#1! But I just love jay-z the man is a genius.. hands down the best rapper alive… I can not wait for the blueprint 3 to drop. This song is fire timbaland is an aaammaaazzzinnnggg producer!!!!!

get it mr.carter

I stans for Jay so you know I love it

H.O.V.A the Blueprint 3 baby on the way

YES!!! THIS IS IT JAY… I’m waiting for that BP3…

1* I give you absolutely right! Jay deserves every respect and I hope his new album will sell 1 million first week! I hope Timabaland produces the album as well, Timbo makes good tracks for other people and kanye just for himself. So, I hope the production team will be Timbo, Mark Ronson, Sweaz beatz etc.
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Can’t wait for the album! Does anyone know if there will be a Heart of the City DVD!

New VIBE Cover is also dope! Best magazine this year so far.

@ 5 they should put that tour on DVD that would be hot. Does anybody know when the Vibe mags hits store?????????????

@1 I agree Jay is the best rapper period

This is my shittttttttttttttt!

BOOOOO!!! I really need Hov to exit stage left, to the left…everything he’s rappin’ is stale and wack….to the left, to the left

Who’s house….it’s still Run’s house.

I’m Dead Gone

and how long must we have this discussion little boys and girls….NAS is the greatest rapper and that’s why he blew Sean Carter out the water when Sean tried to test him over the radio. in the words of pac “all these old rappers looking like a camel and sick…..it’s all over take it like a man”

I wasn’t

When in the hell is he going to stop wearing those dam tennis shoes ALL the time! Ugh!!!

*6 It should be out already! A lot of people got the Vibe magazine! When not in your city, check your book stores on August 19th- that is the official release date:)

I wasn’t feeling it..why is he still talkin about that dude from Oasis?

He is so narcissistic.. “Jockin Jay-z” GTFOH

I heard this song on the radio this morning & I like it! It sounds like something from the 80’s. Something u can do The Wop to…all my 80’s babies know all about that dance..lol.

Thats a nice pic of Jay.

Good but certainly not the best rapper. This album will do just like the other ones…start out big and then fizzle around 1.3 million. That’s respectable, he should be happy.

He did this track and made the BP3 announcement at a Kanye concert. Best rapper alive definately!!

Leave that man alone about the way he dress. When he wear a suit he lost his swagger then when he wants to wear some jeans and tennis shoes you saying he need to dress his age. I love a man that can where a suit n timbs. GO JIGGA. He started off wearing jeans and tennis shoes. Like i said go jigga.

@10 oh hell naw I am going to set it off. I want to the store last week looking for it like an idiot lol. I will be buying all three because of the stan I am. LOL

Go ahead Jay. Nice track, it bring me back to a time when rap had that authentic quality. Can’t wait for BP3.

To all the people saying Jay should sit down, exit, or whatever word for quit you want to use, you should STFU. Why don’t you tell The Rolling Stones to quit, how about Sting, Tina Turner. He’s a living legend and he’s already proven himself if he wants to put out an album every week he can. Jigga keep doing you boo boo. You and Bee didn’t make the top ten Forbes list for nothing!

Damn, that picture of J, is mad sexy….F*ck what ya heard!

This track is kinda hot. Btw, timbo didn’t produce it…Kanye did.

HOT!!

I really like Jay Z and I’m a fan of his work for sure, but I don’t like this single! Mabey it has to grow on me, but at this point I think he’s trying to hard to be different . . . And it just doesn’t work. I miss the Big Pimpin days . . . .

I love IT!!!! Jay is the best rapper!!! I can’t wait.

Genius?! What defines the man as a genius? To me he cannot rap… You’re a 40 year old man (damn near) and you still dress like a 20 year old… just stop it… not feeling the song… and even if I was I would not buy the entire album, nowadays it just isn’t worth it… Also, Jay Z use to sell drugs for a living last time I checked that isn’t a genius that is a person feeding off of the helpless…. He just needs to get into something else, I mean honestly people what can he rap about…he’s married now? At least with Pac he rapped about other things, life, death, things happening in the world, he was not restricted to just one aspect of life like Jay Z is…Jay Z should try to go back to school, I mean he cannot rap all his life about the same sh*t… he tried being the President of Def Jam and we see by not having an education did for him with that position…Honestly, Jay Z got nothing else, no one really wears his clothing line or his sneakers…he cannot act because truth be told he isn’t good looking (in my opinion), 50 Cent face is an a**hole but at least he’s cute…we’ll all see in a few years that it’ll be Mrs. Carter paying the bills, bills, bills…

Educate the mind, feed the soul

This beat is nasty….Love it It’s one of my new favs…People need to stop hatin on jay, because there are a lot of lame ass rappers out here…

ooh kanye’s producing the whole album? this should be good

I’m still mad I got suckered into buying his “LAST” Album…yeah right…I won’t fall for that again!!! The Game could go head wit it too…I’m smarter now. Just like how Young Berg got arrested just when his album is set to drop. I peep the game fellaz. Good marketing, but it’s def played out.

Retired my *ss.

@ 12, no whats even worse is that on the unecessary and not as hot as Kanye’s Put On verse he’s still bringing up the whole Prodigy/MJ Summer Jam thing. Jigga, that isht is OLD as hell, LOL, I’m talking what 5, 6 years ago? LMAO

the beats okay, i guess whats old is new is where its at. i really hope this isn’t going to be an 80s concept album. that would be totally whack seeing as though the 80s have been “in” for like 6 years now-WTD?

@22

..What does it matter if he sold drugs as a child? thats his past and right now hes making money so no matter what u like or dont like, hes still making money as we speak, as the haters increase, his money increases when fires back. Jay-z is intelligent he doesn’t talk about his relationship and hes good at it. Even if the album didnt make a lot of money, it’s still money is it not? As you say he raps the same stuff, SO he’s still getting love from his fans and money is still filling his pockets. go tell him how much you dont like him and dont be surprised if he gives you a shout on his next track. Not everyone that famous is gonna look cute, thats what the stupid media does to you, gives you this whole image that everyone is supposed to have…whatever. 50 cent is ugly as hell ahah.

HEART OF THE CITY AND THE GLOW IN THE DARK TOUR ARE THE BEST EXPERIENCES EVER!

LETS GO GET EM JAY!

WOOPS I MEANT ****@ 24

I f*cks with Mr. Carter all day!!!!!! I like the track and I will be looking forward of the release of BP3!!!!!.
Jay Z style is fresh no matter what he’s rockin’ Suits and shoes or jeans and sneakers. Who says you can’t where sneakers after a certain age? come on thats just ridiculous! My husband is 36 and he still wears sneakers from time to time and he looks good doing it too!!!

The VIBE MAGAZINE with Jay is a two-double cover, so it’s one magazine!
Oh, I’m an ultimate HOVA fan too but why is there no 15th Anniversary party to the cover! Money, I guess…lol

Jay dissed Prodigy again because he said something about him before he went to jail.

Jay does his thing no matter most people commenting probably don’t have all Jay cds and only know the singles from the radio. He gets deeps and personal on alot of his cds.

people always wants to bring up his past but he is beyond that now and he has managed to do a lot of positive thing in his life. No one has lead a perfect life and has done some thing they are not proud of.

Let me get off my soap box again it is my opinion

Why is my comment in moderation..?? how long have i been a memeber of this site..?? exactly..

Camel actually killed this one. Can’t hate

I have not been able to listen to this new song yet..( so can’t comment ) but Blueprint vol 2 to me was his best album to date…hope this can compare..

oh okay then dame (re. prodigy), i guess it makes sense then. well jay brings up his drug dealer past in literally EVERY song he does so that’s why ppl still bring it up. he brings it up as street cred even though that was well over a decade ago. others bring it up as a fault.

shawn JESUS nasir GOD. Nah am just playing. “Aint no best”

@29,i was thinkin the same thing about the prodigy beef

but im always in the middle with jay-z,no matter how much i DONT want to like his music,i always end up loving it….

kanye is just sick when it comes to producing,i think i like the song just because of the beat…

@ kaykay I admit he does talk about it alot but he may feel like that what people wants to hear he tried a different route will Kingdom Come and it wasn’t well recieved. The he back doored with American Gangster about people ate it up.

As a stan of his I think he should try to go on the grown phase of his life and talk about more current things and let the past asat in the past.

I love this pictures here, his outfit, the song still needs to grow.

PLEASE JAYZ. RETIRE ALREADY. YOU SAID YOU LEARNED FROM MICHEAL JORDAN. WHAT DID YOU LEARN, HOW TO BE PUT OUT THE GAME!

Jay is the greatest rapper alive…period!
My Ni**a if he don’t get no bigga!

LOVE YOU HOV! Fire as usual!! Best rapper alive, haters y’all in denial!

yeah dame i guess if that’s what sells then that would make sense. i think it’s more than that tho.

i think he wants to still be considered cool by this stereotypical definition of what a young (not that he is) black man should be into…he’s obviously evolved from ugly shawn from marcy but he’s still proud that he was supposidly such a good drug dealer and it would be hard for him not to be proud of it in this industry b/c current mainstream rap (minus ye and lupe) is about; misogyny, money, luxery items, violence and drugs.

there’s an over all sense of immense insecurity and immaturity centered in this type of rap music to me and every time i hear jay rap about cooking this or bundling that i just roll my eyes-not b/c i hate drug dealers but b/c it’s OLD jigga-we know you’re story; keep your lyrical prowess + ear for ridiculous beats but dig some new ish to talk about-dayum!

he’s ill with metephors, right? why couldn’t “I know” be about a male/female relationship w/out the heron addiction double meaning? and the same w/all other double meaning songs from his umpteenth album focused on drug dealing…

in closing i am and will likely always be a big fan…it’s hard not to like him.

I loved talking to you Kaykay we didn’t call each other names and debated with cursing each other out.

I understand his struggle and Ye is one of the best rappers out because he thinks out side the box and better than Weezy (yeah I said it) and that’s why I wish Jay would take the more mature way he is trying to fit into the Weezy market in my opnion and that what’s make him look like a fool.I am 27 and I been listening to Jay since Hard Knock Life I fell in love with him and purchased all his others before and after.

I remember in H to the izzo I thought was a great way to end the drug talk but he didn’t. Oh how I wish he would he is a business man and I don’t think he still rap for greed he does because that is his passion.

I am going to always been a fan too stan let me say it right, but I don’t agree with all the music he puts out but it is still better than half the songs on the radio now.

WACK! I can’t believe Kanye produced this bull!!

aww Dame I don’t like fighting with annonymous strangers on blogs either i’m 29 and going through my first acknowledged period of internal development/growth/change so with that said i can imagine how challenging if not frightening it would be for Jay to up and flip the script totally–although I totally see the value in reinvention now.

for all the issues i have with him i still love him. vol 3 is like the soundtrack to my college days, the same for the blueprint and grad school. he was the icing on the cake that had me HATING Beyonce from Crazy in Love right until Get Me Bodied dropped, lol…but now I love her and them and i must say loving people is much funner than hating them…

This is FIRE haters back down.

@ KayKay I agree issues aside I still loves me some Jay him and Bee are cute together my fave couple.

“I’m like chill baby girl, my gyrl iz here” Luv it!!

HOVA, HOVA, HOVA, HOVA!!!!

Dame i *heart* them too, i had to keep myself from crying when the news broke! i was like EEEEEK!! i can’t believe it

Why is jay-z still talking about dope boys when he is almost 40…and on top of that, jay-z hasn’t been in the streets in years………..

I don’t understand Jay Z’s motivation, honestly… Why is he still rapping? It isn’t like he needs to…usually when people insist on doing something and it isn’t about the money, it’s about the art. And it would be quite difficult to convince most reasonable people that Jay Z’s recent stuff amounts to art. Anybody heard the “Put On” remix? He’s retrograding himself…and isn’t his whole story about a street kid becoming one of the wealthiest celebs in the world? Okay…so why is he tarnishing it with all this?

I’m not a fan of rap but I respect Jay as a lyricist. I’ve heard better from him. In fact, this sounds like some wack shit dudes in DC would blast or perform on the Metro lol.

Didn’t it seem like his last album “American Gangster” just came and left? The last 2 albums haven’t been great in my opinion, just okay.

AND…

What the hell do yall want him to wear?!! What is a man his age “suppose” to be rockin day-to-day? I think he dresses well, its a good look for him.

I HATE JAYZ NOW!!! AIN’T NOBODY JOCKIN HIM!! AND WHO THE HELL WANTS TO BE BEYONCE?

HER ASS CAN’T EVEN READ! STEP UP YOUR VOCAB MA AND GET A CLUE.

JIGGA, HOV OR WHATEVER HIS SPLIT PERSONALITY WANTS TO BE CALLED IS BOGUS. LAME. THE BLUEPRINT 3…ERRR #2 WAS HOT SMOKING GARBAGE.

AND THIS COMES FROM THE WOMAN WHO HAD ALL HIS ALBUMS UNTIL BLUEPRINT 2….

@Meeshuhh anyone else who I might have ticked off…

I am not going to get into an arguing blogg but in my opinion he (Jay Z) is not a great rapper… to me a great rapper is when they give you something to think about…Pac sold drugs as well but he came back with the experiences from what he did to tell others hey don’t go down the road I took… what song does Jay Z talk about that in? Pac gave people something to think about…just listen to him rap about “Brenda’s Got A Baby”, “Unconditional Love” hell even “I Get A Around”…Jay Z should not have the status he has because he is always in the media…. It shouldn’t be the years that you spent in the game it should be what you put into the game… which is why you’ll always hear about Pac…if something should happen to Jay Z (God forbid) his legacy will not be where Tupac’s legacy is… Jay Z did his dirt like some have as well, but what does a 40 year man rap, about when he hasn’t been in the streets for about a minute… He even said it himself “I use to beat the block and now I Bee’s the block”…

Society expects a baby to stop sucking on the pacifier after 3; the baby needs to grow up. If that child is still sucking on a pacifier at age 9; we have a problem…

Jay Z needs to man up and stop the non sense of trying to relive his 20’s. Whether he likes it or not, he is a role model, teenagers do buy his music to get his spin on what is cool… Question: why do we support a man who doesn’t support his community? I’m from Bedstuy Jay Z hasn’t been around for a minute, only to do videos ands even then he is surrounded by bodyguards, last time I check if you so loved why the extra beef? Nelly goes to Wal Mart’s to buy things WITHOUT bodyguards…

He portrays something (at least to me) that he is not… Young Buck talks about all the money he has in his songs, but we al know that to not be true, just rewind and listen to him pour out to 50 Cent about how broke he is… it is an image that should not be upheld… Jay Z is not the best and could never be the best… how could he when the best rapper is gone…

Educate the mind, feed the soul

And “American Gangster” just came out… why the rush? Blue Print 2 sucked Blue Print was okay because he had Damon Dash on board….

#59 go kill yourself. Plenty of chicks want to be Beyonce which is why they stay jocking her ass and talking about her 24/7. She obviously can read fine since she is one of the richest and most successful black female artists ever. Go play in traffic wit your miserable hating ass.

Anyway this song is dope. Like someon said him and Mrs Carter not in forbes and a power couple for nothing. Haters stay mad.

i love it! im definitely coppin his album…

@59 “IGUESSISHOULDCOMMENT” …u shouldntve commented on this cuz u ade urself lok really dumb. lol…u was obviously jockin jay-z if u copped his first 7 albums!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG why are people arguing back and forth in the first 5 posts??? Damn, who cares if someone thinks he’s the best rapper alive or the worst! This posts is supposed to be just about the single. Like a lot of people, I got tired of Jay-Z. His last few albums haven’t done as well as his albums from his previous years because he’s already reached the climax of his career and has gotten older. It happens with all the once famous singers/rappers. Why can’t people accept that and why do y’all choose to get on others because they aint feelin the man anymore? Anyway, this track is wack. You can’t dance to it and it really isn’t radio friendly. Rap is going downhill. Hasn’t anyone noticed that yet?

@29 DUMB DUMB PRODIGY BEEN DISSING JAY FOR THE LAST PAST 4 YEARS HUNNY HE WAS DISSING JAY IN HIS BLOGS HE WAS DISSING JAY WHEN AMERICAN GANGSTER CAME OUT SO HOW DARE YOU GET MAD AT JAY FOR DEFENDING HIMSELF YALL TRYING TO MAKE HIM SEEM AS IF HE DWEELING ON OLD SHIT WELL TELL MOTHER FUCKERS TO KEEP HIS NAME OUT THEY MOUF!! DUDE FROM OASIS STILL TALKING ABOUT JAY SO JAY GON STILL TALK ABOUT HIM BACK TELL THEM TO STOP JOCKING HIM AND MAYBE HE’LL LEAVE THEM ALONE

WORD OF ADVICE FOR YOU ..IS KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH

HERE’S THE VIDEO WITH PRODIGY DISSING JAY LAST YEAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PdrKV29gHM

JAY HAVEN’T MENTION DUDE SINCE HE ENDED HIS CAREER ON TAKEOVER BUT DUDE CAN’T SEEM TO LEAVE JAY NAME OUT HIS CONVERSATIONS
SO JAY DISSED THE SHIT OUT OF BALLERINA P ON PUT ON REMIX!

if you dont get it you just wont….this is FIYAH!!!!! Check the (((((lyrics)))) Jay Z IS A REAL RAPPER no matter what ppl say…Im so SICK OF the foolishness that I hear on the radio man….YES I WANT lyrics w dope beats BACK!!!!

Those of us who fell in love with Hip Hop and Rap for dope beats and great lyrics need to protest the record labels that put out this nonsense!!!!

JAY Z…GET EM BOY!!!!

HA HA…dude say dont jock me jock my chic!!!!

A rapper raps… A actor acts… It’s interesting how a post about a song turns into he needs to stop this or stop that. The man is entitled to retire when he wants too. A lot of people may need to do their research. What he doesn’t give to the community lyrically; he gives back in service. He was one of the first to give to the following: Katrina, Columbine, the water to life campaign in Africa, Team Roc, The Shawn Carter Foundation and I Will Not Lose Campaign.

I’m not a Jay Z stan but of course he can rap.

aye JAY Z that dude hands down

@ 66 I dig your style ma get at me

GTFOH that track is dope

Jay, dis song is HOT!! i luv it !! da lyrics r so fresh!!!! cant wait til Blueprint 3!!!

This shit is fire.
If you don’t like it, then I’m sure you’re probably a Lil Gayne groupie or a fan of bullshit music. ex. gucci mane, plies….you get my drift.

I love that he has been in the game so long and he still never disappoints me.
Jay spits that REAL shit.

I don’t understand why people come on here and constantly try to make this man somebody that they want him to be all the people that come on here telling him to hold his wife’s hand ,or dress this way,or talk this way,or rap this way…what the hell!.. half yall don’t even like the man half yall don’t like nothing about dude so why tell him what to do with himself it’s not outta love it’s not to better himself it’s not because you honestly care…it’s out of pure hate

let me let yall IN on something

1.jay is making albums because it’s in his contracts(def jame 1 more album,live nation/roc nation-3 more albums) that he has to make albums he has 4 more albums to make … so the retirement shit is long gone

2.jay is lyrical a very great rapper with over 350 classic songs and 4 classic albums ..he does have introspectives songs there on all and I mean every album all 13, (10 studio albums,3 callabo albums) and all of them have songs like that jay is one of those rapper where you CAN NOT ,can not!! judge him on his singles ..because his albums sound nothing like his singles

3.people snaked him,not the other way around.

4. if yall let.redman,method man,BIRDMAN,scarface,LL-cool-j,nas,krs-one,rakim,ice-cube,Ice-T,flavor flav,dr dre,outkast,snoop,plies,eminem, and them plus many more wear jeans t shirts and sneakers when all of them are in the exact same age group as jay(38) why the hell are yall ignorant behinds comming down on him…..YOU KNOW WHY.let me tell you because he’s the most famous and most relevant out of all them that’s why yall seperate him from everyone else that’s why yall espect better because he’s the best yall exspact greatness from the best…

5 this is NOT a single he said this might not even make the album he’s not even done with the album he only recorded 3 songs and he said it might not come out this year

6.yall opinions on him don’t matter and somebody asked what’s his motivation..he said haters is his motivation doubters motivate him he said when the whole world loves him then he’ll stop becuase there’s nothing left to prove but the more people that yell that he fell off the more motivated he becomes

any way love the song can’t wait for the album blueprint3! everyone that posted here/read this/listened to the song!.. I KNOW for a fact no matter how hard yall pretend I know yall waiting on it aswell
see yall in stores on the release date

dueces!!!!

JAY stay BEASTING it! (best to ever do hands down)

speak on it Linda I couldn’t have said better myself

Ok I like the song but AINT NOBODY JOCKING JAY Z!

GIVE IT UP ALREADY WITH UR OLLLLLLLLDDDDDDD ASSSSSS! Ithink he’s like the oldest repper currently constantly IN THE GAME STILL! Damn u annoy me. With ur LAST ALBUM IMMA RESIGN CRAP!

For the record the pic is HOTTT n a while back I said he should DRESS HIS AGE, n this is like what I was talking about….