"But I Can't Teach You My Swag, You Can Pay For School But You Can't Buy Class.."

I put Marcy on the map, I put Brooklyn on my back.."

Sorry for my absence, but school is just starting back up and I needed some time to do me. Props to the Barack posting by my cohort in blog.

Now, back to business. As, the summer drew to a close, I began to drift further apart from hip hop. Occasionally, I would listen to timeless classics on my iPod just so I wouldn't abandon the genre in whole. But, in every cloud there is a silver lining. Jay-Z, is single handed, bringing hip hop back..

Now before you began to question who is the best rapper, let us check his credentials..

1. Reasonable Doubt (Nuff Said)
2. Streets Is Watching (Set the foundation for movies such as State Property and Belly)
3. Volume 1: In My Lifetime (Besides "Sunshine", definitely was a quality, overlooked album)
4. Volume 2: Hard Knock Life (Set the standard for truly street rappers to crossover..sold 5 million+)
5. Volume 3: Life and Times of S. Carter (Introduce the "Club Banger".."Big Pimpin", "Do It Again"...)
6. Dynasty: Roc La Familia ("First I get my money right, then I get my team on (slight Kanye reference but you get the idea)..Also introduced Kayne to the world and Freeway)
7. The Blueprint (NUFF SAID)
8. The Blueprint 2: The Gift and The Curse (Hidden gems amongst a rushed album)
9. The Black Album (A proper send off)
10. Kingdom Come (A decent but rushed comeback)
11. American Gangster (One of the most cerebral albums in hip hop. From front to back, Hov gave you the story of a hustler from the beginning, to the height of power, to ultimately his downfall..)
12. Blueprint 3...

Back to business..

In the past couple of months, Sean "Jay-Z" Carter, has hit the airwaves and mixtape scene hard, letting fans (and critics) know that he is still the "G.O.A.T."..It all started with a simple freestyle to "A Milli"..



And then he proceeded to continue his tear through '08 with..
(Fast track to 2:10 to hear Hov)



And if that wasn't enough, He told the whole rap game what they were doing..



Now, after these 3 tracks, I was already waiting at Best Buy for the blueprint 3, then he proceeds to hop on..



In a game where substance is clearly lacking, Jay-Z has once again "Step out his blazer, lossend up the tie, and stepped inside the booth, Superman is alive." To deny that Jay-Z has hip hop in his hand right now, you would have to be a fool. Besides the impending release of T.I.'s "Paper Trail", "The Blueprint 3", is on a course to be another classic by the God MC. He has always had a knack for knowing exactly how to properly drop an album when hip hop is in desperate need for a savior (Coming from a man who sold 500,000+ on Sept. 11, 2001)..

"School of Hard Knocks I'm a grad, and that all blue Yankee is my graduation cap, it's HOVVVVVVVVVAAAAAAAA.."

(Shout out to Skye Boogie, for sitting through my nonsense while I got these thoughts out!!)

-Yeezy