Magna Carta... Holy Grail
by Jay-Z

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One of the few albums I regret buying. It's sad that the best songs are the ones with heavy guest appearances. I don't know if I've ever heard a rap album so lyrically weak as this. Jay-Z can't go a single verse without shouting out an expensive car he owns. And who can forget the godawful "Somewhereinamerica" (stylized as one word because who knows) in which Jay-Z spends a good minute simply repeating "Twerk Miley Miley Miley Twerk."

Best Songs:
Holy Grail
Oceans
Part II (On The Run)

Worst Songs:
Somewhereinamerica
Versus
Tom Ford

From swagnadalf 08/07/2014 23:05 | #118990

With such a lofty and pretentious title, I was expecting Jay-Z to put out some unexpected masterpiece. Instead, it's the worst thing he's ever recorded.

At the beginning of 2013, I heard that both Kanye and Jigga were dropping solo projects. I had a feeling both were going to come up short. When Kanye surprised me with Yeezus, I got excited for MCHG. I was even more excited when I got it for free since I have a Samsung phone. It is one of the few albums I've listened to on the first day. While although on the first few listens I thought of it to be pretty decent, I realized soon that it was a rather bland album. I hope Jay-Z steps it up on his next project.

From ThePurpleOne 06/19/2014 22:02 | #114816

magna carta falls flat into a safe and boring tier with its lazy lyricism (going from MoMa name drops to the fresh smell of turkey burgers? nah no thank you hov) and unflattering production. the perfect antithesis to the in-your-face confidence and menace of kanye west's 2013 album, MCHG is the bizarro-yeezus.

From RockyRaccoon 07/09/2013 19:35 | #80712

This is different from Jay-Z’s last album, “The Blueprint 3". For me, “The Blueprint 3" sounded like pop-rap, made-for-radio rap. It wasn’t bad, I actually liked it for the most part, but this album sounds like Jay-Z back to just making great hip-hop. Musically, it’s great, the tracks are excellent, and the featured players on the album are skillfully put in, so as that they don’t dominate the album. It’s a Jay-Z album, not a collaboration album, and it’s very well done.

Perhaps one of the coolest tracks on the album is “Crown", which sounds almost like a track off of Kanye’s new album rather than Jay-Z’s, but he executes it flawlessly, it’s excellent. One of the best hip-hop albums of the year, right up there with “Yeezus".