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It has been announced that Jay-Z will unleash The Blueprint 3 on September 11th; and just days after this exciting announcement, Jigga leaked “D.O.A. (Death of Autotune).” The new track, for an odd reason, makes me think of “Lucifer,” a memorable cut on The Black Album. However, I wasn’t particularly impressed with this track.
Let me just say this: on “D.O.A.”, Hova talks about things worth doing, but he’s not doing anything worth talking about. Jay-Z needs to take it all with Blueprint 3, right? He has to put some more effort into this, it will be a shame if we get another American Gangster or Kingdom Come — he’s better than that.
Listen to D.O.A. here
Jay-Z – D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)
And just so you remember that he still does have it, I’ll put up “Brooklyn Go Hard” featuring the one and only Santi White. Is it too much to ask for an album full of cuts of this caliber? Hopefully not.
Jay-Z – Brooklyn Go Hard (ft. Santigold)
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by on June 8, 2009 ‡ 0 reactions
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That picture is epic. The person who came up with that is a genius.
I know! I loved it, i thought it was hilarious.
First off, amen on the photo selection.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way… I wasn’t impressed by this either, but frankly I loathe Jay’s flow on “Brooklyn We Go Hard”. If he put out an entire album with cuts like that, he’d be dead to me. I miss the days of sampling something entirely unexpected (see “Hard Knock Life”) and not what’s currently hot at the moment.
Heres my opinion: D.O.A. is pretty good. Not amazing, but pretty cool. I really like fuzes version tho http://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/2009/06/fuze-mc-doa-death-of-autotune-remix.html Now for Brooklyn, I love the sampling, if thats what you meant great but his actual rapping on it is ok. I even think D.O.A is better than brooklyn, not the beat but Jay-Z Himself, Brooklyn doesn’t have any memorable lines or rhymes for me. But I like it enough to have on my iPod, its maybe a little meh. And yeah the pic is fantastic
Both tracks are solid.. Brooklyn is a little LESS solid, the lyrical work was better on DOA. Both still have that Jay-Z sound that you have to appreciate, but as a final verdict I think I would end up taking Brooklyn off my iTunes…
P.S. That photo is brilliant.
Classic picture. Bravo. A photo for the ages. Jay better come with some much better stuff than D.O.A. and I am sure he will. He needs to seal his legacy with BP #3.
u dudes r nuts both of those songs r harder than anybody’s made i the past 5 years or so. no memorable lines from brooklyn ”lucky me luckily they didnt get me now when i move the nets im the black branch rickey”
D.O.A & Brooklyn are the the two best songs Jay has made since the Black Album, if D.O.A doesn’t get you excited for BP3 I don’t know what will!
The picture is brilliant. The track’s less brilliant. I loved the sampling on Brooklyn. meh, Kanye…
plescois is right. Also I liked Jockin Jay Z, alot. just me?
Honestly, we should all be so lucky as to get another American Gangster. That album was easily the best thing he’d put out since the original Blueprint. It’s Jay-Z rapping over tight soul beats with a loose concept stringing the songs together…what more could you ask for really?
I agree that “Brooklyn (We Go Hard)” was dope…but if you think Jay-Z would ever make an album with songs of that ilk (songs that fit the current hipster-hop trend, featuring artists that blogs like this one cum on themselves over), you are thoroughly misunderstanding Jay-Z as an artist. The beat that No I.D. made for “D.O.A.” is far more representative of Jay-Z’s body of music than “Brooklyn” or “Swagga Like Us” or “Jockin.”
First of all when your broke or trying to get rich your not going to understand Kingdom Come. And if you not a hustler you not going to understand American Gangster. Jay-Z is hood. So if you never lived in the ghetto or broke like Hova. He ain’t forget where he can from. Hova is still ahead of these cats. People act like you progress to stay the same. That’s lame and back forwards. If you didn’t like Kingdom Come you probably thinking to small. If you listened it was for corporate world. American Gangsta was about the struggle for money and keeping it. You need to get investment dictionary for Kingdom Come. If you think American Gangsta was not good you don’t know Hip Hop at all. You need to go to http://www.templeofhiphop.org .