Used to be Dame and Biggs Brother.

you know? when Kanye keeps his mouth closed, he is actually a very handsome man!!!

good work Alexia..Alexy..Alex.. (you know your damn name!)

DAYUM, Jay-Z is THAT dude!

yo, my baby looks so good in his clothes. jigga is the most stylish man in the game. eff kanye!

oh yeah… i liked kingdom come. was i the only one?

I like when he keeps it real and lets loose. Hov is back! I can officially stop hating on him now. Yay!!!

I actually liked Kingdom Come.

Too sophisticated? Well what did mean to do with Kingdom Come? Was that an insult to fans????????

uh oh, i’m lost. what’s beach chair? whose record is it on?

I liked Kingdom Come.

That color is BRILLIANT on Jay-Z. Compliments him well.

Beach Chair is on the Kingdom Come cd. The song is FIRE, and I enjoyed the cd. I think it’s sorta eclectic, so it’s not for the normal listening audience. Jay-Z is HOT… not necessarily in the looks dept., but he has that swagger, go-get-em, type attitude that is UNDENIABLY attractive. Any man with that mentality is sexier than most!!!

Now only if he would stop worshipping Satan and denounce his alliance to the Skull-n-Bones Society. LOL!! Don’t throw daggers at me, all the cyber-conspiracy theorist are putting that on him!!!

I like most of Kingdom Come, but I’m lovin’ his answer…I chuckled, he’s got a sense of humility that can be appreciated.

loved Kingdom Come….still blast it in my headphones while i’m working.

BTW, I’m also loving their threads…you can tell the material is top quality and the fit is great for both of them. LOL, look at Ye’s lil chest hairs peeking out…:-)

I really liked Kingdom Come too. I liked this suit his swagger is Fire.

Jay Z is getting senile. I can’t understand anything that comes out of his mouth. He really should retire and make babies with B.

First off, them boys is SHARP as a thumbtack!!!Personally, I thought the cd fit him well for his day and time. It’s called “growth.” I say your true fans will accept anything you put out for the most part. Kind of like my man Nasir. He always talking over people’s heads making them push rewind and think about that last line. Stimulate my mind please. The “Big Brother” track is so nice; made me tear up a bit(wink).

Jay Z is 40 year old CEO and is about to make a rap album about “THE GANGSTER LIFESTYLE”. the same “GANGSTER LIFESTYLE” that young ignorant innocent black kids are dying “TRYING TO EMULATE”. IM A HUGE JAY-Z FAN but he is a 40 year old CEO “STILL GLORIFYING VIOLENCE”.

DRUG DEALING = the COOL

GANGSTER LIFESTYLE = the COOL

THUGGIN IT OUT = the COOL

BLACK KIDS W/ GUNS = the COOL

HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS = the COOL

PREGNANT BEFORE 21yrs = the COOL

*QUESTION*

“why is 40 year old JAY-Z still making albums about being a “GANGSTER”

*ANSWER* “because young black kids are chasing “THE COOL”

Kingdom come was for the hip hop heads from the 90′s that have grown up…..shall I say it…..A mature rap album. Man 30 something is the anthem for all the upwardly mobile brothers in my crew!

WHUS HIP HOP BROTHER, WHUS NO I.D. FRIEND, NO I.D. MY MENTOR NOW LET THE STORY BEGIN, BEGIN…

@Im a grown man

I thought Jay was making an album to go along with the movie American Gangster….A soundtrack to go along with a movie

I have to say that I liked Kingdom Come, when a lot of people didn’t…I also like Jay’s suit, he is consistently well-dressed. Gotta love a man that can wear a suit like him..@I’m a Grown Man…I don’t think that he is glorifying the lifestyle of being a gangsta, to me, whenever he flowed about it, it was always about HIS experiences. “Like I told you to sell drugs, no. Hov did that, so hopefully you won’t have to live through that”….these other dudes are out here glorifying that. And as far as a kid listening to Jay to create a “gangster lifestyle”, please. Dude is SOOO far removed from that. Please see Wayne, Jeezy for that type of lifestyle, or even T.I., whose ass has achived so much success, but he’s out buying machine guns. WTF??

Who the hell wanna be influenced by rap? Except for ignorant young black people who don’t know any better…Kingdom Come was too sophisticated? “C’mon little mama show me what you got”–Oh, yeah! that’s it.

@ Weezy:

You are a fool, but Larry probably did pick it out.

I don’t think Kingdom Come was too sophisticated at all..it was just another type of jay..I wasn’t really feeling it…but I wasn’t feeling “The Black Album” neither…”The Blueprint” was instant vintage but his new song “Roc Boys” is fyah!..I rather see Jay just put out good quality artist and let them be the new artist of the generation today..he’s gettng older so he should let the kids listen to his music from way back when and learn;-)..on the other note..He can’t sneak diss MIMS when he signed artist like Rick Ross and Jeezy:-(..Jay is cool people..but they are contributing to this sub par trend in Hip-Hop he has the power to change it but we as people do too;-)

Too sophisticated? This guy….

More like too commercial. He came out of retirement to “wave” at people – dude didn’t say anything groundbreaking to have to come out with another mediocre album.

I did like All Grown Up though, I will admit that much….

Jay is wearing that suit but haven’t heard the album yet although most I know says it is wack. And Tdub is was Yeezy boo not Jeezy lol–you read to fast. Kanye not feeling the lil taco meat that’s peeping out. Must…destroy…at once lol!

I loved Kingdom Come it was a great album he didn’t messed up. BTW really like the song Big Brotha from Kanye’s album, it’s nice to see he appreciates what Jay has done 4 him. Can’t wait to buy American Gangster. People keep on talking about music and violence why dont we talk about being smart. It’s not because someone kill in a movie that I’ll go shoot the next person on the street. If you do it’s because ur mentally sick. So music is a way of express urself not a way of life. Be smart and make the difference.

I can respect Jay-Z’s honesty, even if he comes across as arrogant most times, but who isn’t! I own just about every Jay-Z album (except the last two). The Blueprint is my favorite.

Music is influentual that said, it isn’t rap that’s causing the crime. it’s the environment that convinces the young that they have to prove themselves with violence or sell dope to survive. Peer pressure has more sway than any rap lyric. The lyric just personifies what is already happening. Thugs were in existance before gangsta rap. Lets not forget.

Lovem both…make that Money!!!1

@Dani

I know that a person hasn’t taken the time to listen to the album when all they can refer to it from it are the singles they’ve heard on the radio…ie Aphatty’s comments. Of all the topics Jay touched on on Kingdom Come why would you bring up ‘Show me what you got” to prove a point? who even listens to the radio singles after they get the full album? You’ve been hearing those singles everyday for a month and a half…Most skip over them.

ON TOPIC

Big Brother was a orignial hot song…my fave on the album

kanye looks like he wouldnt mind leaving alexis(fiancee) to spend more time with jay!!

Here come the haters.

lay made a terrible album. It doesnt go over my head. the beats sound like he was so busy in the board room that he was like, just email me the beat. it was not made for me it was made for nascar fans and bud drinkers, being that these are the two products he promoted while promoting the album. it was bad and this is coming from a 80s baby with a good job . so dont say i prefer violent music. jay will say anything sometimes . he will say never get high never run out of ammo. amd then he will say i puff bob marley dude all day on the same record.

He needs to stop this rap thing immediately amd quick before he really embarrass himself with a worse record and return at once to being a biz man. blue magic sounds bad .

He is so powerful amd influential. he shouldn waste all that influence on himself. Why doesnt he sign some real rap artists. and no i dont mean uncle murder . of all the talented people he signs him.

***HEY JAY-Z STANS***

CORNELL WEST (DEMOCRACY MATTERS) GOES OVER PEOPLE’S HEADS NOT KINGDOM COME, THE COMMERCIAL VERSION OF ADULT URBAN POP!!!! THE ALBUM HAD 5 GREAT SONGS IMO

THE REST OF THE ALBUM WAS GA’BAGE!!!!!!!!

whatever. Jay-z coupling arrogance with false humility. Anyway, his comment about Imus was hilarious and so true. Imus is a grown man. How can he and the white media try to use the influence of rap music as an excuse for an old white man’s candid remarks. GTFOH.

No, Kingdom Come was neither too sofisticated nor did he mess up beyond what he usually does which is to brag about himself, go off on tangetial nursery rhymes, then return to bragging about himself. I did like that Mama “I made it” song though–even though he’s still essentially bragging.

their sucking each other’s peens

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are racists also. You all don’t say anything about that. I guess it depends what color you are, right? Hypocrites!

lmao@ kanye lyin on big brother

beach chair is worth the 10 bucks for the album.

I think it’s funny that you guys think he was being humble…lol That was such a dishonest, ambiguous, and delusional thing to say… “maybe it was too sophisticated”… Ummmm, yeah…it wasn’t…lol…it was, on the basest of levels, grasping and immature AND well…at its best, it was pseudo-intellectual and precocious…and that’s why it failed VOILA!

Style over Substance for the Delusional Stan

whatever. Jay-z coupling arrogance with false humility.

No, Kingdom Come was neither too sofisticated nor did he mess up beyond what he usually does which is to brag about himself, go off on tangetial nursery rhymes, then return to bragging about himself. I did like that Mama “I made it” song though–even though he’s still essentially bragging.

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you’re smart… I should have read more than the first few replies before writing my own…I knew somebody had to get it lol

Okay, yeah…I’ve got to learn to read a topic before replying because OODLES of people said the same thing I did!

He’s less cocky than I would have thought and I agree with him on Don Imus point but there are a LOT of young white kids who listen to cRap (see 1 cent) 24/7 and they use that term.

the rock is in the building baby!!

I Liked Kingdom Come and I’m only 19, Beach Chair, I Made It, The Intro, 30 Something & Do You Wanna Ride. Congrats Jay for all you have done in Hip Hop!

“I HATE THE AVERAGE AMERICAN”

LOL!! truth be told, the average american actually likes jay-z. you hate your self?

read it and weep fools

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3067222.ece

@shootalltheuglymen….I really want to see a picture of you girl…because the way you keep talking about “ugly” men you must be the most beautiful girl in the world…(in your opinion)…

Mr. O Dot

You needed more hugs as a child. Seriously, what do you care if I don’t like Kingdom? How does that harm you? I think its clear who the dumbass is.

He’s not my favorite rapper but I’m flattered that my opinion gets you so emotional.

Sheena, what a story. Funny, I didn’t even bother reading the first word!

SORRY I MEANT RACIO-MISOGYNY

I mean, one can’t win for losing. The man is making a CD to go along with a movie, and he’s all kinds of things. He’s glorifying the “gangster image”, he’s a misogynist, etc…

Sorry, but I don’t go to Jay-Z for intellectual lyrics – that ground is covered well by:

Mos Def

Talib

Dead Prez

Common

etc…

Check them out – you might be “intellegent” enough to figure out that name calling and degrading other peoples opinions doesn’t make you look smart and it certainly doesn’t persuade others to think like you.

If I need to hear about cars, jewelry, chicks and yatchs, I’ll listen to Jay. He is commercial and that’s not my style. I liked the hungry Jay – the old school Jay.

Agree to disagree – it ain’t that hard.

Thank Aphatty for the response to Mr. O Dot because he was getting too emotional..lol..I’ve listened to Jay’s music to know that his lyrics are very straight forward I have heard him touch on other topics besides the usual commercial Jay..but when he raps his lyrics aren’t very complex..they are somewhat creatve but not very complex…Jay is the great in your eyes but to me Jay is just another man with talent I never praise nobody above me or God..I give them props but that’s about it..Jay is good..but “Ther Resonable Doubt” Jay was better I could respect him growing into a man…but I love the old Jay can you respect my opinion?..Damn some of y’all want to attack people so damn hard..lol.”Kingdom Come” was at best average…I’ve heard better Jay albums..”The Blueprint” was better lyrically because he had so much to get off his chest and he was personal..”Kingodm Come” sound like a fresstlye mixtape..not a well put together album..but I respect HOV..because “Roc Boys” is taken it back to the old Jay IT’S THE ROC YA BASTARDS!

^^^^^^ Very well said Aphatty I couldn’t agree more. Jay & Bey got some ride or die fans I’ll tell you that much. Their words are biblical to these stans..

Sorry, but I just don’t like Kanye. His ego is just too big for me.

@ all the HATERS

I’ve found that people hate because there’s something about you that they admire.

So my question to all the haters is what is that you all admire about Jay-z that makes you all hate him so much.

STFU!!!

LOL

@Dana AKA LMAOCOOP

I see it’s one of my many admires (haters) she even feels the need to follow me around. This is what happens when you make people look like fools they follow you around.

Kanye was kickin at a party in NYC @ the Pink Elephant’s Ariva Party: http://www.timessquaregossip.com/2007/10/ariva-party-hosted-by-andy-valmorbida.html

yall gay a