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Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Change the Game
3. I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)
4. Streets Is Talking
5. This Can't Be Life - (featuring Scarface)
6. Get Your Mind Right Mami - (featuring Snoop Dogg)
7. Stick 2 the Script
8. You, Me, Him and Her
9. Guilty Until Proven Innocent - (featuring R. Kelly)
10. Parking Lot Pimpin' - (featuring Memphis Bleek/Beanie Sigel)
11. Holla
12. 1-900-Hustler
13. R.O.C., The
14. Soon You'll Understand
15. Squeeze 1st
16. Where Have You Been
Album Notes
Personnel: Jay-Z, Scarface, Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, Snoop Dogg (rap vocals); R. Kelly, Freeway (vocals); Just Blaze (vinyl scratches); Lil Mo, DJ Clue, L. Dionne, Rell, Pharrell Williams, Static (background vocals).
Producers: Just Blaze, Rick Rock, Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, Kanye West.
Engineers: Chauncey Mahan, Duro, Shane "Bermy" Woodley.
Recorded at Baseline, New York, New York and Enterprise Studios, Los Angeles, California.
"Change The Game" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group.
Jay-Z released REASONABLE DOUBT, his solo debut, in 1996. Only four years later, he dropped his fifth album, THE DYNASTY. Matching his unique off-beat delivery with hip-hop's most impressive lyrics, the Brooklyn-native reinforces the idea that he is one of rap's most profound MCs. Once again, Jay-Z shows us he knows about "big pimpin'" with tracks like "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" and "Parking Lot Pimpin'," tales about the fast life, women, and money.
Still, the rapper doesn't abandon the street ethics that have made him famous, as evident on the hustler's anthem "Streets Is Talking." Limiting the guest appearances to a minimum, besides his Roc-a-fella camp, he is joined by heavy hitters such as Snoop Dogg on "Get Your Mind Right Mami" and R. Kelly on "Guilty Until Proven Innocent." Inspiring other rappers to think deeply before they put their pen to the pad, Jay-Z keeps getting better, and despite multi-platinum status, he hasn't lost his street credibility.
Industry Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums of 2000.
Rolling Stone (01/04/2001)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Jay confronts the new, unfamiliar demands of being a father figure with the same determined egoism and intelligence that he used while hustling in Brooklyn...adding another dimension to an already intriguing figure...
Rolling Stone (12/07/2000)
8 stars out of 10 - ...A showcase for the up-and-coming rappers on Roc-A-Fella...16 hard-knock ghetto fables....All the Jay-Z trademarks - quality, consistency, slamming beats and lyrical prowess - are here...
NME (11/25/2000)
3 out of 5 stars - ...He impresses most when bypassing the guns/ho's/Gucci shtick for some inventive musical twists...or commenting on ghetto life and absconding fathers...
Q (01/01/2001)
4.5 mics out of 5 - ...[His] most collectively spiritual and introspective LP to date - a flurry of party frolickin' and honest, compelling notes...sprinkled with Brooklyn gunfight mentality...
The Source (01/01/2001)
3 stars out of 5 - THE DYNASTY is solid enough. Aside from his obvious lyrical dexterity, it's all high-octane street dreaming and emergent family obsessions...
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