![]() He does things that would make the average emcee think he was crazy. Jay-Z takes a chance and goes in a different direction production wise from his previous two efforts. With all of this said, it is sometimes forgotten how good this album is. It has reportedly sold more than 5 million copies and helped begin the careers of rappers like Ja Rule and Amil, while giving established artist like DMX a bigger stage to stand on. In 1998 Jay-Z released his most commercially successful album in Vol. Well with the release of Watch The Throne from Kanye and Hov, there seems to be a debate on if Jay has lost it, and even by some is Jay-Z even good (shocking!!!)? I am not one for the arguments, but I think some of you youngsters need to be reminded on who the original Mr. Instead I reviewed Tha Carter II and left most of the Jay-Z praise to B-Easy with an occasional assist from H2O. ![]() While I was writing I actually felt like this may make me sound too much like a Jay-Z stan, which I’m not (Ok maybe I am). ![]() I actually started writing this to turn into King Jerm, as a sample of my writing while he was deciding if he would let me join the staff. I been thinking about giving this album a review for awhile now.
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