The first was nothing short of a disappointment, if for no other reason then it sounded better when Jay performed it with a hoarse voice. Then there was “Brooklyn Go Hard”, a cut full of what makes Jay a critical darling and so much fun to listen to. He spit some of his best double-speak over a Santigold vocal sample from “Shove It”, which Kanye West threw over a gritty beat. “History” worked well as a sincere celebration of President Obama’s win in the 2008 election.
It was a here-today, gone-tomorrow type of track, though still worthy of increasing hype for the new album. (While it ended up on T.I.’s Paper Trail and doesn’t particularly count as a Jay track per se, he also treated us to “Swagga Like Us”. The posse cut featured verses from Hov, Lil’ Wayne, T.I., and West, who also crafted the grizzled beat with an M.I.A. It might be gone and forgotten, but it’s still an entertaining track to break out at clubs and house parties.) You probably remember them all performing this one in Rat Pack outfits at the Grammy’s. The hype and high expectations then both hit record levels once Jay-Z leaked “D.O.A. #JAY Z ALBUMS SAMPLE 1990S FULL#Ĭhock full of wheezy horns, boom-bap drums, and a slick guitar-riff loop, it was at least sonically everything we had wanted – not that we were expecting any less from No I.D., one of the best to do it. Then Hov’s voice comes in, verse after verse of ripping apart every modern hip-hop trend. He lyrically dismantles his peers, auto-tune (obviously), and more. With this track, it all seemed to be falling into place that he was going to drop a proper sequel to The Blueprint. And the next single, “Run This Town”, only accelerated that hope. Rihanna’s caterwauling across the hook and other portions of the track nearly sank the ship built by Jay, West, and No I.D. But it wasn’t painful enough to extinguish the flames of another catchy beat, this time co-produced by West and No I.D., and a stellar guest verse from the College Dropout himself. Like many emcees before him, Yeezy appeared hungrier when co-starring and not running the show.
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