Fri 9 Dec 2011
Jay-Z Says 2012 May Bring New Solo, The Throne, and Kanye Albums
Posted by Mikey Fresh under videos[20] Comments
Our homie Rob Markman from MTV News got Jay-Z to drop some hints on new projects that he may be working on in 2012. Hov seemed really confident and motivated to keep the albums coming.
“It depends on how this thing finishes up,” Jay said in reference to his and Kanye’s current Watch the Throne Tour. “We — I say ‘we’ because I’m in Throne mode — we’re in a great place creatively. You might see a Jay, then Kanye and a Throne album next year. You know, we’re really in a great place creatively. We really found our zone.”
Hov speaks to CNN about the Occupy Wall Street movement after the jump…
December 9th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Looking forward to it!!Excited either way!!
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December 9th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
This is great news, that at least there are considering another album. I was afraid this was going to be one and done. But I think it will be great for us fans. At first I was skeptical about Watch the Throne. At first I didn’t get it. At first i wasn’t all about it. But It grew onto me, just like most of Jay-z album. I mean, he just has some really shaky ones, which are not listenable all the way thru. But After countless listens to WTT I find it to be superb and that only makes me think the can came up with something better. That was just the warm up.
I just Think now it’s hilarious about all the commentary about how over the top the album is with all the wealth references. And all the bragging. But after stepping back for a breather, I think it is bullshit. Calling a rapper on bragging too much is like calling a Baseball Pitcher out for striking too many niggas out. It’s utter bullshit.
I know we hold this guys to a different standard, but at the end of the day their shit was good. I bought Lil wayne’s album and I unsyched it from my Ipod. It’s total shit. Drake’s album is listenable to a point.
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Jasperfect Reply:
December 9th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
3 paragraphs though? c’mon son this ain’t class
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Angry Gillmore Reply:
December 9th, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Great baseball analogy and i understand your perspective but the sales pitch seemed weak;this is the problem in your defense to the wtt back lash: you’re looking at it from a baseball players’s stand point not the fans . Our social consciences are far more aware during these times and awakened. Let’s celebrate the doors that people like Jay-z and Kanye have opened – but let us be smart and not follow them down the road of greed and opulence to our own demise.
This is my realistic review of the album as a peice of art: they need to read the basic theories of power to see how trapped they are in the instruments of power. The album only knows the capitalist King, basking in opulence while the masses suffer.where are the peoples perspective on it? it is a kingdome right? A true King does not go to a banquet when people under his protection are dying.
They know very well the effect they have on young minds – that’s what they sell to corporations/brands that have helped them gain all this opulence. Of course I am not implying that Jay-z and Kanye West are responsible for the entire hip hop culture across the planet, or anyone as a matter of fact, but by the watch the throne ideological concepts they have opened themselves to this kind of criticism. It’s the penalty of leadership, in Jay-z’s words.
I believe that Jay-z and Kanye West are ultimately good people; I in no way intended to judge them personally. They are however caught up in the shallow, hyper-materialistic world that is corporate America,where you drown your soullessness in consumption. I like to believe that they truly do want the best for the hip hop culture and its expansion globally and just want to express how they view life, but I don’t think they have the sensibility to see past the Star-Spangled Banner, which makes them unfit to think critically. By virtue of being a typical rapper or “pitcher” as you say, they are ignorant, in the only way they can be: as a result of their extreme absorption in themselves watch the throne had great potential to touch the people;and re-define hip hop conceptually as a kingdome unfortunately, it resulted in a shallow perspective from the kings seat.
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CANADA DRY THAT SEXY SEXY ALE Reply:
December 9th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
WOW YOU BROKE THAT DOWN SO ELEGENTLY
THAT WAS IMPRESSIVE
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Honestly.... Reply:
December 9th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
that bitch wrote an essay on here
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UN-CUT=inca-taino's baby mama Reply:
December 9th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
”HA”
Flowdini Reply:
December 10th, 2011 at 10:22 am
@ Angry Gillmore “The album only knows the capitalist King, basking in opulence while the masses suffer” quote of the year by a person who needs their own blog ..lol u just out shined some blogger on they own blog
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Fresh-Kid Reply:
December 11th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Straight up!
the Method Reply:
December 13th, 2011 at 9:10 am
http://iarttakezito.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html
Some how the exact same quote is on this blog. Plagiarism?
Trevor (trekei) Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Really? All of that because of a pitcher analogy? Kingdom? Smh..
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the Method Reply:
December 13th, 2011 at 9:06 am
Dude. Good post. Probably the best post I have seen from you.
Like Collin Cowherd says “I’m not going to have a reaction, of your reaction about my initial reaction”.
But all your points are grounded, I listen to rap for the techniques and I know at the end of the day everything is bullshit. So I don’t take it to heart. I know some kids do and are influence by what’s presented to them by artists. I’m not at this point of my life, when I was a kid. I was somewhat, so I know where you are coming from.
Regards…
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the Method Reply:
December 13th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
I take that shit back my nigga. I smell plagiarism
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Angry Gillmore Reply:
December 14th, 2011 at 12:17 am
while you @ it plug my twitter as well;
here http://twitter.com/takezito
All are welcome to follow my blog and twitter.stay tuned as i will have album reviews on Drake and J . Cole albums.
December 9th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
jay z is full of shit. the typical “sure i’d pay more, IF i could see where all the money is going, ELSE, i’ll just keep all of my useless tax-cuts”. that’s a stupid friggin’ answer. AMERICA is a country, it’s not rocawear. you don’t run a country like you do a regular business. his typical GOP argument doesn’t even make sense since we know that low taxes on the wealthy is one of the main contributing factors to a bad economy in the first place.
the fact is, he should have said”yes, i am a very wealthy man, and i think that raising taxes on those who are wealthy would lift some pressure off of the poor and middle-class workers, which would probably lead to a stronger economy similar to what we saw in the 90′s, and in the pre-reagan era.”
perhaps if ronald reagan hadn’t totally reshaped the tax structure– for the worse–back in the 80′s, sean carter, along with countless other black and brown people would have had a vastly different life-experience. jay-z, more than anyone else, should understand what kind of severe pain a lopsided economy has on the poor, so you would think he would want to speak out against such ruinous policies for the sake of sparing another impoverished youth from having to retread the pitfalls that he experienced growing up in marcy.
what a tool.
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Truf.com Reply:
December 9th, 2011 at 8:52 pm
yep
and I love how this clip is way after the fact. Why didn’t Hov speak up when Occupy Wall Street was in the thick of things?
straight up double-speak right here.
again, what else would you expect from “new watch alert: Hublots”. Dude been a tool. Except now he’s a tool that makes shitty music. whereas before, he was a corporate tool that made bangers.
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December 9th, 2011 at 11:39 pm
The clip may new,but Hov has made this statement before. I feel like this, if we’re all waiting for the 1% to “trickle” money down to us, then we’re living the wrong life..and in the wrong country.
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A3 Reply:
December 10th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
CoSign
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Angry Gillmore Reply:
December 10th, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Their is no “Trickle effect” as the Obama administration is agreeing with the people; it is simply a call for a new minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year to ensure that they pay at least the same percentage of their earnings as a middle-income taxpayer does. Sounds fair to me.
For jay-z to say “I will pay more taxes if it goes to good use” Just shows how ignorant he is when it comes to political issues. Does the middle class person have the luxury to ask uncle Sam what its used for? He’s in his own superficial bubble.
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Franck Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Word. He has like 500 million dollars? And he is saying ‘I don’t MIND paying more taxes’
That pissed me off. Arrogant cunt. Pardon my English
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