Do you consider The Black Album a classic????

[SplinterMatic319]

I think so, I was just wondering since I got this impression that people think its an above average, I need confirmation.

BTW, his last bar on what more can i say is so pifff very significant.

 

[optimusprimeaphia]

God I hate these threads...what happened to just appreciating good music for their intrinsic worth aside from the need to rank and categorize everything?

 

[jthagreat]

Classic indeed.

only thing i dont like is the beat to "justify my thug"

 

[og_Rodney]

I usually never throw around the word "classic" (I'd rather just call a CD "dope as %@%%") but if I did, this would fit under it.


The whole air surrounding this album when it released, the whole retirement thing. Joint felt historical.

 

[lesfamilia]

Originally Posted by OptimusPrimeAPhiA

God I hate these threads...what happened to just appreciating good music for their intrinsic worth aside from the need to rank and categorize everything?

/thread

The sad thing is, for better or worse people don't really understand why they shouldn't do this. Looking at the masters of the various parts ofhip-hop culture, Jay-Z is in a class with the greatest of all time. Everyone's going to have their opinions, but I seldom have (if ever) heard an artprofessor rant about why the Sistine Chapel was a "better" artistic feat than the Parthenon. These debates are apples and oranges no matter how youlook at it. I mean let's be real here: Even if TBA was a classic, Jigga followed it up with one of his most poorly-received efforts to date--Kingdom Come.

And FWIW, no, TBA was not a classic. I'd give it four out of five stars because I could've done without songs like "Justify My Thug" andeven "Threat." Tracks like those haven't aged well to me.

 

[luigitheking]

To me, yes.

 

[SplinterMatic319]

Originally Posted by LESfamilia

Originally Posted by OptimusPrimeAPhiA

God I hate these threads...what happened to just appreciating good music for their intrinsic worth aside from the need to rank and categorize everything?

/thread

The sad thing is, for better or worse people don't really understand why they shouldn't do this. Looking at the masters of the various parts of hip-hop culture, Jay-Z is in a class with the greatest of all time. Everyone's going to have their opinions, but I seldom have (if ever) heard an art professor rant about why the Sistine Chapel was a "better" artistic feat than the Parthenon. These debates are apples and oranges no matter how you look at it. I mean let's be real here: Even if TBA was a classic, Jigga followed it up with one of his most poorly-received efforts to date--Kingdom Come.

And FWIW, no, TBA was not a classic. I'd give it four out of five stars because I could've done without songs like "Justify My Thug" and even "Threat." Tracks like those haven't aged well to me.

i thought threat was crack but year JMT is the weakest track on album imo

 

[grittyman20]

another Jay-Z thread

 

[lesfamilia]

Originally Posted by blacktopking319

Originally Posted by LESfamilia

Originally Posted by OptimusPrimeAPhiA

God I hate these threads...what happened to just appreciating good music for their intrinsic worth aside from the need to rank and categorize everything?

/thread

The sad thing is, for better or worse people don't really understand why they shouldn't do this. Looking at the masters of the various parts of hip-hop culture, Jay-Z is in a class with the greatest of all time. Everyone's going to have their opinions, but I seldom have (if ever) heard an art professor rant about why the Sistine Chapel was a "better" artistic feat than the Parthenon. These debates are apples and oranges no matter how you look at it. I mean let's be real here: Even if TBA was a classic, Jigga followed it up with one of his most poorly-received efforts to date--Kingdom Come.

And FWIW, no, TBA was not a classic. I'd give it four out of five stars because I could've done without songs like "Justify My Thug" and even "Threat." Tracks like those haven't aged well to me.

i thought threat was crack but year JMT is the weakest track on album imo

LOL, it's like a love and hate relationship with "Threat." While I was hype as a high school kid to see a brother using the samestuff I was using at the time for production to get a track on the latest Jay album, as someone a little bit more seasoned today (and after we've heard 9thuse that same snare seemingly a million times now), it's probably one of two tracks that I'd skip right now on TBA.

Add to that the fact that every other track was produced by a big name, and to me "Threat" could've been left off or given to someone else in theRoc camp. "Justify My Thug" never really fit the album to me, either.

 

[blazersin2k3]

nah, it would have had a better chance if he left off justify my thug and replaced it with ignorant %%+

 

[yungchamp]

yes...

 

[trapmuzik617]

Yes

 

[MajinZuub]

I think it is.
And I swear I'm the only person that likes Justify My Thug.

 

[sosincere09]

Yes, Right Behind BP1 and RD

 

[philly5fan]

Yes....and Justify My Thug is fire!!!

 

[the fame]

Justify My Thug was Blueprint 3 in it's earliest form.

 

[sosincere09]

Originally Posted by THE FAME

Justify My Thug was Blueprint 3 in it's earliest form.

QFT

 

[mathilda lando]

I don't know if its a "classic", but I'll be playing it 10/20 years from now.

 

[bgl2687]

allure

 

[jthagreat]

Originally Posted by grittyman20

another Jay-Z thread

start a juelz thread...

 

[eightysbaby]

Originally Posted by LuigiTheKing

To me, yes.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Only Jay-Z album I can listen to in it's entirety.

 

[extraordinary swag]

Definitely a classic. It's his 2nd best album behind RD. Only one bad song on the whole thing and it's mainly because of the weak Madonna sample.

 

[do be doo]

Yes...

 

[incredibleev]

without a reasonable doubt