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Artist: Jay-ZEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Music Label: Roc-a-Fella
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Prelude
- Oh My God
- Kingdom Come
- Show Me What You Got
- Lost One featuring Chrisette Michele
- Do U Wanna Ride featuring John Legend
- 30 Something
- I Made It
- Anything featuring Usher & Pharrell
- Hollywood featuring Beyonce
- Trouble
- Dig A Hole featuring Sterling Simms
- Minority Report featuring Ne-Yo
- Beach Chair featuring Chris Martin
- Politics As Usual
- Can't Knock The Hustle
- Can I Live
Free Music Notes for Kingdom Come
Free Music Review: Jay-Z - God Bless This Kingdom
Hit: 5 Stars
What do you do when you take three years of from a game you left on top of, depart from a lucrative and prosperous business friendship with who you thought was a close homie and unite with a long-time rival, take over rap's biggest empire while up and coming rappers take shots at you in your absence, live amidst rumors taht involve your relationship with one of the world's biggest female stars as you live in the constant public eye while battling personal demons/troubles and taking on a more larger and more focused world view? You gather together some of the best producers in the game including a 20+ year legend and quite possibly create one of the best albums of your career. That is what the great Jay-Z has done with his coming out of retirement party and new CD, Kingdom Come. This album not only shows Jay revealing his more personal side as he showed in The Blueprint, but his maturity and growth in his thinking, flow and mainly as a person. With this being the MOST anticipated album of '06, Hov could not flop or come below his standards on this effort. He didn't. Some may say he did, but that's because their minds are too short-sighted to see where he is heading. In fact, he may have reached heights he has rarely reached in the 10 years he's been around and set the bar out of reach for the rest of these cats.
It seems as if Hov caught some inspiration from taking some time off and getting himself straight while coming up big on the business side of things. He also got a look at how people still longed for his music even as he was off the scene for awhile and maybe even caught some inspiration from being around a couple of Chicago spirits. Being around Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco helped bring back some real music in hip hop and it seemed to rub off on Jay. That's that Midwest soul for you! Also, seeing the world's problems and trying to help make a change (i.e. Water For Life) looked like it was one of the many contributing factors for this album and how it came out. All of these things, people and issues help bring out some of the best Jay-Z we've heard in a long time. Forewarning: If this is too long after this, I apologize. But there is many aspects to show why this is such a great album.
The Prelude starts off the whole deal with a classical type of beat with the violins playing in the background along with flutes and the light drum pattern. Sounds like something to reach the inner-depths of your soul and spirit as Jay gets into how he's still ahead of the game as the rest of these dudes got the game falling apart, a game he help build up. Even at his older age, he's still showing 'em how to do it as he gaves a classic line to me: I used to think rappin' at 38 was ill/Well, last year alone a grossed 38 mil/I know I ain't quite 38 but still/The flow's so special, got a .38 feel, the real is back! Through the whole track as well as most of the album, he flows so lightly and so calmly that you can tell he's not in a young state of mind anymore with the rapping aggressively. But even with that, his words still strike you just as hard which is why this album might be so special. Still killing 'em. Oh My God has a jazzy-type feel mixed with loud rock instruments and was kind of nice to me. Kingdome Come, produced by Just Blaze, is definitely one of the standouts of the album. It's a track where he raps about his return to save the game of hip hop as he uses several comic character references like Superman(In the office you might now him as Clark/But just when you thought the whole world fell apart/I take off the blazer/Loosened up the tie/Step inside the booth/Superman is ALIVE!), Spider Man and Bruce Wayne/Batman. Really a track to listen to. Show Me What You Got is classic Jay-Z got the party started track which was again produced by Just Blaze. Lovely track and it is not in my top five favorites. Lost One is and is my favorite track off this whole album. This is a track the Hov shows that he is grown up in his level of thinking. It reflects on the departing of ways between him and his long-time friend and partner Damon Dash and how it got to the point where no more was needed to be said and he just had to let it go. It also looks at quite possibly his relationship in the last couple of years with Beyonce and the death of his nephew. It's produced by Dr. Dre, which you wouldn't really think at first when you listen to it off the bat. But it is an outstanding track, one for the soul (There is that word again.)! Do U Wanna Ride is probably the one track that I questioned a bit, although it is not that bad. It teams him and John Legend up over a Kanye beat, and does okay. Maybe it is just that you never envisioned him and John Legend hooking up to do a track. (Editing Note: This track I get now cause he is talking of his locked-down homeboy/cousin Emery and giving some good advice: Never forget and leave behind your true, real friends/family.) 30 Something is one of my favorites as well as he gets into he has grown up from the kiddy games that young dudes in the street play in trying to show off the things they roll up on as in their rides, the type of money they make and just spending it all away just to look cool out there. Jay's like I used to do that, but it's not me now. I'm not a buyer, I'm a seller/hustler (i.e. I don't buy a bright watch, I buy the right watch/I don't buy out the bar/I bought the nightspot). While all these other dudes are spending their lives away whether it's through selling or making dollars off hip hop, he's investing and building up cake and storing it away. Again, thinking in a way only a much wiser person can as you get older with age. I Made It is a shout-out to his moms, something he has never really did before in doing a whole track dedicated to his moms (other than maybe December 4th and Anything) in making his moms proud at the way he is doing things now. Anything with Usher and Pharrell is like the grown and sexy track for the females I would say, and is very likeable. Hollywood is where he teams up with his girl Beyonce and discusses how fame and glamour can corrupt even the most humble of people and crush those who are not ready for it or don't know how to handle it. Excellent point to bring out. Track 11-12 is kind of where the streets pull him back for one last strike on some certain rappers. Trouble is him going back and forth with himself over a deep bass uptempo beat in coming to grips with himself that he has to send one last bullet to kill off this deal with Cam'Ron and the Dipset, which leads into Dig A Hole which is one of the nicest tracks on the CD. Listen to track and you will see why in Jay seeing nobody really knew he Cam was until Oh Boy and being on the Roc. It's Carlito Brigante like in where he is trying to move on, but his old reflexes come back or even like Michael Corleone (sorry for mob movie references). I'll leave it at that. Minority Report is a track where you can see Jay's growth again as he discusses the fiasco that was Hurricane Katrina. You sometimes heard Jay talk about problems in the world, but not much. Here he does with the help of Ne-Yo on the hook. The album wraps up with Beach Chair in a nice finish with Chris Martin from Coldplay in a song that can catch you by surprise.
Many people might have suspected that the same ol' Jay-Z would come back and it some ways he has. But he also took it another direction that some just didn't see or their minds are not ready for it because they are still thinking young like or hanging on to the old Jay-Z. But just like Jordan came back the first time and evolved his game to be the best b-ball player of all time, Jay does the same as he re-establishes himself as one of the best rappers to ever do it. With help from Dr. Dre in production and total mixing of the album, Hov manages to make a grown and mature, smooth but street album that has a mixture of gospel in a way along with other forms. He doesn't need to spit numerous punchlines at a time and amaze you with great lyrical wordplay that he displayed in Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint days to get your attention. He's already got that. Now he's giving you something just as worthwhile behind the lines that will impact you emotionally and spiritually. And also show that you can't be in the streets forever. It'll always be in you, but you have to evolve in order to grow and move on. Some people will never get that because they are too short-sighted in their thinking. Now, Jay is dropping jewels of wisdom to help show you how to navigate your way through this crazy world and life. T.I. may be the king of the south, but Jay is the true king right now. If you can open your minds up, look at this CD in a different light and a different way (not MY way but just a different way) and you will truly appreciate where Hov is trying to take it. Try to go with this thinking when you first listen to it, or if you already have try to re-listen with this method.
In my mind this is possibly his third best album, a heck of a way to come out of retirement! That just leaves me with quoting a line from this album that starts off Lost One:
"I heard MFS saying they made Hov, Made Hov say Ok, So, make another Hov."
Can't be done. Period. They were never be another like this guy. My man, Jay-Z. I know this is probably one of my last pleasures out of the hip hop game and him coming back is probably a temporary solution to a long-term problem. But still it is great to have him back even for a short while. Like Lupe, Jay-Z comes with something real. Next up: Nas.
Top 5 Jay-Z CDS:
1.(tie) The Blueprint/
Reasonable Doubt
3. Kingdom Come
4. Vol. 2 Hard Knock Life
5. The Black Album
Kingdom Come Poster
Bonus CD includes exclusive LIVE performances from the Reasonable Doubt 10 Yr. Anniversary Concert (Recorded live at Radio City Music Hall June 25, 2006)Few retirements are as short-lived as that of New York rap mogul Jay-Z. Barely two years after bowing out in 2004, he's back with Kingdom Come--and if he's set down the mic for a minute, it doesn't show. Backed by a dream team of producers (Just Blaze, Kanye West, Dr Dre, the Neptunes), with special guests including Pharrell, Beyonce, and Coldplay's Chris Martin, it's an A-list cast. Naturally, though, it's the Hova who's the star attraction, slightly older and prone to pontificating on his ten years in the game (see "30-Something"), but certainly no wiser: as he raps on "Trouble," he's still got "hands in the cookie jar." The first few tracks are pure consolidation, gleaming and boastful productions that remind you just how great Jay-Z is on the mic. Further in, though, Kingdom Come branches out in style: "Hollywood," the duet with Beyoncé, is a jaded take on celebrity culture, while "Minority Report" relives the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with the Bush Administration in the metaphorical sights. Finally, the Coldplay-produced "Beach Chair" concludes the album on a spiritual note, Jay-Z announcing "life is but a dream" as Chris Martin trills like an angel atop echoing drums and distorted, music-box guitar. If you thought it could never work, you were clearly underestimating.--Louis Pattison
While nowhere near a career-ending disaster, the wobbly Kingdom Come wasn't the best justification Jay-Z could have made for ending his retirement. You'd think his enthusiasm for jumping back in the game would give the album more energy but despite a power trio of songs by Just Blaze that kick off the CD, much of the album feels listless and unfocused and it doesn't help that A-list producers like Dr. Dre and the Neptunes drop the ball with some truly tepid tracks. There are nice moments: the blistering title song, Jay's soul-baring "Lost Ones," and his snickering disses on "Dig a Hole." But, those moments are counterbalanced by the clunky "Beach Chair" (produced by Coldplay?s Chris Martin), the obnoxious, corporate swagger of "30 Something," and the garish, unlistenable club cut "Anything." Any fan of Jay over the last 10 years knows he's better than this so now the new anticipation will be for his real comeback album. --Oliver Wang
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