You know Damon Dash and Kareem "Biggs" Burke are getting a laugh [and anticipating a nice payoff] from putting Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt on iTunes after the recent rejection of iTunes by both Jay-Z and Jermaine Dupri.
Watch those fans chop up that album and take the good parts of Jay-Z’s only true classic album and listen to those parts as individual tracks, destroying the artist’s vision and leading us further down a hellish path where ringtone rappers rule and true artists can’t get no respect.
Chop it up, bag it, sell, sell, sell.
Wait a minute, that sounds like drug dealing. I thought Jay-Z was so into that kind of thing.
Distribution via Tunecore.
Clyde, have you ever listened to a Jay-Z album all the way through? Just curious.
Not since the Black Album. I listened to that quite a bit but have to skip over about half of it now.
I don’t do that with well constructed albums that hold up all the way through.
I haven’t listened to any of the subsequent albums all the way through because the singles were ok but nothing of long term value so why bother?
Not that you asked that question seriously but if you are Eskay, don’t you realize a lot of real dumbasses have run that question into the ground? And I mean real dumb asses.
[needless insults removed - hate to be mean eskay, if this is eskay, but you're slipping holmes.]
One of the writers over at Highbrid Nation did an interesting write saying that all this work Dame has been doing with Reasonable Doubt lately is a smack in the face to Jay-Z. Personally I think it’s all good as long as everyone is getting a cut.
Lol at chop it up, bag it, sell, sell…
Clyde, you a fool for this one.
Thanks, Rizoh. Seemed like an obvious connection to me!
Besides, it’s rappers that schooled me on the drug game and taught me the magic of the metaphor.
Evorgleb, if it’s that on-topic, you can drop a direct link to it.
Like the drug metaphor, Dame’s insults seem pretty clear at this point.
One of the things I haven’t done lately is a Dame Dash roundup and it would include a lot of examples of things that must drive Jay-Z crazy so I’m glad people are pointing that out.
>>Not that you asked that question seriously but if you are Eskay, don’t you realize a lot of real dumbasses have run that question into the ground? And I mean real dumb asses.
nah, I wasn’t aware of that, enlighten me.
I was half serious, half joking, because you seem to have this boulder on your shoulder for Jay-Z.
For instance, in this post you’re playing it up like Dame and Biggs just pulled some major coupe by getting RD onto iTunes, as if all of Jay’s other albums aren’t available on iTunes as individual downloads.
Eskay, I give Jay-Z a lot of positive and negative coverage. Just check the category for that regarding my “boulder”.
Putting Reasonable Doubt, the classic album [as judged by the concert, the dvd release, the pining old-timers] on iTunes as Jay-Z has just withheld a lesser album and made his statements on that topic is obviously a huge slap in the face and one of many of late from Dash.
I haven’t written much about this but it deserves more coverage especially given how much I already give Jay-Z.
If you can’t see what an insult this is, I can’t help you any further.
Questions like, “haven’t you listened to ____” or “do you listen to rap music at all”, have been periodically dropped at ProHipHop as if the questions are damning in and of themselves.
Typically the person dropping the question is some sort of hip hop purist who believes in the sanctity of this and that or is a hardcore fan/really pretentious writer who can’t understand why I don’t write reviews or other wayward youth from similarly confused categories.
So far in every example that I can recall they were simply being dicks having fun so forgive me for making that false assumption regarding your weak jab.
Clyde, you’re right in the post above. But, I didn’t think Eskay’s question was intended to undermine you. Maybe I’m wrong. If it indeed was a shot at you, I think it’s misguided. From personal experience, listening to an album others are enamored by or consider classic doesn’t change what I think of it. For instance, I haven’t heard a Lil’ Wayne track I liked since “Bling, Bling.” I’ve had people tell me “have you listened to his albums” on a constant basis, and the fact is I hadn’t. Then I went and listened, and still hated the music. Jay’s Reasonable Doubt is a good album, but to me, it’s not great. Nasir’s catalogue > Jay’s catalogue.
Thanks for getting in on this Slav.
I clearly overreacted to Eskay who has generally been on a positive tip even when he’s giving me a hard time.
This and some other recent exchanges have made me realize I let certain people affect me way too much.
So thanks for moving things forward.