That said, it’s hard to deny the quality here. This is “luxury rap” defined, not to mention the best form we’ve seen from Jay since the American Gangster soundtrack. We hold these truths to be, essentially, self-evident: that Kanye West is making some exceptionally ambitious beats these days; that Sean Carter is hip-hop royalty; that both have more money than they could spend in three lifetimes. Evaluating their artistic output is almost definitional; Watch the Throne is good because Jay-Z and Kanye West do not — could not — make bad rap music. If you swapped out “Welcome to the Jungle” and the half-hearted bombast of “Lift Off” for stellar bonus tracks “The Joy” and “Illest Motherfucker Alive,” and eliminated the second half of “Who Gon’ Stop Me,” you would have ostensibly constructed a better album. But you wouldn’t feel any differently about the final product; it’s still our foremost hip-hop artist alongside his spotty but reinvigorated mentor, a known quantity that wouldn’t improve its reputation with a more concise tracklist. You still “Gotta Have It,” and it’s still gon’ annihilate the festivals.
Ross Green
01. No Church in the Wild (featuring Frank Ocean)
02. Lift Off (featuring Beyoncé)
03. Niggas in Paris
04. Otis (featuring Otis Redding)
05. Gotta Have It
06. New Day
07. Prime Time
08. Who Gon Stop Me
09. Murder to Excellence
10. Welcome to The Jungle
11. Sweet Baby Jesus (featuring Frank Ocean)
12. Love You So
13. Illest Motherfucker Alive
14. H.A.M.
15. That’s My Bitch
16. The Joy
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blogovision 2011 - No 19 : Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
blogovision 2011 - No 18 : Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
blogovision 2011 - No 17 : Architecture in Helsinki - Moment Bends
blogovision 2011 - No 16 : Battles - Gloss Drop
blogovision 2011 - No 15 : The Field - Looping State of Mind
blogovision 2011 - No 14 : Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
blogovision 2011 - No 13 : Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
blogovision 2011 - No 12 : Cults - Cults
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