Featured artist Jaz-O's verse-ignore the artists' alliterative aliases-is obviously more pristine and crisp than Jay-Z's, but Jay's words are limper than the lean he sports on a stroll with wife Beyonce. On Volume 2's "Nigga What Nigga Who," Hovah's in-the-pocket rapping stays a millisecond behind Timbaland's double-time drum pattern. The laid-back funk of The Jackson 5, Prince, The Commodores, and The Isley Brothers, are not just sample sources for records, but are models of rhythmic inspiration. Jay-Z's rapping style mimics the rhythms of the records his parents played at parties as a kid. We can thank T-Pain for bringing Auto-Tuned diatonic pitches into the rap world. Rappers' musicality has only recently been lauded in the popular music world save for some reviews of classic hip-hop records because hip-hop has only recently begun to be considered music. What's more fascinating is the musical construction of Jay-Z's verse-his actual rhyme, rhythm, and pitch scheme. Carter, Volumes I, II and III, respectively, then I hope you're medicated for ADD. If you're expecting a printed Jay-Z biography after In My Lifetime, Hard Knock Life, and The Life and Times of S. Cooking coke, selling coke, buying cool shit with the same coke money that would make "The Roc" more than a street name for the freebase derivative of coke. Jay-Z's albums generally contain accurate accounts of his life growing up in Marcy Park, Brooklyn. I memorized nearly every word of Jay-Z's The Blueprint. I copped ‘em from a friend whose mom didn't care about the word "fuck." Major events of the year: I discovered that "World Trade Center" was the actual name of the "Twin Towers." I had an extremely difficult time grasping the basic concepts of algebra. I'd already experienced Shady's The Marshall Mathers LP and Dre's The Chronic 2001. I had already been to camp in the summer where I would hone my skillful use of vulgar language and start mackin' on older women-thirteen-year-old girls about to pass into the otherworldly halls of public high school. I'm eleven years old, sitting on a school bus midway between Norfolk and Hampton, Virginia, trying to determine exactly what the World Trade Center is.
(August 2010) The Blueprint drops on September 11, 2001. Perfect Sound Forever: Jay Z- on to the next one Jay-Z
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