Without a doubt in my mind it will be better than Kanye's album. I am positive Kanye is mentally ill and needs help.

Do you think Nas is mentally ill?

Hopeless romantic but not mentally ill. He'll probably be married again this year.

Without a doubt in my mind it will be better than Kanye's album. I am positive Kanye is mentally ill and needs help.

I bet this album will have amazing songs about how Jay-Z owns (less than one percent of) the Brooklyn Nets, is married to Beyonce, has a number of impressive executive titles, has a well-diversified investment portfolio, and is able to spend large amounts of money on recreation and leisure. Art like this should be displayed next to the Mona Lisa.

He had to relinquish his ownership stake due to his newly formed sports agency, Roc Nation Sports.

No Galaxy? Today is your lucky day.


http://m.spin.com/articles/jay-z-magna- ... ak-stream/

You cut out the middle man. They say the deal was worth $20M to him. Not bad before your album drops. I think this type of deal only works for stars. At last at that number. Doesn't hurt when the company had a billion dollar budget.

I like it

Its pretty much every Jay Z album combined

Its heavy on the I'm rich stuff but there's some depth on some tracks

Jay-Z fans who downloaded his new album via a special app on Samsung smartphones got more than they expected: software that invades their privacy.

Digital rights advocates say that Samsung embedded downloads of “Magna Carta ... Holy Grail,” the 12th studio album by Jay-Z, with software that collects information such as the user’s phone number, commonly dialed numbers, and email, social media and GPS data, among other encroachments. The app also allows only streaming not downloading of tracks. The album receives its conventional release today

When an artist self-identifies as a corporate entity, are we still Jay-Z fans? Or are we Jay-Z customers?

The answer to that late-capitalist riddle arrives with the rap icon’s insidious new album, “Magna Carta . . . Holy Grail” — which first appeared last week as a data collection exercise disguised as a smartphone app capable of delivering a bundle of mediocre rap songs to your mobile device.

Here’s how it worked: Samsung purchased a million copies of “Magna Carta” in advance, then, via the app, made the album available to subscribers five days before its widespread release. In exchange, users were asked to share access to their social media accounts, their phone calls, their GPS location and more. If the medium is the message, we finally had an answer to that fan-or-customer question.

And now who would want to be either? Throughout “Magna Carta,” the 43-year-old pretends he’s a threat to a system he’s so eagerly become a part of, as if his life as a champion capitalist is some perpetually escalating act of subversion. Hooray? Rooting for this man in 2013 is like rooting for Pfizer. Or PepsiCo. Or PRISM.

You're wrong. It's like Black Album and Blueprint 3 had a baby.