUSIC NOW? C’MON, SON. HE AINT THE SAME ANYMORE. HE MIGHT BE KNEE DEEP IN THE HOLE. WHO REALLY KNOWS?

  • gutta

    everybody is a critic….im glad hov is back. i havent bought an album in a year, and the only person who has the ability to keep up it seems is wayne. dipset is tryin to takeover and jay is not gonna let that happen

  • flava dav

    NOBODYS FIRST SINGLE IS WHAT THE WHOLE CD IS GOING TO SOUND LIKE – LOOK AT BALL AND G WIT RIDING HIGH AND LISTEN TO THE REST OF THE CD– EVERY SONG CANT BE STREET

  • LANDIGGY

    go vote in nov.

  • Dade County 305

    i hope J make one track about these fake ass wannabe bloods(fake ass game & cant fight/rap jim jones).its hip hop!!!

  • K.ola

    Overatted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Dade County 305

    i like the fact that he’s not puttin other cats on his joint.niggaz these days have all kind of cats on their whole album.J & 50 make shit on their own.50 may have niggaz from his crew but @ least thats all he fuck with.all these other niggaz know they wont sale shit if they did & album like J & 50.

  • Mrs.Jones

    I WILL BE PICKIN THAT UP!!

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  • http://?? SIMPLY_THE_TRUTH

    all yal talkin shit on hova sayin “i rather get diddy’s album” or “he better businessman than rapper”?!?!?!?! YAL GOT SOME MENTAL ISSUES OR NOT REAL HIP HOP FANS OR DONT’ KNOW WHATS LYRICALLY DOPE….GO LISTEN TO SOME COUNTRY OR BURN THE FUCK OUT….JAYZ IS DOPE NIGGA!!!…10 ALBUMS ALL TIGHT….MAKES THE MAINSTREAM CUTS TO MAKE SOME CHANGE AND IF YOU LISTEN TO WHOLE CD AND OPEN YOUR EARS YOU WILL HEAR SOME OF THE ILLEST SHIT YOU EVER HEARD….STREET GANGSTA SHIT STOOOPIDS!!…I CAN’T BELIEVE I SEEING THIS ESPECIALLY AFTER HIS LAST BLACK ALBUM….NONSENSE MAN

  • http://?? SIMPLY_THE_TRUTH

    HE WAS SUCH A DOPE RAPPER WHICH ALLOWED HIM TO STAY IN THE GAME AND BECOME A GOOD BUSINESSMAN….OTHERWISE HE STILL BE HUSTLIN ON STREETS IF HE WASN’T TIGHT ON THE MIC !!!!!! NOW HIS FLOW HAS EVOLVED MAKIN EVERYONE STEP THEIR GAME UP….BUNCH OF LITTLE KIDS DROPPIN COMMENTS ON THIS SITE, FUNNY

  • MK

    ok fam…..let’s be real. Hov is a beast but I ain’t really feeling “Show me What you got”. But check the man’s sales. He knows what he is doing. This song ain’t even targeted at us. His fanbase has expanded to a whole lot of people. So he has to reach them first to generate the dollars. That’s alot of weight and pressure because he got to take care of alot of people in his camp. Not to mention the executives he got to deal with. But trust! When that single is out of the way he’s gonna bring fire and brimstone on these cats. The dude is too intelligent to just let his album be water. He’s gonna have some fire on there. Believe me.

  • L.A. WILSON JR

    Mr. Nucca aint dat much paying homage in the world nigga. If you wanna talk about being a tru hip-hop fan whose beat was dey spittin on wit dat j-lo shit. u cant compare jumpin on a track wit somebody to somebody tryna make u out as an artist some dat u really aint. LOX…………..aint nobody fuckin wit dem. real talk. u just sound like die-hard jigga fan to da def and its no big deal but if shit aint rite it aint right. d-block my niggas and shit but everything and everysong dey got i cant say i approve all of it. u prob think every song jigga he ever came out wit is hot. even when he rhymed like a fu-shicken or watever the fuck dem niggas were. and if its like dat i no ETHER hurt you to your soul when u heard it. get off jigga’s dick nigga. i guess u really thought jigga was done making albums since you commented on just about everything except dat. fuckin dummie. dats yo boi so u shouldve known better. and u mustve felt me when i said he shouldve did what he has done since B.I.G. died. get a life nigga>>>>

    Ether did hurt my soul. But then I’d throw stillmatic out of my disc player, gently insert my Blueprint and turn up the volume for Takeover. Jay-Z gave Nas the spark to re-invent himself. Jay also brought it to Nas without a flaw and murdered Mobb Deep. And I do think every Jay-Z is hot, when you got wordplay, flow, and skills like that, well…. hell…. You got it like that.

  • L.A. WILSON JR

    ^^^^ correction^^^^
    “I do think every Jay-Z song is hot!”

  • mr agee

    If jay the king……then I guess I’m the prince…..the only difference is……I don’t have slave on my face.

  • Briant

    Jay-Z aint gone leave the game no time soon. Jay gon always be the best rapper to me. People need to stop hatin on him and let him do his thing and make that skrilla cauz remember he got the hottest chick in the game wearing his chain thats right HOV!

    Roc-A-Fella

  • http://MylesW33RAOL.com Myles R. Walker

    Me & My Tourette’s: Motivated By GOD

    My name is Myles R. Walker, and I am a 25 year old African American Man Who has Tourette Syndrome. I presently live in the projects (public housing), and I have just written my first book entitled “Me & My Tourette’s: Motivated By God” which was published in April 2006 by iuniverse.com. My book is also available at Barnes and Noble online and offline as well as at 25,000 other book retailers worldwide.

    You can also go to my website which is http://www.myleswalker.com for a little bit of more information about me as well.

    I wrote Me & Tourette’s: Motivated By GOD, because I have Tourette Syndrome and have had it for approximately 18+ years. To shed new light which most people do not know about Tourette Syndrome but always associate it with swearing (which I do not do on a regular basis) or as others may think. My tics are vocal and sometimes sounds like a continuous hiccups. They can be loud and are uncontrollable.

    I also wrote Me & My Tourette’s: Motivated By GOD, because people who have Tourette Syndrome are usually discriminated against from people, associates who you may meet on a day to day basis, family, churches, school, in the workplace, including having a place to live, etc.

    We are people with feelings too, and we are normal just like anyone else and can do anything just like anyone else. The difference between me and you is that people with Tourette Syndrome have involuntary vocal tics as well as involuntary movements of different parts of the body.

    We want to be a family, we want to have friends, we want to go to church, we want to go to school, we want to go to work and we also want a decent place and life to live as well! We also want to be accepted as a decent and kind human being!

    There are people that have Tourette Syndrome, but are not aware that they may have it. Or, they might know of someone that does have it. As well as in the African American Community, other minorities and non-minority groups who do not know anything about Tourette Syndrome.

    There is a non-profit organization for Tourette Syndrome as well as doctors and support groups for people with Tourette’s.

    If you have any questions, feel free to email me.
    Or, you can call me at 1-865-523-9992 or 1-865-771-7636

    Thank You.

  • victoria

    I think Jay Z is a rip off

  • N.I.G.MAN

    Fuck all ya niggas. Jigga man is wack as fuck. that nigga been lifting weight with his lips.

  • $chemin4urGwop

    jay shit is gonna be good stop hating on him he hasnt lost a step yet after he get the ball rollin nas will drop his heater i know his shit might be even better than jays then hopefully all these rappers will follow suit step they game up a notch and hopefully the labels wont shit on em like they been doing for the past 2 or 3 yrs hey maybe the lox might drop and somebody other than 50 will actually sell on g-unit and he aint on the single singin a hook and lupe will go plat oops i was dreaming that shit wont happen

  • Cinchell

    Yeah! You suckas fail for that retire sh*t! It was nothing but a publicity stunt to get you suckas to buy his last cd and now you’re going to go out to buy his new sh*t. His new song SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!

  • jon-jon 23

    Jay Z came out at the right time and he “is” a better businessman than rapper. That’s my personal opinion. Tupac is probably the best ever and Jay Z is not even on his level lyrically.

  • Indigo Kid

    @ Jon-Jon 23.

    Jay Z is at the same level as Pac. Only reason you say otherwise is because of the legacy Pac left. If I was the type of person to make a bet, I’d put my house that if Jigga got murdered, he’d be another Biggie / Pac’.

    On topic, Jay-Z’s retirement was a huge publicity stunt. Great business move but I’ve lost respect for him. W/e gets his cheese.

  • http://www.myspace.com/younmazin Mazin

    I do think Kingdom Come gon be hot, yeh “Show me what u got” is not a good song i just dont feel it, but i think jay gon bring it with this album.
    Holla at ur boy!
    http://www.myspace.com/younmazin

  • LANDIGGY

    go vote nov 7

  • PHILLY66

    WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT “SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT” IS HOT AND HE NEVER FELL OFF IF ANYTHING HE IS BETTER AND THIS PROLLY WILL BE HIS BEST SELLING ALBUM BECAUSE A VIDEO/COMMERCIAL DURING MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL(THAT WAS ON ESPN NOBODY HAS DONE THAT) AND A BASEBALL PLAYOFF GAME (THAT WAS ON FOX AND ONLY MIKE DID THAT), HE JUST GOT NEW FANS, HE TOUCHED FOOTBALL LOVERS, BASEBALL LOVERS THROUGH A COMMON LOVE THERE FANS HAVE “BEER” AND HE GOT RACING FANS, AND HIS FANS AND MUSIC FANS AND DON’T LET ME FORGET HE IS TOURING THE WORLD THATS NEW FANS!!!!!!!!!!!

  • POP SHOTS

    FUCK JAY-Z, THAT LAME ASS SONG HE CALLS A COMEBACK HIT. IT’S DIP SET BITCH, KILLA CAM POPPIN OFF WAY BETTER THAN THAT OLD ASS LAME. DIP SET BYRD GANG NIGGA

  • dip set rider

    yeah nigga fuck jay-z, it’s byrd gang muthafucka. WE FLY HIGH, NO LIE, YOU KNOW THIS (BALLIN)

  • SLUGGA

    fUCK JAY-Z , DIP SET

  • mannyworld33

    Change clothes was the first single off of the black album and i don’t think it was another song on the album like it. Then he came with that Dirt off ya shoulders for the so called street dudes. it’s sorta similar to Show me what you got & Kingdom come if you haven’t noticed.

    S.P STAND UP!

  • SUPERMAN

    JAY WORKING WITH DRE IS A BLOW TO GAME’S FACE. IN THAT CASE JAY NEEDS TO WORK WITH 50 AND KILL THAT SON OF A BITCH!

  • NYC

    Myles R. Walker Says:
    October 19th, 2006 at 8:59 am
    Me & My Tourette’s: Motivated By GOD

    This is not a site for self promotion… This also goes for y MSpace people too. Take that Shit down the road because nobody else cares!!!

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  • REAL TALK

    Damn son..Jay n Dre..album is gon b straight fire..any1 who says otherwise is a hater..”Hi Haters”

  • Chillin’

    That Kingdom Come song is not even tight and The whole Show me what U got track is on DIDDY’s album as well and he has been using ‘dat shit 2 pump up his album sales right about now using it in the promo shit. Damn this niggas are so unoriginal.

  • lmao

    dre and jay, fireeeeeeeee

  • http://yahoo.com 40calkissjr

    JAY-Z NOT BETTER THAN PAC. GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE AND I AINT EVEN NO REALLY HUGE JIGGA FAN. AFTER ME AGAINST THE WORLD (HE HAD A FEW CUTS ON MAKAVELI. LOVED TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.) PAC DID TOO MUCH FUCKIN SCREAMIN AND SHIT. HE WAS HOT NO DOUBT, BUT THE BITCHES MADE HIM HOTTER THAN HE ACTUALLY WAS. BITCHES LOVED THE TATTOOS (HENCE LIL WAYNE. LIL UGLY ASS RAT) AND ALL DAT SHIT SO EVEN THO HE WAS ILL ON THE MIC, IT WAS MORE THAN JUST HIM SPITTIN. BITCHES AINT NEVA FALL OUT FOR JIGGA NOWHERE NEAR THE WAY THEY FELL OUT FOR PAC, BUT HE AINT NEED IT HE WAS ILL FROM START TO FINISH AND AGAIN, I AINT NO HUGE JIGGA FAN. HE GOT MS. KNOWLES NOW SO HE STILL THAT NIGGA, BUT AS FAR AS STRAIGHT UP LYRICISTS…..HEAR IT GOES

    BIGGIE
    RAKIM
    JADA
    NAS
    HOV-EMINEM (EITHER ONE OF THESE DUDES CUD BE 5

    IF A NIGGA WANNA THROW KRS-ONE, GURU, BIG DADDY KANE, OR AZ IN THIS MIX, I CANT EVEN BE MAD, BUT THE TOP THREE I HAVE RIGHT HEAR DONT SPECIFICALLY HAVE TO BE IN THIS ORDER, BUT THEY GOTTA BE ON THIS LIST. TOP 5 NO DOUBT

  • http://yahoo.com DIGGYDOC

    JAY-Z NOT BETTER THAN PAC. GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE AND I AINT EVEN NO REALLY HUGE JIGGA FAN. AFTER ME AGAINST THE WORLD (HE HAD A FEW CUTS ON MAKAVELI. LOVED TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.) PAC DID TOO MUCH FUCKIN SCREAMIN AND SHIT. HE WAS HOT NO DOUBT, BUT THE BITCHES MADE HIM HOTTER THAN HE ACTUALLY WAS. BITCHES LOVED THE TATTOOS (HENCE LIL WAYNE. LIL UGLY ASS RAT) AND ALL DAT SHIT SO EVEN THO HE WAS ILL ON THE MIC, IT WAS MORE THAN JUST HIM SPITTIN. BITCHES AINT NEVA FALL OUT FOR JIGGA NOWHERE NEAR THE WAY THEY FELL OUT FOR PAC, BUT HE AINT NEED IT HE WAS ILL FROM START TO FINISH AND AGAIN, I AINT NO HUGE JIGGA FAN. HE GOT MS. KNOWLES NOW SO HE STILL THAT NIGGA, BUT AS FAR AS STRAIGHT UP LYRICISTS…..HEAR IT GOES

    BIGGIE
    RAKIM
    JADA
    NAS
    HOV-EMINEM (EITHER ONE OF THESE DUDES CUD BE 5

    IF A NIGGA WANNA THROW KRS-ONE, GURU, BIG DADDY KANE, OR AZ IN THIS MIX, I CANT EVEN BE MAD, BUT THE TOP THREE I HAVE RIGHT HEAR DONT SPECIFICALLY HAVE TO BE IN THIS ORDER, BUT THEY GOTTA BE ON THIS LIST. TOP 5 NO DOUBT

  • FUCK JAY Z

    WHAT THE FUCK IS HE DOING STANDING IN SOME CURTAINS? JUST BECUASE HE CANT STAND ON THE BLOCK NO MORE..

    “SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT”, I PREFER GAMES “ONE BLOOD” TO THAT,

  • what chu want

    nigga Jay-Z is a fag. Wearing sandals and he claims he’s a gangsta! LOL!

  • young_fane

    JADA??????????? TOP 5????????? OF ALL TIME???????? R U SERIUS B? JADA NICE….MAD PROPS TO D BLOCK…..BUT REAL SHIT….HE AINT BETTER THEN WEEZY TO ME……..HE AINT BETTER THEN JOE BUDDEN TO ME…….HE AINT BETTER THEN LIL BOOSIE TO ME…….I COULD GO ALL DAY……..JADA’S ALL PUNCHLINES…..HIS SHIT TIGHT……BUT I LISTIN TO NIGGAZ I CAN FEEL……I CAN’T FEEL JADA LIKE DAT TO PUT HIM IN DA TOP 5……THATS CRAZY B!!!! I AGREE ABOUT PAC DOE…..PAC 1 OF THE BEST EVER…(I GUESS) HE WASNT REAL TO ME DOE…..REAL NIGGAZ THAT GOT BEEF HANDLE DAT SHIT…..I COULD SEE IF IT WAS ON SOME RAP SHIT…..BUT MY MANS WAS TALKIN BOUT LAYIN THE MURDA GAME ON BIG……COME ON NOW…”THUG”….HANDLE DAT…….AND DONT GIVE ME NO…..THUG LIFE IS FOR ALL THE NIGGAZ STRUGGLIN IN THE HOOD SHIT…..MY GUY POPPED MAD G-SHIT ALL THE TIME AND AINT DO NONE OF THAT SHIT…….SMART MAN WHO FELL VICTIM OF HIS OWN POWER……R.I.P. DOE!!!

    MY TOP 5:

    1. BIG
    2. NAS
    3. PUN
    4. HOV
    5. WEEZY/BOOSIE

    YAH’LL MIGHT DISAGREE….BUT…..IM 20…RAKIM AND ALL THEM……MAD RESPECT, BUT THEY B 4 MY TIME…..I GREW UP ON STREET SHIT……HOLLA AT YA GUY!

  • young_fane

    DAMN…..I’M REALLY TRIPPIN……I FORGOT ABOUT MY MANS SNOOP……HE IN THAT 5 SLOT ALSO!

  • PHILLY66

    http://www.yousendit.com/download/qBVdij0ckY8%3D thats 4 all u Dicksuck (Dipset) fans and Hov is the greatest rapper of all time period he did what no other artist in music has done. Pac and Biggie died shit they could of fell off like Nas,Snoop,Dre,50, and Eminem did and Jay still reamins consistent. he put out albums every year and he don’t no raps down all off top

  • TYRONECAPONE

    THIS ALBUM IS GOING TO BE OFF THE HOOK! ANYBODY THAT THINKS THAT DOJA (GAME) IS SELLING 1 MIL THE 1ST WEEK I CRAZY. JAY-Z IS THE ONE WHOSE GOING TO SELL 1 MIL THE 1ST WEEK.

  • Atl’s own

    jay-z will make another great album!

    though even he couldn’t sell a mil in a week in this climate!

  • 40calKissjr

    FANE LET ME DROP SOME KNOWLEDGE ON U DOG. NO ANYTHING ABOUT GILI THE KID? HE’S FROM PHILLY.AND GUESS WAT DUDE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! HE WAS A GHOSTWRITER FOR WEEZY F BABY. THE DUDE WAS ON DIRECT EFFECT. THEY SHOWED HIM IN A COUPLE OF VIDEOS BACK WHEN HE WAS RIDIN WIT CASH MONEY. THE DUDE HAD ON MAD JEWELS AND SHIT. HE EVEN THANKED CASH MONEY FOR THE CHEDDAR AND THE HELD UP THE JEWELS AND SAID………………….THIS IS WAT SONGWRITING GETS U. THE HOST WAS LIKE “WHO U RIGHT FOR” REPLY.. “LIKE FATHER LIKE SON. NAH I MEAN? I WROTE FOR BOTH THEM NIGGAS.” THAT RIGHT THERE LET ME NO WEEZY AINT SHIT TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. HE NEEDS A GIMMICK. SHOW OFF DAT LIL BIRD CHEST AND SPORT HIS TATS OR WHATEVER, BUT JUST HIS LYRICS ALONE AINT GON DO IT. THE NIGGA WONT EVEN WRITING HIS OWN SHIT. WORD TO GOD, WHEN THE CARTER 1 CAM OUT I WAS LIKE DAMN WEEZY DON STEPPED HIS LYRICAL GAME UP NO DOUBT. THEN I FIND OUT THIS NIGGA GILI WRITIN SHIT FOR HIM AND HIS FUCKIN DADDY. REMEMBER WHEN JIGGA SAID THAT HE ADJUST THE FACTS AND OTHER NIGGAS SAY SHIT JUST TO MATCH. WEEZY HOT, BUT THAT DONT MEAN HE NICE. HE WAS ONE OF THEM NIGGAS JIGGA WAS TALKING ABOUT. THE NIGGA KINDA REMIND ME OF CAMRON AND THEM DIP SET NIGGAS U HEAR SOME SHIT AND BE LIKE DAMN I WANNA HEAR THAT SHIT AGAIN. THEN THEY SAY SOME SHIT AND HAVE U LIKE, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT. WEEZY WILL SAY ANYTHING AS LONG AS IT RHYMES. NIGGAS WOULD RATHER SET A TREND THAN TO JUST COME STRAIGHT OUT AND MURDA A TRACK. “YALL USE BEATS FOR HELP, WE HELP THE BEATS” JADA SAID THAT SHIT BACK IN 99-00 OR SOME SHIT LIKE DAT. LONG TIME AGO. WAS HE RIGHT HELL YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ” IM THE NIGGA WIT DA PERPERTUAL, OYSTER BARS, MOTHER PEARL DELIVERY, VOICE OF GOD, AND……….ITS HARD JUST BEING A BOSS CUZ I CANT GO TO JAIL CUZ DEM YEARS’LL COST ME. DONT GET ME WRONG LAY A NIGGA DOWN IF HE CROSS ME, I’D RATHER JUST SIT BACK AND ROLL A DUTCH. THINK ABOUT HOW IMA PUT THE GAME IN THE COBRA CLUTCH. THINK ABOUT HOW IMA GET THE CAINE, OVER CUSTOMS. NEVA UNDERESTIMATE NIGGAS OR OVA TRUST’EM. YEA, THEM M’S IS RIGHT IN MY FACE, I JUST GOTTA THROW MY TIMBS ON AND TIGHTEN MY LACE.

  • 40calKissjr

    FUCK RIDIN A BEAT NIGGA. I PARALLEL PARK ON A TRACK

  • FERNANDO

    Why does this loser comeback from retirement. Wish he would go away. You ain’t real hip hop anymore. You’re just some commercial corporate bullshit pop act.

  • Detriot Gunna

    Ha, ha. Yall crazy! Yall know he never really retired.

  • http://dronkmunk.blogpsot.com dronkmunk

    interesting…wonder how those comments will play out with meth and roots

  • jon-jon 23

    You could play a Tupac song 20 years from now and it will still be relevent and pack venom. Some of Jay Z’s best lyrics were based on worshipping cars, money, clothes, and Cristal. He has a monotone flow and if he was not from New York ya’ll wouldn’t consider him the best.

  • Evan

    FISHSCALE was album of the year hands down, damn shame it didn’t sell like it should have

  • Wu-Tang

    thats f*cked up that jay didnt put out “Joe Buddens” aka greatness alubm and he better make up for it on his comeback alubm!

    and if you didnt listen to FISHSCALE or you didnt like it thats f*ucked up. cuz it was great

    -WU TANG

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  • Three4

    Ghostface rules!!!

  • 11KAP

    I’m tired of all these rich rappers with all their bitches, money, and cars. Real niggas aint livin like that even tho most of us would like to. That shit aint reality, and these motherfuckers need to bring real hip hop back. MF D-BLOCK!! KEEPIN IT REAL OUT HERE, NIGGAS!!

  • http://xxl.com Kia

    You is a straight up lame!!
    And yo BITCH is hella ugly too!!(Beyonce)
    You hella mo dumb and u ugly as fuck!
    Yo music suck!!
    U swear u da shit wit Beyonce ugly ass!!
    TELL DAT BICTH TO COMB HER WEAVE!!!

  • john cochran

    Jay know they didnt get behind ghost like they should have. Fishscale was better than Jiggas last two albums. I can listen to that shit straight through. I personally like “show me what you got” better than the singles off his last 2 (Bonnie&Clyde, Change Clothes). Maybe that means the album will be better. Cause I’m telling yall, he getting way too commercial and if he loose it, he gone fuck up his legacy a lil bit ( just like his idol #23)

  • 110 street

    fishscale2? when, hiphop is dead when, hustlers pome? when kigdom come y? jay aint spittin the same. jackin slang swagger jackin jones fade away dance and shit wow..

  • Unknown

    Did someone say jay Z is on the same level as Pac…lol lolololololol oh shit im crying here lol. Here’s the list bitch:

    1.eminem (emotion, skills, style, vocab, versitle)
    2.pac (emotion, skills, style, vocab)
    3.biggie (skills, style, versitle)
    4.nas (emotion, skills, vocab)
    5.jay z (skills, vocab, style)

    tupac is good but i dont think he is better than eminem cus eminem is just sick, he can rap any way and style, freestyle, slow, fast, he write good hooks, good verses and altho tup[ac is good lyrically he isnt very good at writing hooks u must admit.

  • Ali

    1.eminem (emotion, skills, style, vocab, versitle)
    2.pac (emotion, skills, style, vocab)
    3.biggie (skills, style, versitle)
    4.nas (emotion, skills, vocab)
    5.jay z (skills, vocab, style)

    i kinda agree but 2 be totally real i think bigge is horrible. common is better talib kweli is better. shit lupe fiasco is even better. biggie sucks

  • Tyler

    From this last blog it sounds like your “God of New York” is cryin’ like a little bitch cause people ain’t feelin’ his hot garbage right about now.

    Then on top of the fuckin’ tears he has the nerve 2 compare 2pac gettin’ all up in ‘dat pretty pink Madonna pussy 2 him bringin that nobody bitch G.Paltrow out on Stage?
    What a fuckin’ loser this cat is. I ain’t never really dug 2 many of his songs and have always thought of him as way over rated as an MC. If Biggie doesn’t die, no one in New York would have ever cared about this faggot, big nose, big lip, bitch. For the sake of hip hop, stay retired kid.

  • youngmj

    do yall listen to music or do u jus skim through it nas is on jay album an the game too

  • garod

    1. PAC
    2. EMENIM\
    3. BIGGIE
    4. NAS
    5. jAY Z

    It goes in that order so don’t get it twisted. Jay z is just keeping the ball of hip hop rolling along so i don’t knock what he do but the bottom line is that hip hop is dead right now and we will see what happens after this year is over or after Nas drops his album.

  • http://yahoo.com jordany

    Yo!, go to hiphopdx.com or go to lime wire and download the new Hov song ” Lost Ones” it’s crazy, y’all gon luv this one, i promise.

  • AJTHROWBACK

    I have to admit that I understand where Jay is coming from with the whole going past the boundaries theory. Let’s be real, if he was still talking about the same exact things that he was rapping about on REASONABLE DOUBT, could he even make any kind of claim that he’s a legend?? I know we all want Hov to get back to being gutter or a little more street, but let’s be real: he’s the President of Def Jam now. It’s like Eddie Griffin once said in a stand-up: money does change people…it changes your address, the kind of car you drive, all of that! He’s not gonna be spittin’ the same exact way that he did in ’96 or even ’01 when he put out BLUEPRINT because his subject matter is different.

    If he did, then I don’t think that we could truly call him an “artist” because true “artists” eventually branch out and try different things, even if we don’t always like what they’re trying out. Every last one of the most respected rappers, singers or whoever of all time have all come either full circle with their styles or just escalated to heights that we don’t understand as mere listeners. Jimi Hendrix started off doing the blues down in the “Chitlin Circuit”, but because he wanted to expand his sound based off what he heard in his head, he ended being one of the most prominent ROCK artists ever. Luther Vandross went from singin’ back up during the disco era to being a reknowned soul singer and one to become one of the most respected voices in history, pop and R&B, working with everyone and anyone. Shoot, if we even go back to rap and name people like Common and Nas, they both started off one way, tried something different and might not have received the results they were looking for, and got back to the essence of just making good, relevant music. The real hip-hop heads appreciate what they do, but there are a lot of people who don’t like what they did by returning to the essence because people like Common and Nas spit things that go over a lot of people’s heads.

    Wrapping it up, Jay is advancing in the best way that he knows how, and that’s trying not to duplicate what he did before. There might be some people that will disagree, but Hov’s albums are like his quote from the very song that has garnered him so much criticism, “Show Me What You Got”: “Hov, no two alike like a snowflake”. From each joint to the next, they don’t sound like the last one. Whether we all like his new direction or not, he’s doing what he feels is relevant to him and his music. I don’t think that he’s lyrically lost a step necessarily, but, like a lot of his fellow rappers that have been in the game for a hot minute, he’s stepping over a lot of people’s heads with how he approaches his work.

  • Reason

    nobody noticed this was a P.E. song?Hommey is on the board of directors at the budweiser label now.He’s a hustler.His art suffers for it.Smart don’t sell.

  • Sihle (SA)

    Jay is the best ever Rapper to come around…He retired, yes that what he said And now his back that’s why I’ve lost respect for him the dude can;t keep his word or maybe thats how the crook move.Now you have more to say…. Quit while you still on top screw Allure of the game.

  • http://edsherrellgallery.com Big Ed

    Yo, that first single might be ass but if ya’ll think Jay is slippin’ go to this link and peep this shit. Jay is goin’ hard about Dame, Beyonce, and the death of his nephew. Real talk. Classic shit.
    http://concreteloop.com/2006/10/the-new-music-review-70#more-6957

  • Caked UP!

    It’s funny this nigga talkin all this Mature Hip Hop shit…when he didn’t seem to see it at all when NAS did it fuckin 4-5 years ago! Keep schoolin these niggas esco! Bridgin the Gap, Just a Moment, If I Ruled the World….sorry Hov … it’s already been done my nigga. You doin it 2nd.(Common)3rd(Qweli)…4th(Mos Def)…shit.. who knows…just know you aint savin Hip Hop…you can’t be given that credit. Too many moves have been made before this lil change you goin through.

  • mannyworld33

    LOST ONES IS CRAZY, VERY DEEP LIKE
    SONG CRY OR BLUEPRINT. HE TOUCHED ON A LOT OF PERSONAL SUBJECTS.

    ROC 4 LIFE

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  • http://n/a Pritchard (Zim)

    the album couldnt be anything but dope its tha ultimate return of the king of Ney York….One

  • frankwhite45

    Kingdome come myspace.com/ninohnewjack myspace.com/ninohnewjack

  • Keys

    The Return of the King-Jay-Z
    I love this man, I am a fan from Day 1
    Hov is the Greatest of All Time
    I cannot wait for the album to drop November 21st.
    SAY NO MORE
    F***** POSERS

  • neso

    Beans did still the show on the Dynasty.

  • c-dub

    hov is that nigga everything hov puts out is straight fire,yall heard that new joint “lost ones”

  • http://myspace.com/imonlymarlon mr rocologist

    I hope jay shuts niggas up with his interview. Sounds like XXL got a gem with this one. Man, everyone changes. Time brings change and change brings time is how the cliche goes. Over time he has changed. Why the hell would a multimillionaire still be n the hood? That’s stupid and some of the dumbest shit I ever heard in my life. That’s niggas problem, niggas wanna stand still instead of evolving. Niggas settle for shit like they can’t move forward any further. That’s the real problem in the hood and in rap/hip-hop. Try new stuff. To hell with what the so called real niggas think. I thought niggas rapped 2 get out the hood, so why niggas get mad when someone does get out.

    Jay is one of the only rappers who is an icon in corporate america. I bet your favorite rapper envys that shit unless they ignorant or respect the hustle. He shows people especially kids that u can truly exceed your dreams if u shoot 4 the stars and keep pushin towards it then your time will come.

    I think he realized that Dame was gonna hold him from some of his dreams with his ignorance that he was disguising as an articulate shrewd businessman. If he was such a great businessman, why have none of his ventures flourished since the break-up. Jay has yruly exceeded any ventures they had together and done more than they ever would 2gether. To me, it just seems that jay is on some more mature shit and if he doesn’t see the potential of further growth, then he’s through bullshitting with u. That’s why the roc isn’t 2gether anymore, jay wanted to try some other shit that involved evolution and dame and everyone who left wasn’t feeling that so they went and did there own thing, but didn’t sign with dame cause they knew he was a dick.

    Just look at who they cosign:

    Dame: Graph, camron, jim jones, juelz santana,

    Jay-Z: lupe, mike shinoda, kanye west, pharrell, and lil wayne

    See the difference? Typical lyrics, flows, and cockiness compared to diverse, eccentric artists that sound like no one else, different flows, lyrics, swagger, and do it from the heart and don’t care what people think.

    I think its obvious now why rocafella broke up.

    Any comments?

    No think crazy about mike shinoda, remember hip-hop/rap is a unversl language

    I’m out

  • salem

    HOV IS BACK!!!!

    CAN’T GET ENOUGH!

  • Trouble$ome

    Hov Is The Game & It’s coming back, Killing the all dipset birds with one stone. DC Baby!!!

  • http://mediatakeout.com BronxChic

    YO! Hov is right, hip hop need to grow and explore other mucial genre so we can be recognized. We need to brake the tradition that hip hop is a black thing, it was originated by blacks but growth is good. You now see how many other races and people are learning of and about our culture.
    Hov Keep growing and changing, that is a positive thing. Hate your plastic and materialistic girl. Always trying to out shine everyone.

    V

  • Wardypop

    U dummies he always does a club girl crossover single first

  • Ron RBMC Brown

    Opinion are like assholes everyone has one..

    He is still that dude doing his thing in this completely f’d up music biz. Commercial radio is wack anyway. Have the people who leave post probably like that wack ass chicken noodle soup ish. HOVA BABY

  • Ron RBMC Brown

    Opinion are like assholes everyone has one..

    He is still that dude doing his thing in this completely f’d up music biz. Commercial radio is wack anyway. Have the people who leave post probably like that wack ass chicken noodle soup ish. HOVA BABY

  • Unknown

    I can’t get over niggas sayin Jayz is the best rapper alive……. wow dat shit is unreal to me. Nas would kill him..oops my bad he already did, eminem would kill him…oops my bad he already did in renegade.

    I wont lie its either eminem or nas rite nah, I’d like to hear eminem and nas battle or do a song together or eminem nas and jayz do a song together and tell me who would steal the show and run off with the beat on theie back like a nigga on cack lol ?????

  • BaByGiRl

    i have never really been a big jay-z fan but he has had some hits under his belt but sorry to say that this last single is not one of them…..sorry jay you should have stayed retired or came wit something hittin’.

  • http://dronkmunk.blospot.com dronkmunk

    so..thats what’s up. Jay’s ass may be dumb, but he aint no dumb-ass

  • digital23

    Yo, no he is not HOVA, OR Jay-Z, he is another homo thug yo. I know mad catz up north who cant wait to come home and speak to that dude. He is very dishonarable that is why from the beginning people was question his crediability, he was even questioning his creadability FYI ” Reasonable Doubt”, He said he changed, Nah now he is being himself, because he knew he could not play that thug person for long. It was catching up to him.

  • kandykane

    i think jayz is so phony i think he change but we still have nas

  • http://aol.com LoVe_PiNk

    First of all I am a BIG FAN of J, so please don’t disrespect his craft and his intelligence. J knew what he was doing about the whole retirement “thing,” he’s a bussiness man. And yall niggas need too really GET A FUCKING LIFE!! Stop bitching about who’s this, who’s that, just enjoy some good music. And yes the south is holding it down right now. Yall better wake the fuck up….T.I, Rick Ross. Please don’t sleep.

  • http://myspace.com/imonlymarlon mr rocologist

    Wow. Kind of like my previous comments. People grow apart and that’s what happen with these two. But I think dame was fucked up trying to make cam the vp of the roc over bleek or beans of someone else. That cat had just come on board and to make him the vp is crazy. And that was the straw that broke the camels back. Jay couldn’t take it anymore with dame going over his head. Like I said, I don’t think he’s that good of a businessman. Just look at what he’s done since the split. Everything has flopped. Ultimate hustler, pro keds and ddmg.all flopped

  • mackbone

    heres for all you haters! lets say we hustlin, we in the street moving them thangs!! every time i give you a bird you come up short. how long am i gonna stand that nonsense, we in this to cake out but every time i give you work i lose bread. like signing mop, old dirty,nore i’m paying these cats per diem paying they studio time the recording on tracks i paid for but no return on my investment. how long in the street would this go on. in the end this is business and no one is puting friendship over biz!!

  • JFOX

    Hovs the King of New York n da new joint Kingdom Come s gon be fire evbody hates but his flows always changin and he always has dem nasty beats from either kanye,swizz or Timbo and Camron, i cant believe he had balls to say dat shit bout J your flow was ehh so was Purple Haze but your no HOV CAm wants nigas to buy his shit CAm fall back Jim Jones or Juelz should be the CEO, shit hellREll is hotta than u nigga. Dipset is a movement but Cam da whole world disagrees with u. HOV dont even need da comebac trac hes laughin at CAm R.O.C. is STILL runnin it

  • http://myspace.com/imonlymarlon mr rocologist

    Cosign the shit out of mackbone. That’s puttin in hustlas terms for yall.

    Do the math.

    Don’t make dollars, don’t make cents

  • Tyler

    Jay Z is a fuckin’ sellout and with the new video and album he is going outta he way 2 prove it. What the hell does he have them white motherfuckers nascar fools in his new video for? Why is Gay Z riding bitch in the car with ‘dat nascar dude? Now he done went from Cristal 2 fuckin’ Budwiser? Nigga’s don’t drink the Bud dawgs. . . Fuck Jay Z!

  • the sun

    WHOA! EVERYBODY GO TO ALLHIPHOP.COM AND LISTEN TO “LOST ONE”..THE NEW TRACK FROM HOV..THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT…SO REFRESHING

  • http://www.xxlmag.com houston’s finest

    that’s right people, stab your so-called best-friend in the back for dollars, then throw the triangle up. damn this nigga is lame for real. not getting the album.

  • Tara

    Jay is shitting on a lot of people with his ego and that shit is gonna catch up with him. I was offend by is ass in Beyonce’s deja vu video looking like he could give two fucks. He was setting the stage for his album dropping that is why her album ain’t selling. He uses a lot of people and then throws them by the waste side. I was never really feeling duke he never reped BK… RIP Biggie that man was Brooklyn, a real cat, Jay is an imposter. Don’t get to close or your career might be done too. I could care less about a new Jay Z album the first single sounds like some shit Kanye rejected. Don’t be fooled by this man he ain’t no street dude he is frontin’. I am not saying he has to be catching cases but i don’t feel all the bullshit that he promotes to Black people like we balling like him. He is all about selling Jay Z and making negroes like us broke. The best thing people can do is not by his shit when it comes out.

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  • MsSmartiePants2u

    Here’s to hoping his next colabo will be with the Electric Company cause he truly needs to brush up on his language skills. I-diot….idiot.

  • water

    Jay and Nas are #1 and there is NO #2

  • PURE BUSHWICKS GENERAL

    fuk jayz aint no one bringing ny back cuz it didnt go no where ya need to break every fuking ipod in tha fukn world n every one will be platinum again nobody wanna pay 4 music anymore cheap motha fukas buy music shyt at least of ya favorite artist all my gunit shyt is original even mixtapes….smh jay did my nigga seigel dirty i hope his shyt flop joe camel looking bytch GGGGGGGGGG Gunit hahahahaha cant wait for my nigga 50 to drop that when ny comes back sales wise hahahaha watch

  • Ga Slim

    whoever thinks J is back to save hiphop or rejuvinate NY is stupid. His 1st 2 singles are garbage and the whole album will be average. Yayo’s album had more lead single hits than Jay’s. I never bought into him being the greatest in the game because he’s not and never will be. P.S LONG LIVE THE SOUTH!!!!!!

  • Truth

    Jay-Z is on his way out of Def Jam as we speak…
    Working on his severance package now…
    Real talk.

  • haha

    stab your so-called best-friend in the back for dollars, then throw the triangle up. damn this nigga is lame for real. not getting the album.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    The bitter breakup with his former Roc-A-Fella Records partner, Damon Dash, was a casualty of Jay-Z’s move to greener pastures. Def Jam, Jay says, offered him $20 million to dump Dash two years before the 2004 split. He rejected it.

    So what eventually changed his mind and made him leave Dash?

    “You know, I couldn’t live,” he said. “It wasn’t, it wasn’t what it once was, in my eyes. You know, maybe I contributed to it. We all contributed. … Maybe being 34, as opposed to being 26, contributed to it. It was deteriorating. It wasn’t the same thing.”

    anyway if was jay,i would have taken the 20 mil and cut off that dummy bitch off.thats the same nigga who said he’d roll with cam because he knew cam from harlem while jay was the one putting food on that niggas table.that the same nigga who apperas on some song with jimmy dissing jay.

  • mackbone

    if jay wanted to stab dame in the back he would of dumped him in 04 when lyor first offered him the roc!! dame & jay sold the roc and dame got 30 million from rocawear! if thats stabbing in the back? i hope jay come stab me!!!!!!!!

  • Cuban Link

    fuck gay-z for screwing nasir over

  • Cuban Link

    also hip hop isnt dead, but its gonna hibernate for a few years until some young bloods take over like Papoose, Jae Millz, Saigon, or Skyzoo.Until then its gone tho, becuz NaS aint gonna save hip hop now

  • Rell

    Jay-z still has New York on his back and ain’t nobody fuckin wit him. I’m surprise that all these people hating adn a they be the main ones rockin his music for the last decade. Give Jay his props u fuckin haters.

  • Holla Esq.

    yall dudes crazy cus not only did his 10yr anniversary concert sell out in 3 minutes but how many people u think are gonna make his album sales shoot thru the roof… so all the haters stop it cus u are the same ones who are gonna be first in line screaming HOVA, HOVA….
    come November 21st Hip Hop is back!!!!

  • BLAQ

    I AINT NO HATER OR NUTHIN, BUT THE FACT IS JAY PAST HIS PRIME…..WHILE NAS SEEMS TO STILL BE A PROBLEM. I AINT HATIN THO IF HE RELEASES A NEW JOINT…NEW YORK NEEDS IT.

    DEFJAM PLEASE RELEASE NEW NAS AND REDMAN ALBUMS.

    DEFJAM PLEASE RELEASE NEW NAS AND REDMAN ALBUMS.

    DEFJAM PLEASE RELEASE NEW NAS AND REDMAN ALBUMS.

    DEFJAM PLEASE RELEASE NEW NAS AND REDMAN ALBUMS.

    DEFJAM PLEASE RELEASE NEW NAS AND REDMAN ALBUMS.

    DEFJAM PLEASE RELEASE NEW NAS AND REDMAN ALBUMS.

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    DEFJAM PLEASE RELEASE NEW NAS AND REDMAN ALBUMS.

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    DEFJAM PLEASE RELEASE NEW NAS AND REDMAN ALBUMS.

  • BLAQ

    Did someone say jay Z is on the same level as Pac…lol lolololololol oh shit im crying here lol. Here’s the list bitch:

    1.eminem (emotion, skills, style, vocab, versitle)
    2.pac (emotion, skills, style, vocab)
    3.biggie (skills, style, versitle)
    4.nas (emotion, skills, vocab)
    5.jay z (skills, vocab, style)

    tupac is good but i dont think he is better than eminem cus eminem is just sick, he can rap any way and style, freestyle, slow, fast, he write good hooks, good verses and altho tup[ac is good lyrically he isnt very good at writing hooks u must admit.
    —————
    I’M SORRY BUT PLEASE SHUT UP WITH THAT NONSENSE OF EM BEING BETTER THAN PAC…..GO LISTEN TO CLASSICAL MUSIC OR SUMTHN.

  • James from 67th & Jeffrey

    If B.I.G. and Tupac can make albums from the grave, did anyone really expect Hov to stay retired? I only ask Jay Z two things: First, that he not refer to himself as “Young” on the new album. Brother is at least 37. Second, that he and Beyonce not do another song together. The more songs they do together, the less I believe them as a couple.

  • SONNY CHEEBA

    40calKissjr

    ^^^ ur a dick rider!

    kiss used to have a nigga under him feeding him bars named roc star… he’s on ryde or die vol 3 and on the lox 1st album (on RR) on a skit…

    and kiss is the 21st century Redman, was once the illest- now is just a shadow of himself…

    get out the house and experience life!

  • Noc2urnal

    I think thats the problem we hear these tight ass songs on the come out then when the album drop it be grabage 4real. I feel like J is giving us a small dosage of the album but truf be told nobody is fucking with that nigga on a buisness level or lyrically.

  • http://www.myspace.com/thaanswermd25 Dip Set City

    boring

  • http://waynebltmraol.com wayne

    come on peps dude rich and when you got that cheddar you fine yourself puttin shit out if the shit fly it fly if if don’t then fuck it but at the end of the day your account still remain 9/10 zero’s it’s not gonna stop a nigga from eatin and eatin well…o that cam shit i aint feelin that shit first you my nigga now you airing shit you know i don’t know about you mutha futhas but that shit dont get points where i’m from and i’m open for any mutha fuckers who want to challedge what tha fuck i wrote hear this…i got tha baddes bitch in tha game whearing my change….come on man that’s some pimp shit…you can’t argue it so fuckin dont.

  • bob

    sorry blaq hova, big, nas would rip eminem. dont be delusional.

  • mannyworld33

    all dame ever wanted was the spotlight and it’s evident now more than ever. when the break-up went down
    dame got paid! so it can’t be about money. he wants the attention that superstars get but dosen’t do anything besides run his mouth to get it. i’ve been a roc fan since day 1 and i didn’t like the fact that they split cause they worked well 2gether and @ the end of the day they all came up! they should have sum kind of roc-reunion in the future.

    oh yeah this is just my opinion so fukk who ever don’t like it(no mr. garrison) lmao

    ROC 4 LIFE!

  • HOT AS THAT THANG OUT HURR N THESE $TREET$

    1st on this installment bitches!!!!

    If anybody got that Jay diss let me know where to get it. That nigga probably just made it and about to leak it. The game foul as that thang!

  • nikki

    Jay! WELCOME BACK!! WE miss U We need U ! Love the newest tracks. Hot Stuff Papi!!!

  • nikki

    Jay! WELCOME BACK!! WE miss U We need U ! Love the newest tracks. Hot Stuff Papi!!!

  • http://myspace.com/imonlymarlon mr rocologist

    Let the backlash begin. This pac story gonna get so many comments. I guess now jay will be wrong for coming at pac. I guess it was gonna be wrong for him to stand on his own two and defend himself. Damn niggas is gonna have a double standard on this one. But very classy by jay to shelve the record out of respect to the dead. I guess some people are gonna say he still shouldve put it out which would have just been wrong. RIP pac, wouldve been a beautiful thing to see all these cats together to see how far hip hop could have been at this time wit jay, pac, big, nas, dr. dre all doin music WOW

  • go hard or go home

    im from the bay and in the stretts nobody even slaps any jayz o eminem. sorry we’d rather bump some of dat pac old shit :ambitionz az a ridah, no more pain, hail mary, so many tears. im tired of hearing that week shyt jayz is puttin out these dayz… real talk..so by far pac the best rappper..

  • Young A. Simmons

    Jay you just a brilliant rapper / businessman.

    Pac is a legend / icon.

    Keep reaching Shaun you ain’t on his level.

  • Lukee Lefty

    legend and icon are the same type of terms genuis

  • jOHNNY cAsH!!

    jay z’swack!!!

  • DREDRICK TATUM

    I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO KNOW WHAT HE SAID!

  • lil a

    LOL HAHAHA PAC WOULD’VE DESTROYED THIS NIGGA AND THERE WOULD BE NO JAY-Z / GAY-Z I LIKE TO CALL HIM IF HE WAS STILL WITH US AND YA’LL NIGGAZ AND BITCHES NO THAT!

  • http://www.myspace.com/freshmakerodbeatz lukee lefty

    fact is, no bullets=no career for Pac

    and Jay would have ended his career, imagine his picture in place of Prodigy’s on the Hot97 summer jam screen dancing and shit w/ Jada Pinkett to the Will Smith song Parents just dont understand

  • Young A. Simmons

    Biggie > Pac >>>>>> Jay

  • SEAN P

    THE CAMELS BACK YOU GOT LESS THEN 2 MONTHS

  • http://www.DonKilluminati.com DonKilluminati.com

    Tupac was the greatest ever, Jay-Z does not come close to Tupac in any way, shape or form. Jay-Z is like the kid in class who everyone thinks is smart but really just stayed back a year or two. Jay-Z was making songs when Tupac and Biggie were alive and nobody cared. Tupac made classic album after classic album after classic album that were masterpieces from first to last track. Jay-Z made one classic album and a bunch of mediocre albums that have a few hot songs and a bunch of worthless filler. That one line in “Intro/Bomb First (My Second Reply)” would have been better then Jay-Z’s whole diss, then Tupac would respond with another diss and destroy Jay-Z’s entire career. Don’t even buy Jay-Z’s new album, buy 2Pac’s new album, Pac’s Life, which is coming out the same day. 2Pac’s 13 tracks will be better then Jay-Z’s whole album.

    If Tupac was here Jay-Z would be working in McDonalds saying “Damn I wish I was never was on that track with Biggie”.

  • http://xxl.com Bompton RU

    THIS BIG LIPED BITCH NEVER COULVE FUCK WIT PAC… KNOCK IT OFF WIT UR FAKE DISS SONG TUPAC DISS HIS AZZ OPENLY AND IT WAS NO SECRET PAC WOULDVE DESTROYED YOU…..NAS ALMOST DID AND PAC KILLED HIM TOO GO DO YOUR RESEARCH YOU FUCKIN CAMEL

  • Dallas not ur average texas city!

    Jay-z is so overated, and to even mention pacs name in the and even bite his lines in the blueprint that niggas down bad. Them Outlawz should ride on this crumb for even mentioning his name. Pac probally got a track for this nigga that we aint even heard yet. The game will get back to the level it needs to be just give it time.

  • Stop hating on jay

    Jay would rip pac ass. Pac is not on jay lyirical level. That diss hit em up wass lame as hell. He was just talking how he will kill biggie, how biggie is fat, no punchlines. I mean what would jay do to his ass back in 96, he would destroy pac career, what can outlawz do to hov, you all pac fans are lying to yourself,cos they are bout same level as backstreet boys. And yea please stop hating on jay, if you dont like him dont post nothing.

  • GA Slim

    Pac would have ended jays career. conversation over

  • mannyworld33

    everybody knows that big told jay to hold off on dissin’ pac. i also heard jay was supposed to do a verse on who shot ya. pac was a thespian (no heath ledger) who read for a part in forrest gump(bubba), lol pac-shrimp
    no disrespect but pac stans need to know the truth.

  • 40calKissjr

    Bitch-ass Cheeba……….who gon co-sign dat bullshit u talkin. dat shit is nonsense, and to be real, it aint even just Kiss, but more like the whole camp. tell me who got a whole clique as hot as d-block. no flaws anywhere. even when the Roc had a mean as team wit mad niggas on the roster, half of them niggas was weak. this for you nigga. classic Jada.

    U can c tha pictures i paint son, if i aint the king of NY then it aint one.
    Just tell me who fuckin won, and u can put some on it. I’m in tha ‘06 Supercharged wit nuttin on it.
    I’m mad hot, to have is to have not. My crackspot is protools on my labtop. Much cheaper than a Carter, is affordable,and i aint never gotta infiltrate cuz its portable.
    Eitha way ima pop dat nine,CALL HIM 40CENT NOW CUZ HE DROPPED DAT DIME.
    AND HE GOT ME KINDA JAMMED UP RITE NOW, I CANT LIE, BUT I DONT KNOW WHO TOLD HIS BLACK ASS HE CANT DIE.
    THE OTHA DAY I MADE 40 IN A HOUR, FUCK IN THA STUDIO, IM BERRY GORDY WIT DA POWDER.
    UH, NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER, IM AT DA JUICE BAR ARMAGEDDON’S IN DA BLENDER.
    YEAH GETTING READY FOR THE WINTER, SWEATSUIT WEATHER,SOME REASON I SHOOT BETTA.
    CARRY THA BIG GATS AND LEAVE THE SCENE REAL FUCKIN NASTY LIKE CHOCOLATE MILK AFTA A BIG MAC……..ILLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!IM ON MY CEO SHIT RITE NOW.TILL THIS UNDERHANDED POLITIC SHIT PIPE DOWN.FEEL ME.

  • Real Talk From Da South

    Jay-Z cool. He a smart cat. I respect that And he is the king of all hip-hop. Real Talk he still would have been great if Pac or Big where alive, but he still can match up to those 2 Giants.

  • I Don no

    Jay-z’s album, i hope it’s gonna be a sophomore Slump cuz that’s the only rapper i don’t like to hear. Fuck jay-z, fuck diddy fuck everybody at bad boy Imma bad boy killer!!!
    2pac R.I.P.
    watch for his new album ‘pac’s life’
    that album is gonna make more succes than that kingdom come
    i call it Kingdom DONE!!!!

  • I Don no

    and a another thing, he disses 2pac
    haha he dissed 2pac with nuthin when he was alive
    now he disses 2pac
    that chicken, little scary boy haha

  • NastyNAsir

    Lma at PAc stans. that nigga soft was doing ballet type shit his ass got run out of oakland and white dudes was clowning him lol.

    I loke pac but his wigga stans need to shut the hell up on here.

  • http://www.buildthedream.org DGthegreat

    This is what happens when there are so many dick-riders!!!

    Now Jay actually believes he would be relevant if Pac was alive! Good MC? Maybe. Best Rapper Alive? B.I.G. Jay is getting way to ahead of himself. If you had the record ready to go, don’t wait 10 years to bring the shit up! The fuckin nerves of this guy…

    Now back to our regularly scheduled Jay-Z! Where’s the Jay-Z pam-pams and the Hov uniforms?…

  • lil a

    lukee lefty come on playa you know Gay-Z i like to call him couldn’t fuck wit Pac and he knows it and jay a pus he would never do that shit cuz and u know it pac would’ve shown himin his hawaiian shirts wit his fucked up teeth Pac Greatest Rapper Of All Time deal wit it and to that nigga above sayin pac was this and that cause he did ballet and shit his moms put him in there cause she wanted the best for her son so fuck u for tryin to diss the best rapper ever faggot!

  • 40calKissjr

    pac wont built like dat. dats why the nigga always rolled wit suge errwhere he went and suge was the one who got his ass shot cuz he was about to leave deathrow. see dre wont there to make all them beats for him like he did. after me against the world, pac fell off. he had a couple joints on makaveli but the shit after dat wasnt all dat. THUGS MANISON WAS MY SHIT THO. DONT GET IT TWITTED, HE JUST LOST ME WIT ALL DAT YELLING AND SCREAMING AND SHIT. THUG MANSION WASNT ONE OF THEM SONGS THO. IT WAS JUST STRICTLY LRYCISM

  • long duk dong

    Jay would have blasted off lyrically against Pac, but pac would have ended up mashing him. Death Row was too strong a movement for Hov. Now BIG on the other hand…………

  • Big hips

    Jay-z is back and so what he isn’t the best ever. If pac was around he would let Mr. Big Lips have it.Jay-Z is best loving Beyonce and who cares for that? Just hearing he was dissing Pac let’s me know how threaten he was of him. Jay is to old and his style is still the same. He’s back for what? He can’t save nothing but he’s self,I’ll be waiting for Nas new joint..

  • lil a

    None of them niggaz would smash Pac lyrically and ya’ll know it Jay the biggest biter ever and really don’t like the nigga by the way and B.I.G. R.I.P. to him didn’t want it with Pac

  • lil a

    How he fell off cuz Pac still the best sellin rapper of all time but Amaru or whoever in charge fuckin his legacy up and that’s wrong

  • Jake P

    Doesn’t matter whether or not Jay would’ve ever responded to Pac. What does matter is that Jay is garbage. That camel-faced piece of crap wouldn’t be where he’s at if Pac and BIG were still alive, and that’s a fact.

  • lukee lefty

    i seen the video of Tupac dancing with Jada Pinkett smiling and shit i garuntee you Jay would have ended his career Pac was not a thug he was an actor playing a part in a movie called life

    http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewThread&groupID=0&page=0&EntryID=1665975&CategoryID=64&get=1&adTopicId=21&keyword=music&xargstringp=&xargstringn=&lastpagesent=3&Mytoken=1F9BB173-6D58-4EC8-8877DE96D0ADDA5B52908149

  • lukee lefty

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    check this shit out

  • BLAQ

    IF PAC COULD DO SO MUCH DAMAGE TO BIGGIE OF ALL PEOPLE, TRUST ME PAC WOULDVE BODIED JAY….IF NOT ON A LYRICAL LEVEL JUST ON THE IMPACT OF IT.
    PAC WOULDVE MADE JAY A STILLBORN

  • haha

    Just hearing he was dissing Pac let’s me know how threaten he was of him
    pac saying fuck jay-z so many times clearly showed that that fake gangsta knew what monster jay is.

  • 40calKissjr

    AND CONTROVERSY SELLS………………………….BUT IT AINT LIKE DEATH

  • 40calKissjr

    PAC WOULDNT HAVE BEEN SHIT WITHOUT DRE. HE DEF NEEDED THOSE BEATS……….B.I.G. ON THE OTHER HAND……………HE HELPED THE BEATS EVEN THO MOST OF ‘EM AINT NEED NO HELP. DAT WAS JUST FUEL TO THE FIRE. IF PAC WONT DEAD NONE OF THAT BULLSHIT COMING OUT NOW WOULDNT EVEN SELL. LIFE AFTER DEATH WENT DIAMOND MOTHERFUCKAS. NAME ONE PAC ALBUM THAT DID THOSE NUMBERS. FUCK OUTTA HERE WIT DAT BULLSHIT YALL TALKING.

    ITS ALL ABOUT D-BLOCK THO NOW BITCHES

  • Doktor D

    Pac couldn’t hold Jay-Z mic,Pac lyrics were cool, but Jay lyrics are way more abstract and advanced.

  • T-bo

    All you niggas dissin’ Jay are stupid as shit. This man has single handedly kept N.Y. on his shoulders for damn near 10 years.Just because some of you middle school dropouts are too damn stupid to understand what the man is sayin’ don’t mean you gotta hate. Niggas hate what they do not understand, and some of these remarks made by these people are a perfect example. Read a dictionary you bastards. He retired cuz he was waitin’ for somebody to follow the Blueprint, but these idiots still don’t know what to do wit’ the game. I’m from the South, and I’m sick of hearing these niggas down here rappin’ about going to the strip clubs payin’ their royalties and album profits for lap-dances. And the only thing these niggas on the West Coast talk about is gang-bangin’ who da fuck claims gangs any more? I got nothing but love for Snoop, but he damn near 40, talkin’ bout crippin’ on his album, but on t.v. he talkin’ bout how he loves the kids. Somebody tell this nigga to make his mind up. Hands down, the best in the game right now gotta be T.I., Luda, Nas, and Jay. Who else you know movin’ units?

  • Stop hating on jay

    Pac was fake thug he was balerina, and in highschool he was actor and mamaslittle boy. When he started dealing drogs he stoped after to weeks cos he didnt know how to do it. When he got to death row he had to start acting bit gangsta just to sell albums. On the other hand big and jay was started to sell drogs before their highschool and they was real. And yea how do you know how would pac or biggie be if they didnt die. Would they make comercial tracks. The answer is yes and even more then jay. PEACE

  • MK

    One thing I’ve noticed is that since Jay-Z retired, hip-hop has being going downhill, esp NY hip-hop.

    I don’t really like “Show Me What You Got” (way too pop) and there’s no way this new album will be as good as Reasonable Doubt or Blueprint. But a dude who created those 2 classics is capable of making some very good raps.

    P.S: For every1 saying 2Pac would have killed Jay-Z’s career, Reasonable Doubt is better than any album 2Pac put out. Dead Presidents II is better than California Love and the vast majority of Pac’s songs (lyrically and musically). You can argue 2Pac’s better than Jay but not by a huge margin.

  • FlyDizzle

    Man, the world need to get off Pac dick. Sure, he was a dope rapper, but come on dawg. Im tired of niggaz, the media, everybody bouncin’ on dude shit. Lyrically speakin, he couldn’t hold a candle to Eminem. With all due respect. I can attest that he was talened tho. But Nas, Big, Jay, shit Pac wasn’t even a KRS, Kane or a Rakim. These cats definately are M.C.’s that set the standard for true lyricism. As for Jigga, I hope I could here a Dilla beat on this joint. Hip hop need that.

  • bigchuksie

    all greats that came back after retirement ended up being ordinary. i jst wish him the best

  • shawn

    jay aint got shit on pac, ever. pac is d realest thug in d industry there ever wuz. jay is kool but fuck any one who got shit 2 say against pac.

  • shawn

    pac cld go hard and was lyrically acclaimed in hip hop’s hall of fame. shit, only that cat em cld bring a candle near that nigga. i respect jay n all but he cant match up 2 pac

  • Docmeister

    On the contrary I don’t believe in all the rest/Everybody hollerin how Sean Carter be the best/The king of Brooklyn passed away rest in peace/He ain’t replaced by the Mark of the East/Or the Mark of the hour,cause it ain’t enough money and power/To claim a God-like soul you coward.” This is a quote off of my inspirational song about the direction of this fickle-minded industry.

  • Stop hating on jay

    TO Shawn. IS real thug a balerina?

  • 84 Boy

    Damn I’m glade he is back I love the south music but ain’t nobody rapping bout shit. We need NY to take it back I’m from MD but I respect real lyrics. Please shut Dip Set & Dame the FUCK up. Like Jay said it bout da $. Get it, spend it and die. Man but I wish Hov and AZ do something dat will start a fire. Jay needs to bring back that huslters music we need that back too. O yeah can’t wait for the CLIPSE damn it been along time.
    (84 boy) out

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  • http://dronkmunk.blogpsot.com dronkmunk

    yo?

  • Hellrazur

    If you want to listen to good lyrics then go into your nas collection and play illmatic over and over and over again because its the best rap album of all time and all the new shit is garbage lets face it 1994 through 1996 seen the best years of rap 2pac- me against the world, Big- ready to die, nas illmatic, J- reasonable doubt, 2pac- all eyez on me. In my opinon that is rap and thats what ill listen to over any new shit anyday

  • KILLA KALI FINEST 415

    FUCK GAY-Z,HES FUCKN WACK ASS FUCK OUT HERE IN THA WEST WE DONT FEEL DAT SHIT,NAS KILLD HIM N HE THNKS HE THA SHIT ,HE A BITN ASS BITCH,N HES SAY Y PPL BIT HIS SHIT CUZ HE DOES DA SAME SHIT 2….FUCK I KNO I NEVER BOUGHT HIS SHIT N STILL WONT

  • Sky LL

    “I got demons in past/So I got daughters on the way/If the prophecies correct/Then the child shall have to pay/For the sins of the father/So I barter my tomorrows/Against my yesterdays/And hopefully she’ll be ok/And when I’m no longer here/To shade her face from the gray/I give her my share of Carol’s Daughter/And a new beach chair.”–Jayz, lyrics from Beach Chair

    That’s some hot shit right there–I can’t wait to hear the rest of the lyrics.

  • thxman

    jay’s album will fail! All of that cats fans are not really interested in him after he was exposed as a plagerizer… We all know BIG is the voice behind all his great lyrics… His album will do as well as diddy’s did!

  • u know

    i’m from florida and proabbly one of the biggest east coast repprezentas down south. i never really wuz feelin jay-z and i really ain’t feelin him now. tha nigga is talented no doubt. but as far as running new york … it’s G-Unit, Dipset & Purple City baby!

  • slobbythegreat

    jay z must have been listening to masta killa’s no said date album, that bruce lee quote is on killa’s album, ya’ll should cop that shit

  • EAST COAST

    LOOK Y’ALL… WHY IS IT THAT A LOT OF YOU IGNORANTS ARE HAVING LESS FAITH IN THE GOD MC, JUST BECAUSE HE GAVE US A FUN TRACK? LOST ONES IS A CLASSIC, KINGDOM COME IS A CLASSIC…. Y’ALL HONESTLY WILL TELL ME THAT JAY Z WILL COME OUT AND FAIL? OK! I HAVE READ A FEW FAKE JAY Z FANS ON HERE TALKIN’ WRECKLESS AND SHIT, PLEASE SHUT UP AND WAIT FOR GREATNESS TO DROP ON YOUR ASSES NOV 21 2006. JAY WILL TURN ALL OF Y’ALL INTO FUCKIN’ BELIEVERS…NO ONE SHOULD REALLY TRY TO DROP ANY ALBUM FROM NOV 21!!! NOW TO ALL MY JAY Z BELIEVER, I ADMIRE Y’ALL…LET’S CELEBRATE THE RETURN OF A REAL MC…..FUCK ALL THE RANKINGS THAT Y’ALL HATERS HAVE ON HERE! WHY RANK PAC AND BIGGIE? THOSE TWO SPIRITS SHOULD REST IN PEACE PLEASE….RANK JAY AMONG THE LIVING RAPPERS…OH SHIT SEE NOW TELL ME WHO’S NUMBER ONE? HA HA Y’ALL KNOW WHAT’S WHAT FUCKERS!!! DID Y’ALL HEARD JAY Z FREESTYLE OF FUNKFLEX HOT 97? JAY SAID IT BEST…..”NIGGAS GOT ME BATTTLING GHOSTS AND SHIT!” WHOA….NOW TELL ME THAT AIN’T DOPE!! NO ONE WANTS IT WITH JAY THEIR PAPER AIN’T LONG ENOUGH….HE SAID IT BEST, “IT’S LIKE GOING TO WAR WITH BUSH YOU CAN’T WIN HE GOT SO MUCH PAPER!” NAS ALBUM WILL BE GREAT, GAME WITHOUT 50, I AM STILL IN DOUBT…I HEARD HIS TWO SINGLES AND HE TOOK THE SAME EXACT APPROACH THAT 50 SHOWED HIM! SO THIS YEAR WE HAVE GOT TO WITNESS THE RETURN OF A FEW GREAT MCS…..BUSTA RHYMES, LUDACRIS, THE KID BANKS, WELL I AM FEELING LUPE’S JOINT, NOW I AM WAITING FOR OF COURSE JAY AND NAS….FUCK ALL Y’ALL JAY Z HATERS! FACE IT HE’S BACK MO’FUCKERS!
    FUCK DUMB ASS JIM JONES BAAAALLLLLIN’ GOSH SO WACK YO! JUST QUIT! CAM’RON TRIED AND HE COULDN’T EVEN GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE KINGDOM! DAME DASH IS NOT LEADING YOU GUYS TO VICTORY AT ALL…STOP RIDING HIS DICK AND MOVE ON WITH Y’ALL CAREER IF JAY Z DON’T BUY KOCH OF COURSE….WATCH OUT GUYS HE MIGHT BUY KOCH AND Y’ALL WILL BE REALLY MAD THAN HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA……OH SHIT! BOY JAY I FUCKS WITH YOU BIG HOMIE….IT’S “CORPORATE TAKEOVER” TIME FUCK THESE RAPPERS!

  • EAST COAST

    OH YEAH FOR THOSE THAT ARE CRYIN’ OUT LOUD ABOUT THIS NAS CD NEEDS TO JUST CHILL CAUSE DUDE ALBUM AIN’T DONE YET…FUCK OFF YO….

  • NastyNAsir

    Why Jay holding back the kid Nas album?

  • Stop hating on jay

    NAs album i just not ready.He`s not holding him back

  • da dolla dame

    no really… lets not be too jumpy as far as the release is concerned. if ur a real jay-z fan, since 96 u should know that the man is consistant… he single handedly shuts the game down… no not shut down he puts the game back in the proper perspective… now days these kids are making cliche music that has no real feeling behind it… this kingdome come is going to put the game back where it needs to be. he’s been waiting this out just as long as we as fans have been waiting but guess what… they think they’re ready but these weak fucks didnt train hard enough… j… go get em!

  • omar hameen

    do people still listen to dipset?if so,y?does dipset really want it wit jay?like jay said why would he,being at the top of the hill,come down to the bottom of the hill to play wit these dipset kids?maybe if dipset climbs the hill a little,jay might smack em around a little bit but he is more concerned with stuff like the water crisis.how dare u all try to damage jay’s name.dipset doesnt do anything they say they do.fabricators.we know jay’s life is real,weve seen it for ourselves.i appreciate u coming back jay.we missed u my nig.finally some real music.

  • http://www.blastmaster.com bmaster

    None of these articles on this site are in this months issue. These are like some left out pieces of the article. What’s up with that?

  • hasan

    yo where is “MOST KINGS” in those tracklistings??
    he was talking about it.but i don’t see it.
    it sounds like it will be the dopest track on the album…

  • thatdukeSuave

    down here in atl, i rep Jay fully. I dig our southern lyricists (the few we have) but there ain’t nothin like throwin on one of hov’s joints and lettin it play thru! That shit is cinematic, and i can’t wait for the kingdom to come! fuck dipset dick riders!

  • kash4kane

    i love jigga and i dont know how the album is but i gotta give jim jones his credit he jammin

  • Big T

    The whole Jay retiring thing wasn’t a publicity stunt, there’s some shit ya’ll need to get straight. Jay retired because Dame wouldn’t give him his original recordings off the Reasonable Doubt album. Jay knew the only way to get them shits back was to become President at Def Jam. Def Jam said you can’t be an artist and President so Jay retired to get what was rightfully his knah mean? Dame didn’t wanna give him his shit.. so why do you think they have beef now? Def Jam wouldn’t offer Jay a shorter contract than 3 years… that’s why 3 years after Jay’s retirement he’s back, think about it. It all makes sense.

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  • chris

    what kind of jacket Jay-Z was wearing on the “XXit page? and on the cover? does anyone know?

  • HOV is BACK

    SUPERMAN IS BACK FUCKERS AND YALL FUCK BOY’S JUST FACE IT AND LOVE IT CUZ,I MEAN I TRUELY FEEL SORRY FOR THEM DIP-SHIT DUDES…THEY SHIT AINT GONNA FLY NO MORE NOW THAT THE KINGS OF HIP HOP (HOV AND NAS) ARE BACK WIT NEW ALBUMS.AND HOW COULD YOU CALL THE MAN A SALEOUT MAN THE DUDE DUMB DASH WAS FUCKING SHIT UP HE WANTED TO BE IN THE SPOTLIGHT AND DIDN’T REALY DO SHIT TO BE THERE, PEOPLE GROW A PART THINGS DON’T STAY THE SAME 4 LIFE AND I GUESS JAY COULDN’T STAND IT ANY MORE. AND DASH SAID HE MADE HOV COME ON NOW HE DIDN’T MAKE THAT MAN WHO HE IS,AND IF HE DID MAKE JAY WHY CAN’T HE TURN CAM’RON’S HOMO ASS INTO THE GRATE MC THAT HOV IS, DAME IS A LIL FAT FUCK THE WANTS THE SHINE BUT AINT DOIN SHIT WITHOUT HOV,DAME AINT SHIT AND EVERY THING HE DID SINCE THE SPLIT AND DID SHIT HIS BOY CAM’S ALBUM FLOPED AND JIM JONES SUCK ASS

  • CHRIS

    ITS KIND OF SICK THAT JAYZ MADE THE COVER OF THE MAGAZINE. IF YOU’LL RAP CATS OUT THEIR DO THE MATH HE WAS GOING TO GET THE COVER ANYWAY,HE BEEN ON A THREE YEAR HAITUS. HE HIT ALOT GOOOD POINTS IN THE ARTICLE AND SHOWED A LOT OF RESPECT TO DAME AND BIGGS AND WHAT THEY DO THEY STILL FUCK HIM AND PUT HIM ON THE BACK BURNER, FOR A LAME AS RAPPER THAT DIDNT SELL OVER 20 THOUSAND UNIT UNTIL HE WORE A ROCAFELLA CHAIN.THE WHOLE RETIRMENT THING WAS SPOOF AND A TEST TO THOSE SO CALL MC OUT THEIR AND THEY ALL FAILED. HE REAILZED THAT THE GAME WAS STRUGGLING WITHOUT HIM THATS WHY HE CAME BACK TO PUT IT IN A CHOKE HOLD.

  • http://xxlmag.com slick money

    regardless of whgat anyone may feel about J and him coming back you must admit that he makes rap music that grown people cam enjoy.

  • eeyore

    bad cd period fuck black rob

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  • http://mikieockaol.com mike

    wow Now everyone knows that jay-z is the greatest ever, Im looking at these dumb comments and seeing people sayin that nas killed jay and eminem, yall talkin bout one verse or a diss song,ok…em got him on a song, and nas came back with ether after jay dugg in his ass the first time with takever, dickheads,of course someone with nas’s talent could come back stornger after he hears the first diss song..But who really won the battle???Lets see whos the most successful rapper out of these 3are. excuse me but jay has 10 albums,nas got half of those an half of his are corny(how bout that)on top of that, he was out be4 hov an ended up bein signed by jay…on eminem, well he hot too, however he aint half as good as jay,he aint got as many albums out, jay drop his yeat after year, and all are hot, and is still gettin better,NO ONE as far as music, can be compared to him unless it Puffy or Russell..Jay is the muthafukin goat, LL shoulda been president b4 him but he not is he? Jay is worth 300mill. thats all i gota say, and hes gettin more..he makes records for fun and kill anyone that disses him…Back to eminem, lets listen to the track on “eminem show” with nate dog,(second to the last track)”I gota list, heres the order of my list that its in,it goes,1)reggie,jay-z,tupac,then Biggie,andrae from outcast,jada,kurupt,nas and then me(notice he put him and nas at the end of the list and Jay-z is at the top) he said it from his own mouth, listn to the record..need I say more???300 million and dame aint shit without Jay either…OOOOOOOOOOOOO nas feel off around 1999-2000, he got hot again after jay dissed him, did not jay bring the lil homie nas back to life?? be real, dont b an ass, he said it him…”Ya street dreamin,all yall niggas living thru me, i gave u life when niggas were forgetin u were an mc”(Blueprint2..song was blueprint 2nd verse) holla at me 1………..

  • GRIZZLE

    THIS NIGGAS’ A CLOWN, YA’LL NIGGAS TOO. HIS BITCH ASS CRYING ABOUT HIS SHIT GETTING BOOTLEGGED. WE GOT TO DOWNLOAD THAT SHIT OR COP THE BOOTLEG, HE DONE BRAINWASHED THE URBAN YOUTH TO HUSTLE AND BUY EXPENSIVE SHIT UNTIL THEY LOCKED UP OR BROKE. JOE CAMEL EVEN HAD THE NERVE TO SAY THAT THERE SHOULD BE A BOARD TO KEEP PEOPLE LIKE JIM JONES FROM DISSIN HIM. PPLLLLLLLEEEASSSE!! HOV, BITCH ASS STILL GOT A GRUDGE AGAINST GILLIE AND IS BLACKBALLIN’ THE YOUNG BUL, BUT WE NEED A “BOARD”, MAN I’M ON THAT BOARD, OKAY JIGGA AKA S.DOT AKA YOUNG HOV AKA GOD MC AKA BARRY BONDS-NIGGA YOU CAN’T BE IN THE TOP THREE, THE BOARD TAKIN’ ALL YOUR AWARDS AND GIVIN’ THEM THE THE NIGGAS YOU BIT THEY SHIT FROM LIKE: SLICK RICK, ICE CUBE, BIGGIE LIKE 5000TIMES, PAC( HE AIN’T FUCK WITH YOU), NAS(EVEN THOUGH HE SO STOOPID, HE DESERVED IT, SCARFACE, JAZ-0, SAUCE $, FOX, GILLIE, PHILY’S WHOLE SWAGGER, THE LIST TOOO LONG…..SUPPORT PHILLY ARTIST!!!! I

  • http://myspace.com/boroughs_finest nature

    Jayz is an innovator with regards to hip hop—->mysace.com/boroughs_finest

  • http://www.yahoo.com q

    Pac never did damage to Biggie. You Pac fans are dilusional. Biggie did respond to Pac, but in his own way. Go back and cop life after death and listen to long kiss good night. life after death is the biggest selling rap album of all time at 18 million copies. what damaga fool? i love pac and all, but the reality is he couldn’t even dent biggie’s armor. No way out sold 10 million copies, largely because of biggie. ashanti launched her career on a biggie track. jay-z made a career quoting him. 50′s first hot joint was a posthmous collabo with biggie. ever since biggie and puff, the rap world has been swimming in materialism, not revolutionary movements which is what PAC TRULY WAS ALL ABOUT. i am not truly a biggie fan, but the man was the best i have ever heard and i have heard them all from the very beginning. as a matter of fact most of you sucker dont truly love pac, you just like the way he attacked the east coast mesiah because so many hatre the east and deservedly so,they never loved anyone. but the mistake you made was that biggie was different, he had love for everyone: the west coast and especially the south. if biggie was alive today he would have worked with many southern artists and flowed over many of those hot ass southern beats. Imagine biggie flowing on davis banner’s like a pimp shiiiit.

  • http://www.yahoo.com q

    and as far as jay goes. he is nice, lets be real. is he a king like big or pac. i don’t think so, but the reality is that JAY iS a very POWERFUL CROWNED PRINCE. kings dominate and biggie was certainly dominant. this brother reigned supreme in a rap world that consisted of pac, nas, deathrow, jay-z and the mighty WU TANG as a whole and as individual artists. those niggas were like fucking voltron and that nigga still stood out, BE FOR REAL!!!! BIGGIE WAS THE KING because HE TOWERED ABOVE OUTSTANDING COMPETITION, SHIT, his competitors were also dominant. IF HE WAS KING OF THE LAND, THOSE NIGGAS DEFINITELY HAD A SEAT ON THE ROUND TABLE.And for all you PAC lovers, B.I.G. does have the highest sales per cd. Life After Death sold 18 million alone and still counting and it is fully expected to be the first rap album to reach 20 million in world sales. so leave the PAC shit alone. Big and Jay are mirror inmages of each other. the only reason I say B.I.G. was a king and and jay is a VERY POWERFUL CROWNED PRINCE is because if they were heavyweight boxers, both would move with grace, speed,charisma,and siscipline, but B.I.G. has that knockout blow that Jay-Z lacks.In other words, Jay is not as convincing as b.i.g.on the mic. he is DEFINITELY as graceful as B.I.G.ON THE MIC, BUT FAR LESS POWERFUL. bUT TO Jay’s credit,He may not knock you out, but that nigga can sting yo ass and beat you the fuck for 12 rounds!!! so you hating ass niggas need to get off jay’s kcid. and for those that don’t know about royalty, the crowned prince is the prince that rules over the other princes: nas, snoop, luda, T.I. IS jay-z better than big? most objective observers would say no, but those same objective observers would also say no, but those same objective observers would also say he is sick wit his, cause Jay IS nice like that. NO you can’t judge jay on his commercial songs, but the same could be said of biggie and pac. stop hatin on the brother.

  • Robbie

    lol…all you people talking smack ….its funny all you want him to do is talk about &IGGAS and &^ches!!..this is a real classy album…only a true hov fan would appreciate it ..for all the haters…listen to reasonable doubt all the way to kingdom come and then talk ..dont critisize ….understand….HHHHHHHOOOOOOOVVV!!!!

  • Fuck Gay Z

    Fuck Jay Z,,, the nigga got a diss on PAC,, Nigga if PAC was alive wouldn’t be no GAY Z…PAC would have killed this pussy ass nigga,,, and BIG is the KING of NY…BWS 4 LIFE…DOCTOR’S Advocate in stors now..

  • ALE

    YA’LL ARE HATERS….JAY GETS SO MUCH RESPECT FROM EVERYONE….YOU KNOW HE’S THE SHIT…EVEN NAS HAD TO SIGN TO HIS LABEL…THE REASON HE CAME BACK WAS TO PROVE ONCE AGAIN THAT HE’S #1…AND WHAT’S HIGHER THAN #1?? RIGHT, IT’S KNOWN..EVEN IF YOU HATE, EVENTUALLY YOU LOVE HIS MUSIC…THAT’S REAL HIP-HOP..NOT ALL THAT WEAK SHIT…AND ALL THESE FOOLS TRYIN’ TO TALK SMACK, JUST WANT PUBLICITY….

  • SIR JO

    RAPPERS GROW UP!
    YOU CANT BE A YOUNG MAN FOREVER…
    IT’S FUNNY HOW THIS MAN CAN LEAVE THE GAME FOR NO MORE THAN A COUPLE OF YEARS AND COME BACK TO SO MUCH HATE.
    PEOPLE LOVE HIM FOR TALENT. MOST BLACK FOLK DONT EVEN BUY CD’S ANYMORE. SO HOW CAN ANY OF YOU FOOLS COMPLAIN ABOUT A ALBUM WHEN YOU DOWN LOAD MOST OF YOUR MUSIC. ONE MORE THING…IF YOU CANT DO WHAT JAY- CAN DO, BETTER THAN HE CAN!??? shhhhh
    JAY GOT PAPER..GET SOME HATER !!

  • HOV is BACK

    I DON’T KNOW WHERE H.I.P H.O.P WHOULD BE WIT OUT THE BOY H.O.V

  • HOV is BACK

    that brooklyn high (diss jim jones & co) is so crazy he went at them dudes so hard them new niggas can’t keep up wit the man his flow is 2 nice for them 2 ever but a dent in his armour hov is back nigga buy it and love it fuck all u fake ballin cats shootin air balls at the basket….and know the dumb nigga jim jones talkin bout nas, fuck dip-set is bout 2 a have some big problems on they ass

  • 504Boi

    Fuck Jay-Z Pussy Azz niggaz act like this boi so cold ya heard me Man that boi wack ya dig he a swagga jacka if you listen to this song Camron made you wouldn’t have no respect for dude no morew pussy ass Beyonce don’t want that Bitch Go burn his album off Bearshare,Limewire, r Napster it’s been on there Go Get that Game’s Doctor’s Advocate, That Jim Jones P.O.M.E.,& that Lil Boosie Bad AZZ ya heard me

  • 504Boi

    Don’t Burn Game’ Doctor’s Advocate, Jim Jones P.O.M.E., R lil Boosie BAD AZZ BURN JAY Z Off Bearshare,Limewire, R Napster ya heard me

  • da kid dip

    check it….damn da homey jay got so much haterz…seems like he just had 2 show all da haterz wut he got….and im lovin dat brooklyn!!!!! shyt on dat we fly high joint….jones came back again so jay u kno u gotta get back at son son show him how brooklyn do it!!!!!….everybody need 2 go cop kingdome come when it drop…plz no bootlegs its mandatory dat u get …. i mean be for real da homey hov is bacc….brooklyn!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • High School English Teacher

    I must commend Jay-Z not only for his ability to make great hits; but his social responsibility as well. I get tired of hearing about the cars, the jewels, the what I haves and what you wish you could gets. (Yes, I said that right. Please try to keep up.) After all of the idiocrisy of rap music and some musicians, there needs to be some substance. I have been a Jay-Z since Reasonable Doubt, have seen him in concert, and have every album. Am I a dick rider?…only for my husband and QUALITY music. Those of you hater parents who have chosen to have hater kids I have one suggestion for you; please find the time to teach them the fundamentals of phonics, because I am having a hell of a time teaching the “cute, blinged out, fresh to death, non-spelling, non-critical thinking, fake ass ‘BALLIN’! socially inept” bunch of video emulators how to read. Thank God for Sean Carter. Thanks a million and have an awesomely blessed day.

  • Hurricane Game

    Would some one bury this faggots career. Fuck Gay-Z. Baaaallllin! Black Wall Street Bitch.

  • jaimeg

    why can’t u niggas realize that Gay-Z with a capital G sucks ass. paramount/los angeles my niggas.

  • THATONE BK ALL DAY

    SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!! you hatin ass niggas that like that bullshit JIM JONES who get chased around rucker park from brooklyn niggas. WACK ASS GAME who had a blond hair and a tongue ring on that dating show talking about he supathug now.Yall corny NIGGAS like that bullshit RAP. Dont hate on Jay cause he the realest that ever did it. That nigga on the same level as all of the greatest and remain to hold the throne today. So all you hating ass niggas talkin about fuck gay Z and all this bullshit dont get mad cause he the king, with the baddest bitch and a rich nigga that shut all these lame dame bitch ass wannabe thug ass rapper niggas down. The nigga is a hustler always been and the nicest. Hip hop wouldnt be the same without JAY Z even if biggie and 2pac was alive.THATS MOTHERFUCKIN REAL!!!

  • THATONE BK ALL DAY

    AND ON TOP OF THAT PAC WAS A BITCH ASS NIGGA THAT I HEARD WASNT EVEN HOOD LIKE THAT. DONT GET ME WRONG THE NIGGA WAS ILL LYRICALLY BLESS HIS SOUL BUT HE WAS A FRONTIN ASS NIGGA. I DONT RESPECT FRONTIN ASS NIGGAS LYRICALLY OR NON LYRICALLY. LIKE JAY SAID HE FROM A ERA WHERE THEY RESPECT THE SHOOTERS AND YALL LAME ASS NIGGAS RESPECT A NIGGA THAT GET SHOT THATS WHY YALL FAKE ASS INTERNET NIGGAS TALKIN BULLSHIT ABOUT JAY CAUSE YALL DONT KNOW NO BETTER. JAY WAS A REAL NIGGA STILL IS IN THE STREETS HUSTLING AND SHIT THATS KNOWN FACT IF ASKED BY ANY OG IN BK. SO CHECK THE CREDIBILITY OF SOME OF THESE RAP ARTIST B4 U DICK RIDE YOU BITCH ASS NIGGAS. JAY AINT THE BEST BATTLE RAPPER BUT BETS TO BELIEVE HE WOULD OF SHUT PAC FAKE THUG ASS DOWN IF HE WAS LIVING. WHAT NIGGAS!!!! I SAID IT!! CAUSE ITS REAL!!! BK ALL DAY U FUCKIN CLOWNS!!!!!!!!

  • Peeyem2k

    Show Me What You Got is a very very poor man’s ’06 remix of Hovi Baby. Kingdom Come is the track he shoulda dropped first. Good To Have Him Back!!! PS THATONE BK. Didn’t you hear ‘the Takeover’ where Jay killed the whole rap industry in 1 track? Nas came back and killed it but thats not the point!!!

  • Los

    wack ass college niggas and lil niggas say that weak ballin shit..come on…i dont understand it…jim jones got chased around at the rucker..he always talkin bout he got heat..where was it then? hahah he got imaginary gats but that ass whippin was real

  • Los

    jimmy was scared to even talk about it

  • Los

    hey all the niggas that diss jay got those same couple things to say…he gay and he look like a camel….?????
    wayne is the gay one fo kissin baby and shit

  • illmatic

    yeah jay-z is not that good hes all commercial he would get ripped if he tried puttin out street tracks.. his old days he was good..nas still rip him anyday and he did it in his old days.. nas is better than jay-z and always has been.. yeah lil wayne is garbage he didnt hit puberty yet.. i would put money down the game and nas would rip baby and wayne. end of story for all you frauds

  • illmatic

    mike your an idiot.. yoru clueless.. nas won that battle and would rip jay-z to this day.. sellin dont ahve nothing to do wit this.. illmatic is regarded as the best LP to ever hit stores dumbassssssssssssssssss.. you dont no what your talkin about.. ether is regarded also as one of the best diss tracks to ever hit the streets.. and its sicker than takeover and anything jay-z cam eout wit.. and the song has more than one line thrown at jay-z.. he kills him in that song..and he kills him in the last verse of Last Real Nigga Alive.. nas is more lyrical than jay-z too.. jay-z just more commercial thats all. .thats why he sells.. illmatic was better than reasonable doubt.. and it only had 10 songs on it. please dude u gotta no what ur talkin about

  • illmatic

    AND FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO THINK JAY-Z HAS AMAZING LYRICS.. HE STOLE SOME FROM BIGGIE.. it was on the radio and shit.. him even sayin that he did it.. hes a fake and got no talent

  • http://HITEMUP.COM 2PAC

    FUCK YO BITCH AND THE CLICK U CLAIME

  • tupac61671

    Hahaha. no bullets = no career for Pac. Dumb ass retards on this page. Pac was the biggest rapper around even before he got shot in NY. Biggie bit off his album Pac still sold more. All his albums starting from 2pacalypse Now to Me Against the World went to #1. Pac was a legend before he got shot. “All Eyez on Me reached Platinum qualification in just 4 hours of its release, and reached #1 on the Billboard 200 charts.” Plus Jay Z steals lyrics not only from Pac but Biggie also so this nigga is fake. And he is mad gay. Him and his niggaz pepper sprayed R Kelly. How fruity is that. Pac and his niggaz used to break jaws like on the night he got shot.

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