![]() Warm organ swells from Al Green’s “Free At Last” are met by muted kicks and open snares, creating a spacious, ambient bounce perfectly suited to Jay-Z staccato cadance. And the album’s closer? It may be the single best song of Jay-Z’s entire career. ![]() Paired with exquisitely articulate verses from Eminem, a master of Me-Watching-You-Watching-Me raps, it’s an instant classic: The duo’s contribution to modern art is left beyond reasonable doubt. However, sequenced to perfection, the album comes to its dramatic and emotional zenith in its final two tracks, “Renegade” and “The Blueprint (My Momma Loves Me).” On the former, an incredible duet with Eminem (originally intended for ), Jay takes listeners to task-those who wrote him off for hyperbolic materialism thanks to song titles like “Money, Cash, Hoes”-aggressively explaining the desperate circumstances which inspire his musicianship, the subtext of his catalog, and the layered meaning of his success. ![]() And on “Song Cry,” the requisite love song, Jay shows even more rare in rap than vulnerability: a three dimensional female character. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |