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...fifth track on the album, touches on common Jay-Z themes such as his rough childhood, but the track is stripped-down and raw. True to title, it lacks a chorus. The following song, “Roc Boys (And the Winner Is...),” fulfills Jigga??s penchant for incorporating at least one triumphal track (regal, blaring trumpets included) into every album. Following these songs, things die down for a bit. Jay-Z makes a stab at an extended love/drug metaphor akin to 50 Cent’s “A Baltimore Love Thing?...
...hundred-dollar bill, is too small for you. Just look at the newly re-ghettofied Jay-Z. The video for his “Blue Magic,” the first single off his upcoming album, juxtaposes the gritty streets of Harlem against a plush world more akin to Jigga??s own, replete with champagne bottles, Rolls Royces, 500-Euro banknotes, and yes, even some bling! More prominent than the bling and the foreign currency is the crack. Not to say there’s anything wrong with a little cook-up, but I don?...
...Kanye West, the man who helped Jay-Z start a new classicist vision of hip-hop in The Blueprint. Initially that record seemed like a triumph of the same underground “backpacker” values in mainstream culture—its straightforward beats and soul samples heralded Jigga??s return to basics and the inner reflection of his own early classic Reasonable Doubt...
...diss at the equipment available from Harvard’s male population can be left to section discussion in Marcyliena Morgan’s Afro-American Studies 153, “Hip Hop America: Power, Politics, and the Word.” But believe it or not, Jigga??s latest lyrics are just the last in a long line of Harvard references in hip-hop, as well as rock. FM has compiled a brief list of rap and rock lyrics representing for Veritas...
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