All rights reserved. This is incredible album jay z & kanye west did a masterpiece.
But while Jay might be billed first for seniority's sake, Kanye is this album's obvious guiding force. The 48 Laws of Power, an infamous manual by Robert Greene, has long been required reading for hip-hoppers of a certain stature, from 50 Cent on down. On Watch the Throne, they push each other and have fun doing it, and the result is a stadium-sized event-rap spectacle that still sounds like two insanely talented guys' idiosyncratic vision. On a record this ambitious, this sonically bold, it's a shame two of music's greatest storytellers don't extend their gaze beyond their own luxe lives.
Some find this sort of branded gloating distasteful, but at their best both rappers can still make you laugh.
The production is sick, and the record is loaded with amazing samples and singing parts. The musical scope of Watch the Throne is a tribute to his distinctive taste and sense of style. While this is not my favorite album of 2011, this has got to be the most important album of 2011. was the first single, a supposed indicator of things to …
Kanye's opus My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, still less than a year old, won across-the-board critical raves for its lush, prog-rap expansiveness; to create it, Kanye sequestered himself in Hawaii and flew in an endless stream of creative-peak collaborators. (I liked Ocean's Twelve.).
Jay-Z and Kanye West join forces to form their own group and release their collaborative new album.
Among the collaborations to remember there is certainly an emerging artist like Frank Ocean that "No Church in the Wild" and "Made in America" give vent to his talent.
On Watch the Throne, they push each other and have fun doing it, and the result is a stadium-sized event-rap spectacle that still sounds like two insanely talented guys' idiosyncratic vision.
Jay, meanwhile, is still cruising on the momentum of The Blueprint 3, an artistically flat but commercially massive grab for continued relevance that did everything he wanted it to do. This is a must-listen album.Totally original but i dont think everyone can enjoy it because this is one next generation album. It's better than West's last, impressive album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
They sound like they're on the same page only during fleeting moments, and when those slip by, listening inevitably is more frustrating than fulfilling. Generally favorable reviews- based on 632 Ratings, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Possibly. That's worth celebrating. On "New Day", over a beat co-produced by RZA, he actually runs Nina Simone through Auto-Tune. but not one of the greatest, i've been waiting for the album for a long time, but it didnt. Despite all the triumphant bravado these two bring to practically everything they do, they work overtime here to bring a sense of empathy to this enterprise.
"Niggas In Paris" and "Gotta Have It" are shining proof that this album is an instant classic. While this is not my favorite album of 2011, this has got to be the most important album of 2011. A complete album in every way, kudos to Kanye and his production work with a few smudges, but congratulations to Jay-Z remains one of the best MC ever. What are the chances of a fatherless drug dealer such as Carter becoming king of the world? - Neither as compulsively neurotic as Eminem, as languidly characterful as Snoop Dogg, nor as furiously articulate as Nas, the raps here represent a pretty mediocre, cardboard kind of throne, truth be told.
Watch the Throne is more notable for its general lack of impact. Do West and Carter fear assassination?
That's a fair case to make. And yet for Jay-Z and Kanye West, this could actually be viewed as a relatively minor album. Don't waste your time with the reguler version do yourself a favor get the deluxe trust me its worth it. Definitely not the album that I was expecting, and it proves to be for the better. First it was a five-song EP; now, it is a full blown album with bonus tracks. And we got Otis and Ni**as In Paris out of it! There is plenty of experimentation going on throughout the.
Jay-Z spends so much time discussing high-end watches ("New watch alert/ Hublot's"), "Watch" the Throne might as well literally be a timepiece catalogue. Now THAT, we knew it would be. Indecisiveness has plagued Watch the Throne since its inception.
Ye always sounds better, with better melody, rhymes n message in the songs...jay kinda pulled it down.
This meeting of two long-reigning titans is the kind of stadium-sized event-rap spectacle we don't get often enough. This retelling of his autobiography is compelling, in contrast to his recent solo form. Thanks for no leaks, If you ask me Watch the Throne is 100.000.000 gallons of tons better than west coast rap...Jay & Kanye are taking over in this one. And "Who Gon Stop Me" finds Kanye cussing in Pig Latin while turning dubstep-rap into a viable subgenre.
A complete album in every way, kudos to Kanye and his production work with a few smudges, but congratulations to. this album is one of the best collabo albums.
The single "Otis" is dizzy fun, with Jay and Kanye rapping hard and swapping mics like hungry kids. Throughout, he displays levels of unequaled audacity.
Power here is conceived as a swaggering taunt of achievement, in line with both men's previous works, which routinely double as shopping guides. The sound of this album is phenomenal, you can hear that in tracks like "Otis" or "Ni *** s in Paris" that remain above all of international hits.
Perhaps the most extraordinary achievement of this funny, hard-hitting, thrilling album is that it actually sounds like a coherent and purposeful piece of work, a statement of what hip hop can mean, and where it can go. Sun 14 Aug 2011 09.05 AEST
On "Made in America", it's the hardships of youth and coming of age.
The album comes hot on the heels of career-landmark albums from both artists, but the few months they spent recording it on multiple continents were practically vacations compared to the way they usually work.
I would not be wrong, but this work is the perfect mix between the last two works by these artists: "The Blueprint 3" and "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Review Summary: What Watch the Throne needs is not a grander purpose, but any purpose. (It also features this great Kanye moment, "Doctors say I'm the illest because I'm suffering from realness/ Got my niggas in Paris, and they going gorillas," followed by a sample of Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory talking about how awesome shit doesn't have to mean anything.) the beats are ok, not hard, acually just soft, and i just can't believe this is cool to listen 2, what about immortal technique, or anything but this, i really can't believe people would buy a kanye album or listen 2 a song or admit that they like it, id rather say i like hannah montanna then kanye, i mean seriously kanye's rap lyrics are so weeak you would thinkl a second grader wrote them, man whatever the critics are sayin, kanye west is not cool, and neither are drugs,this album is terribel, jayz's old stuff is ok get that instead but don't buy this garbage,and user reviews i can't believe people like this , I REALLY CAN'T -1 out of 10 awful sounding, and awful music, no message, but people still buy this, i can not figure out how anyone can like kanye , i really can't, 2011 Music Critic Top Ten Lists [Updated Jan. 7], Notable Video Game Releases: New and Upcoming, What to Watch Now on HBO Max and the HBO App, Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by.
based on
On "Welcome to the Jungle", Jay, never a tortured pop star, actually says, "I'm fuckin' depressed."
Carter and West know that they need to humanise all the conspicuous consumption. First published on Sun 14 Aug 2011 09.05 AEST. They finished the album in March; in April, Mike Dean announced that they restarted the entire mixing process.
"Gotta Have It" unites Kanye and the Neptunes to crazily chop up James Brown vocal samples and Eastern flute melodies. Definitely not the album that I was expecting, and it proves to be for the better.
With fantastically varied production, Watch the Throne marches hungrily forward, belying its genesis in a series of swanky hotel rooms. Addressed to their unborn children, "New Day" exhibits some much-needed self-knowledge. "H.A.M."
Well, yeah.
At the end of listening can be said that Watch The Throne is a classic, but at the same time an innovative work for 2011. this album is one of the best collabo albums. Consider, for example, the song "That's My Bitch", on which Kanye and his collaborators flip the classic "Apache" break into a devastating dance-rap monster with synths zooming off in every direction and Justin Vernon making the aforementioned sweaty soul moves. Available for everyone, funded by readers.
There is glacial minimalism from the Neptunes, some scattershot dubstep, and West himself, speeding soul hits up like back in the day, Auto-Tuning Nina Simone on "New Day", no less. Any album with Jay-z and Kanye will just be.
All rights reserved. This is incredible album jay z & kanye west did a masterpiece.
But while Jay might be billed first for seniority's sake, Kanye is this album's obvious guiding force. The 48 Laws of Power, an infamous manual by Robert Greene, has long been required reading for hip-hoppers of a certain stature, from 50 Cent on down. On Watch the Throne, they push each other and have fun doing it, and the result is a stadium-sized event-rap spectacle that still sounds like two insanely talented guys' idiosyncratic vision. On a record this ambitious, this sonically bold, it's a shame two of music's greatest storytellers don't extend their gaze beyond their own luxe lives.
Some find this sort of branded gloating distasteful, but at their best both rappers can still make you laugh.
The production is sick, and the record is loaded with amazing samples and singing parts. The musical scope of Watch the Throne is a tribute to his distinctive taste and sense of style. While this is not my favorite album of 2011, this has got to be the most important album of 2011. was the first single, a supposed indicator of things to …
Kanye's opus My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, still less than a year old, won across-the-board critical raves for its lush, prog-rap expansiveness; to create it, Kanye sequestered himself in Hawaii and flew in an endless stream of creative-peak collaborators. (I liked Ocean's Twelve.).
Jay-Z and Kanye West join forces to form their own group and release their collaborative new album.
Among the collaborations to remember there is certainly an emerging artist like Frank Ocean that "No Church in the Wild" and "Made in America" give vent to his talent.
On Watch the Throne, they push each other and have fun doing it, and the result is a stadium-sized event-rap spectacle that still sounds like two insanely talented guys' idiosyncratic vision.
Jay, meanwhile, is still cruising on the momentum of The Blueprint 3, an artistically flat but commercially massive grab for continued relevance that did everything he wanted it to do. This is a must-listen album.Totally original but i dont think everyone can enjoy it because this is one next generation album. It's better than West's last, impressive album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
They sound like they're on the same page only during fleeting moments, and when those slip by, listening inevitably is more frustrating than fulfilling. Generally favorable reviews- based on 632 Ratings, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Possibly. That's worth celebrating. On "New Day", over a beat co-produced by RZA, he actually runs Nina Simone through Auto-Tune. but not one of the greatest, i've been waiting for the album for a long time, but it didnt. Despite all the triumphant bravado these two bring to practically everything they do, they work overtime here to bring a sense of empathy to this enterprise.
"Niggas In Paris" and "Gotta Have It" are shining proof that this album is an instant classic. While this is not my favorite album of 2011, this has got to be the most important album of 2011. A complete album in every way, kudos to Kanye and his production work with a few smudges, but congratulations to Jay-Z remains one of the best MC ever. What are the chances of a fatherless drug dealer such as Carter becoming king of the world? - Neither as compulsively neurotic as Eminem, as languidly characterful as Snoop Dogg, nor as furiously articulate as Nas, the raps here represent a pretty mediocre, cardboard kind of throne, truth be told.
Watch the Throne is more notable for its general lack of impact. Do West and Carter fear assassination?
That's a fair case to make. And yet for Jay-Z and Kanye West, this could actually be viewed as a relatively minor album. Don't waste your time with the reguler version do yourself a favor get the deluxe trust me its worth it. Definitely not the album that I was expecting, and it proves to be for the better. First it was a five-song EP; now, it is a full blown album with bonus tracks. And we got Otis and Ni**as In Paris out of it! There is plenty of experimentation going on throughout the.
Jay-Z spends so much time discussing high-end watches ("New watch alert/ Hublot's"), "Watch" the Throne might as well literally be a timepiece catalogue. Now THAT, we knew it would be. Indecisiveness has plagued Watch the Throne since its inception.
Ye always sounds better, with better melody, rhymes n message in the songs...jay kinda pulled it down.
This meeting of two long-reigning titans is the kind of stadium-sized event-rap spectacle we don't get often enough. This retelling of his autobiography is compelling, in contrast to his recent solo form. Thanks for no leaks, If you ask me Watch the Throne is 100.000.000 gallons of tons better than west coast rap...Jay & Kanye are taking over in this one. And "Who Gon Stop Me" finds Kanye cussing in Pig Latin while turning dubstep-rap into a viable subgenre.
A complete album in every way, kudos to Kanye and his production work with a few smudges, but congratulations to. this album is one of the best collabo albums.
The single "Otis" is dizzy fun, with Jay and Kanye rapping hard and swapping mics like hungry kids. Throughout, he displays levels of unequaled audacity.
Power here is conceived as a swaggering taunt of achievement, in line with both men's previous works, which routinely double as shopping guides. The sound of this album is phenomenal, you can hear that in tracks like "Otis" or "Ni *** s in Paris" that remain above all of international hits.
Perhaps the most extraordinary achievement of this funny, hard-hitting, thrilling album is that it actually sounds like a coherent and purposeful piece of work, a statement of what hip hop can mean, and where it can go. Sun 14 Aug 2011 09.05 AEST
On "Made in America", it's the hardships of youth and coming of age.
The album comes hot on the heels of career-landmark albums from both artists, but the few months they spent recording it on multiple continents were practically vacations compared to the way they usually work.
I would not be wrong, but this work is the perfect mix between the last two works by these artists: "The Blueprint 3" and "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Review Summary: What Watch the Throne needs is not a grander purpose, but any purpose. (It also features this great Kanye moment, "Doctors say I'm the illest because I'm suffering from realness/ Got my niggas in Paris, and they going gorillas," followed by a sample of Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory talking about how awesome shit doesn't have to mean anything.) the beats are ok, not hard, acually just soft, and i just can't believe this is cool to listen 2, what about immortal technique, or anything but this, i really can't believe people would buy a kanye album or listen 2 a song or admit that they like it, id rather say i like hannah montanna then kanye, i mean seriously kanye's rap lyrics are so weeak you would thinkl a second grader wrote them, man whatever the critics are sayin, kanye west is not cool, and neither are drugs,this album is terribel, jayz's old stuff is ok get that instead but don't buy this garbage,and user reviews i can't believe people like this , I REALLY CAN'T -1 out of 10 awful sounding, and awful music, no message, but people still buy this, i can not figure out how anyone can like kanye , i really can't, 2011 Music Critic Top Ten Lists [Updated Jan. 7], Notable Video Game Releases: New and Upcoming, What to Watch Now on HBO Max and the HBO App, Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by.
based on
On "Welcome to the Jungle", Jay, never a tortured pop star, actually says, "I'm fuckin' depressed."
Carter and West know that they need to humanise all the conspicuous consumption. First published on Sun 14 Aug 2011 09.05 AEST. They finished the album in March; in April, Mike Dean announced that they restarted the entire mixing process.
"Gotta Have It" unites Kanye and the Neptunes to crazily chop up James Brown vocal samples and Eastern flute melodies. Definitely not the album that I was expecting, and it proves to be for the better.
With fantastically varied production, Watch the Throne marches hungrily forward, belying its genesis in a series of swanky hotel rooms. Addressed to their unborn children, "New Day" exhibits some much-needed self-knowledge. "H.A.M."
Well, yeah.
At the end of listening can be said that Watch The Throne is a classic, but at the same time an innovative work for 2011. this album is one of the best collabo albums. Consider, for example, the song "That's My Bitch", on which Kanye and his collaborators flip the classic "Apache" break into a devastating dance-rap monster with synths zooming off in every direction and Justin Vernon making the aforementioned sweaty soul moves. Available for everyone, funded by readers.
There is glacial minimalism from the Neptunes, some scattershot dubstep, and West himself, speeding soul hits up like back in the day, Auto-Tuning Nina Simone on "New Day", no less. Any album with Jay-z and Kanye will just be.
All rights reserved. This is incredible album jay z & kanye west did a masterpiece.
But while Jay might be billed first for seniority's sake, Kanye is this album's obvious guiding force. The 48 Laws of Power, an infamous manual by Robert Greene, has long been required reading for hip-hoppers of a certain stature, from 50 Cent on down. On Watch the Throne, they push each other and have fun doing it, and the result is a stadium-sized event-rap spectacle that still sounds like two insanely talented guys' idiosyncratic vision. On a record this ambitious, this sonically bold, it's a shame two of music's greatest storytellers don't extend their gaze beyond their own luxe lives.
Some find this sort of branded gloating distasteful, but at their best both rappers can still make you laugh.
The production is sick, and the record is loaded with amazing samples and singing parts. The musical scope of Watch the Throne is a tribute to his distinctive taste and sense of style. While this is not my favorite album of 2011, this has got to be the most important album of 2011. was the first single, a supposed indicator of things to …
Kanye's opus My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, still less than a year old, won across-the-board critical raves for its lush, prog-rap expansiveness; to create it, Kanye sequestered himself in Hawaii and flew in an endless stream of creative-peak collaborators. (I liked Ocean's Twelve.).
Jay-Z and Kanye West join forces to form their own group and release their collaborative new album.
Among the collaborations to remember there is certainly an emerging artist like Frank Ocean that "No Church in the Wild" and "Made in America" give vent to his talent.
On Watch the Throne, they push each other and have fun doing it, and the result is a stadium-sized event-rap spectacle that still sounds like two insanely talented guys' idiosyncratic vision.
Jay, meanwhile, is still cruising on the momentum of The Blueprint 3, an artistically flat but commercially massive grab for continued relevance that did everything he wanted it to do. This is a must-listen album.Totally original but i dont think everyone can enjoy it because this is one next generation album. It's better than West's last, impressive album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
They sound like they're on the same page only during fleeting moments, and when those slip by, listening inevitably is more frustrating than fulfilling. Generally favorable reviews- based on 632 Ratings, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Possibly. That's worth celebrating. On "New Day", over a beat co-produced by RZA, he actually runs Nina Simone through Auto-Tune. but not one of the greatest, i've been waiting for the album for a long time, but it didnt. Despite all the triumphant bravado these two bring to practically everything they do, they work overtime here to bring a sense of empathy to this enterprise.
"Niggas In Paris" and "Gotta Have It" are shining proof that this album is an instant classic. While this is not my favorite album of 2011, this has got to be the most important album of 2011. A complete album in every way, kudos to Kanye and his production work with a few smudges, but congratulations to Jay-Z remains one of the best MC ever. What are the chances of a fatherless drug dealer such as Carter becoming king of the world? - Neither as compulsively neurotic as Eminem, as languidly characterful as Snoop Dogg, nor as furiously articulate as Nas, the raps here represent a pretty mediocre, cardboard kind of throne, truth be told.
Watch the Throne is more notable for its general lack of impact. Do West and Carter fear assassination?
That's a fair case to make. And yet for Jay-Z and Kanye West, this could actually be viewed as a relatively minor album. Don't waste your time with the reguler version do yourself a favor get the deluxe trust me its worth it. Definitely not the album that I was expecting, and it proves to be for the better. First it was a five-song EP; now, it is a full blown album with bonus tracks. And we got Otis and Ni**as In Paris out of it! There is plenty of experimentation going on throughout the.
Jay-Z spends so much time discussing high-end watches ("New watch alert/ Hublot's"), "Watch" the Throne might as well literally be a timepiece catalogue. Now THAT, we knew it would be. Indecisiveness has plagued Watch the Throne since its inception.
Ye always sounds better, with better melody, rhymes n message in the songs...jay kinda pulled it down.
This meeting of two long-reigning titans is the kind of stadium-sized event-rap spectacle we don't get often enough. This retelling of his autobiography is compelling, in contrast to his recent solo form. Thanks for no leaks, If you ask me Watch the Throne is 100.000.000 gallons of tons better than west coast rap...Jay & Kanye are taking over in this one. And "Who Gon Stop Me" finds Kanye cussing in Pig Latin while turning dubstep-rap into a viable subgenre.
A complete album in every way, kudos to Kanye and his production work with a few smudges, but congratulations to. this album is one of the best collabo albums.
The single "Otis" is dizzy fun, with Jay and Kanye rapping hard and swapping mics like hungry kids. Throughout, he displays levels of unequaled audacity.
Power here is conceived as a swaggering taunt of achievement, in line with both men's previous works, which routinely double as shopping guides. The sound of this album is phenomenal, you can hear that in tracks like "Otis" or "Ni *** s in Paris" that remain above all of international hits.
Perhaps the most extraordinary achievement of this funny, hard-hitting, thrilling album is that it actually sounds like a coherent and purposeful piece of work, a statement of what hip hop can mean, and where it can go. Sun 14 Aug 2011 09.05 AEST
On "Made in America", it's the hardships of youth and coming of age.
The album comes hot on the heels of career-landmark albums from both artists, but the few months they spent recording it on multiple continents were practically vacations compared to the way they usually work.
I would not be wrong, but this work is the perfect mix between the last two works by these artists: "The Blueprint 3" and "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Review Summary: What Watch the Throne needs is not a grander purpose, but any purpose. (It also features this great Kanye moment, "Doctors say I'm the illest because I'm suffering from realness/ Got my niggas in Paris, and they going gorillas," followed by a sample of Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory talking about how awesome shit doesn't have to mean anything.) the beats are ok, not hard, acually just soft, and i just can't believe this is cool to listen 2, what about immortal technique, or anything but this, i really can't believe people would buy a kanye album or listen 2 a song or admit that they like it, id rather say i like hannah montanna then kanye, i mean seriously kanye's rap lyrics are so weeak you would thinkl a second grader wrote them, man whatever the critics are sayin, kanye west is not cool, and neither are drugs,this album is terribel, jayz's old stuff is ok get that instead but don't buy this garbage,and user reviews i can't believe people like this , I REALLY CAN'T -1 out of 10 awful sounding, and awful music, no message, but people still buy this, i can not figure out how anyone can like kanye , i really can't, 2011 Music Critic Top Ten Lists [Updated Jan. 7], Notable Video Game Releases: New and Upcoming, What to Watch Now on HBO Max and the HBO App, Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by.
based on
On "Welcome to the Jungle", Jay, never a tortured pop star, actually says, "I'm fuckin' depressed."
Carter and West know that they need to humanise all the conspicuous consumption. First published on Sun 14 Aug 2011 09.05 AEST. They finished the album in March; in April, Mike Dean announced that they restarted the entire mixing process.
"Gotta Have It" unites Kanye and the Neptunes to crazily chop up James Brown vocal samples and Eastern flute melodies. Definitely not the album that I was expecting, and it proves to be for the better.
With fantastically varied production, Watch the Throne marches hungrily forward, belying its genesis in a series of swanky hotel rooms. Addressed to their unborn children, "New Day" exhibits some much-needed self-knowledge. "H.A.M."
Well, yeah.
At the end of listening can be said that Watch The Throne is a classic, but at the same time an innovative work for 2011. this album is one of the best collabo albums. Consider, for example, the song "That's My Bitch", on which Kanye and his collaborators flip the classic "Apache" break into a devastating dance-rap monster with synths zooming off in every direction and Justin Vernon making the aforementioned sweaty soul moves. Available for everyone, funded by readers.
There is glacial minimalism from the Neptunes, some scattershot dubstep, and West himself, speeding soul hits up like back in the day, Auto-Tuning Nina Simone on "New Day", no less. Any album with Jay-z and Kanye will just be.
If you ask me Watch the Throne is 100.000.000 gallons of tons better than west coast rap...Jay & Kanye are taking over in this one.
Rappers are obsessed with power. The whole thing sounds huge, and even the sillier moments ("Made in America", especially, reminds me of the inspirational ballads of late-period Michael Jackson) succeed on pure orchestral excess.
All rights reserved. This is incredible album jay z & kanye west did a masterpiece.
But while Jay might be billed first for seniority's sake, Kanye is this album's obvious guiding force. The 48 Laws of Power, an infamous manual by Robert Greene, has long been required reading for hip-hoppers of a certain stature, from 50 Cent on down. On Watch the Throne, they push each other and have fun doing it, and the result is a stadium-sized event-rap spectacle that still sounds like two insanely talented guys' idiosyncratic vision. On a record this ambitious, this sonically bold, it's a shame two of music's greatest storytellers don't extend their gaze beyond their own luxe lives.
Some find this sort of branded gloating distasteful, but at their best both rappers can still make you laugh.
The production is sick, and the record is loaded with amazing samples and singing parts. The musical scope of Watch the Throne is a tribute to his distinctive taste and sense of style. While this is not my favorite album of 2011, this has got to be the most important album of 2011. was the first single, a supposed indicator of things to …
Kanye's opus My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, still less than a year old, won across-the-board critical raves for its lush, prog-rap expansiveness; to create it, Kanye sequestered himself in Hawaii and flew in an endless stream of creative-peak collaborators. (I liked Ocean's Twelve.).
Jay-Z and Kanye West join forces to form their own group and release their collaborative new album.
Among the collaborations to remember there is certainly an emerging artist like Frank Ocean that "No Church in the Wild" and "Made in America" give vent to his talent.
On Watch the Throne, they push each other and have fun doing it, and the result is a stadium-sized event-rap spectacle that still sounds like two insanely talented guys' idiosyncratic vision.
Jay, meanwhile, is still cruising on the momentum of The Blueprint 3, an artistically flat but commercially massive grab for continued relevance that did everything he wanted it to do. This is a must-listen album.Totally original but i dont think everyone can enjoy it because this is one next generation album. It's better than West's last, impressive album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
They sound like they're on the same page only during fleeting moments, and when those slip by, listening inevitably is more frustrating than fulfilling. Generally favorable reviews- based on 632 Ratings, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Possibly. That's worth celebrating. On "New Day", over a beat co-produced by RZA, he actually runs Nina Simone through Auto-Tune. but not one of the greatest, i've been waiting for the album for a long time, but it didnt. Despite all the triumphant bravado these two bring to practically everything they do, they work overtime here to bring a sense of empathy to this enterprise.
"Niggas In Paris" and "Gotta Have It" are shining proof that this album is an instant classic. While this is not my favorite album of 2011, this has got to be the most important album of 2011. A complete album in every way, kudos to Kanye and his production work with a few smudges, but congratulations to Jay-Z remains one of the best MC ever. What are the chances of a fatherless drug dealer such as Carter becoming king of the world? - Neither as compulsively neurotic as Eminem, as languidly characterful as Snoop Dogg, nor as furiously articulate as Nas, the raps here represent a pretty mediocre, cardboard kind of throne, truth be told.
Watch the Throne is more notable for its general lack of impact. Do West and Carter fear assassination?
That's a fair case to make. And yet for Jay-Z and Kanye West, this could actually be viewed as a relatively minor album. Don't waste your time with the reguler version do yourself a favor get the deluxe trust me its worth it. Definitely not the album that I was expecting, and it proves to be for the better. First it was a five-song EP; now, it is a full blown album with bonus tracks. And we got Otis and Ni**as In Paris out of it! There is plenty of experimentation going on throughout the.
Jay-Z spends so much time discussing high-end watches ("New watch alert/ Hublot's"), "Watch" the Throne might as well literally be a timepiece catalogue. Now THAT, we knew it would be. Indecisiveness has plagued Watch the Throne since its inception.
Ye always sounds better, with better melody, rhymes n message in the songs...jay kinda pulled it down.
This meeting of two long-reigning titans is the kind of stadium-sized event-rap spectacle we don't get often enough. This retelling of his autobiography is compelling, in contrast to his recent solo form. Thanks for no leaks, If you ask me Watch the Throne is 100.000.000 gallons of tons better than west coast rap...Jay & Kanye are taking over in this one. And "Who Gon Stop Me" finds Kanye cussing in Pig Latin while turning dubstep-rap into a viable subgenre.
A complete album in every way, kudos to Kanye and his production work with a few smudges, but congratulations to. this album is one of the best collabo albums.
The single "Otis" is dizzy fun, with Jay and Kanye rapping hard and swapping mics like hungry kids. Throughout, he displays levels of unequaled audacity.
Power here is conceived as a swaggering taunt of achievement, in line with both men's previous works, which routinely double as shopping guides. The sound of this album is phenomenal, you can hear that in tracks like "Otis" or "Ni *** s in Paris" that remain above all of international hits.
Perhaps the most extraordinary achievement of this funny, hard-hitting, thrilling album is that it actually sounds like a coherent and purposeful piece of work, a statement of what hip hop can mean, and where it can go. Sun 14 Aug 2011 09.05 AEST
On "Made in America", it's the hardships of youth and coming of age.
The album comes hot on the heels of career-landmark albums from both artists, but the few months they spent recording it on multiple continents were practically vacations compared to the way they usually work.
I would not be wrong, but this work is the perfect mix between the last two works by these artists: "The Blueprint 3" and "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Review Summary: What Watch the Throne needs is not a grander purpose, but any purpose. (It also features this great Kanye moment, "Doctors say I'm the illest because I'm suffering from realness/ Got my niggas in Paris, and they going gorillas," followed by a sample of Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory talking about how awesome shit doesn't have to mean anything.) the beats are ok, not hard, acually just soft, and i just can't believe this is cool to listen 2, what about immortal technique, or anything but this, i really can't believe people would buy a kanye album or listen 2 a song or admit that they like it, id rather say i like hannah montanna then kanye, i mean seriously kanye's rap lyrics are so weeak you would thinkl a second grader wrote them, man whatever the critics are sayin, kanye west is not cool, and neither are drugs,this album is terribel, jayz's old stuff is ok get that instead but don't buy this garbage,and user reviews i can't believe people like this , I REALLY CAN'T -1 out of 10 awful sounding, and awful music, no message, but people still buy this, i can not figure out how anyone can like kanye , i really can't, 2011 Music Critic Top Ten Lists [Updated Jan. 7], Notable Video Game Releases: New and Upcoming, What to Watch Now on HBO Max and the HBO App, Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by.
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On "Welcome to the Jungle", Jay, never a tortured pop star, actually says, "I'm fuckin' depressed."
Carter and West know that they need to humanise all the conspicuous consumption. First published on Sun 14 Aug 2011 09.05 AEST. They finished the album in March; in April, Mike Dean announced that they restarted the entire mixing process.
"Gotta Have It" unites Kanye and the Neptunes to crazily chop up James Brown vocal samples and Eastern flute melodies. Definitely not the album that I was expecting, and it proves to be for the better.
With fantastically varied production, Watch the Throne marches hungrily forward, belying its genesis in a series of swanky hotel rooms. Addressed to their unborn children, "New Day" exhibits some much-needed self-knowledge. "H.A.M."
Well, yeah.
At the end of listening can be said that Watch The Throne is a classic, but at the same time an innovative work for 2011. this album is one of the best collabo albums. Consider, for example, the song "That's My Bitch", on which Kanye and his collaborators flip the classic "Apache" break into a devastating dance-rap monster with synths zooming off in every direction and Justin Vernon making the aforementioned sweaty soul moves. Available for everyone, funded by readers.
There is glacial minimalism from the Neptunes, some scattershot dubstep, and West himself, speeding soul hits up like back in the day, Auto-Tuning Nina Simone on "New Day", no less. Any album with Jay-z and Kanye will just be.