| 4.5 superb |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| American Me Siberian Nightmare Machine |
| Anthony Green Avalon |
| powerful acoustic music from an artist that everyone expect something amazing from. |
| B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Bleed from Within Empire |
| Carnifex Dead in My Arms |
| Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Drake So Far Gone |
| Drake Comeback Season |
| Eminem Relapse: Refill |
| Jay-Z Kingdom Come |
| Jay-Z American Gangster |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 |
One of New York’s most talented MC’s drops his eleventh album in the recent months. Shawn Carter or better know as Jay-Z releases the final installment to the blueprint trilogy, The Blueprint 3. After being in the rap game for just about fourteen years, the hip-hop giant still manages to crushes today’s competition.
With his protégé Kanye West as his lead producer on his latest record, Blueprint 3 delivers new rhythm and beats unlike the old Jay-Z records. The beats are louder and energetic, the lyrics are executed perfectly and clever. With not one track worth skipping, this is maybe one of Mr. Carter’s greatest records yet.
Most of the time I would favor albums that could hold back on featuring guest stars to as little as 2 guest stars. However, I cut Jay-Z some slack even though he has whopping eleven different artists on his album, from Kanye West and Kid Cudi to Mr. Hudson and Alicia Keys. The Blueprint 3 had its share of number one smash hit like “Run This Town,” “Empire State of Mind,” and “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune).” Even with how popular those tracks grew, I still disagree that those were the best tracks The Blueprint 3 offered.
One track in particular I think should get the attention it deserves is “Already Home.” In fact, the track holds my favorite verse, “Somebody turn these boys off, don’t they know what I’m on? Can’t they see that it’s foolish to try to kill me with songs?…You killing me softly, you talk to me to death.” The song is pointing out that it’s impossible to top him and the competition is wasting their time writing music to degrade him. The track brings me to a new perspective on Jay-Z. It thought this was another rap artist who is still making music even with his flame burned out. Fortunately, I was wrong, Even though Carters sound changed from his all-time classic Reasonable Doubt, he still delivers lyrics with true meaning unlike these new artists who are obsess with money and power other than talent and originality.
I like this album, even though it’s a bit more mainstream than his previous ten albums. The future is still brighter than ever for hova
Pros:
Beats to all tracks have lots of energy
Lyrics are clever
Production is amazing!
Cons:
A little too much guest appearances |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day |
| WOW, this is really something different. i hesitated downloading this album but it downloading it was worth it, every song on this full length is great. |
| King Conquer Decomposing Normality |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II |
| Lil Wayne Da Drought 3 |
| Lil Wayne No Ceilings |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Martyrdom (USA-CA) Slaying GIants |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Muse Absolution |
| Nas Nastradamus |
| Oceano Depths |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Puff Daddy No Way Out |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Skepsis |
| Tiesto Just Be |
| Underoath Define The Great Line |
| Upon a Burning Body The World Is Ours |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
| Veil of Maya [id] |
| Wale Attention Deficit |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
