COOKIN' SOUL PRESENTS: THE GAME AND JAY-Z THE RED ALBUM (MIXTAPE)
MAN I BE BORED SOMETIMES LOL....
Reasonable Doubt (1996)
In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997)
Streets Is Watching (1998)
Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life (1998)
Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter (1999)
The Dynasty: Roc La Familia (2000)
The Blueprint (2001)
The Best of Both Worlds (2002) – with R. Kelly
The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse (2002)
The Black Album (2003)
Collision Course (2004) – with Linkin Park
Kingdom Come (2006)
American Gangster (2007)
WELL EVERYTHING EXCEPT BLUEPRINT 3 I GOT IN TROUOBLE FOR LEAKIN THAT SMH.
YEP LOL. ITS PRETTY MUCH SELF EXPLANITORY LOL. MORE INFO ON THE SHIRT COMING IN A COUPLE OF DAYS LIKE WHERE YOU CAN BUY IT AND STUFF LIKE THAT. AND JUST IN CASE YOU NEVER HEARD THE SONG OFF THE BLUEPRINT 3 ALBUM HERE YOU GO....
JAY Z- SO AMBITIOUS FEAT. PHARRELL
JAY NEED A SLAP IN HIS FACE FOR PASSING UP ON SOME OF THESE BEATS. THESE ARE WAIT THE BP3 NEEDED BADLY. BUT I'LL LET YALL CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELVES.
Alex Goose says:
In the of Spring 2009, an A&R afflicated with the Roc got in contact with me. Shortly after, I had the opportunity to submit various tracks for Jay-Z's long awaited Blueprint 3 album. Unfortunately, none of them made the final cut. After letting people hear what I sent Hova (including people who know him), they all suggested I release them for the public to hear. This is what the Blueprint 3 could have been…
Performers
3OH!3
Alicia Keys
The All-American Rejects
Beyonce
Green Day
Jay-Z
Lady Gaga
Muse
P!nk
Pitbull
Taylor Swift
Wale
Presenters
50 Cent
Adam Brody
Alexa Chung
Andy Samberg
Chace Crawford
Gabe Saporta
Gerard Butler
Jack Black
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Jennifer Lopez
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
Kristin Cavallari
Leighton Meester
Megan Fox
Miranda Cosgrove
Ne-Yo
Nelly Furatdo
Pete Wentz
Shakira
Tracy Morgan
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Lady Gaga: "Poker Face"
Eminem: "We Made You"
Kanye West: "Love Lockdown"
Britney Spears: "Womanizer"
BEST NEW ARTIST
3OH!3
Lady Gaga
Kid Cudi
Drake
Asher Roth
BEST MALE VIDEO
Eminem: "We Made You"
Kanye West: "Love Lockdown"
Jay-Z: "D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)"
T.I. featuring Rihanna: "Live Your Life"
Ne-Yo: "Miss Independent"
BEST FEMALE VIDEO
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Lady Gaga: "Poker Face"
Taylor Swift: "You Belong With Me"
Kelly Clarkson" "My Life Would Suck Without You"
Katy Perry: "Hot 'N Cold"
Pink: "So What"
BEST HIP-HOP VIDEO
Eminem: "We Made You"
Kanye West: "Love Lockdown"
Flo Rida: "Right Round"
Asher Roth: "I Love College"
Jay-Z: "D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)"
BEST POP VIDEO
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Britney Spears: "Womanizer"
Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester: "Good Girls Go Bad"
Lady Gaga: "Poker Face"
Wisin y Yandel: "Abusadora"
BEST ROCK VIDEO
Coldplay: "Viva La Vida"
Kings Of Leon: "Use Somebody"
Green Day: "21 Guns"
Fall Out Boy: "I Don't Care"
Paramore: "Decode"
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Britney Spears: "Circus"
Ciara featuring Justin Timberlake: "Love Sex Magic"
AR Rahman & *#@%+ Cat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger: "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)"
Kristina DeBarge: "Goodbye"
BEST DIRECTION
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi"
Green Day: "21 Guns"
Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester: "Good Girls Go Bad"
Britney Spears: "Circus"
BEST EDITING
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Britney Spears: "Circus"
Miley Cyrus: "7 Things"
Coldplay: "Viva La Vida"
Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi"
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Gnarls Barkley: "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi"
Eminem: "We Made You"
Kanye West ft Mr. Hudson: "Paranoid"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Coldplay: "Viva La Vida"
Green Day: "21 Guns"
Britney Spears: "Circus"
Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi"
BEST ART DIRECTION
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Britney Spears: "Circus"
Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi"
Gnarls Barkley: "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
Coldplay: "Viva La Vida"
BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO
Death Cab For Cutie: "Grapevine Fires"
Gnarls Barkley: "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
Anjulie: "Boom"
Cold War Kids: "I've Seen Enough"
Chairlift: "Evident Utensil"
Bat For Lashes: "Daniel
Major Lazer: "Hold The Line"
Passion Pit: "The Reeling"
Matt & Kim: "Lessons Learned"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Heads Will Roll"
BEST VIDEO (THAT SHOULD HAVE WON A MOONMAN)
U2: "Where The Streets Have No Name"
Dr Dre: "Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang"
Beastie Boys: "Sabotage"
Bjork: "Human Behavior"
Radiohead: "Karma Police"
George Michael: "Freedom"
Foo Fighters: "Everlong"
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: "Into The Great Wide Open"
OK Go: "Here It Goes Again"
David Lee Roth: "California Girls"
NEW ISH...
TREY SONGZ- SAY AAH FEAT. FABOLOUS
B.o.B.- SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST ALBUM(MIXTAPE)
JAY Z BLUEPRINT 3 PRODUCTION CREDITS....
1. What We Talkin’ About f. Luke Steele (prod. Kanye West & No. I.D.)
2. Thank You (prod. Kanye West & No I.D.)
3. D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) (prod. No I.D.)
4. Run This Town f. Kanye West & Rihanna (prod. Kanye West & No I.D.)
5. Empire State of Mind f. Alicia Keys (prod. Al Shux)
6. Real as It Gets f. Young Jeezy (prod. The Incredibles)
7. On to the Next One f. Swizz Beatz (prod. Swizz Beatz)
8. Off That f. Drake (prod. Kanye West Timbaland)
9. A Star is Born f. J. Cole (prod. Kanye West & No I.D.)
10. Venus vs. Mars (prod. Timbaland)
11. Already Home f. KiD CuDi (prod. Kanye West)
12. Hate f. Kanye West (prod. Kanye West)
13. Reminder (prod. Timbaland)
14. So Ambitious f. Pharrell (prod. The Neptunes)
15. Young Forever f. Mr Hudson (prod. Kanye West)
I'M BACKKKKKK NEW ISH......
AMERIE- DEAR JOHN
FABOLOUS- WHEN THE MONEY GOES FEAT. JAY Z
LIL WAYNE- NO QUITTER NO GETTER
LIL WAYNE- TOLD YALL
JAY-Z- D.O.A. DEATH OF AUTOTUNE
Kid Cudi - Heaven at Nite from deeplyDope.eu on Vimeo.
01. Impatient (Slow Down)
02. When I Come Down
03. Just A Game
04. Things Work Out
05. Personal Calamity
06. Out To Get Me!
07. Slippin Away
08. Mental Traveler
09. Death Of A Dream Machine
10. Tell Me Stories
ON THIS DAY ON APRIL 19 1994 NASIR bin OLU DARA JONES DROPPED HANDS DOWN THE BEST HIP HOP ALBUM EVER TO BE CREATED AND IF YOU ARGUE WITH ME ON THAT YOUR FUCKING CRAZY.....
BACK GROUND OF THE ALBUM...
As a teenager, Nas had chosen to pursue a career in rapping and had enlisted his best friend and neighbor, Queensbridge, Queens-native Willy "Ill Will" Graham, as his DJ. Nas first went by the nickname "Kid Wave" before adopting his more commonly known alias of "Nasty Nas". At fifteen, Nas met seventeen-year old producer Large Professor from Flushing, Queens, and was introduced to Main Source, a hip hop group of which Large Professor was a member. Nas made his recorded debut with Main Source, recording the opening verse on "Live at the Barbeque", from Main Source's debut studio album Breaking Atoms (1991), which would soon gather a considerable cult following. He later made his solo debut on the 1992 single "Halftime" for the soundtrack to the drama film Zebrahead (1992). The single added to the buzz surrounding Nas, earning him comparisons to the influential golden age rapper Rakim.[4] Despite the substantial buzz this collaboration generated for Nas in the underground scene, the rapper struggled to gain a recording contract, and was rejected by major rap labels such as Cold Chillin' and Def Jam Recordings. Nas and DJ "Ill Will" Graham continued to work together, but their partnership was cut short when Graham was shot and killed by a gunman in his native Queensbridge on May 23, 1992,[5] while his brother had also been shot, and survived, that night. Nas later cited this moment as "wake-up call" for him.
Meanwhile, the hip hop group 3rd Bass had dissolved, and MC Serch, a former member of the group, began working on a solo project. In mid-1992, Serch approached Nas. At the suggestion of producer T-Ray, Serch collaborated with Nas for "Back to the Grill", the lead single for Serch's solo debut album, Return of the Product (1992). At the recording session of this song, Serch discovered that Nas did not have a recording contract and, as a result, he contacted Faith Newman, an A&R executive at Sony Music Entertainment. As Serch recounted, "Nas was in a position where his demo had been sittin' around, 'Live at the Barbeque' was already a classic, and he was just tryin' to find a decent deal ... So when he gave me his demo, I shopped it around. I took it to Russell first, Russell said it sounded like G Rap, he wasn't wit' it. So I took it to Faith. Faith loved it, she said she'd been looking for Nas for a year and a half. They wouldn't let me leave the office without a deal on the table.Once MC Serch assumed the role of executive producer for Nas's upcoming debut album, he attempted to connect Nas with various producers. Based on his buzz at the time, numerous New York-based producers were eager to work with him and soon entered the Power House Studios with Nas. Among those producers was DJ Premier,who was known for his raw, aggressive production and heavy scratching, as well as his work with rapper Guru as a part of Gang Starr. Following his first solo production work on Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth's debut album Funky Technician (1990) and Jeru the Damaja's debut album The Sun Rises in the East (1994), Premier began recording exclusively at D&D Studios prior to working with Nas.
RECORDING OF THE ALBUM....
Prior to recording, DJ Premier had listened to Nas's debut single, later stating "When I heard 'Half Time', that was some next shit to me. That's just as classic to me as 'Eric B For President' and 'The Bridge'. It just had that type of effect. As simple as it is, all of the elements are there. So from that point, after Serch approached me about doing some cuts, it was automatic. You'd be stupid to pass that up even if it wasn't payin' no money." Serch later noted the chemistry between Nas and DJ Premier, recounting that "Primo and Nas, they could have been separated at birth. It wasn't a situation where his beats fit their rhymes, they fit each other." While Serch contacted DJ Premier, Large Professor contacted Pete Rock to collaborate with Nas on a song that would ultimately be entitled "The World Is Yours". Shortly afterwards, New York producers Q-Tip and L.E.S. also gained the opportunity to work with Nas. Nas's father, Olu Dara, also contributed to the album. His cornet solo and rapper AZ's vocals were mixed with Nas's rapping in "Life's a Bitch". Throughout the recording, expectations for Illmatic were high, as AZ later stated "I got on Nas' album and did the 'Life's a Bitch' song, but even then I thought I was terrible on it, to be honest. But once people started hearing that and liking it, that's what built my confidence. I thought, 'OK, I can probably do this.' That record was everything. To be the only person featured on Illmatic when Nas is considered one of the top men in New York at that time, one of the freshest new artists, that was big."[10] During the sessions for Illmatic, Nas composed the song "Nas Is Like", which would later appear as a single from his third studio album I Am… (1999).
Concerning the recording of the album's opening song "N.Y. State of Mind", producer DJ Premier later stated "Nas — he’s one of our saviors now. When we did ‘N.Y. State of Mind,’ at the beginning when he says, ‘Straight out the dungeons of rap / Where fake niggas don’t make it back,’ then you hear him say, ‘I don’t know how to start this shit,’ ’cause he had just written it. He’s got the beat running in the studio, but he doesn’t know how he’s going to format how he’s going to convey it. So he’s going, ‘I don’t know how to start this shit,’ and I’m counting him in [to begin his verse]. One, two, three. And then you can hear him go, ‘Yo,’ and then he goes right into it." DJ Premier later discussed the unexpectedness of Nas's delivery during the recording, stating "He didn’t know how he was gonna come in, but he just started going because we were recording. I’m actually yelling, ‘We’re recording!’ and banging on the [vocal booth] window. ‘Come on, get ready!’ You hear him start the shit: Rappers…. And then everyone in the studio was like, ‘Oh, my God’, ’cause it was so unexpected. He was not ready. So we used that first verse. And that was when he was up and coming, his first album. So we was like, 'Yo, this guy is gonna be big.'" With the majority of the album recorded, Premier contributed one last song. After the album's completion, Nas discovered that Pete Rock was sexually involved with a romantic partner of his at the time, resulting in the two falling out and not working with each other since.
PRODUCTION ON THE ALBUM....
Illmatic also gained praise for its production. DJ Premier's production on the album has been noted by critics for his minimalist style, which featured simple loops over heavy beats. According to critics, the album's four major producers (Large Professor, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and Q-Tip) extensively contributed to the cohesive atmospheric aesthetic that permeated the album, while still retaining each's individual, trademark sound. Q magazine noted that "the musical backdrops are razor sharp; hard beats but with melodic hooks and loops, atmospheric background piano, strings or muted trumpet, and samples ... A potent treat." With regards to Illmatic's production, one columnist wrote: "The production, accentuated by infectious organ loops, vocal samples, and synthesizer-like pads in the background, places your mind in a cheerful, reminiscent, mood...A substantial reason for its phenomenal quality...can be attributed to..the most accomplished and consistently excellent music producers."
ARTWORK ON THE ALBUM....
In an early promotional interview, Nas claimed that the name "Illmatic" (meaning "beyond ill" or "the ultimate") was a reference to his incarcerated Queensbridge friend, Illmatic Ice. Nas later described the title name as "supreme ill. It's as ill as ill gets. That shit is a science of everything ill." The album cover features a picture of Nas as a child, which was taken after his father, musician Olu Dara, returned home from an overseas tour. The original cover was intended to have a picture of Nas holding Jesus Christ in a headlock, reflecting the religious imagery of Nas's rap on "Live at the Barbeque"; "When I was 12, I went to hell for snuffing Jesus". The accepted cover, designed by Aimee Macauley, features a photo of Nas as a child superimposed over a backdrop of a New York city block,taken by Danny Clinch. In a 1994 interview, Nas discussed the concept behind the photo of him at age 7, stating "That was the year I started to acknowledge everything around me. That's the year everything set off. That's the year I started seeing the future for myself and doing what was right. The ghetto makes you think. The world is ours. I used to think I couldn't leave my projects. I used to think if I left, if anything happened to me, I thought it would be no justice or I would be just a dead slave or something. The projects used to be my world until I educated myself to see there's more out there."
XXL magazine called the album cover a "high art photo concept for a rap album" and described the artwork as a "noisy, confusing streetscape looking through the housing projects and a young boy superimposed in the center of it all." The XXL columnist also compared the cover to that of rapper Lil Wayne's sixth studio album Tha Carter III (2008), stating that it also "reflects the reality of disenfranchised youth today." Music columnist Byron Crawford later called the cover for Illmatic "one of the dopest album covers ever in hip-hop." On the song "Shark Niggas (Biters)" from his debut album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...(1995), rapper Raekwon with Ghostface Killah criticized the cover of The Notorious B.I.G's Ready to Die (1994), which was released a few months after Illmatic, for featuring a picture of a baby with an afro, implying that his cover had copied the idea from Nas. In a 2009 interview with XXL, Nas discussed the purpose behind the album artwork among other promotional efforts, stating "Really the record had to represent everything Nasir Jones is about from beginning to end, from my album cover to my videos. My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about I had 'em out there. That’s what it was all about for me, being that kid from the projects, being a poster child for that, that didn’t exist back then."
MY TOP 15 BEST HIP HOP ALBUMS OF ALL TIME IN MY OPINION.....
1. NAS- ILLMATIC
2. RAEKWON- ONLY BUILT 4 CUBAN LINX
3. NAS- IT WAS WRITTEN
4. WU-TANG- ENTER THE 36 CHAMBERS
5. MOBB DEEP- THE INFAMOUS MOBB DEEP....
6. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST- MIDNIGHT MAURADERS
7. BIG PUN- CAPITAL PUNISMENT
8. JAY Z- BLUEPRINT
9. B.I.G.- READY TO DIE
10. JAY Z- REASONABLE DOUBT
11. MOBB DEEP- HELL ON EARTH
12. NAS- STILLMATIC
13. SLICK RICK- THE ADVENTURES OF SLICK RICK
14. MOS DEF- BLACK ON BOTH SIDES
15. PRODIGY- H.N.I.C.
KERI HILSON- PATRON AND TEQUILA FEAT. LIL JOHN AND T-PAIN
BOBBY VALENTINO- DRINKS UP FEAT. GUCCI MANE AND YUNG JOC
LIL WAYNE AND JUELZ SANTANA- WITH ONE ARM
JAY Z AND P. DIDDY- MAYBE
THIS IS NOT A FINISHED TRACK THEY ARE STILL WORKING ON IT. AND THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE THE SECOND SINGLE OFF FABOLOUS' NEXT ALBUM LOSO'S WAY:THE ALBUM.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE- I HEARD SOMETHING[SNIPPET] FEAT. LIL WAYNE
YOUNG BUCK- MEDIATAKEOUT
PAPOOSE- NA NA NANA NA NA FREESTYLE
01. Phantom Empire (Intro)
02. You Don’t Want It Wit P
03. Day & Nite
04. Get Down
05. Tight Jeans P.S.A.
06. How Can I Say It
07. Ready To Die
08. Worthless
09. I’m High (Interlude)
10. Renegade
11. Act Like
12. All I Need
13. Phantom Time (Interlude)
14. Back On My New Shit
15. Keep Ya Vest On
16. Past Life
17. My Culture (Feat. Snype Lyfe)
18. Next Gz Roll Call (Interlude)
19. Quiet Time
20. Machine Gun Rap (Feat. Bully)
21. D-Block State Of Mind
22. Fuck Niggaz (Interlude)
23. Kick In The Door
24. Get This Paper (Feat. Jadakiss, Sheek Louch, & S.I.)
25. Tribute Feat Sheek Louch
26. I Get It In (Feat. Sheek Louch)
27. Ghost Shouts (Interlude)
28. The People (Feat. Jadakiss)
29. Street Life (Feat. Tre Williams)
30. Store Shouts (Outro)