What can you do, when two of the albums that you were looking forward to a lot (yeezus and mchg) turn out to be not as easy to listen to as you had hoped? Or even worse, at least one of them seems to be a pretty below-average work of art (mchg...yes, I now think Yeezus might have won the clash of the titans).

So what do you do? Listen to some real heat, like Kendrick Lamar's "Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City". Already a classic, hands down. When you listen to Kendrick's masterpiece after Jay's latest effort, you actually feel pretty bad for "the ruler". It may well be up to Kanye to jumpstart Jay-Z's musical career on Watch The Throne 2. Because honestly, the best track on MCHG has a hard time to compete with the weakest track on GKMC, quite contrary to the Jiggaman's punchline on "Versus":

Your last shit ain't better than my first shit/ Your best shit ain't better than my worst shit/

And there's always one source of endless inspiration and musical massaging of mind, body and soul: RADIOLOVELOVE, the latest issue of which features an incredible track that - apart from the not very modern staccato-flows - rips a lot of recent hip hop records to shreds. Advanced Chemistry - Welcher Pfad führt zur Geschichte.



Undeniable freshness. If you don't put this track on your summer mixtape you lose out. Your summer sucks. Prepare for the winter, buy tissues, post pictures of falling leaves on your tumblr blog, learn playing the saxophone, tattoo a sad emoticon on your neck. Or, I mean, it's easy, just listen to the song and put it on heavy rotation, it's easy goddamnit!

Recycling trash the HOVA-way.

>>During his live Twitter Q&A session today, Jay-Z gave Guru or Just Blaze the green light to liberate the elusive full-version of the third installment of “Dead Presidents.” Guru must of been keeping up as he took to Soundcloud to finally liberate the unreleased version. Sadly — as you’ll notice upon playing — the “missing” verse eventually ended up on “Moment of Clarity” instead. Still, a dope song regardless.<<

via 2dopeboyz.com 

I have only listened to the thing once and I haven't really been paying attention to the lyrics - but then again who does? Here it is, my two cents on "Magna Carty Holy Grail", the first album with its own Android-App.

01 Holy Grail: Justin Timberlake's cheesy chorus ruins an otherwise nice track.
02 Picasso: Classic Jay-Z. Dope. Could have been on "Reasonable doubt" (1996).
03 Tom Ford: Borrowing from "M.I.A. - Bad Girls" is never a bad move. Brooklyn we go hard, anyone?
04 F*ckwith...: I can already see Rick Ross riding in a black car in slow motion in the video. The song doesn't surprise one bit.
05 Oceans: Hmm.
06 F.U.T.W.: Classic Jay-Z. Dope. Could have been on "The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse" (2002)
07 Somewhereinamerica: Lean back and enjoy. Two and a half very enjoyable minutes.
08 Crown: Very "watch-the-throne-esque". Goes hard. This would be my second bet for a video with cars turning corners in slow motion. In this case, that's a good sign!
09 Heaven: Not bad, not amazing.
10 Versus: May just be the highlight. Very very short, but very very good.
11 Part II: The obligatory Beyonce-feature-track. Could have been worse.
12 Beach is better: 45 seconds long. Very hardcore.
13 BBC: Promising list of producers and features. Sadly, as those things often go: Too many features spoil the track a bit.
14 Jay Z Blue: Hmm.
15 La Familia: Don't like Jay-Z rhyming very slowly with long breaks between every line too much.
16 Nickels and Dimes: Oh, I take back what I uttered about track 15. Obviously it's not Jay-Z's rhyming style that annoys me. Because on this track it works rather fine.

My little remix of the promo artwork. Now it's about a holiday in Morocco, the relax-factor of which the woman in the picture is not quite sure about because some random greek dude grabs her from the back and probably tries to molest her.

Here is the verdict:

Looking forward. A lot. And since we're on the topic. How cool is Rick Rubin? Love his ethic. He is not to be messed with, absolutely not. Never mind his athletic Sportlehrer-im-Erdkundeunterricht-pants and Pyjama-shirt. He might just be the Messias.



No leak yet. Four days to go. Suspense.

That's some history right there! Anschauen. Zwischendurch bleibt der Ton kurz hängen, einfach bisschen weiter skippen und schon klappt wieder alles!

Geile Visuals, überwiegend geschossen auf Coney Island, zu einem etwas älteren Projekt, dem Jaydiohead Mashup Album. Fanmade.

via 2dopeboyz