I Listened To EVERY Jay-Z Album And Ranked Them
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Dunno how it got to the year 2024 and I havn't heard every Jay-Z Album yet but here is all 13 studio albums ranked and placed on a tier list. I also included "Watch The Throne", "EVERYTHING IS LOVE" and "those" ones. What artist should I do a discography dive on next?
0:00 - have I failed guys
0:57 - Reasonable Doubt
2:06 - In My Lifetime. Vol 1
3:28 - Vol 2...Hard Knock Life
4:22 - Vol 3. Life and Times Of S.Carter
5:24 - The Dynasty: Roc La Familia
6:20 - The Blueprint
7:32 - The Blueprint 2
9:08 - The Blueprint 2.1
9:49 - "those ones"
10:04 - The Black Album
10:51 - Kingdom Come
11:25 - American Gangster
12:17 - The Blueprint 3
13:33 - Watch The Throne
14:15 - Magna Carta..Holy Grail
15:03 - EVERYTHING IS LOVE
15:31 - 444
17:10 - Final Ranking
18:03 - DISCOGRAPHY SCORE
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What artist should I do next? also subscribe trying to reach 500 subs :)
Dang bro. This felt like a 3k+ sub channel
Nas
Big L
Nas
Its Jay-Z and Nas
In my opinion Nas' discography has higher highs, but lower lows
He has several comeback eras and primes, so get ready for a ride...
Ngl I for a long time I thought jay z was the most overated rapper ever but after I heard the blueprint I was hooked and understood the hype
Blueprint is one of the best albums of all time
Everybody literally calls him overrated, and they fr just never listened to him
you called him overrated before really ever listening?
Jay Z being called “mid” is just the cool trend in hip hop and rap related comment sections posted by those who never listened to him. He isn’t the goat, but he’s def not mid. Don’t listen to the comment section mobs
@@fettywapsmissingeye yeah ik it was dumb
I have listened to every Jay album because I'm 42 and from NYC.
Weird flexibel but oki
@@turtleanton6539i know right 😂
The title makes it sound like listening to Jay-Z’s Discography is some sort of chore when it absolutely is not.
His punch lines are corny
@@Ty-nh8gzso are a lot of Wayne’s punchlines but people love them
yes it is
There comes a point where a discography grows so big it becomes a chore like Wayne has classics n classics but that niggas discog front to back would make me start to hate rap for a few months
@@Ty-nh8gzur corny
Similar to Kanye ALOT of Jay-Z’s discography needs context of what was going on in HipHop and his life. For example Reasonable Doubt was supposed to be a one and done which is why Vol. 1 seems so lack luster. Vol. 2 is the “pop” album of the trilogy since that’s when Jay fully entered the mainstream and Vol. 3 was the victory lap. Dynasty was supposed to be a Label album. Blueprint was Jay mastering his sound and the concept of massive radio hits and classic album cuts which Black Album perfected. Blueprint 2 he got overzealous. He retires and every album after kinda feels like a “why not” in good ways and some bad. Sorry for nerding out.
never apologize for nerding out.
Everything on vol 2 is fire I don't understand why people don't like it.
Reasonable Doubt, The first Blueprint and The Black Album are the only ones I play from Jay
Thats fair those are banger albums
Come on add American Gangster and 4:44.
And there’s some bangers from Hard Knock Life
Same as you but throw 4:44 in there also
Blueprint and black album. RD is trash😮
in my lifetime, the black album, the blueprint and 4:44 are my fav jay z albums
No Reasonable Doubt?
4:44 is my favorite album. Love the storytelling and production
Jay is one of my favorite rappers. Blueprint one, Reasonable Doubt, and Black album are incredibly good
Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint, The Black Album , and 4:44 are🔥🔥
Those are his best!
Putting American Gangster in B Tier is crazy, nonetheless solid ranking
Honestly you doing the due diligence to go back and listen brings me joy
@@AmiriHipHopwhat r u doin here
I recommend you tackle Lupe Fiasco's catalog. So many great records even if it gets a lil spotty in places.
You gotta listen to all of Nas if you’re doing Jay
Seeing a lot of Nas in the comments
@@zeniyuhhYeah whenever someone gives Jay some credit, Nas super fans pull up and be like “nah f that.”😂😂
@@jdope2700 I love them both 🤷♂️
@@atomix2-24As someone who loves both, it never fails when Nas stans have to bring him up in every Jay comment section and bring Jay up in every Nas comment section 😂
@@LessGo7921yea, it does get annoying...
I love nas, but idk why they gotta put down another rapper just so they could compliment nas ;-;
The reason there’s 2 minutes of silence at the end of Volume 2 is because it includes a hidden track, not a beat switch. If you had the cd at the time, you’d think the album was over and if you left it on a whole new song would start like “oh shit? There’s more?”
You need to post more man this was a great video!
Also, you missed A written Testimony!! It's a joint album with Jay Eletronica. And you should also find a jay z olaylist with all his features. The feature game is one of the reason why he's the goat
Great video
Great video, subbed
damn this video did numbers, also congrats on 500 subs🙏
Thank you fridays! 🔥
I did this last year! As someone who doesn't consistently listen to rap, I overall enjoyed myself and even ended up creating a playlist specifically of Jay-Z songs! I do agree that is overall catalogue is a little bloated...but the hits speak for themselves!
I know he’s not hip hop but definitely listen and review solo Michael Jackson albums🔥
Ay good job on the video, it’d be cool if this was into a series of some type bc this was entertaining
subscribed, more of these
The warm up vinyl 🔥🔥
Pretty solid ranking
Nice vid. Jay got 10 great albums but I could never put BP3 over Hardknock life & Vol. 3
You got to jam these albums more than once. You'll catch different things every single time
Amazing video extremely underrated channel, would love to see a video on Kanye’s discography for sure
He was actually going at Mase on Imaginary Players.
Being my favourite rapper, I’ve listened to all of his work, and I go back to most of them
Context:
Hov was supposed to retire after Reasonable Doubt.
Nobody likes Vol 1. It was a weird time when Bad Boy was runnin rap, it's called the shiny suit era since Puffy had those actual shiny silver suits & weird beats. Hov went to Bad Boy's production team to produce Vol 1 & it's basically ignored lol This almost ended his career. After this came out that's when ppl started to like Reasonable Doubt (RD didn't do at all good when it dropped.)
Vol 2 is dope. I was a lil too young but I remember the video for Hard Knock Life.
Vol 3 is dope as fuck. By this point Roc-A-Fella was 1000% runnin shit.
The Dynasty isn't a real Jay album. It's a Roc-A-Fella collab album titled under Jay's name & it was Freeway's debut.
Blueprint classic. I skipped class in middle school to go to buy it & he was the coolest nigga I ever knew of lol. Also it dropped on 9/11
Blueprint 2 imo is mid.
Black Album/Kingdom Come was a weird time & where fans of his earlier shit didn't really rock with them.. Had some okay songs on them but by that point ppl agreed "this shit garbage."
American Gangster was supposed to be the OST for the Denzel movie but they told him no so he just dropped it. Why the fuck would you record a whole album for a movie without them even knowing about it lol
After that Hov hit his stride again & started dropping great albums.
Thanks for the added context this was pretty cool to know from a fans perspective thats been around for almost all the drops
Black Album is Jay-Zs best album. How is it that ppl weren’t messing with it?? Songs of that were getting a lot of radio play
You was on a roll until you said what you said about The Black Album. Nobody looked at The Black Album as "this is garbage".
It has been considered a dope project ever since it came out.
You can say that about Kingdom Come, sure. But The Black Album? That was just a complete lie for you to say that lol.
@@AmiriHipHopYoo when you dropping a Jay Z ranked video
If this is your opinion right now, few years in and you'll be in love with also the Volumes saga and The Dinasty. I hope you were checking Genius while listen to his music
I’ve seen a lot of Jay-Z hate recently, and most of the people hating on him are kids that never listened to his discography.
Blueprint 3 is my personal fav. Dont stone me🙏😂
Nah you good I like blueprint 3!
His most pop album lol
I feel like you should’ve included the Jay Electronica collab, some of Hov’s best rapping. Great content tho 💯
Good video bro, keep it up!
Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint and The Black Album are his top 3. Honorable mentions: Blueprint 2 and (kinda)Blueprint 3. Underrated albums The Dynasty(all Rocafella artistes collabing with him) and Watch The Throne with Kanye West
444 in the context of his discog was his most ambitious after RD
Reasonable Doubt, Blueprint and Black album are like all top 15 rap albums ever
What’s that hoodie? It looks so good! Can you tell me the brand?
Thanks! I got it from a website called "nevstudio" the hoodie is called "NEV Cartoon Line Character Print Hoodie"
@@zeniyuhh thank you man! Have a good day!
I honestly think Vol. 3 is one of his best
your voice is magestic imo
thank you :)
Yay more American Gangster love
You need to listen to Best of both worlds again. That album was dope
wild that you only have 341 subscribers
Reasonable Doubt is outrageously good
Might be so early but you gotta do 2Pac eventually. Fire content bro‼️
Thanks man, adding pac to the list
What are the essential jay z albums everybody should listen?
I’d personally say reasonable doubt, black album, blueprint, blueprint 2.1, 4:44
0:19 *Whispers* Me but there’s context to why tbh
Is there a way i can get you to my new album?
Busta Rhymes, T.I., M.F. Doom and Ghostface Killa reviews would be dope.
Classic Jay-Z Albums
1. Reasonable Doubt
2. Vol.1
3. Vol.2
4. Vol.3
5. Dynasty Roc La Familia
6. Blueprint
7. The Black Album
8. American Gangster
9. Blueprint 2
10. MCHG
11. WTT
Jay-Z only rapper in hip hop history that has 5 or more classic songs from every album he released
🔥
Reasonable Doubt, Blueprint, V3, Dynasty, V2, 444 for me, and in that order. If you haven't done Kendrick already, you should. Though Nas' discography makes sense after Jay-Z
People forget about Dynasty… had some great songs, especially that intro
Ay man you gotta do Nas. and I'd give things like Illmatic and It Was Written a few listens. Nas' lyrics can fly over peoples head alot of the time but when you actually look at the lyrics. The Dude is insane. Illmatic is crazy lyrical
The Hov journey is one of those interesting journeys. Starts out top-tier and then it teeters off, but then you slowly start to respect him right around The Dynasty/The Blueprint inconsistencies aside.
Also yes, Big Pimpin' is better than Hard Knock Life. Don't feel ashamed.
Jay-Z’s one of the best beat selectors of all time lol. If anything, that’s one of the only things I’ve not heard him criticised on…
5:40 brother it’s known in the hip hop community his production is his best attribute what were you listening too😭 also VOL 1 and 3 are both A. I feel you on VOL 2 tho that one was a C
4:44 is the best rap album of all time. I'm here to say it
finally someone understand that hard knock life and vol3 just arent that good of an album. its kinda mid compared to the rest of his discographies. vol 2 and 3 sound too alike they get old quickly.
Do Hov next
2 Minute silence was for the real fans.
Back then when you listend to it on CDs you couldn't always tell the length on the tracks. I your a hardhead and you sticked with it without skipping or you forgot you would get a surprised a hidden track that is not mentioned on the tracklist. I loved that when I was a Child
Crazy Vol 2 had nth but bangers
9:49 Jay worked with R Kelly becuase R Kelly was the biggest r&b star at that time so they thought it would be a good idea to blend the 2 genres together
Jay Z is to hip hop what Seinfeld is to comedy.
Damn that is so accurate 😂😂
You forgot written testimony i guess, he is on every song so we can consider it his album
I did
He did a collab album wit Jay-E
Add Outkast to the list, please...
Will do! 🫡
Definitely!!
Hard knock life is the street hustling Jay z, street life talking
I only listened to the blueprint it's a classic
I think its important for you to understand the Era and time Hov was rapping in. Also understand Drug and Hustle refrences. In my opinion Hov resignates with you if you have a passion and desire to win in life. if thats not your style it just won't resignate with you.
Yeah I can see this to be fair. I notice a lot of big Jay fans connect to him in this way. I respect his pen for me it was more the music is hard to connect with at times. But as I said he has classic I do really enjoy just not every album
Agreed
I've heard all Jay z albums I've heard
RD
Vol.3
BP
TBA
444
Everything is love
Collision Course
Unplugged
I'm surprised u didn't like vol 3 it's so tuff to me
Do Kanye. I loved this video.
I'm one of those guys who listens to Jay Z religiously last year I was in Top 0.1% of listeners for Jay Z on spotify wrapped
Bruh i like jay z i get nostalgic about his older stuff but 444 wasn't bad AG is a great album thats getting its dues and RB boy its goated
I’ve listened to all the albums and I’m 22 Broski is different
So I don't have to... but what if I want to?
You listen to Hov for sure🤝
Blueprint 2.1 not having poppin tags ruins it for me that Is my favourite from blueprint 2
Vol 3, end 2 tracks were originally hidden
Oooohhh okay that makes sense then
you have to sit with Jay-z albums......you will get new gems from them years later.
But what if i wanted to...
You should do 2Pac or Nas
Jay Z in Reasonable Doubt was definitely influenced by Big L
I have but I don't count we from the same borough and have got the same bday
Hey at 5:00 when you were confused by the long song at the very end with silence between the beat switches. That's a byproduct of CDs not transferring perfectly to the digital age because the silence was put at the end to give the illusion of it being a "hidden track" when letting the CD play in a CD player.😁 There's a LOT of albums with tracks like that from the 90s-00s. Also your version of that song is actually a completely different first song than what was released here in the USA!😃
Thank you for clearing this up! It was so confusing 😭😭😭
This is legendary do one for nas
A lot of people are saying do Nas so ima lock that in
I've gone through every Hov album (minus the R. Kelly collabs because eww) and I've gotta say I find his work overall to be inconsistent. For every amazing record (Reasonable Doubt, Blueprint, Black Album, 4:44, AG), there's a pretty messy, listenable but kind of lacking low point (Vol 3, Blueprint 2, BP3, Magna Carta). Still one of the greatest for his best material as well as the undeniable impact and influence.
You should do Kanye
Do a nas play through
have to do nas nex
Can you do lil B
I can indeed haha
@@zeniyuhh gotta include the mixtapes
I listened to every Taylor swift album let’s collab😮
Oh and Red Hot Chili Peppers would be a cool video
I don’t think he has a bad album
Don't think I've listened through a whole Jay-Z album in my liiiiiiife 💀
Fo real he never impressed me back in the day I thought he was boring and had weak rhymes
@@user-wz7yy9hv8fdude was mooching other people's bars, beats, and songs
You're missing the deep cuts. Regrets, Lucky me, Cant be life,