Track Listing: 1. Intro
2. Pray
3. American Dreamin’
4. Hello Brooklyn 2.0
5. No Hook
6. ROC Boys (And the Winner Is)…
7. Sweet
8. I Know
9. Party Life
10. Ignorant Sh*t
11. Say Hello
12. Success
13. Fallin’
2. Pray
3. American Dreamin’
4. Hello Brooklyn 2.0
5. No Hook
6. ROC Boys (And the Winner Is)…
7. Sweet
8. I Know
9. Party Life
10. Ignorant Sh*t
11. Say Hello
12. Success
13. Fallin’
14. Blue Magic
15. American Gangster
15. American Gangster
To follow-up my last post about Hip Hop, I’m providing you with a personal review of the newly release Jay-Z album, American Gangster.
The album opens up with the Intro providing listeners with the meaning and mentality of a gangster. With this understanding the listeners can better understand the songs that follow.
Pray, American Dreamin’, Hello Brooklyn 2.0, No Hook, Say Hello are songs that also provide a setting for the listeners , while also providing them insight to a day in the life of a hustler. Hello Brooklyn gives you a glance at the city through his eyes. This track is hot because he gives Brooklyn attributes of a woman; listeners would think he was talking about a woman how he describes “Brooklyn’s curves”. American Dreamin’ and No Hook provide listeners with the reason why he chose the life that he did. In American Dreamin’ he talks about thinking about going to college, but he can’t focus on that while people are around him starving. The life gangsters live is one of danger, but in Pray, he shows that gangsters need God to. In Pray, he prays to God for strength and protection.
ROC Boys and Party Life provide listeners with a glance of the good life. It shows when the hustlers at his peak; moneys good and how they celebrate in their high times. Fallin’ gives listeners a glimpse of the fall of the gangster if he continues with that lifestyle.
Overall it’s a great album. To get the full affect, one would have to listen to the entire album from start to finish for it’s a project. It’s not an album you would want to flip through; it’s well worth playing all the way through. I recommend this to everyone, especially people who don’t like hip hop. This album is a mirror of many peoples’ lives every day, and to better understand hip hop, it’s purpose, even appreciate it. This album will show you why you don’t have to necessarily like it, but because of its honesty we all have to respect its truth.
Pray, American Dreamin’, Hello Brooklyn 2.0, No Hook, Say Hello are songs that also provide a setting for the listeners , while also providing them insight to a day in the life of a hustler. Hello Brooklyn gives you a glance at the city through his eyes. This track is hot because he gives Brooklyn attributes of a woman; listeners would think he was talking about a woman how he describes “Brooklyn’s curves”. American Dreamin’ and No Hook provide listeners with the reason why he chose the life that he did. In American Dreamin’ he talks about thinking about going to college, but he can’t focus on that while people are around him starving. The life gangsters live is one of danger, but in Pray, he shows that gangsters need God to. In Pray, he prays to God for strength and protection.
ROC Boys and Party Life provide listeners with a glance of the good life. It shows when the hustlers at his peak; moneys good and how they celebrate in their high times. Fallin’ gives listeners a glimpse of the fall of the gangster if he continues with that lifestyle.
Overall it’s a great album. To get the full affect, one would have to listen to the entire album from start to finish for it’s a project. It’s not an album you would want to flip through; it’s well worth playing all the way through. I recommend this to everyone, especially people who don’t like hip hop. This album is a mirror of many peoples’ lives every day, and to better understand hip hop, it’s purpose, even appreciate it. This album will show you why you don’t have to necessarily like it, but because of its honesty we all have to respect its truth.
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