Then check out his new song "The Run Down" video if you haven't already! Aweome video and song. His ne album "The Blue Print " 3 comes out this Friday!!!
 
 
 
 

I'm a big Jay-Z fan but he's got a little lazy with his most recent albums. Still excited though.

No. After he saying he was the G.O.A.T he lost a lot of credibility with me. After years of Pac dissing him without even retaliating, he decides hes the best. He can't even rap. Whoever his producers are should win all the awards. The beats they lay down are amazing.

I really like Blueprint 3 but I think without the featured artist, I think it would be his worst album and Hova would be done.

Jay Z is overrated like a motherfucker

His song with Kanye (Haters I think it is called is really annoying) but his one with Alicia Keys is pretty good.

Check out this remix that someone did on YouTube. He took one of Jay-Z's song and mix it with Necro & Twelve's theme from Street Fighter III. 
 
 

oh hell yeah.  
he writes good lyrics for a rapper. he's very clever too.  
 
and dude, i've been saying for months how much i am sick of auto-tuning. and then my friend who i was telling it to a few weeks ago says, I HAVE THE PERFECT SONG FOR YOU- DEATH OF AUTOTUNE 
i was fucking ecstatic and the song is fucking great too. its very jazzy/instrumental and best of all NO FUCKING T-PAIN, TALENTLESS ROBOT VOICE DUMB SHIT 
  

" No. After he saying he was the G.O.A.T he lost a lot of credibility with me. After years of Pac dissing him without even retaliating, he decides hes the best. He can't even rap. Whoever his producers are should win all the awards. The beats they lay down are amazing. "

" @TwoOneFive:  I feel u man. I don't know how the fuck he made it to the music industry with that shit. He even fucked up the Miami Dolphins fight song with that auto tuning garbage. "

I burn your soul like ether... I love em both!

I do not like him as a rapper although he is a good business man.

Whoever said Jay Z is the only rapper left who's hard........dude, seriously?
I'll quote KRS  ''As soon as you get rich, you cant make raw hip hop anymore''  There is no 'struggle', no need to prove yourself, cos your rich lol.
 
Mr Lif, 7L & Esoteric, Akbar, Kool Keith etc, all still make rawer hip hop then Jay Z ever did.
 
  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7VnYvl9mRg

Hov is one of my favorite rappers of all time.
 
I'm really excited for the Blueprint 3.  
 
I must add the newest record to my collection of everything he's ever released.

Blueprint 3 is crap IMO.  A huge fan of Reasonable Doubt, the first Bluepring, Black Album.  Everything I've heard so far is awful (other than the production).

Blueprint 3 is pretty good. There are some songs that may get old and irritating after a while (Reminder comes to mind) but for the most part its a solid album.

I have been an adamant Jay-Z not-liker (I don't wanna say hater) for years now.  I believe he said (i'm paraphrasing), "if you don't like me, ignore me" or something.  Basically I've been avoiding him ever since he made a name for himself.  I'm just kind of hoping he would go away forever so people can talk about his older albums and move on.  I don't really see him as anything more than a dude who happened to be at the right place at the right time.  As a matter of fact, that whole group of Jay-Z, Biggie, Tupac, and Puffy I really don't much care for.
 
I was actually considering making a thread asking if anyone else out there didn't like Jay-Z, so go figure.

All the songs from BP3 just sound really uninspired. There's no reason, no motivation. 
 
Black Album was his finale (yeah right!), American Gangster (love it or hate it) was a concept album; why is he making this album? And why give it the Blueprint moniker?

Raekwons cd shits on the blueprint 3. everyone go get only bult for cuban linx 2

" Im sorry but rap sucks, I respect him for his talent but anything else in his genre sucks. "

" Blueprint 3 is crap IMO.  A huge fan of Reasonable Doubt, the first Bluepring, Black Album.  Everything I've heard so far is awful (other than the production). "

I really like his older stuff (Dead Presidents will always be in my top rap songs) but after his comeback, he's just become lame. He's boring to listen to now and his switch in style annoyed me too. But like others have said, the beat he gets will always be great so sometimes I just pick up one of his albums just to hear that shit, not him. But then again, I guess the props should go out to the producers.
 
But this is all coming from an even bigger Nas fan. "I, fuck with your soul like Ether."

Jay-Z was pretty good. Though like a lot of rappers, he's lost some of his touch.

" Jay Z is overrated like a motherfucker "