Due to the success of the former Mafioso Rap hardliners AZ, Nas and Biggie, a new trend was started which found its followers and followers over the years on the East Coast. Including a young Jay Z, who shortly before his debut LP first a new image and a Nas / Biggie ajar Rap Style appropriated and prefer / pimp fantasies strayed into wild gangsters, but to stick to the truth.
In itself, I have no problem with it, by listening to the album completely. You get a quality cinematic mid 90s East Coast production commanded that you only know good from the above and the then almost represented a self-evident standard. Jay Z has here an entire inventory of samples to be torn, you could listen before a thousand times on other rap albums. Although the production is more than decent, but truly interchangeable for that time.
All well and good, but lyrically this album really comes down to the content class of superlative albums ala "Ready to Die" or "Illmatic".
Although Jay Z Flowt decent about his new 08/15 96er style and also has the one or other message on the sheet, but annoys me most with its extra launched Fake Pimp / Gangster characteristics. Jay Z jumps quasi only to the Mafioso rap train and orients itself stylistically with the greats, without even trying to stand out from the competition.
In itself, a tidy one-well produced album that content loses some peculiarity and nothing new has what it previously did not exist already!
For 2014, although great cinema, but in 1996 more of a bland aftertaste slowly retiring trends in hip hop, which in the softer Jiggy Era was his bitter end one year later!
Jay Z has this jump start not harmed in any case!
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