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YEAH I can see that he is the only one really selling out now..

DAMN, U KNOW U THE MAN WHEN U ON TOP WITH THE BEATLES, MUCH RESPECT!

Folks need not count Jay out so quickly…. He IS the man when it comes to that rap shit.

Retire already.

Good for Jay.
I’m glad he shut all the naysayers up about not being able to sell.
Wonderful album, IMO.

I DO ADMIT, I STILL PREFER NAS, BUT JAY IS DOIN IT RIGHT NOW…

Jay-Z is all you need to say!! “What more can I say?”

Success comes to you, when u wife up the most baddest chick Beyonce Giselle Knowles aka SASHA FIERCE!
way to go jay

@ Hannibal…tru that Jay is doing it…but NAS dosen’t get the credit he deserves…he’s dope too!

Much respect goes out to this man. Obama, Jordan, Jay-Z, Barry Bonds, Dr. Ben Carson….when you give us a chance, we rise to the top!!!!

Topping the Beatles is a good look! I think JZ found the formula, which is men in their 30′s and early 40′s still listen to hip hop.

The secret is to appeal to them with mature hip hop. They grew up on hip-hop and they are not likely to switch to Jazz music. So, he and other rappers like Nas can continue to make rap music well into their 50′s, cause last time I checked 50 year olds still listen to the radio. You just got to mature with your fanbase….and those are the 70′s babies (the original B-Boys)

I heard the BP3 and Im not impressed…Kind of the same ole story…Congrats that hes number 1…But did he really have any competition?…Glad that Michaels kids and grandkids will be eating off that Beatles money for a long time to come…

He will never beat Michael Jackson’s “chart” records.

thats right I’ve never heard SO MANY cars(in my town) blasting NEW YORK since the 90s. I am really happy to hear Jay-Z and not Jeezy rockin down the street AGAIN FINALLY!

Jay-Z credits his success off of his prior street dealings and drug sales. He recently made a comment that selling drugs came natural.

Now, if Jay-Z made this comment in front of Neffe (Keyshia Cole’s sister). She would lash out at him because the “drug” usage problem is still relevant within her family.

Jay is the man. He is one of the best! I will buy any album that he puts out just because its him. Chi-Town LUVS Hov! “Only n*gga to rewrite history without a pen”! That’s whats up!

Drugs purchased from a drug dealer!

Jay-Z is a former drug dealer. He always talked about how he sold drugs and the amount of money he received from his drug selling’s.

He has never discussed walking pass the mother, father, sister, brother of a person that he once sold these drugs to.

He never discussed passing a crack head, who lost it all because he sold drugs to her.

He never rapped about his contribution towards the amount of women and men that’s addicted to the drug he sold.

@THE TRUTH HAPPY B-LATED BIRTHDAY TO MEEEE!!

When was your B-day?

I dont care for beyonce or jayz
its easier for a camel to make it through the eye of a needle than a rich man getting into heaven. And thats how the cookie crumbles
oops jay is a camel…. i wonder who coined that phrase, and did the bible know that Jay was going to be a rich camel?

I know you saw the HBO series “The Corner”.

How many men and woman that Jay-Z sold drugs to are still on those corners in New York?

GOLD JIGGA MAN

Bet you will be Platinum this week.

@ Truth…
Drugs purchased from a drug dealer!

Jay-Z is a former drug dealer. He always talked about how he sold drugs and the amount of money he received from his drug selling’s.

He has never discussed walking pass the mother, father, sister, brother of a person that he once sold these drugs to.

He never discussed passing a crack head, who lost it all because he sold drugs to her.

He never rapped about his contribution towards the amount of women and men that’s addicted to the drug he sold.
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Thank you. All these people running around like they’re role models but they endorse criminal mentality. He should be saying ‘I did it cause I had no food to eat. Once I didn’t need to, I saved others’. It’s nothing to be proud of. Drugs kill people and are destroying nations.

ha ha , with all the promo he couldnt eve beat EM or taylor swifts first week sales..he couldnt even beat his wife BEY..guess who runs the house..

@ The Truth…Got it! LOL, LOL

They would re-release “Beatles” Music after Micheal Jackson. SMH @ Sony. They knew since Micheal owned the Beatles catalog, he would reel in the millions, but they didn’t want that sh*t to happen.

As for Jigga……so?

DEVIL WORSHIPPER!!! LOOK IT UP ON YOU TUBE PEOPLE AND STOP SUPPORTING THIS DAMN DEVIL WORSHIPPER. HE DOESN’T BELIEVE IN GOD, BECAUSE HE THINKS HE IS GOD…FOR EXAMPLE>>>HE CALLS HIMSELF “HOVA” AS IN GOD. WAKE UP DUMB ASSES!!!

@ ManIJDC… I concur with your statement.

the Album is hot!!

Blueprint 3 = Album of the Year!!

Jay-z is iconic!! YUP, YA GUESSED RIGHT!!

Not even Kanye West can hold back Jay-Z, who will return to the top of the chart next week, with a total that should top 200k for his much-acclaimed Blueprint 3, the first release through his Roc Nation label on Atlantic Records. Kid Cudi’s Man On The Moon is estimated to gather around 110-120k. Other chart newcomers include Cash Money/Universal Motown’s Drake (55-60k); Asylum’s Lil Boosie (45-50k) and Dunk

@ Truth… You see it with someone like Rick Ross, who will die first than admit he was a cop. Why? Why do you have to be a loompel to be considered a rapper?

You see it with someone like Rick Ross, who will die first than admit he was a cop.

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Rick Ross was a “standard” security gaurd. He wasn’t a cop!

I’m surprised no one is calling him old and out of touch. LMAO!!! Jay does it again.

He was a low rank security guard.

good look being up on the beatles and all but this album is going to barely go platinum 400,000 is low he needed ova 500,00 fisrt week to have a chance this album is a flop and jay needs to sit down and at least try to develop new young artist because his time is up

Ok, that’s good and consistent with his last CD American Gangster that sold 426,000 it’s first week out…

I think him doing that thing with Rhapsody where they allowed you to listen to the album a week early hurt his sales but I’m quite sure he was compensated well by Rhapsody…

It’s a good album and my favorite cut is “So Ambitious” with Pharrell.

Jay-Z is old and washed up.

He had to push the CD release of other rappers aside to ensure that “his” music heat up the charts.

Mariah Carey is not a rapper but her CD was pushed aside. When Jay-Z heard that Dr. Dre was re-releasing “The Chronic”, he release his CD sooner than originally scheduled.

Game can shut up now.

He is old and out of touch.

@THE TRUTH HAPPY B-LATED BIRTHDAY TO MEEEE!!

Thank you!!! Yeap..your B-day is a good coverup to buy whatever you want. lol, lol,lol

Does anyone knows if Michael Jackson is getting any of the money from the Beatles album that is on the charts as we speak? Please respond.

Has our standards dropped so low that an Narcissistic Ex drug dealer who raps continuously how much wealth he has hates on his own people does not support up an coming artists, i’mm sorry but Jay does absolutely nothing for me at all,furthermore the music industry is in such such a shambles because of the like of Jay z type of materialsim music brandishing women has hoes is what has contributed to the death of rap bring back Nas and morse consicience rappers like Talib Kwali, Dead Pres EVEN KANYE if only they would take that gagging order off Kanye and let him rap or speak what ever he feels like regardless,we need to reclaim our music or force the Music Industry to play more of a selection and not focus on one artist at a time just to save costs if they cant do that reduce our Cable bills or the costs for CD’s

MrTavMarie

They would re-release “Beatles” Music after Micheal Jackson. SMH @ Sony. They knew since Micheal owned the Beatles catalog, he would reel in the millions, but they didn’t want that sh*t to happen.

As for Jigga……so?

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The Beatles catalogue is released on EMI, Sony have nothing to do with the reissues. MJ’s estate will actually make even more money now.

@Tennis i’m not sure I know the catalog for the Beatles was due to expire in 2010 it wasnt made clear if the kid were made beneficiaries of that catalog money or if it was on a separate will

After the recent fiasco of the BET award and the foolishness at the MTV awards I don’t believe in Album charts or Awards show which I am now fully convinced are rigged sales hyperflated for monetary purposes

The Blueprint 3 is much better than Jayz last album which means more $$$.

jay-z is the best rapper

The Beatles have lasting power…good for Jay though

not much new ground covered on Jay-Z’s, blueprint, but the lyrics as usual are tight.

Can you say Hustle! THAT’S WHAT WE ALL NEEd to do these days! Get a game plan and stick to it!

Respect JAy! I luve it!

Thank you to all of the people who mentioned he’s old and out of touch. lol. He’s still better than your favorite rapper (except Nas). Next subject…

OK Jay-Z sold drugs who havn’t if you can’t relate to a drug dealer why listen to rap. What rapper havn’t sold drugs. Jay-Z is not the only rapper who sold drugs the haters kill me trying to run with that, anyway whatever helps you people get sleep at night!smh

Great Album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That shows u the Man should not retire no other Genre but rap tries to make some retire..

it is not impressive, no one releases albums these times. i luv Jay but He cant compete with Eminem, 50 cent or Kanye in terms of sales.

? how can you have 11 number 1 albums, and no number 1 singles…somethings not right

@ the game don’t start or stop w/Jay-z

Exactly.

I posted that in response to the ppl on here who are talking about how he sold drugs to ppl and didn’t give back to his community. My point is, even his own mother wasn’t exempt from his dealings. Jay is human, and like every one else he has his own demons to deal with, as proved in that verse. None of us know what goes on in that man’s mind.

Ima just say this, whatever Jay-Z or any other artist I like says as a lyracist, I translate it differently. When Jay-Z said he was a hustler illegaly, I transalate that for me being a hustler legally. I think its all how the listener assimillates the words. Some take it literal, some dont. I dont condon selling crack at all, however I receive his message in another way. When Jay said “I wasnt a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it” That was an inspirational phrase in a way for me to tell myself that even though I didnt graduate from college, I can still make it. Just do you, and do it well…

@Kumpozd

Let’s assume that verse is all fact w/no embellishment. If that is the case, I would make the same assumption that he sold crack to his moms. Here’s where people miss it…he’s not GLORIFYING it! The whole verse speaks of his shame and how he was a bastard for doing it…hardly an endorsement for selling drugs. What’s more, he didn’t have to put that out there. He could have just kept on asking people to “bounce wit me”, which is what moves units. I’m not justifying nor condoning any such behavior, but contextually his REAL message is that the whole episode was wack…and no one can argue that point.
Also, it’s INTERPRET, not interrupt…not trying to diss, just wanna help out.

Nas who

Nas has Jay-Z to thank for still being relevent if it wasn’t for “Either” and Kellis Nas would have been gone 10 years ago.What has Nas done in the last decade? I don’t know.
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Nas is doing something right if he bringin in almost a quarter mill a month with about going Platinum in years. I call that damn good!!!

Fucca jay z Steive Wonder 4 president

@ Yezzur

Co-sign…Already Home is official, but I just want people to listen closely to the 3rd verse on Thank You….ridiculous..

@ Tony Redds

Double co-sign…see that’s why they call it ENTERTAINMENT. You can interpret it how you want to suit your needs. If T-Pain motivates you to do better, more power to you and him. I think that a lot of what jay says now is designed to get people pointed in the right direction…some of it is direct, some subliminal.
Bottom line, its entertainment. I’m not using Reasonable Doubt to raise my kids. Take the music for what it is, but musical taste is subjective and what that being said, in my opinion, if you’re denying how ill this dude is lyrically, you’re probably hating.

@Pimp Or Die

I agree with u.

As far as the correction goes, I don’t take it as a diss. I’m bigger than that. Good catch. We all make errors.

@Pimp Or Die

“I think that a lot of what jay says now is designed to get people pointed in the right direction…”
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I see that too, but moreso Jay has evolved too

I missed you Redd

Chi-Town

? how can you have 11 number 1 albums, and no number 1 singles…somethings not right
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Translation: Jay just sells “Bricks” instead of peices of the product…Nothing wrong there if you catch my drift…

@Z

Is that right? Why? I thought i wasnt one of your favorite people

wow, is it surprising that both Jay-z and the the

members of the beatles achieved super-stardom

after submitting their lives to SATAN. You are all

falling into thier trap. Accept Jesus Christ and

live.

We have our differences. very true. I think you smoke to much and is bugged out….but you are cute.

Z

We have our differences. very true. I think you smoke to much and is bugged out….but you are cute.
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LOL..I dont smoke anymore…I stopped at the beginning of this year. how are you?

@Tony Redds I like that no 20 pieces the whole brick LOL they don’t know whats up.

Tony Redds ( I got luv for the ladies of Memphis!

Z

We have our differences. very true. I think you smoke to much and is bugged out….but you are cute.
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LOL..I dont smoke anymore…I stopped at the beginning of this year. how are you?

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omg!!! I THINK I COULD ACTUALLY TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY NOW. I am real happy for you. You know i hate weed.

@Tony Redds I heard that! LMAO

I dont care for beyonce or jayz
its easier for a camel to make it through the eye of a needle than a rich man getting into heaven. And thats how the cookie crumbles
oops jay is a camel…. i wonder who coined that phrase, and did the bible know that Jay was going to be a rich camel?
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Funny

I don’t care for Jay Z’s music at all. However, MAXWELL is still holding down the top of the singles charts!

sees him that is….

@Yezzur

You call those deep quotes?

@Born

that was on point!

Congrats to him!

@ Chaka

Not necessarily deep but they address this post exactly and its well written. The man is just saying people are gonna talk about him but don’t worry about what he’s doing what have you done already ?

Oh and by the way. No one is knocking the success that Jay-z has obtained, but how he has obtained it. READ THE FACTS!!! And he continues to rap about things that are degrading. Why would anyone continue to support someone like that. What is he doing for society other than riding off of greed. He may have success for now, but it will come with a cost in the end. And when it happens, don’t say I didn’t tell you so.

Don’t care for Jay Z. Not flattered by the record sales. I think that Lil Wayne sold 1.5 million in his first week along for his last album not that is impressing.

@ FEE

THESE PEOPLE ARE TOO BLINDS TO SEE THE TRUTH. THEY’LL UNDERSTAND IT IN THE END.

Correction *now instead of not

BLIND*

I bought it! Like he said… he is sick of grown men crying. Read your contracts, cross your T-s and dot your I-s… its not his fault if he gets the better of a deal that you didn’t look closely enough at to realize you were getting f*cked.

You haters will do anything just to get sleep at night. OMG jay is a drug dealer. He was the first person to put crack on the earth. He has dropped 11 number 1 albums and still is supplying all the drugs across America. He is on a world wide tour and still serving every crack head in America.Omg Jay is the only drug dealer in the world. No other rapper has ever ever sold drugs. All rappers are studio rappers. GTFOH right now. Im glad calling Jay-Z a drug dealer helps people to sleep at night.

Lil Wayne album was OK, Jay-Z album is OK. Young Jezzy recession go hard from the front to the back line by line now what.

@ Mrs. Carter

Going based on what the article was talking about not speaking on the content of his album he isn’t selling as he should if he is the all of that like Lil’ Wayne has sold. Now to the content….tell jay Z to stop biting off of Biggie and Tupac and find his own rhymes.

I would rather be a drug dealer than a drug addict. Hov is a known drug dealer and Wayne is a known addict.

JAY Z LIKE JORDAN , DON’T WANNA RETIRE
BEYONCE DON’T WANT A COUCH POTATOE, KEEP SINGING JIGGA

@HOTTESTCHICKINTHEGAME

I agree with everything you said about 50 being a great great (and underestimated) BUSINESS MAN. Except, if not for the proven success of other rappers/hip hop buisness men before him he never would of gotten the chance.

I’m just sayin.

^^^Sorry bout the typos, I have YET another meeting

DAMN I’m tired listening to lost white folks with an alphabet worth of degrees behind thier names yammer on about nothing today LOL!!!

Sep 17, 2009 – 4:01 pm Man, I just don’t care™

@HOTTESTCHICKINTHEGAME

I agree with everything you said about 50 being a great great (and underestimated) BUSINESS MAN. Except, if not for the proven success of other rappers/hip hop buisness men before him he never would of gotten the chance.

I’m just sayin.
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I get where you are commming from. But if you are going to go that far, you can say Bob Johnson wouldn’t have been as successful as he is/was if it weren’t for the black entrepenuers befoe him. Russle Simmons wouldn’t have been so successful if Berry Gordy didn’t pave the way. There would be no Jay-Z without Russle & Puffy and so forth and so on

There is always someone before that has done it and paved the way, but without ultimate faith in GOD first and belief in yourself and ideas, none of the aformentioned names would be mentionable.

Sep 17, 2009 – 3:47 pm Pimp Or Die said

But reading your comments made me understand better who you probably are. I’d say mid 20’s, college-educated, black woman (I got all that from you not having any grammatical or syntax errors…..
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or spell and grammer check LOL!!!

Okay, I really have to go now, massa is callN LOL!! I’ll check in later…

50 is now where near as talented as Jay-z in rapping…if you happen to think so -kill urself.
50 knows it thats why he never disses Jay-Z. Hell fiddy lost a battle t Fat Joe if you ask me. Fiddy is a gimmick…anybody who got Dr.Dre to produce there album goes Platinum anyway so yu always have to give DR. Dre Half the credit and then he was marketed by Eminem the most popular artist at the time of his release (white folks audience was captured for Fiddy by Em) so give half the credit to Em as well….YEAH HOTTEST CHICK IN THE GAME FOR SOMEONE WITH A N ALLEGED INSIDE SCOOPO ON THE INDUSTRY YOU SURE SEEM SHALLOW IN KNOWLEDGE…NOTICE HE CANT SELL NOTHING WITH OUT DrE’S AND eMS COSIGNATURE

!!!!@ SOHH—COSIGN !!!!SHE DON’T KNOW SQUAT

Jay-Z is one rich a** CAMEL….congrats to him.

Late 70′s baby; barely made the cut “79″- True Hip Hop. Not the crap that’s out now. U can take the Twitter and LOL Rap Songs and put those in a incinerator.

I am officially no longer a beyonce fan.
I used to ignore all the conspiracy freemason connection talk, until I saw Beyonce in the baphomet (devil) motorcyle outfit. It was creepy to say the least. It is one thing not to believe in God and another thing to openly worship the devil. For any of you who will try to defend her all I have to say is you can’t worship Jesus Christ and the devil at the same time.

@Pimp Or Die
either you work for Shawn Carter or you are him.

Either way you are not convincing me.
Rapping about cars and diamonds show will not inspire generations to come the way 2Pacs music did, but if money is your only motivation … well then. People who call themselves God or try to be God will do and say anything including sell their souls to the devil.

I used to think people just hated Beyonce, because she is talented and beautiful, but after seeing her in that devil outfit, I have lost all respect.

Music is dead because only soulless people are given airtime and then they have the nerve to tell us they are talented. SMH

I love his album it’s soooo amazinggggg!!! Go Jay!

@Tj

Nah…I don’t work for the homie nor am I him…cute, tho. I have had some business dealings with members of his camp and have had more interaction than most. That’s a non-issue because the only entity I fear is GOD. I’m amazed that black folks can’t appreciate what another person does without being a “Stan” or worshipping the person. Why can’t folks just like how the dude raps or Beyonce sings or Jordan played ball??? It really is ok to praise other people if they’re doing something well. The difference is i’m a well-adjusted, well-educated adult capable of discerning the difference between what’s real and what’s not. As I stated before, I don’t indoctrinate rap teachings into raising my two children. You have to realize that tis is all entertainment. What’s admirable is seeing someone, particularly a black man, make something of himself and be able to have interaction and decision making responsibility (to a degree) in those Jew populated boardrooms…and do it by rapping! I think the overall model has enough positive and negative to provide a decent example, similar to but not quite on the same level as one of my role models El Hajj Malik Shabazz.
Lastly, the imagery that people are talking about is mere coincidence, but its crazy that all of a sudden, YOU TUBE has become the gospel and a credible truth source.
I would be interested in knowing how Pac is different from Jay given your argument.

I agree with Back on My Swag, I’m an 80′s baby, so a I’m a product of the b-boy movement, not a part of it, but I could and will listen to Jay-Z until he stops this thing, there are only a few icons that I actually by tangible CDs and not itunes for and those of course are MJ, BIG, JAY-z the rest of the cats out here aren’t making the music that moves me anymore, when I hear a BIG or JAY-Z song I feel like I’m from BK and when I hear a MJ song, I feel like I know I’m hearing awesomeness, it’s all about how you carry yourself and it’s all about changing with the times, and all of these icons did just that BIG UP JAY-Z RIP MJ and BIG!!!! BABY

all of you who hate are full of the devil. you sit up and judge based on conspiracy and the lack of love within your own life. now thats sad.

so far it sounds like it’s worth buying & I’m not even a fan.

must be the catch hooks!!

Jay z empire state of mind is just like a remix to Nas NY state of mind. no doubt.but Nas made the song alone without this fake R&B Artist.And to talk about the lyrical content,Nas NY State of mind is far better than jay s empire state of mind. am not trying to hate on jay but we just have to let the whole world know the truth.i also have to conratulate jay for toping up the billboard chart because at least it shows that New YORK IS COMING BACK TO TAKE THE GAME IN TO THEIR OWN HANDS AGAIN.

@sam:
GTFOH: The only thing Empire State of Mind has in common with New York state of mind is that there’re talking about the same city. And they all stole the title from Frank Sinatra. Atleast Hov threw dude a shout out in his version.

I concur @chaka1 A.Keys is a huge talent( no booty shakin needed)…Jay-Z is over rated and Lil Mama been needed to sit down somewhere, way before the VMA’s.

jayz and his crew buy up all them dam unit themself so it will appear that ppl are really into his music, you know how the industry works.
and really why even compare fuking jayz to the ever so classic beatles .

Yes the Beatles were great musicians, no doubt about it. But John Lennon made the mistake of saying they were more popular than Jesus and next thing you know, he’s not around anymore. I guess you remember that right? Anyway, regarding Jay Z, I have my favorite artists too, but if someone tells me they are involved in the occult, then I’m going to check it out because I can’t support that. And that goes for MJ too, because there is a lot of information like that on him too. These musicians sell out for fame and fortune but then there is a price to that. I believe in MJ’s case that he wanted out and tried to repent, which is why he gave so much money to charities. Its complicated, but there is not a person walking that I am so taken by that I can’t see the truth. The lyrics on Jay Z’s CD and what he talks about is influencing the masses and its satanic and so is that sign he throws up. The good thing is that people are starting to find out and I’m glad some people have an open mind.